The online counter-collector, the open source heritage and the museums of the unfinished

The online counter-collector, the open source heritage and the museums of the unfinished

Giselle Beiguelman, Nathalia Lavigne, Giovanna Casimiro / Brazil
University of Sao Paulo, University of Sao Paulo/ University Center SENAC
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For this roundtable, we propose a debate about public policies of memory preservation based on the specificities of digital media culture. The ephemerality of these kinds of technologies and the intensification of personal and non-professional process of digital documentation bring unprecedented ways of understanding the collections and cultural heritage of our times. We are experiencing not only an overproduction of data, which proliferates in new formats of storage in the networks but also a documentary overdose. Nevertheless, this does not perform a cumulative system. Due to the speed with which technologies are discarded in shorter and shorter periods of time, loss, change, and even replacement will be more and more part of our conservation practice. For all these reasons, it seems particularly important to discuss how to deal with the cultural ambivalence of this very moment. In our debate, we will concentrate on three main axes: the online counter-collector, the open-source heritage and the digital museum as the museum of the unfinished.

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