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In modernity the museum was the institution that made art accessible to the broader public An artwork was collected if it was considered beautiful passionate engaged or critical and primarily if it was deemed historically relevant But today with the total availability and saturation of images the museum has lost its privileged status as the exclusive place for the display of art In our age of digital media how is a particular artwork selected for a museum collection Which symbolic criteria must this artwork satisfy for it to obtain value And in what ways does the institution of the museum remain relevant Logic of the Collection is framed by Boris Groys s original and provocative proposition an artwork is considered historically relevant if it fits the logic of the museum collection In these critical essays the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media analyzes the relationship between the logic of the collection and various modern ideologies He reflects on the explosion of art production and distribution through the ascendancy of digital media as well as the ways in which the accumulated artworks will be collected and preserved in the future Logic of the CollectionBoris Efimovich Groys born 19 March 1947 is an art critic media theorist and philosopher He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe Germany He has been a professor of Aesthetics Art History and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed Professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe including the University of Pennsylvania the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London..
