Curation Techniques
Hans Ulrich Obrist; Curator, critic, historian
Book-A brief History of Curating. Interviews with curators.
Curator as Artists/Individuals who take on multiple roles
Fred Wilson; artist, curator
Wilson creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects. I am seeing museum space as a constructed kind of design space, as an installation environment. Very much like an artist you’re manipulating objects, light, color, spatial relationships. So I thought perhaps I could manipulate the space, make it kind of a trompe l'oeil of a museum space. [interesting] Critiquing, as well, the notion of museum.
(http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wilson/clip1.html)
Fred Wilson is a current artist who has emphasized curation as an art or medium.
Reena Spaulings; curator, gallerist
With her own gallery space, New York based Spaulings embodies all aspect of the Art world; Artist, performer, curator and art dealer. Hybrid of an art dealer and artist, her discipline challenges the notion of the commoditized art world.
Miranda July; designer, artist, filmmaker, writer
Learning to Love you More
July collects from web participants that have accepted an assignments revolving around self reflection to guide the participants toward their own experience through the Learning to Love You More website. As her practice, July has created a space reflective of her interests through different media forms rather than allowing the medium to become a constraint to their inspirations.
Collecting/curating from Media outlets
Natalie Bookchin; Media Artist.
Natalie Bookchin's video installations address conditions of global connectivity and the impact of everyday uses of new technologies on the stories we tell about ourselves within the world.(http://bookchin.net/bio.html)
Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen's
"Listening Post"
Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.(http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html)
Much like the "five google searches" Bookchin's and Rubin/Hansen's passive method(collecting without the individual's knowledge) of collecting through the web becomes a reflection of our current cultural state.
Jonathan Harris; media artist
An Artist of collecting stories, Harris's "We feel fine" explores the human emotion on a global scale. Harvesting human feelings from a large number of webbloggs, every few minutes, the system searches the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). (http://www.wefeelfine.org/)
I have been inspired by Harris's methodology of collecting(from a multitude of people) and curating(through algorithms) as a tool of global connectivity.
Installation: An Artist's Impression:
online game+life performance+gallery installation.
Through collecting from an online gaming community, then creating the collected commentary, the installation becomes a reflective piece of the online communication transformed into a designed outcome.
Artists working with collections / found objects
Michael Landy; artist
"Breakdown"
In Landy's performance piece installation Break Down, he destroys all his possessions; which he classified before the deconstruction process as a commentary on our excessive culture. Taking organizing to the extremes, he categorized every one of his 7,006 objects were categorized. These things were entered into a database, labeled and bagged as a system of the break down.
Tony Cragg; sculptor
With his collection of found materials from household trash, he has curated the pieces in a visual way. )
Wunderkammer
Salon Style
Eames exhibition
Alternate Perspectives, seeing things a different way
Barbara Probst; photographer
Probst takes two photographs in the same moment--by setting up multiple cameras from different angles, the images reflect on the multiple perspectives to see a situation.
Jenny Holzer; media artist
Holzer's main focus is to reveal the truth of things hidden or silenced by projecting words and phrases onto a public space.
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John Berger; Author
Conversations/Language around the subject/object
Phenotypes/Limited Forms:
How can curatorial process be presented as a part of an artist work in museum contexts? How can interactive internet applications be transferred to physical space?
Fluxus movement
Relational Aesthetics
