L’exposition comme médium. Quelques observations sur la cybernétisation de l’institution et de l’exposition

Abstract

By going back to the critical moment of the cybernetisation of the museum and of the exhibition, this essay aims to put forward a thesis considering exhibition as medium. It elaborates on the notion of medium by contrasting it with Canguilhem’s notion of milieu, in order to redefine it, in a non-substantialist way, as modulation in light of Simondon’s and Deleuze’s works. It proposes a genealogy of the exhibition as medium and describes a critical historical trajectory shaped by institutional and informational infrastructures.

Keywords

• Simondon
• communication
• milieu
• Canguilhem
• musée
• information