Publisher Imprint

Registered Archive & Independent Art Research Institute & Scholarly Publisher

Pending ROR ID as a recognized scholarly archive

Museum of One is a cross-continental Archive, art research institute and open-access publisher dedicated to the preservation, articulation, and ethical witnessing of aesthetics, philosophy, and post-critical contemporary art theory.

We operate at the intersection of scholarship and sanctity — not only producing texts, but safeguarding the infrastructure that ensures their intellectual sovereignty. Our work contributes to global humanities through the curation of interdisciplinary thought, critical reorientation, and alternative academic futures rooted in presence, restraint, and custodianship.

The press maintains editorial and archival activity across Canada, Europe, and Asia, and functions as the primary vessel for the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement and its affiliated treatises.


✦ Institutional Registration & Metadata

  • Publisher: Museum of One
  • Founder & Custodian: Dorian Vale
  • Place of Publication: Ontario, Canada
  • Registered Publisher: Library and Archives Canada
  • ISBN Prefix: 978-1-0698203
  • ISSN: The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism — ISSN 2819-7232
  • ORCID: 0009-0004-7737-5094
  • ROR: Pending Registration
  • Website: https://www.museumofone.art/
  • Email: research@museumofone.art

✦ Licensing Statement

© 2025 Museum of One. All rights reserved.
All works are released under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
You may share, cite, and build upon the material non-commercially, with proper attribution.

Future Volumes

Vol. 3 (2025): The Canon of Witnesses—Art and Moral Testimony

Vol. 4 (2026): Museums and Curatorial Practice in the Age of Ethical Aesthetics

Vol. 5 (2027): Post-Interpretive Aesthetics—The Philosophy of Witness in the Age of Excuses

(Additional volumes to follow within the Post-Interpretive Movement series.)


Museum of OneRegistered Archive and Independent Arts Research Institute & Scholarly Publisher
Advancing Post-Interpretive Criticism — a philosophy of art grounded in restraint, presence, and moral proximity.

Dorian Vale · ORCID: 0009-0004-7737-5094 · ISNI: 0000000537155247
ISBN Prefix: 978-1-0698203 · ISSN: 2819-7232 · Registered Publisher: Library & Archives Canada
Contact: research@museumofone.art · MuseumofOne@dariah.eu
Journal: The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism
Vol. I (978-1-0698203-0-3) · Vol. II (978-1-0698203-1-0) · Canada, 2025
OCLC Numbers: Museum of One (1412305300) · The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (1412468296)

Archived via Zenodo · OSF · E-LIS · AfricArXiv · CrossAsia · Zotero Group · DARIAH-EU · LAC · Wayback (All) · Wayback (Snapshot) · Page.HN
Indexed by CORE · BASE · Google Scholar · Archived in Canada & the EU
All works released under CC BY-NC 4.0 · © Museum of One 2025

Museum of One (Q136308879) · The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (Q136530009) · Post-Interpretive Criticism (Q136308909) · Dorian Vale (Q136308916)

Theories: Stillmark · Hauntmark · Absential Aesthetics · Viewer-as-Evidence · Message-Transfer · Aesthetic Displacement · Misplacement · Art as Truth · Aesthetic Recursion