A constellation of enterprising ideas about art and artifact collections.
Though this information creates a glut of value for the user, we should take a moment to consider risks associated with how the attainment of the information affects our institutions.
Network connectivity creates a tiny crack in the foundation as data breaches become a possibility anytime something connects to the internet. Such a fissure – though extremely unlikely – will allow a malicious third party access to the whereabouts of your objects.
The speculative concept involves only shipping objects one-way and thus cutting transportation in half. In other words, you leave your objects wherever you loan them and store the objects in the nearest storage facility that meets your standards. You dispense with the idea that they return to a “home” institution immediately.
If we acknowledge that it is safer for an object to remain at its institution, then why do we loan it to other institutions? If we acknowledge that it is more environmentally sustainable for an object to remain at its institution, then why do we loan it to other institutions? If we acknowledge that it is cheaper not to borrow objects for exhibitions, then why do we borrow it at great expense?
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed widespread suffering on people, labor, and budgets around the world for well over a year now. Amidst all the friction between seemingly binary choices, it has also sparked some creative fires in our art and artifact wilderness that appear to acknowledge that this extraordinary moment aligns economic incentives with sustainability practices like a summer solstice on a clear day at Stonehenge.
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