For those who aren't using the Corrin piece for our Civic Engagement case study project, (long story short) it revolves around a "museum intervention" by the artist Fred Wilson. I hadn't heard of him prior to reading this article but have found lots of additional info about him and his work, and how he utilizes and manipulates collections in his installation work. Really interesting stuff. Here's a segment about him on the PBS series Art21:
http://www.art21.org/texts/fred-wilson/interview-fred-wilson-museums-and-collections
Let's see if the video embed code will work on here, shall we...
Fred Wilson from lalululaTV on Vimeo.
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