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Hi there As one of the invitees (thank you Beryl for initiating this discussion and inviting me)...firstly let me introduce myself - I am a practicing artist who specifically explores the use of and impact technological systems have on my fine art practice. As a programmer I have a particular perception of how this can manifest, thus my work explores real-time systems that exploit or simulate a process that I have observed elsewhere. I also run the MA Multimedia Arts Programme at Liverpool John Moores. I must admit to feeling a bit of an interloper on this list! However, there are obviously a good number of people of see themselves as (or have an interest in being) New Media Curators and this begs the question - "where have you come from?". This strikes me as an interesting starting point for this discussion. If New Media Curating as a field is healthy and developing its own community, does it actually need a structured curriculum that will in part define (and constrain?) it? To address some of Beryl's points below, generally there seem to be pockets of Curating (certainly within UK), some with technology or design integrated, but little dedicated. Though I have recently heard about a programme that claims to be the sole New Media Curating programme in Europe (in Spain apparently - details anyone?). Someone can probably expand upon this more globally. I assume therfore that those Curators who have had postgraduate training and specialise in New Media have probably subverted a wider curating curriculum. If this is true then we could go on to analyse what elements were missing from the programme and that they had to seek out individually. Regards Steve Beryl Graham wrote: > Dear List, I'm glad to say that we're back on track with our Themes, and > as promised, this Month's concerns formal education for new media > curators: As the start of term is always busy for educators, we may > continue this theme into November if there is continuing > interest. Educating New Media Curators: October Theme of the Month Last > month a list member asked if there were any specialist new media > curating postgraduate courses. This raised the question: Should there > be? Should curating courses be teaching about new media art? Should new > media art courses be teaching about curating (in the artist/curator > model?) What is formal education doing now, and what might the blue sky > curriculum be for such a course? How much technical knowledge to > 'future curators' need? Does the existing critical curating theory > adequately include new media? This Month's Invited Respondents: Norton > Batkin (Bard), Caroline Koebel (Buffalo), Seth Cluett (Rensselaer), > Saskia Bos (de Appel), Nuno Sacramento (Dundee), Anna Harding > (Goldsmiths), Tim Brennan (Not the MA in Curating) and Steve Symons > (Liverpool John Moores).