KURATOR  curating + research

Artistic Director of KURATOR, Founding Member and Researcher at Art and Social Technologies Research, Visiting Associate Professor (Reader), University of Plymouth, UK.

Countries:

Poland, United Kingdom

Occupations:

Curator

Link:

http://kurator.org/

Joasia Krysa is a curator, writer, and academic. She is a founding director of KURATOR, a combined curatorial platform and research project at the intersection of art and technology, and is also Visiting Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth, UK. She completed MA Fine Art Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and in 2008 received a PhD from the Planetary Collegium programme, University of Plymouth, for her thesis on Software Curating. Previously she worked as a curator with WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. She is co-editor of the DATA browser book series (Autonomedia, New York), and as part of the series she edited Curating Immateriality (2006).

Krysa regularly lectures and contributes to publications on curating, digital culture, and technology. She contributed chapters to, amongst others, Software Studies: A Lexicon (MIT Press 2008), and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (University of California Press 2008). She has organized a number of conferences and panels including Curating, immateriality, Systems at Tate Modern, London 2005, and Curating in/as (an) Open System(s) at ISEA 2008 Singapore. She regularly serves on international juries (i.e. ARCO Fair, Madrid 2007-10) and scientific committees (i.e. 1st International Congress on Web Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico 2010). Her recent curatorial work includes the touring exhibition After The Net (Spain, UK, Mexico, 2008­10) and Silicon Dreams (part of the ‘Art-Science-Technology’ programme by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and La Agencia, Madrid, 2010).