Exhibition design as high-level programming

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Exhibition Design asHigh-Level Programming

Discrete entitiesorganized in a system

selecting/ composing

curating as art practice

Boîte-en-valise (1935)Marcel Duchamps

Museum of ModernArt, Department of Eagles (1968)Marcel Broothaers

Learning to Love You More (2006-2009)Harrell Fletcher, Miranda July& Yuri Ono

computed-based artforms

Gnom (2005)Santiago Ortiz

Pixel Pirate II: the Attack of the Astro Elvis Video Clone (2006)Soda_Jerk

Webstalker (1997)I/O/D

the computer as architecture

interconnected layers(physical/ logical)

programming levels

low-level:Assembly

high-level:Object-Oriented

The more abstract the language, the more concrete the entities

Curator / Gallery“Level 7”

tagging/ indexing

executable exhibitions

The Way Things Go (1987)Fischli & Weiss

ReacTable (2007-)MTG-UPF

dataflow programming

Merzbau (1923-1937)Kurt Schwitters

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