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This book documents on one hand recent works including a new large scale project commissioned by the Grand-Hornu Museum of Contempor ary Arts in Mons, and presented here for the first time. This work, titled Shadow Archive, is inspired by Paul Otlet (1868-1944), co nsidered to be one of the forefathers of information science. Shadow Archive deals in particular with Otlet's decades-long utopian q uest to establish a central repository for the world's information/ between 1919 and 1934, Otlet and his team assembled more than 16 million...[Read more]