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Preservation Aesthetics

Shannon MatternThe New School, New YorkWordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern

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Queens College Library, Oxford

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Candida Hofer, Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam;

Google Server Room, Council Bluffs IA; Photo: Connie Zhou

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Thomas Demand,

Archive, 1995

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Cory Arcangel

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New Museum, XFR STN

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William Gibson &

Dennis Ashbaugh,

Agrippa

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Three.org, The Unreliable Archivist;

Olia Lialina, Anna Karenin Goes to Paradise

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Manual Palou, 5

Million Dollars 1

Terabyte [sculpture

consisting of 1 TBexternal hard drive

containing

$5,000,000 worth ofillegally downloaded

files]

Jason Loebs,Atnrhpomemoria

[MacBook batteriesmarked w/

fingerprints in anti-

counterfeit ink]

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Olia Lialina & Dragan

Espenschied, Once Upon

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JODI,Jet Set

Willy Variations

New Museum,

XFR STN

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The Aesthetics of

Creative

Destruction

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RobertRauschenberg,

Erased de

Kooning Drawing

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Gutai:

Saburo

Murakami

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Jean Tinguely (w/ among others,

Robt. Rauschenberg & Billy Kluver),

Homage to New York

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YokoOno,

Cut Piece;viaonoverse

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Weiner Gruppe, 2ndLiterary Cabaret, 1959, Vienna

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Gustav Metzger

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Vitrines,

Vision Machines& Other Aestheticized

Technologies of Preservation

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Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects

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Mark Dion, Tate Thames Dig

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Mark Dion,The Cabinet of the Machines of Capital

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Mark Dion,

Library for the Birds

of Massachusetts

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Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue

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Ann Hamilton,Accountings

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Ann Hamilton, corpus

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Ann Hamilton,

the event of a thread

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Radio-in-

a-bag

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Ann Hamilton, indigo blue

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tropos

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Hito Steyerl

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Thank you.

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