Thesis
The research investigates the practice of curating in the context of network technologies.
#!/bin/bash
assumption="traditional curating follows a centralised network model"
echo "$assumption"
if [ "$assumption" ]
then
echo "what is the position of the curator within a distributed network model?"
fi
Software Curating
The research asks how networks have changed the nature of curating. It addresses this question by situating curating in the wider socio-political context articulated through two key concepts: immateriality and systems. Furthermore, it investigates new possibilities of collective and distributed curating and posits the idea of 'software curating'. In this connection the research also proposes a free software application designed for curating source code. It extends some of the existing online systems that question the role of the curator in the curatorial process of selection, presentation and distribution of immaterial artworks: 'by displacing the curatorial function from abstract subjective potential to binary code, it reproduces the singular curator as a collective executable'.
This outline informs Joasia Krysa's PhD research at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth under supervision of Professor Roy Ascott (Planetary Collegium), Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA) and Malcolm Miles (University of Plymouth, UK).
