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Dear CRUMB List, Apologies for the 'announcement' nature of this posting and following Beryl Graham's earlier email about curatorial event organised by CRUMB at ISEA I would like to add one more invitation to the mix. With best wishes and looking forward to meeting many of CRUMB List members at ISEA, Joasia Krysa ----- ISEA 2008 http://www.isea2008singapore.org/ Panel: Curating in/as Open System(s) 29 July, 2-4pm, Singapore Management University, SMU Auditorium Contributors to the panel: Geoff Cox, Beryl Graham, Joasia Krysa, Vicente Matallana, Yukiko Shikata. Panel organised by KURATOR (http://www.kurator.org) The panel responds to the wider critical concern and understanding of the dynamics of socio-technological systems and their relevance for curating. The emphasis is on the notion of open systems, in so far as this relates to the openness of technological systems (such as networks, online platforms and social software tools) and the practice of curating. The suggestion is that curating not only increasingly involves open socio-technological systems but itself can be considered in terms of an open system. This implies a state in which the curatorial system is opened up to the communicative processes of producers/users and to the divergent exchanges that take place that disrupt established social relations of production and distribution. In this scenario the software opens up curating to dynamic possibilities and transformations beyond the usual institutional model (analogous to the model of production associated with the industrial factory) into the context of networks (and what is referred to nowadays as the social factoryš). The panel reflects upon the emergence of new curatorial forms and an expanded description of curating enabled by social technologies and an open systems approach. Notes on panelists Geoff Cox is Associate Curator of Online Projects at Arnolfini, Bristol (UK) and lecturer/ researcher in Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth (UK). http://www.anti-thesis.net/ Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Sunderland (UK) and co-editor of CRUMB, resource for new media art curators. http://www.crumbweb.org Joasia Krysa is a curator, founder of KURATOR, as well as lecturer/researcher at AZTEC (Art Science Technology Consortium at the University of Plymouth (UK). http://www.kurator.org/wiki/main/read/About Vicente Matallana is a director and founder of LaAgencia, an independent new media art production company created in 1998 in Madrid (ES). http://laagencia.org/ Yukiko Shikata is a media art curator & critic based in Tokyo, working as a senior curator of NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University, guest professor at Tama Art University.