maat ext. – read: maat extended – is a content platform launched in September 2020 by MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon) that aggregates, connects and expands the reach of the museum’s actions across the digital sphere.
A companion to the museum's website, this is a digital space where different forms of creative output coexist, some developed from the museum’s programming and others native to this realm.
The contents are organised by editorial type, as in long-form writing and visual essays, libraries of meanings, resources, online cinema, bulletins and news, to name just a few, while topics provide thematically specific reading threads across the platform. All of which generates resonances, and further links and reflection interwoven with the on-site events developed by the museum.
maat extended is an experiment and an effort towards defying the time-based metrics of offline content consumption in order to produce a space for knowledge production, research and dialogue that can empower institutional practice to an intellectually flexible and creatively temperamental mode of contemporary storytelling.
maat extended is an original concept developed under the creative direction of Beatrice Leanza (MAAT executive director, 2019–2021).
Managing editor: Nuno Ferreira de Carvalho
Graphic designer: Lisa Hartje Moura
Web development: Wingman
Translation and proofreading: Liam Burke, Henry Broome, Vita Dervan, Per Christopher Foster
Former collaborators include Jule Kurbjeweit, Amir Halabi, Maria Kruglyak (editorial and research assistants), Beatriz Severes (design assistance)
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We have endeavoured to ensure that all links to other websites on maat extended are correct and active. However, we make no guarantee that a site will remain live.
Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders to the content published herein. If you find that any material has been inadvertently overlooked or miscredited, please get in touch via e-mail.
