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The role of the curator in a digital culture
As part of the SMIT Lecture Series IBBT-SMIT, on Wednesday 29 February 2012 research group Digital Arts and Cultures organizes 'In Transition? The role of the curator and the arts in a digital culture'. Invited speakers Beryl Graham, Frank Maet and Michelle Kasprzak situate, consider and debate this topic from an academic, philosophical and curatorial perspective.
In what way could the digital sphere influence the role of the curator and the arts? What does it mean to be a curator in a shifting, digital era? To what extent has Beryl Graham’s analysis, who has co-written the book Re-thinking Curating. Art After New Media (Graham and Cook, 2011), transpired? Should curators today be artists? What part does the visitor/viewer/participant have in this development? Is the suggestion of an interactive, or perhaps even a co-creative, system, realistic, or still rather utopian? How do, or should, curators relate to the audience? And, how do these transitions influence the role of the arts institution in the contemporary, digital context?
These, and many other related questions, will be addressed. Beryl Graham, professor New Media Art at the Sunderland University will give the opening lecture. She is followed by dr. Frank Maet, who wrote the dissertation Nieuwe Artistieke tijden. Een filosofische kritiek van een door technologie bepaalde kunst. He will approach the issue from a philosophical perspective. Next, Michelle Kasprzak, curator at Rotterdam’s V2, Institute for Unstable Media, and driving force of http://curating.info (Curating in a new media age) will set out a curatorial vision.
Doors at Argos open at 18h30 with a sandwich buffet. At 19h30 the lectures start and conclude with an open debate. At 21h30 the evening comes to an end in a closing reception.
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When? Wednesday 29 February 2012
Where? Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Werfstraat 13, 1000 Brussels.
Registrations? free entrance, but registration is required, via this form
Language: English
