The Museum of Walls Without Walls explores how we view imagesonline by proposing an infinite and imaginary corridor of graphic display. In conceiving the project as a virtual phenomenon, we considered the new kinds of spatial relations that emerge from the digitization of information and environment. Familiar things like online archivesor navigating through google maps alter how we think about scale (everything is both large and small), proximity (the collapse of near and far), and time.

The title of the project draws from Andre Malreaux’s Museum Without Walls, the first foray into understanding a collection as a virtual (non-spatial) sets of information. From there, we mimicked the logic of web-browsing by producing paths of highly-articulated and specific networks blending media and narrative into myriad arrangements of curated content. Think of the picturesque landscape: where central and dominant features (a pavilion, a lake, a constructed vista) were connected through a system of paths: some wide, some narrow, some unavoidable, others optional—producing a huge variety of possible experiences.

Navigating digital information asks us to read, re-read, and interpret references through juxtapositions. The Museum of Walls Without Walls operates on a similar set of principles, combining extant ephemera culled from a world of circulating images with a curated set of works that describe surface, displayed through modes of texture mapping (a new kind of mounting installation). This museum describes itself through different digital media, from google maps to instagram, and operates as an encounter and a destination; a whole and its parts; an imagined site and a real virtual space.