News and Projects

After The Net is a deliberately ambiguous title: implying that somehow the Net is over in terms of its utopian promises and also making a reference to the documentary film The Net by Lutz Dammbeck (2003). Like the film, the exhibition explores systems of technological control and presents works that draw attention to historical shifts of network power: from cybernetics to free and open source software, and in turn to social networking platforms.

Featuring: Caen Botto, Wayne Clements, Geoff Cox (for project.arnolfini), Lutz Dammbeck, Jeff Gompertz, Rui Guerra, Linda Hilfling, Chun Lee, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk (GOTO10), José Antonio Orts, and artists selected from openKURATOR: Burak Arikan, Bestiario, Carlos Katastrofsky, Abe Linkoln, Jimpunk and Mrtamale, Joseph Nechvatal, Cyril de Vroom and Jos Wabeke.

→ More information Observatori 2008
→ Images After the Net

For After The Net exhibition, Observatori: 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valenci, openKURATOR presents a selection of works from an open call: Infomania by Cyril de Vroom & Jos Wabeke (2008), Hipercontrol^3 by Bestiario (2007), Mypocket by Burak Arikan (2008), Netart for poor people by Carlos Katastrofsky (2006), Triptych.tv by Abe Linkoln, Jimpunk, Mrtamale (2008), Viral Symph0ny by Joseph Nechvatal (2007).

→ More information, jury statement and to view projects openKURATOR

KURATOR is involved in developing Curatorial Network. Current events include curatorial research residency by Basak Senova, (of NOMAD TV, Istanbul) to explore the potential of online environment and social networking tools as mechanisms for generating cultural exchange. The residency unfolds through the discussion on curatorial.net list and concludes with a public seminar on 25 April 2008, with contribution from Ute Meta Bauer, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) and Paul O'Neill (Research Fellow at the University of West of England, Bristol UK). Events are organised and hosted by i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre (UK).

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KURATOR is contributing to Art and Social Technologies research group (AST), part of AZTEC Consortium. AST examines creative practice at the intersection of art, technology and society. It has a special interest in the production of experimental, participatory and distributed technological systems - developed and changed through social networks of users and programmers - that challenge orthodox social relations.

→ More information http://www.art-social.net

Social Hacking is a series of temporary public art commissions featuring work from The Institute for Applied Autonomy(USA), Mikro Orchestra Project (Poland), and Ludic Society (Austria/Switzerland). The event also includes the pre-launch of c6's (UK) new Dot Master project Mobility in the art market, performances by Tetine (Brazil) and Mikrokilla & Jura (Poland), workshops run by The Pirate University, and a public seminar with presentations by Saul Albert (UK) and McKenzie Wark (AUS/USA).

→ See video documentation → See stills
→ Watch short film on 'Terminal Air' installation by IAA on Current TV UK
→ Watch short film on c6's Dot Master project on Current TV UK

Curating Immateriality is the third book in the DATA browser series published by Autonomedia. It includes contributions from 0100101110101101.ORG & epidemiC, Alexander R. Galloway & Eugene Thacker, Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin, Christiane Paul, Trebor Scholz, Eva Grubinger, Geoff Cox, and Tiziana Terranova.

→ To order a copy, visit http://www.data-browser.net/03/
→ Read the Leonardo review