Adobe Museum of Digital Media
nick kahler | October 7th, 2011
Almost one year ago, Adobe began to display a virtual environment for ideas and art called the Adobe Museum for Digital Media [AMDM]. Although not the first digital museum as they emphatically claim [see Asymptote's Guggenheim Digital Museum], this space further disassociates Walter Benjamin’s concept of the aura that describes of an original work of art and its reproduction, now through a digital medium. [1] Although attempting to propose a fully collaborative, constantly available location for the experience of art, the thesis of this article proposes that Adobe has exacerbated the connection between physical and virtual reality into furthering this ontological disconnect between man and machine.
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[ adobe systems, architecture, aura, filippo innocenti, Mario Carpo, museum, walter benjamin, Zaha Hadid ]
