Muntada's “Entropic Archives”
The paper is to develop some ideas regarding the relationship between archives and entropy, with a particular focus on the way in which that relationship has played out in art since 1945. The archive is generally treated as an institution founded on order and systematic storage. Yet from the earliest times the degradation of information has been an inextricable part of its operations. On the one hand, this is due to the external threats that affect the archive from outside.