Digital Archive LibraryMuseum of One / Source-linked catalogueRelational Archival Investigation, diagnostic indices, operational manuals, and published demonstrations of research methods.
A documentary study of Korean experimental art: how collection records, artist testimony and archives support claims about artwork identity, chronology, naming, performance and display. Main paper with two separately citable supplements.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Working paper
The documentary record supporting RAI: seven MMCA acquisition entries compared with collection records, with SeMA sources, artist testimony, institutional identifiers and the limits of each comparison.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Technical note
Four studies of Kim Yong-Ik, Rim Dong Sik, Sung Neung Kyung and Kim Youngjin distinguish the work from the histories of its title, photographs, performance and display.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Technical note
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-11-09
A source-led protocol for discovering and testing historical problems through relations among documentary assertions.
Examines how photographs, later interventions and reperformance shape the documentary histories of works by Sung Neung Kyung, Rim Dong Sik and Kim Kulim.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Working paper
Four studies of Kim Yong-Ik, Park Suk-won, Lee Kang-so and Kim Kulim compare how collection dates, titles and reconstructions bear on artwork identity and historical claims.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Working paper
An operational manual for applying the diagnostic indices of Post-Interpretive Criticism across coding, comparative study, and self-audit. Procedures for testing agreement are distinct from completed reliability findings.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Other
A deposited dataset and report examining twenty critical texts through five diagnostic indices. The institutional tools page characterizes the associated work as a single-coder pilot, rather than independent validation.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Dataset
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2026-02-06
Five proposed PIC indices for examining presupposition, phase, residue, agency and movement in critical writing, with methodological context and limits.
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2026-02-05
Contemporary art criticism faces an epistemic crisis: the erosion of interpretive authority without a corresponding shift in critical methodology.
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2026-02-05
Building upon the foundational framework of Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC), which synthesizes Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological methods with Mikel Dufrenne’s aesthetics to foster ethical proximity in art encounters, this article introduces five new diagnostic indices.
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-10
When Edmund Husserl abandoned his early project in the Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) and turned toward phenomenology, he carried with him a mathematician’s conviction: philosophy could and should achieve the rigor of formal science.
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-09
A Diagnostic Lens on Ethical Witnessing in Art Criticism
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2025-10-16
You Have Entered a Room. Now What?
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2025-10-16
An early comparative exercise exploring witnessing and interpretation, with examples from Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth and Kimsooja’s A Needle Woman, comparison tables, and a short exercise for viewers.
Website publication · Dorian Vale · 2025-10-16
Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) isn’t a methodology one applies to a work. It’s a moral orientation, a shift in how one stands in front of a thing that breathes silence. Before the critic speaks, before the essay is begun, before the language is chosen, there is the moment of approach.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-11-09
Research methods and instruments for art, archives and aesthetic encounters, including Relational Archival Investigation and its published evidence.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-10-21
A local research workbench for artworks, artifacts, evidence and curatorial decisions. Explore eight research tools, a constructed worked study, a visual tour and practical guidance for varied museum inquiries.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-02-06
PIC diagnostic reading of rhetorical density, interpretive load, viewer displacement and ethical proximity, with procedures, rationale and limits.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-27
An experimental PIC research environment examining how light, scale, distance, framing, adjacency and sequence condition encounters with art.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-27
PIC research comparing historical, geographical and institutional conditions around artistic production, with source grounding and limits on inference.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-27
Theory Prism examines what critical frameworks notice, assume and exclude, and how their claims relate to PIC’s demand for restraint and answerability.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-26
Working prototype for comparative artwork research: 2–8 works, locked protocols, image regions, a looking glass, participant comparisons and evidence exports. Includes a worked study and FAQ.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-26
The Adjacency & Contamination Mapper models relations between paired works through PIC, with explicit inputs, calculation rules and interpretive limits.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-24
Research tools and experiments in critical language, viewing situations, and curatorial relations, with methods, PIC context, and limits.
Research tool or guide · Dorian Vale · 2026-01-06
A companion guide for Museum of One’s experimental Linguistic Diagnostics tool, linking its procedure, worksheet, coding manual, and supporting research.