"The fact is: to be a hyper-connected millennial today is to exist in multiple realities. To be both present within and outside of your own experiences, living them while simultaneously observing them; and assessing their shareability."
- Emma Hope Allwood

To imagine “online” as a place we can go is also to indulge the fantasy that we can simply choose to leave it behind, or refuse to go there. But we are always in the midst of the “online” way of being, whether we are looking at a screen or not.

Real Life (2018)

'The archive acts as a space
in which the collected projects
are confronted and juxtaposed
in order to highlight relevant
paths, mutual themes, common
perspectives, interrelations, but
also oppositions and idiosyncrasies.'

The dual identity of any new technology -- it fixes some things and breaks other things

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness--perhaps ignorance, credulity--helps your enjoyment of these things. [...] I repeat it--don't want to know too exactly, or the reasons why. (112, CR pg. 50) - Specimen Days, Walt Whitman

‘I have this impression of being a captive,’ the pupil says, ‘but I can’t explain why.’

‘[You’re] unable to find the bars of the cage,’ Ishmael replies.

Ishmael (1992) - Daniel Quinn

"This new freedom holds great practical promise: as a dimension of individual freedom; as a platform for better democratic participation; as a medium to foster a more critical and self-reflective culture; and, in an increasingly information-dependent global economy, as a mechanism to achieve improvements in human development everywhere."

The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler (2006)

These functions are, not coincidentally, very similar to the ones performed by computers, which are programmed for the high-speed transfer of data in and out of memory. Once again, we seem to be taking on the characteristics of a popular new intellectual technology. (Carr 142)

'We have learned to use the Web: hypertexting from one place to another, navigating our way through the immensity of it; how we’ve become virtual flaneurs, casually surfing from one place to another; how we’ve learned to manage and harvest information, not feeling the need to read the Web linearly, and so forth' - Kenneth Goldsmith

Can art interacting with social issues/reality exist in a museum environment?