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2025-2026

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Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is a visual artist, film director and educator. Her work focuses on identity, culture and on new ways of being and seeing. She has a deep interest in creating more space for the Black Diaspora and the experiences of people with mixed and multicultural backgrounds. Her mission is to inspire people to fully embrace themselves — in ways that will bring impactful, constructive and postive changes that move across time and generations.
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2025 

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Encyclopedia.


  Finally gained access to DAAN ; Digital Audiovisual Archive (of the) Netherlands.

Anyway. Today I want to write about encyclopedias.

I'm thinking a lot about encyclopedias and how there are no new, traditional, physical encyclopedias being produced. The coming of internet and massive networks such as Wikipedia have removed the 'need' for encyclopedias. I keep thinking about this, because when I was growing up, encyclopedias were my entire jam. The combination of subjects that were bundled in a book, often in alpahebtical order, would mean that you could read about two seemingly unrelated topics in successive order.

This rhythm and behavioural movement, is what I call

'open browsing';

the movement of stumbling onto something that is not necessarily related to the previous - or next - subject  you’ve come across (Tarona, Feb. 25, 2025)


It reminds me a lot of the cognitive patterns that I developed while growing up as the MTV generation; seeing Aphex Twin's 'Windowlocker' slotted next to Lauryn Hill's 'Doo Wop '(That Thing) meant that two very disctinctive music styles, visual expressions and, ultimately - universes - were presented after one another. A part of me is wondering if this had an impact on the understanding of 'eclecticism'.

I am thinking about encyclopedias not so much as a matter of collections, objects or reference material; but rather as a time capsule into the development of ones behaviour and way of thinking. Now that these ways of (pre-curated) mediums are no longer existent in the traditional formatting, I am most defenitely thinking about how having to continuously and constantly 'prompt' for a search instead of a 'stumbling upon' also influences the way we think, move and interact.

Quick summary notes:

- Successive order(s)- Rhythm(s) & (behavioural) movement(s)
- Eclectisism
- Collections, objects, reference materials
- Cognitive patterning
- Continuous + constant
- Open browsing
- Stumbling upon
- Thought, movement, interaction
- Interlinking


In relation to the DAAN archive, I found that it allows for this idea of ‘open browsing’. The DAAN system has the option to not put any form of entry in, where you can just click the ‘search’ button. When you prompt nothing, you get shown everything; just like in life — it’s just ‘there’. It doesn’t force you to put in a search query (a prompt), or a request; whatever you wish to call this action. When you then get all the results, you additionally have the option to turn off all the filters, which then presents the information ‘as is’ in the system it inherently exists in.

I’m sure many folks would consider a flaw; but for my way of thinking, it’s perfect.
DAAN is perhaps, unbeknownst to itsself an open browsing system? 

Quick questions:

- What if a full encyclopedia was presented in a film format?
- What is context without successive patterning?
- What happens if you prompt nothing?
- What happens when all information is available to you?


Either way, I am never able to just stick with one thing when searching or thinking; I am always associating or interlinking. I think what is becoming important now is how I get a deeper understanding of how I move within piles of open information.


Connective material



Diagram for Gesture Dance, Oskar Schlemmer, 1926

Cross section illustrations for the cross connected mind.
Source: Iconic visionairies of Design — Dorling Kindersley
Examining The History of Infographics and Data Visualization – May 4, 2017




MTV Logo, 1980 by Manhattan Design
Parallel Encyclopedia, Batia Suter, 2021


Lauryn Hill, Doo Wop (That Thing, Music Video
dir. Monty Whitebloom & Andy Delaney, 1998

Aphex Twin, Windowlicker, Music Video
dir. Chris Cunningham, 1999


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