2020: was it the end of curating on the web?
2020: was it the end of curating on the web?

Author(s): Marialaura Ghidini
Subject(s): Visual Arts, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: AI; web; art; curators;
Summary/Abstract: The act of curating exhibitions online was unfamiliar to the most until mid-2020, when the world was in the midst of the first wave of lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Till then, there were a handful of people discussing it — though many were the curators that had operated on the web since the 1990s. And till then, the web was often considered an unusual site for curatorial practice, and web exhibitions a corollary to curatorial work. But after March 2020 this scenario seemed to have undergone a change.

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