Gunther Cox
Gunther is a software engineer, hobbyist robot builder, and the curator of the Gunther Cox Digital Museum.
Biography #
What do NASA spacecrafts and curiosity cabinets have in common? I’ve always found something intriguing about them both. The Golden Records sent attached to the Voyager spacecrafts contained encoded images, sounds, and data about our planet were meant to carry a depiction of our world deep into the cosmos. There’s something that feels enduring and worthwhile about the attempt to capture samples of the world we live in. Likewise, the curiosity cabinets of collectors in Renaissance Europe often housed encyclopedic collections that resided in the imagination somewhere between scientific study and pirate treasure troves.
With the founding of my Digital Museum I hope to capture the mystery and excitement that I’ve always found to surround artifacts like the aforementioned. At the same time I feel there is something to be added by instilling a thematic genre within the composition of a “digital museum” - just as an art museum might present itself architecturally within the imagery of ancient Greece or Rome. To this extent it seems appropriate to adopt a matrix-like, retro-terminal appearance, and to hopefully encompass a sense of mystery by presenting as a sort of liminal space amidst the “backrooms” of the internet.
Art Installations #
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