Krysa, J Curatorial Authorship. In: Meigh-Andrews, C, Clarke, R and Dziekan, V, (eds.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. ISBN 9781474280730 (Accepted)

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Abstract

The concept of curatorial authorship has developed in parallel to historical shifts in creative practice and developments in technology, moving from the traditional role of custodian caring for objects in museum collections and working on behalf of artists, to that of cultural producer and mediator able to influence public opinion, and lastly to curator as creative practitioner in their own right. This article charts the rise of the curator as author, towards more open and distributed forms of co-curation or co-authorship with other humans and non-human entities. The significance of this in terms of curatorial engagement with technology is that the curator-author does not simply curate new media art in traditional exhibition spaces or for online platforms but also develops new modes of curating in which technology itself (be it software-based, algorithmic or using AI) takes an active agential and authoring role. These tendencies are discussed to establish how curatorial authorship gets produced, deferred, distributed and transformed anew. To what extent these challenge the figure of the curator-author remains in question and provides foundation for the argument that unfolds across this article that traces a shift from authorship to agency.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	New Media Art; Contemporary Curating; Curatorial Authorship; Technology; AI; Exhibition
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N4390-5098 Exhibitions
Divisions:	Art and Design
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2025 13:33
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2025 13:33
Editors:	Meigh-Andrews, C, Clarke, R and Dziekan, V
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25187

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