Invisible Matter — Institutions

Invisible Matter is a data research project into the global contemporary art field. The project's webpage invisiblematter.xyz (opens in a new tab) will be updated and further developed in order to communicate and further the research.

The goal of Invisible Matter is to locate and describe the entities that produce art events, as well as the printed matter and web sites that participate in the circulation of information and creation of the discourse about the art field. Although the motivation for this research is to observe the economical and political underpinnings of different segments of the art field, the database we are working on is looking to cover as wide a dataset as possible before making any claims toward the meaning of the data produced.

The first step of the research was to analyse the institutions that use e-flux announcements to advertise their activities. We are developing a relational database based on the analysis of the announcements pages published on e-flux (opens in a new tab) from January 2000 to date*. At this moment the database contains 2519 [institutions] that have published 18002 [events].

This research does not pertain to portray a comprehensive image of the field but its specific segment. Our long term goal is not to stick with a specific source but to use a variety of sources and try to map the "invisible matter" of the global contemporary art field, its actors and relations between them.

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