Slides for my presentation at TedxWarsaw (on 5th of March 2010), about the types of cultural institutions we need at a time when our culture is becoming a cornucopia, due to the internet.

1. Constructions
for the Cultural
Cornucopia
Alek Tarkowski

2. Fot. Epoznan.pl

3. Kornukopia
Fot. future15pic@Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

4. Fot. MSN

5. Fot. Londonist.com

6. Map: OpenStreetmap, CC BY-SA

7. Map: OpenStreetmap, CC BY-SA

8. Governments of the Industrial
World, you weary giants
of flesh and steel,
I come from Cyberspace,
the new home of Mind.
John Perry Barlow

9. Since we lack access to the
sea, we lack this experience
of vastness [...].
Instead, we had to have
a sea of information.
Bohumil Hrabal

10. Parallelpolis
Fot. OliBac@Flickr, CC BY

11. The download doesn’t look
like anything because
it physically does not exist.
It is nothing.
Owen Ashforth (CFTPA)

12. Nothing
Fot. Magicicada@Flickr, CC BY

13. Fot. warszawa.gazeta.pl

14. Fot. MSN

15. Immutable, mobile

16. Mutable, immobile

17. The internet turns our
cultural institutions from
nouns to verbs.
To paraphrase Cory Doctorow

18. Collaboration
Fot. Crug06@Flickr, CC BY

19. Communication
Fot. a @Flickr, CC BY-SA

20. Openness
Fot. minciusodas@Flickr, CC BY

21. Sharing
Fot. adactio@Flickr, CC BY

22. Sustainability

23. Durability
Fot. Corey Leopold@Flickr, CC BY

24. Heritage
Fot. kevindooley@Flickr, CC BY

25. Curation
Fot. DominusVobiscum@Flickr, CC BY-SA

26. Craft
Fot. twicepix@Flickr, CC BY-SA

27. Places
Fot. wwward0@flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

28. If it isn’t digital, it’s dead!
But if it isn’t analogue,
then it’s not alive.
Christopher Adams

29. Fot. Matt Jones / Kamil Sliwowski