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Great responses to your survey so far! In my head a whole new museum is coming into being, full of people's most desired objects. But then, the difficult bit is when you have to argue for the object's inclusion (and necessarily exclude others) - the idea that your object has to earn its place.
I like the moment before you actually have to make your choice, when everything is open-ended.
posted by Michaela at 6:38 am
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Is authenticity in itself desirable? According to the machine for making authenticity (this blog passim) the fake can change status, as can the 'authentic' object, so the fake could easily acquire higher status than the original.
This is paralleled by Jean Baudrillard's thinking on the hyperreal. He believes that the world we now inhabit is increasingly becoming a simulation, and that we no longer experience reality directly. We are subjected to what he calls hyper-reality, through our ever greater exposure to mass media, and the direct link between the image or object presented to us - for example a photograph in a newspaper - and the reality that it represents, no longer exists. The representation of reality comes to mean more to us than the reality it claims to represent, and even to be more 'real' than reality. The ultimate museum would have no objects but would move beyond hyper-reality to virtual reality, where we no longer have any need for the 'real', instead movign through 3-D navigable space (commonplace to us in computer games and TV simulations). The American architect Peter Eisenman tells an interesting story about taking his son to a baseball game, during which the batter hit a home run. As he ran from base to base, the crowd watched him on huge screens around the pitch, each showing different views, zooming in, cutting from wide view to close-up, replaying the action even as it took place. Eisenmam realised that everyone, including the player who hit the home run, was watching the giant screens rather than the actual event, even though it was happening live in front of their very eyes. The cinematic effects of the hyper-real were more attractive than the authentic event.
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