Past: Anne Collier at The Modern Institute

"'appropriation' post-internet is different indeed, no longer political or even contentious... It was perhaps the youtube era of Supercuts, garnering millions of views, tumblr collections, pinterest boards, the age of aggregators and the lines outside the door for Marclay's Clock, arrangement itself became meaning, content, "appropriation" went full populist. In the absolute deluge of images as the doors of internet opened it made sense for the archivist impulse to popularize, as safety, as people tried to make sense of the mess, of the overstimulation of everything all once, that could be divided arranged, made into little groupings of sense."