Materials for the Arts heard about the slides from Marco Castro Cosio, an artist who was the manager of the Met’s media lab. “I was definitely thinking, how could we give the slides new life, instead of discarding them?” said Mr. Cosio, now a research fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University. “The technology moved on, and nobody’s borrowing slides anymore,” said Egle Zygas, a spokeswoman for the Met. “Who even has a slide carousel anymore?”Materials for the Arts does. “These to me are archaic remnants of predigital life,” she said, sounding almost as if she were talking about remnants of prehistoric life.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2017 13:30 UTC