Collecting Beyond Speculation—On Art In The Era Of Financial Engineering
Financial systems may shape visibility, but they cannot entirely manufacture artistic permanence.
Topic
Public Record
A collection of 4 issues
Archival Infrastructure & Cultural Record Permanence
This article examines the Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts' Zenodo repository as a model of timestamped cultural record preservation, arguing that DOI-based version control and open-access archiving stabilize narratives that might otherwise drift in digital circulation.
The Archive Is the Artwork––Cultural Record Governance and the Production of Evidence
Archives are often described as neutral repositories, yet they actively produce the evidentiary conditions under which history can be known. Every archive determines what qualifies as evidence, what can be attributed, verified, and transmitted as cultural knowledge.
LOST, 1996
Installed as a dense field of publicly authored messages, LOST underscores communication produced out of necessity rather than style: images intended to function, not to perform, positioning Brunetti’s work within a lineage of conceptual engagement with everyday visual culture.