June 10, 2005
Kurating By Numbers
On the 4th of June, Tate Modern hosted the CURATING, IMMATERIALITY, SYSTEMS
symposium to kick off its epochal Open Systems survey show of the conceptual and
informatic art that swept the 1960s-70s. The conference acted as the first docking
bay for UK-based programmer Grzesiek Sedek and curator Joasia Krysa's open source
curating software KURATOR. Drawing on affinity between code art and curatorial
praxis, the software tries to redevelop curating as a generative experiment in
social relations, within and against an art world that is only beginning to bypass
the genteel stultification of curator as the golden alibi of art markets and
aesthete-at-large. KURATOR posits "software curating" as a way to distribute
curatorial process over networks of people, including artists and others, and
finally outwards from the special domain of an individual. It further combats the
reification of taste by partially automating many of the traditional metiers that
distinguish the curato! r - selectivity being one. There will be an online panel
discussion and public forum touching on KURATOR and many other themes that emerged
during the symposium, Monday June 13th, via the Tate's website. - Marina Vishmidt
http://www.kurator.org/read/Index
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