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Aesthetic Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

Michael Takeo Magruder  and
Jeremy Pilcher
Michael Takeo Magruder
Affiliation:
US/[email protected]
Jeremy Pilcher
Affiliation:
London, [email protected]
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Abstract

Michael Takeo Magruder, visual artist and researcher, discusses his digital and new media art and practice with Jeremy Pilcher, lawyer and academic, whose research engages with the intersection of art and law. Takeo's work asks viewers to question their relationship both to and within the real-time data flows generated by emerging technologies and the implications these have for archives. His art concerns the way institutions use such systems to create narratives that structure societies. This conversation discusses how Takeo's practice invites us, as individuals, to critically reflect on the implications of the stories that are both told to and about us by using gathered and distributed data.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 11 - 23
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Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2016 

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