Online curator:

Curatorial Project. Due Wednesday, 2010/03/31 (class number 4): Curate an online exhibition of New Media art and present it in class using your new sketchblog. Each exhibition should include ~4-7 works and should be organized around a specific, defined theme or topic. Here are some examples:

• Identity, as in race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc.
• Character, as in fictional person/personality
• Narrative, storytelling
• Migration, cultural hybridity
• Mobility, ubiquitous computing
• Location, as in locative media
• Site/situation specificity, psychogeography
• Globalization, empire
• Public space, public domain, public sphere
• Political action, radical/tactical media (could be a particular issue, e.g. Iraq war or global warming)
• Open source, copyleft
• Appropriation, readymades, found media
• Performance, performativity
• Surveillance, eavesdropping, privacy
• Gaming, ludology, serious games
• Formalism, aesthetics
• Virtuality, e.g. SecondLife
• Cultural nostalgia, retro-aesthetics
• Filesharing, peer-to-peer networks, mesh networks
• Archiving, database as aesthetic form, preservation
• Folksonomy, metadata
• Social software, social sculpture

 

What's due:

• A professional presentation of the chosen artworks, including presentation of individual artist biography/background and explanation of the concept/context of the individual chosen artworks. Presentations should be ~10 minutes in length.
• A curatorial statement explaining why you chose the unifying curatorial topic and how this exhibition expands on that theme.
• A blog post linking to your assignment (wherever it might exist on the web) and including your curatorial statement.

 

A few notes and suggestions:

• This would be a great time to visit a gallery and review exhibition brochures.
• You can find the some curatorial options at the following links: Rhizome, enjoysthin.gs, and delicious