“Curating Online: Art in Space and Time” presented by Dekker
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Digital Curation (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- Curating Online: Art in Space and Time
Presentation Subtheme:
- Shifting temporalities
Presenter(s):
Abstract:
This paper aims to gain more insight into the exploration of aesthetics, space, and time in online exhibitions. In potential, online space can be continuously re-figured, and networked machine time is a complex assemblage in which computer-based times and the traces of human intervention become entangled, generating the potentially unlimited experiences of temporality without a clear trajectory, either in the past or towards the future. Hence, the unstable qualities of space and time problematize narrative as an expanding space in which ideas unfold through time. Drawing on a series of interviews with curators and artists who organized online exhibitions, this paper makes a first attempt to question how the relations between online space and time affect and create alternative narrative potentials. Moreover, how this entangled space time relationship that is set up between humans and non-humans affect issues of value, trust, ownership, and authorship about the art it presents?
