Curating Media/Net/Art:
Circulating Contexts | Edited Mailinglist

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EDITED MAILINGLIST #003
Facing Participation | The Lack of Collaboration

Not everyone is always participating in everything. Curators “whose practice includes facilitating events, screenplayings, temporary discursive situations, writing/publishing, symposia, conferences, talks, research, the creation of open archives, and mailing lists”, need to know about how to activate and motivate a potential audience for collaboration. However, the needs of the audience are as diverse as “Net Art’s audience is a social medley: geographically dispersed, varying in background, these art enthusiasts are able to involve their involvement constantly, drawing from roles such as artist, critic, collaborator or ‘lurker’ (one who just watches or reads, without participating).”
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EDITED MAILINGLIST #002
Virtual/Real Representations in Real/Virtual Spaces

It is easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single exhibition of Internet Art in a museum space. Provided that there is a computer with Internet access, Net Art can be viewed at any time and any location and therefore can be left in its own medium of production. But even if Internet-based Art does not require to be exhibited in the traditional context of museums, galleries or off-spaces, curators have to find ways to present this kind of virtuality in real spaces and transform them into a “living information space that is open to interferences”. The chance to be shown in museum contexts raises the importance of a whole genre.
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EDITED MAILINGLIST #001
Visualising Workflows and (Filtering) Processes

Curating on the Internet is a working process that wants to be visualised in the same way as the processes frequently hidden behind Internet-based Art. The curator, “who does not want to get ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ the system, but stays at her place to deepen her knowledge”, acts not only as an intermediary in the presentation of art but also according to his/her own filtering processes, choices and decisions. The transparency of his/her work is highly relevant for the transparency of the presented artworks, too, and aims to get a broad public involved in a collective discourse.
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