The Digital Commons has enabled everyone to become a librarian. Collating, curating and redistributing cultural and informational production. The Extended Mind thesis proposes our digital aids as extensions of our minds (with the interweb an example of extended cognition) in the same way as a prosthetic limb is an extension of one’s body. This suggests each individual as a walking library of Alexandria, limited solely by our personal cataloging abilities.
The physical library has a utility, this is layered with the immaterial ideas swept up with the idea of the library – ideas of access, exclusion, inclusion, ownership, authority and narrative. Here we look at artists, collectives and independent initiatives tackling – tangentially or directly – these issues.
Feat:
Duncan Poulton
Ruth Beale - Brent Biennial
Susan Francis - CAS Chapters
Ami Clarke - DAAP
Julie F Hill
Amanda Martin Katz - 3307 W Washington Blvd
Alistair Gentry
Clementine Butler-Gallie & Florence Devereux - Art of Change