Curating online: space & time
Published on March 20th, 2023
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In this presentation, by exploring different online exhibitions I will analyze the characteristics of online space and time, particularly how the relationship between human and non-human actors affects issues of value, trust, ownership, and authorship.
20 March 2023, Helsinki
with Annet Dekker and Melissa K Gronlund
Abstract
Whereas online exhibitions were perhaps something of a novelty at the time, in the last fifteen years online exhibitions have been participated in a wider info-technical development that has and is impacting multiple areas of society and culture. Thus they have become relevant and of interest to people far beyond the various insider circles.
In the ongoing exploration of aesthetics, space and time are frequently discussed topics in exhibition design and curating, however, in the web these concepts are complicated as online space can be continuously refigured; despite it often being treated as a skeuomorphic of offline gallery spaces or archival databases. Similarly, networked machine time is a complex assemblage in which computer-based times and the traces of human intervention become entangled. This entanglement generates potentially unlimited experiences of temporality without a clear trajectory, either in the past or toward the future. Hence, the unstable qualities of space and time problematize narrative as an expanding space in which ideas unfold through time.
In this presentation, by exploring different online exhibitions I will analyze the characteristics of online space and time, particularly how the relationship between human and non-human actors affects issues of value, trust, ownership, and authorship.
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