On Visual and Verbal Communication

The latest Editor’s note of the Museum Studies Weekly deals with a somewhat different approach to the conservation of contemporary art’s digital events.

Instead of trying to migrate from one I.T. platform to the next one, in order to keep data and usability as up to date as possible, it could be thinkable to migrate from iconic to verbal language - describing, that is, an event as a narration would a landscape, or an experience.

Models for this abound - from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to Melville’s Moby Dick; or, the Whale - and though difficulties must be expected along this route, too, it could be one of the possible solutions to bypass time limits of digital hardware and software in contemporary art digital installations and events.

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