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Jon Stam CABINET OF THE (MATERIAL & VIRTUAL) WORLD
“Throughout the Renaissance, objects representative of god (naturalia) and man (artificialia) were displayed in cabinets as an index of their proprietors’ world view. Since ... we are no longer concerned with [this] dichotomy ... but with the duality of the material and the virtual, these cabinets brings together both ... in one archival system.”
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of an array of physical drawers on one face and a corresponding array of engravings akin to QR codes on it’s reverse. Each side then is capable of acting as a storage space for one of either material or physical artifacts. The engraved codes can be scanned by a smartphone to access the content stored at a particular cloud storage location. he cabinet consists
This study of dualities shows potential to be developed vis-a-vis the duality of the hot or cold nature of media content and of static vs dynamic (as elaborated in Summersett 2013) media experience.
ALL IMAGES AND QUOTES IN THIS SPREAD WERE SOURCED FROM : Stam, Jon. “Cabinet of the (Material & Virtual) World”, Commonplace Studio. n.p. n.d. Web. Oct 2013. <http://www.commonplace.nl/CABINET-OF-THE-MATERIAL-VIRTUAL-WORLD>
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