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Transcoding the Museum
  • Transcoding
  • Numerical Representation
  • Modularity
    • Pipe Bowl with Spaniard's Head
    • Female Figure Nursing an Infant
    • Pottery and Slip Paint
    • Funerary Urn
    • Chicomecoatl, The Maize Goddess
    • Reliquary Figure
    • Figure
    • Personal Power Figure
    • Seated Dog
    • Face Mask (dhi gla)
    • Dogon Sculpture
    • Mother Figure
    • Pomdo-style Figure
    • Ceremonial Ring
    • Male Figure
  • Automation
  • Variability
    • Pipe Bowl
    • Female Figure
    • Jar
    • Funerary Urn
    • Chicomecoatl
    • Reliquary figure
    • Figure
    • Personal Power Figure
    • Possibly Anubis
    • Face Mask (dhi gla)
    • Figure (Dogon people)
    • Mother Figure
    • Pomdo-style Figure
    • Male Figure
    • Ceremonial Ring
Transcoding the Museum
  • Transcoding
  • Numerical Representation
  • Modularity
    • Pipe Bowl with Spaniard's Head
    • Female Figure Nursing an Infant
    • Pottery and Slip Paint
    • Funerary Urn
    • Chicomecoatl, The Maize Goddess
    • Reliquary Figure
    • Figure
    • Personal Power Figure
    • Seated Dog
    • Face Mask (dhi gla)
    • Dogon Sculpture
    • Mother Figure
    • Pomdo-style Figure
    • Ceremonial Ring
    • Male Figure
  • Automation
  • Variability
    • Pipe Bowl
    • Female Figure
    • Jar
    • Funerary Urn
    • Chicomecoatl
    • Reliquary figure
    • Figure
    • Personal Power Figure
    • Possibly Anubis
    • Face Mask (dhi gla)
    • Figure (Dogon people)
    • Mother Figure
    • Pomdo-style Figure
    • Male Figure
    • Ceremonial Ring
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    • Transcoding
    • Numerical Representation
    • Modularity
      • Pipe Bowl with Spaniard's Head
      • Female Figure Nursing an Infant
      • Pottery and Slip Paint
      • Funerary Urn
      • Chicomecoatl, The Maize Goddess
      • Reliquary Figure
      • Figure
      • Personal Power Figure
      • Seated Dog
      • Face Mask (dhi gla)
      • Dogon Sculpture
      • Mother Figure
      • Pomdo-style Figure
      • Ceremonial Ring
      • Male Figure
    • Automation
    • Variability
      • Pipe Bowl
      • Female Figure
      • Jar
      • Funerary Urn
      • Chicomecoatl
      • Reliquary figure
      • Figure
      • Personal Power Figure
      • Possibly Anubis
      • Face Mask (dhi gla)
      • Figure (Dogon people)
      • Mother Figure
      • Pomdo-style Figure
      • Male Figure
      • Ceremonial Ring

Pipe Bowl with Spaniard's Head

Female Figure Nursing an Infant   

Pottery and Slip Paint 

Funerary Urn  

Chicomecoatl, The Maize Goddess 

Reliquary Figure 

Figure 

Personal Power Figure

Seated Dog or Jackal, Possibly Anubis 

Face Mask (dhi gla)

Dogon Sculpture 

Mother Figure

Pomdo-style Figure 

Ceremonial Ring 

Male Figure 

"New media objects consist of independent components that allow independent editing. These modules retain their autonomy even when combined in different ways."[2] In response to Modularity, hand-built clay and terracotta supports were modeled after the museum's current supports for its artifacts, many of which are made from wood or cardboard. By using the same material—clay, and terracotta—as the objects these supports primarily hold, I created a series marked by imperfections and indexicality, mirroring the qualities of the artifacts themselves. 

This piece aims to shift the focus onto the museum’s support structures as the central element. A new piece emerged by omitting the artifacts, instead displaying small supports (small modules) atop real pedestals (major modules), creating a layered "pedestal within pedestal" effect. Ultimately, the pedestals and support elements, not the artifacts, represent what genuinely belongs to the museum as its core structure.

[2] Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. United Kingdom: MIT Press, 2001, p. 31.

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