In academia, the archive had been a dominating subject for social
scientists studying modernity over the past three decades. Under the
influence of philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, the
classification and categorization of information came to the fore as a
central subject of intellectual inquiry. Museums followed the trend and,
over the following decades, started hosting shows devoted to archives.
Over the past couple of years, the focus seems to have shifted onto
creating interactive and artful interfaces to the archive, with an eye
to combining functionality and beauty.
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Peterk
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