Arquitecturas del coleccionismo
como infraestructuras de la subjetividad
The first cabinets where exotic objects were found, collected and exhibited from different parts of the planet appeared in the XVI century. Collecting is a tool that allows you to sort and catalogue the objects that contain our desires, but nowadays it happens in different ways. We are constant collectors of an infinite and saturated flow of information.
Due to the increasing technological incorporation, registration is no longer reserved for the extraordinary.
How is reality archived? What are the effects of materiality transformations in the ways of collecting? How are the objects th
at previously helped us to build our worldview and build ourselves?
Images are the object of consumption of our collections. The contemporary collector opens tabs, archives links, add Watch-Later playlist and make folders.
Social networks are the new iconic repositories that order and categorize the world. Where we expose our digital subjectivity. Instagram is a collection of us, a network of hyperlinks that build an infrastructure of subjectivity.
Matter is no longer a specific set of materials, but a more complex system of languages, knowledge and technologies. It is a more fluid and remixed visual composition.
Currently, culture is based on a mutable process: the virtual is made up of representations and artificial simulations of the real, in real time. Everything is replicable, editable and expandable.
Culture is now mediated by screens. They are the regulatory element of these architectures. The entire universe is concentrated on small screens from where we access to the world. The screen is the physical-virtual link. Identity is no longer represented through posters pasted in the walls of your rooms -that specific place that contains memories and builds identity-.The new walls of your room are the digital boards. Now we create virtual collections of the images we consume.Spaces are multiplied to be experienced online. Social networks reshape and redesign the physical space in which we move, changing our relationship with everything that surrounds us. Allowing the subjective construction of spaces, where we curate our identity.The individual becomes an image, exposes his subjectivity, selfcollects, self-designs,
selfadvertises.We project our image on social networks, designing and redefining our identity constantly, staging our subjectivity. The culture of the archive is produced by memory and destined to remain eternal, but currently, culture is based on the mutable and unstable process: the virtual consists of artificial representations and simulations of the real, in real time. The virtual discards history. The digital medium extinguishes the evolution of time. The event is broadcasted in streaming.
