The Exhibition as Medium: Some Observations on the Cybernetisation of the Institution and the Exhibition
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By going back to the critical moment of the cybernetisation of the museum and of the exhibition, this essay aims to put forward a thesis considering the exhibition as medium. It elaborates on the notion of medium by contrasting it with the notion of milieu. It proposes a genealogy of the exhibition as medium and describes a critical historical trajectory shaped by institutional and informational infrastructures.