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).
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