Curating the Digital | MAL Seminars
Date and time
Location
Darryl Forde Seminar Room
UCL Anthropology Department
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
United Kingdom
Description
CURATING THE DIGITAL | Evening seminar with Wade Wallerstein
FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
5 - 7 PM /// DFSR
UCL ANTHROPOLOGY
Artistic and Anthropological Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Visual Culture
Every day, an average of 1.8 billion images is uploaded to the Internet. In our digital age, one defined by an Internet inundated by visual content, curation is a vital and necessary creative task to match the quantity and velocity of modern visual outputs. Not only must individuals curate themselves to participate in this digital culture of sharing, but fine art curators must adapt digital techniques to contend with new art forms within their native material contexts. As algorithmic processes of selection increasingly define our experiences in virtual environments, human-led curation emerges as an important counterpoint to machine vision.
UCL MAL curator Wade Wallerstein is a London-based digital anthropologist. His research interests center around communication in virtual spaces and the relationship between digital visual culture and contemporary art. Recently, Wallerstein conducted research with fine art curators who use the internet as an exhibition platform to both circumvent and challenge established institutional hierarchies.
The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception.
