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# 74
Asynchronous! On the Sublime Administration of the Everyday
Mike Pepi
A cold pail of water passes through a line of workers, sloshing from hand to hand. Another follows behind it. And another. To coordinate this bucket brigade, the line of busy hands moves according to a fixed rhythm, each movement synchronized like a metronome. The analogy illustrates the primary principle of synchronous processing: no matter the speed of a single movement, the pace of the chain may not exceed the time it takes the slowest transfer to complete. This familiar scene is the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2016
Category
Labor & Work, Management & Bureaucracy, Technology, Capitalism, Economy
Subjects
Everyday Life
# 60
Is a Museum a Database?: Institutional Conditions in Net Utopia
Mike Pepi
Why Do We Look for Data in the Museum?
In Art Project 2023 , João Enxuto and Erica Love imagine the future of the Google Art Project, the search giant’s effort to reproduce images from the world’s top museums as it develops over the next decade. The multimedia performance documents the slow erosion of the museum under the logic of corporate interests and the breathless adoption of digital innovation by none other than Google, whose stated goal is to “organize the world’s information…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2014
Category
Museums, Internet, Data & Information, Technology
Subjects
Algorithms, Media theory , Post-Internet