Hello again List,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the Moot event – which I did not attend and many others might have not. In a way what Katrina and Charlie say regarding 'absence of self-reflexivity about how 'digital transformations' apply to epistemologies, ontologies and practices within disciplines' (Katrina) and 'little real engagement with actual transformations brought about by these new technologies' reflect the 'lacking background' that has triggered this discussion about using web-based platforms in curatorial work. What I feel is necessary to reflect upon, 'structurally, aesthetically, philosophically' (Sarah), are the what, how and whys of curatorial practice in relation to online work, its various modes of being and workings in relation to a platform and the larger context of artistic/curatorial disciplines.

While waiting from more opinions from the other invited respondents I would like to ask a few simple/and more specific questions to Anna, Candice and Mark who have already introduced their work/projects.

Anna, Radio Macba operates as 'a content generator', and I am interested in pointing at the relationship between the format chosen and documentation. As far as I can see (or better still, listen to!) the radio presents podcasts accompanied by contextual information as well as research material, have you ever worked with live stream? Is the podcast a format that has been chosen to create sound exhibitions which can also function as archives, research material, at the same time? I am asking this because I recently curated a week-long radio exhibition on the internet radio basic.fm, http://www.basic.fm/?cat=174, and since it was streamed, I feel I am dealing with very different issues concerning documentation or perhaps, re-presentation of a radio exhibition.

Candice, you say you think of exhibition as 'open systems' and 'work in progress', exhibitions as research tools, I wonder if with your experience with Sleeping Upright but also the collaborative exhibition Accidental Purpose, you have some comments to make regarding how audiences engage with projects located in different sites, e.g. Accidental Purpose website and the exhibition and series of events at Derby QUAD, or perhaps Sleeping Upright's Reception Area which was an online project which was also presented in different context, e.g. Nottingham Contemporary and later on for the Accidental Purpose exhibition. Or if you think there is any difference between this way of working and what you were doing with Moot.

Mark, your Museum of Glitch Aesthetics was presented as a gallery installation at Abandon Normal Devices festival this year, I wonder if you would like to tell us more about how it was to work with this two different 'platforms' of display in terms of deciding how to present the works in relation to the structure and organisation of material, e.g. architecture, the interface, the modes of arrangement. Also this could be applied to your newly published book, remixthebook, which is purposefully published in print and online, functioning as an editorial/curatorial collection of writing online and offline, in which the online collection works as a platform for producing new content, remixed content, taken from the book.

Feel free to reply to the above as you wish. And also everyone in the list can comment on this or add other projects that might touch on these issues.

Thanks,
Marialaura