
In the current museological landscape, traditional, chronological, Western, and canonic narratives are being questioned in the light of new collection presentations. Most museums do not want to tell a single, linear story and are searching for a more trans- or ahistorical, discursive way of presenting multiple global stories about art and within their collections at the same time. This almost neutral, unmediated, and uninfluenced way of thinking might be impossible for human curators, but could be realized using algorithms. Could it be possible for algorithms, instead of humans, to curate collection presentations in the near future? And what does this mean for current museum practice and museum curators? In this article I will examine the possibilities of algorithms and database structures to curate collection presentations as an addition, or even an alternative, to human curators, and also question the influence of applying database logic to the physical and material-based museum.
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