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NETWORKED CURATORIAL PRACTICE
This curatorial research is presented in partial fulfilment of my PhD.
Networked curatorial practice is a methodology that has emerged over the past decade in response to a deep need on the part of a growing number of curators to create and provide opportunities and space for digital artists to present, display, discuss and develop their work.
This digital catalogue acts as a repository for the curatorial research conducted and the various components that emerged during the course of this research. It covers four key projects.
Below you will find the following:
TIMELINE OF CURATORIAL PROJECTS
SOUTH AFRICAN DIGITAL ART ARCHIVE
SOUTH AFRICAN DIGITAL ART LANDSCAPE DESCRIPTION (extract from PhD thesis)
TIMELINE OF PROJECTS
CURATORIAL RESEARCH
The four projects discussed below each employ a networked curatorial methodology. Their development was based on the needs of the South African digital art scene with each project occupying a specific space that reflects a particular need in relation to the creation of a sustainable digital arts practice.
You can view each project below.
“Collaboration and collective action – in writing, speaking, remixing, posting, moving, or interacting – are means to construct identities through roles and transactions, and new technologies implicate curators, artists, and technologists into a network of preexisting structures while allowing them, at best, to invent new cultures and identities and remap the network itself. This particular moment in time offers a challenging terrain for collective creation – a creation that recognizes complexity, self-organization, and unpredictability.”
– Sara Diamond, ‘Participation, Flow, Redistribution of Authorship’, 2008, p. 136
“I insist on transparency and advocate the importance of art spaces as critical sites of experimentation and freedom. They are themselves de facto experiments, and I believe that their true significance will only take shape once they enter into an operative symbiosis with their environment.”
– Koyo Kouoh, ‘Being Africa: Contextual Narratives of Artistic Environments’, 2016, p. 183
South African Digital Art Archive
2010-ongoing
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South African Digital Art Landscape
An extract from the written thesis describes the current digital art landscape in South Africa.
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INTERVIEWS
The following interviews accompany the curatorial research and were conducted to explore whether the insights and observations detailed in the research were echoed in the practices and experiences of other digital artists and curators.
Definitions
A list of terms and their definitions that have been used in the research.
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Bibliography
A comprehensive list of the resources used to support the research.
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