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memorize in Ludovico
2013
d on updated hard and software. Among the few artists to have
conceptually explored this fragility as it affects books is David Guez, whose
work _Humanpédia_7 can be defined as an extravagant type of "time-based art".
The work is clearly inspired by Ray Bradbury's _Fahrenheit 451_ , in which a
small secret community conspires against a total ban on books by memorizing
entire tomes, preserving and orally transmitting their contents. Guez applies
this strategy to Wikipedia, calling for people to memorize a Wikipedia
article, thereby implying that our brains can store information more reliably
than computers.
So what, in the end, will be the role of old-fashioned libraries?
Paradoxically enough, they could become the best place to learn how to
digitize books or how to print out and bind digitized books that have gone out
of print. But they must still be protected as a common good, where cultural
objects can be retrieved and enjoyed anytime in the future. A timely work in
this respect is La SociÃ
Adema
2009
Adema
2019
Adema & Hall
2013
Barok
2014
Barok
2014
Barok
2014
Barok
2018
Bodo
2014
Bodo
2015
Bodo
2016
Constant
2009
Constant
2015
Constant
2016
Constant
2018
Custodians
2015
Dean, Dockray, Ludovico, Broekman, Thoburn & Vilensky
2013
Dekker & Barok
2017
Dockray
2010
Dockray
2013
Dockray
2013
Dockray & Liang
2015
Dockray, Forster & Public Office
2018
Dockray, Pasquinelli, Smith & Waldorf
2010
Elbakyan
2016
Fuller
2016
Fuller & Dockray
2011
Giorgetta, Nicoletti & Adema
2015
Goldsmith
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Goldsmith
2011
Graziano
2018
Graziano, Mars & Medak
2019
Hamerman
2015
Kelty, Bodo & Allen
2018
Liang
2012
Ludovico
2013
Marczewska, Adema, McDonald & Trettien
2018
Mars & Medak
2017
Mars & Medak
2019
Mars & Medak
2019
Mars, Medak & Sekulic
2016
Mattern
2014
Mattern
2018
Medak
2016
Medak, Mars & WHW
2015
Medak, Sekulic & Mertens
2014
Murtaugh
2016
Sekulic
2015
Sekulic
2018
Sollfrank
2018
Sollfrank & Dockray
2013
Sollfrank & Goldsmith
2013
Sollfrank & Kleiner
2012
Sollfrank & Mars
2013
Sollfrank & Snelting
2014
Sollfrank, Francke & Weinmayr
2013
Stalder
2018
Stankievech
2016
Tenen
2016
Tenen & Foxman
2014
Thylstrup
2019
USDC
2015
USDC
2015
WHW
2016
Weinmayr
2019
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