From the Series Transcoding the Museum, Transcoding, dimensions variable, exhibition view, February 19th - March 16th, 2025, University of Miami Gallery, Wynwood Building. Photo © Alian Rives' StudioTranscoding the Museum explores the role of materiality in critically examining the intersection of cultural representation, institutional power, and technological mediation in museum contexts. By combining historical data, anthropological insight, and museographic techniques, this project interrogates how ritual artifacts lose their original functionality and take on polysemic meanings within a Western exhibition setting. Through the exhibition Transcoding the Museum, the use of physical interventions, including sculpture, installation and augmented reality, reveal the ideological frameworks that influence the display and interpretation of cultural artifacts from the Lowe Museum. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Lev Manovich, and referencing the historical evolution of institutional critique from early Conceptual Art, this exhibition challenges the power dynamic of the Lowe Museum over tribal and pre-Columbian artifacts. The exhibit exposes how these objects are recontextualized from cult artifacts to exhibition items.