{"id":26598,"date":"2010-03-23T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/momas-department-of-architecture-and-design-has\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:48:20","slug":"momas-department-of-architecture-and-design-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/momas-department-of-architecture-and-design-has\/","title":{"rendered":"MoMA acquires &#8220;@&#8221; symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>MoMA\u2019s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. But what does it mean, both in conceptual and in practical terms?<br \/>\nContemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets of instructions that can be transmitted only by the artist. The process by which such unconventional works are selected and acquired for our collection can take surprising turns as well, as can the mode in which they\u2019re eventually appreciated by our audiences. While installations have for decades provided museums with interesting challenges involving acquisition, storage, reproducibility, authorship, maintenance, manufacture, context\u2014even questions about the essence of a work of art in itself\u2014MoMA curators have recently ventured further; a good example is the recent acquisition by the Department of Media and Performance Art of Tino Sehgal\u2019s performance Kiss. The acquisition of @ takes one more step. It relies on the assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement for an acquisition is no longer necessary, and therefore it sets curators free to tag the world and acknowledge things that \u201ccannot be had\u201d\u2014because they are too big (buildings, Boeing 747\u2019s, satellites), or because they are in the air and belong to everybody and to no one, like the @\u2014as art objects befitting MoMA\u2019s collection. The same criteria of quality, relevance, and overall excellence shared by all objects in MoMA\u2019s collection also apply to these entities.<br \/>\nIn order to understand why we have chosen to acquire the @ symbol, and how it will exist in our collection, it is necessary to understand where @ comes from, and why it\u2019s become so ubiquitous in our world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2010\/03\/22\/at-moma\/\">MoMA | @ at MoMA<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoMA\u2019s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. But what does it mean, both in conceptual and in practical terms? Contemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2082,10],"tags":[1513,101,1315,1316,42,779,1514,1447,1484,40,2004,533,1478],"class_list":["post-26598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr-archive","category-words","tag-1513","tag-art","tag-curation","tag-curatorial-practice","tag-design","tag-emad","tag-ephemera","tag-moma","tag-museum-of-modern-art","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-tumblr","tag-university-of-denver","post_format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6V0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56343,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26598\/revisions\/56343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}