We don’t know anything anymore. Linear and vertical are irrelevant. Change is the central dynamic. Where the television set was once the electronic hearth it is now the empty fireplace. MoL aspires to the lowest YouTube ratings. The cultural state is conditioned by shrinking margins. Modern life is conditioned by quotation, recycling and sampling. There are two ways of looking at this: image overload and shortened attention span; or something deeper and interesting, based on the art of the fragment. MoL can’t curate everything in this huge digital continent that has emerged over the last 20 years, as mysterious as 19th century Africa. It is the new empire. Much has already been missed. Selection needs to be complemented by documentation and judicious recording. Sift through the debris like a CSI forensic team after the bomb goes off. The museum exists only as a rubber stamp. (From GOOGLEmeGOD)We don’t know anything anymore. Linear and vertical are irrelevant. Change is the central dynamic. Where the television set was once the electronic hearth it is now the empty fireplace. MoL aspires to the lowest YouTube ratings. The cultural state is conditioned by shrinking margins. Modern life is conditioned by quotation, recycling and sampling. There are two ways of looking at this: image overload and shortened attention span; or something deeper and interesting, based on the art of the fragment. MoL can’t curate everything in this huge digital continent that has emerged over the last 20 years, as mysterious as 19th century Africa. It is the new empire. Much has already been missed. Selection needs to be complemented by documentation and judicious recording. Sift through the debris like a CSI forensic team after the bomb goes off. The museum exists only as a rubber stamp. (From GOOGLEmeGOD)