[Af_List] Museum of Jurassic Technology

[Sally McIntyre]

> Sam posted,
> http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/foundation_collections/depmori/depmori.htm
>
> not quite sure what it is. there are times when you think they are trying to pull one over >you.

it's one of the best art projects around... disguised as / a reading
of the Museum as structure...

they're not so much pulling the wool over their audiences' collective
eyes as inviting them into a charming, elaborate and wonderful joke
about culture, knowledge, imagination, history, maverick obsession,
and slowness...

the intelligent hoax as a form of greater sincerity....

> My personal favorite has to be the machinery/machinations of Athanasius
> Kircher. Trumped only by an exhibit on the Trailer Parks of America.

if you're interested in Kircher and the cult of the Wunderkammer,
check out the blog of the Athanasius Kircher society -  very much in
the vein of the Museum of Jurassic Technology (in fact the person
behind it is rumoured to be David Wilson, who runs the MJT):
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/

...and then there's the Maison d'Ailleurs, in Yverdon-les-Bains,
Switzerland, a "museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary
journeys" run by Patrick Gyger, the partner of venerable ex-NZ'er,
radioqualia's Honor Harger: http://www.ailleurs.ch/uk/index.php

sally




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