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Public scholarship
Essays, artist studies, close readings, and research on collecting and preserving digital art.
Acquisition scholarship
Essays on The System in Seven States, Conflict at Its Edges, A Gift of Themes and Variations #210, and the selected Keys and Gates photographs.
Permanent Collection
Vera Molnár / Martin Grasser
The Museum's accession adds one unique output from the 500-work edition to the permanent Collection. Visitors can compare its dated rendering with the live generator.
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Permanent Collection
Casey Reas
Seven works by Casey Reas show how a system can produce images with sharply different structures, textures, and tempos.
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Permanent Collection
Magnum Photos
Five photographs made between 1952 and 2016 approach conflict through borders, sacred and domestic space, smoke, ruins, and uncertain aftermaths. Accession 6529NM.2026.002 is recorded as Conflict at Its Edges, five photographs from Magnum Photos 75.
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Acquisition in progress
Keys and Gates
Sixteen photographs selected through Keys and Gates examine access, control, permission, and exit. They have not yet been minted, acquired, or accessioned and are not in the permanent Collection.
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Biographical and critical studies of artists represented in the permanent Collection or in an acquisition now in progress.
Molnár used grids, lines, circles, and letters to test how small changes alter a composition. Her work moved between drawing, painting, plotter output, and computer code.
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Martin Grasser works with typography, drawing, code, and generative systems. Themes and Variations develops the letters N, F, and T as both image and structure.
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Reas works with software, generative systems, moving image, and print. His practice asks how rules, machines, and institutions condition what an image can be.
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Towell's photographs are grounded in long engagement with family, land, migration, and political violence, often at the scale of daily life.
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Saman examines conflict and political upheaval through the environments, gestures, and ambiguities that remain outside official narratives.
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HugoFaz photographs the figure, the shore, and the conditions of public visibility. Two works were selected through Keys and Gates.
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Nasimghanizadeh's selected photograph uses architecture and controlled movement to examine the limits placed on freedom.
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Shamspranto's selected work addresses the visual memory of Bangladesh's Liberation War and the public life of historical images.
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Studies of individual works and the projects to which they belong.
Vera Molnár
Themes and Variations turns the letters N, F, and T into blocks, bars, intervals, and texture. In #210, a small F and repeated T forms sit within the project's six-by-six grid.
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Casey Reas
A close reading of Reas's unfinished forms, layered procedures, and the visual evidence of a system still in motion.
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Casey Reas
Light, motion, and accumulated marks turn a biological response into a changing field of digital behavior.
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Micha Bar-Am
Micha Bar-Am's photograph holds protest, religious space, and spectatorship within one compressed public scene.
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Lorenzo Meloni
Lorenzo Meloni photographs Palmyra after destruction, where archaeology, propaganda, and the present occupy the same ground.
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intrepid
A Keys and Gates photograph in which a lit passage is divided by a gate-like screen.
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priyanka
A landscape photograph that connects entry with reservation, capacity, time, and cost.
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Histories of the institutions, platforms, movements, and cultural settings that shape the works in the Museum's care.
Organization profile
Founded in 1947, Magnum Photos is a photographer-owned cooperative whose history shaped modern documentary photography and the circulation of photographic authorship.
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Keys and Gates is the Museum's first Meme Card-funded acquisition program. Its selection is complete; minting, acquisition, and accession remain to be completed.
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Research on rights, preservation, provenance, software, and the changing conditions of digital works.
A layered view of the code, runtime, display, and preservation work required to render and care for an executable artwork.
Open the system study
Token title, copyright, display, reproduction, and preservation permissions are recorded separately because each answers a different question.
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A map of the relationships among artists, works, projects, acquisitions, programs, rights, custody, and sources.
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The Museum studies feature distributions from a cited source snapshot, an open script, and a deterministic result set. Marketplace rarity scores are excluded.
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Studies of museum scholarship, collecting, publication, and institutional practice.
Profiles of contemporary and digital-art institutions, with specific lessons for the Network Museum.
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The public standard for research, attribution, argument, captions, and editorial review.
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How the Museum publishes its record, invites correction, and separates durable evidence from the website that displays it.
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The open record, its cryptographic commitment, the future contract, and the website remain separate layers of the Museum's publication system.
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The complete set of published studies and source records, arranged by subject.