Learning Machines, Wunderkammers, and Networks

in Documenting the Art of Our Time

Milan R. HughstonChief of Library and Museum Archives November 4, 2010

ed from 54 st high

Education Building from 54th Street

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Lib rr

ed from 54 st high

Developing the Collection Through Curatorial Initiatives

Juan Luis Martínez. Poesía Chilena. Santiago de Chile.

Ediciones Archivo, 1978.

Klaxon: Mensario de Arte Moderno. São Paulo, 1922-1923.

Roberto Segre. “Arquitectura de la Revolución Cubana” inRevista de la Facultad de Arquitectura. Montevideo, 1970.

Madi (concrete art movement) documentation. Argentina, 1940s.

Madi (concrete art movement) documentation. Argentina, 1940s.

Grupo de Pintores ¡30-30! Primer Manifiesto Treintatrentista,

Mexico City, 1928.

René Portocarrero. El Sueño. Havana, 1960.

Zsigmond Remenyik. Las Tres Tragedias del Lampero Alucinado. Lima, 1923.

Joaquín Torres García. Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte.

Montevideo, 1947-1948.

Tiempos Modernos. Buenos Aires, 1965.

Forma: Revista de Artes Plásticas. Mexico, 1926.

Revista Martín Fierro. Buenos Aires, 1924.

Tiempo de Cine: Revista Mensual de Cine y Televisión. Buenos Aires, 1960.

Diagonal Cero exhibition catalog. Argentina, 1968.

Ginzburg. Poema Transparente. n.d.

Edgardo Antonio Vigo. Variante 2 de Reloj Inútil. n.d.

Invención: Bayley. Buenos Aires, 1945.

Extramuro. Caracas. 1970s.

Juan Carlos Romero. Violencia: J.C. Romero. Argentina, 1977.

Introducing Technology

The future

1970: Information

information

The future

The future

Promoting the Collections

Avalanche covers

Avalanche Magazine

Avalanche brainstorm

Brainstorming first Avalanche issue

Avalanche Beuys talk

Joseph Beuys speaking, Heidelberg, September 1971

Avalanche Beuys invite

Vito Acconci, Performance Test, 1969

Vito Acconci’s annotated notes and sketches for Performance Test, 1969

Vito Acconci’s annotated notes for Control Box, 1971

Drawing for William Wegman piece, n.d.

Holiday card sent by the Wegmans to Avalanche, December 1971

“Dear Miss Miller,” Esopus 8, Spring 2007

JLB

“Dear Miss Miller,” Esopus 8, Spring 2007

“Dear Miss Miller,” Esopus 8, Spring 2007

JLB

“Dear Miss Miller,” Esopus 8, Spring 2007

JLB

“Dear Miss Miller,” Esopus 8, Spring 2007

Tent. Intro

“Tentative and Confidential” Esopus 9, Fall 2007

tentative

“Tentative and Confidential” Esopus 9, Fall 2007

Byars web

Beatriz Milhazes, Coisa Linda [Something Beautiful], MoMA Library Council, 2002

Beatriz Milhazes, Coisa Linda [Something Beautiful], MoMA Library Council, 2002

Olafur Eliasson, Your House, MoMA Library Council, 2006

yourhouse

cOlafur Eliasson, Your House, MoMA Library Council, 2006

Yun-Fei Ji, The Three Gorges Dam Migration,

MoMA Library Council, 2009

Yun-Fei Ji, The Three Gorges Dam Migration, MoMA Library Council, 2009

Oliver Sacks, Abelardo Morell, and Ted Muehling, The Island of Rota, MoMA Library Council, 2010

Oliver Sacks, Abelardo Morell, and Ted Muehling, The Island of Rota, MoMA Library Council, 2010

Innovation Through Collaboration

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