Curating in the Gap: Inhabiting the Digital Space

This presentation asks if digital spaces such as social media platforms, live streams, and cell phone apps can function as curated visual arts exhibition spaces. If so, do these digital spaces offer an opportunity for curators and existing visual arts institutions to connect with groups that are currently marginalised by the museum/gallery exhibition structure? By inhabiting the digital space (the gap) marginalised groups can have a place of display that does not support the binary that historically separates the notion of the arts institution and those on the outside of that existing structure. Can the gaps between contemporary art institutions and marginalised groups become powerful structures that can serve not just as places of display, but also as primary generators of cultural meaning in a diverse and globalised world? How can emerging technologies become tools of self-representation for those who do not usually have access to current exhibition structures? This presentation aims to form a critical theoretical framework for how to curate within that gap.

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Heidi M. Aishman

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 317-318

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[0001]University of Reading & University of the Arts, Zurich

[0002]Ashrise, Rosemary Lane, Thorpe

Surrey TW20 8QE, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.65

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] L. Blackman 2013 December 9 Conference: Affective Experiences in Art, Design & Research. Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art 14 Wharf Road / London / N1 7RW

[2] M. Castells 2008 The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance The Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science 616 1 78 93

[3] M. B. Hansen 2004 New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge, MA MIT Press

[4] H. JenkinsS. FordJ. Green 2013 Spreadable Media: Creating value and meaning in a networked culture. New York New York University Press

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