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Curating on the Web: The Evolution of Platforms as Spaces for Producing and Disseminating Web-Based Art
Curating on the Web: The Evolution of Platforms as Spaces for Producing and Disseminating Web-Based Art
By analysing a series of exhibition projects responding to central changes in web technology since its public unveiling (1991), this study identifies a historical trajectory for discussing the evolution of curating on the web. Such evolution highlights how curators have devised exhibition models that operate as platforms for not only displaying art specific to the web, but also for producing and disseminating it in a way that responds to the developments of web technology—and its socio-cultural and economic impact. With the massification of web tools, in fact, these platforms have generated distributed systems of artistic production free from the physical and conceptual limitations of the gallery and museum space. They have not only become spaces for displaying art, but also platforms that nurture its production, different modes of audience engagement and critique the canons of the institutionalised art world. Originating from the desire to reduce the historical fragmentation of this field of work and its partial mapping, this study follows a periodisation that starts from the early internet, with its BBS-enabled platforms such as ARTEX (1980), to introduce the 1990s experimentations with the web browser and the developments of projects like äda’web (1995). It then dives into the Web 2.0 when, with the platformisation of the technology, curators developed an array of approaches for adopting existing web services, as in the instances of CuratingYouTube (2007–present) and #exstrange (2017). Lastly, it outlines the trends of today’s web, which saw the birth of projects like the blockchain-enabled cointemporary (2014), to then draw conclusions about the relevance of this historical trajectory in the field of curatorial studies and the production of web-based and digital art.
·mdpi.com·
Curating on the Web: The Evolution of Platforms as Spaces for Producing and Disseminating Web-Based Art
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem
·onezero.medium.com·
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print
Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print
Expensive and laborious to produce, a single woodcut could be recycled to illustrate scores of different ballads, each new home imbuing the same image with often wildly diverse meanings. Katie Sisneros explores this interplay of repetition, context, and meaning, and how in it can be seen a parallel to meme culture of today.
·publicdomainreview.org·
Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print
How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone
How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone
"People who are not Trump supporters might see him as clownish, but among the group that he's speaking to, they trust him." A disinfo researcher on how people's realities aren't shaped by facts, but by niche celebrities and online.
·wired.com·
How Influencers and Algorithms Are Creating Bespoke Realities for Everyone
The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum
The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum
My endless battle with the "Project Hydra": why I can't seem to finish projects, and the strategies I'm exploring to finally complete what I start. A personal journey through productivity's thorniest challenge.
·bytedrum.com·
The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum
The dangerous myth of the creator-entrepreneur. — Joan Westenberg
The dangerous myth of the creator-entrepreneur. — Joan Westenberg
We have conditioned ourselves and each other to believe that artists, musicians, writers, inventors and creators must orient themselves as entrepreneurial go-getters - monetising their work into startups, small businesses or branded products. This myth of the creator-entrepreneur radically narrows d
·joanwestenberg.com·
The dangerous myth of the creator-entrepreneur. — Joan Westenberg
An off-ramp from the digital IKEA maze
An off-ramp from the digital IKEA maze
There is an episode of Star Trek where a character is for plot reasons trapped in a shrinking parallel universe. As time passes, people she knows one by one just vanish and she is the only one who seems to notice. Eventually it gets to an absurd point. She asks if it really makes sense if a ship made for a thousand people would have a crew of a few people, and everyone just sort of like shrugs and looks at her like she’s crazy.
·marginalia.nu·
An off-ramp from the digital IKEA maze
The Death of Decentralized Email
The Death of Decentralized Email
A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.
The next major development in email deliverability included the standardization of reputation scores. ‘SenderScore’ and other reputation systems emerged at this time. False positives were further reduced by adding sender authentication mechanisms like Sender Policy Framework, SenderID, and Domainkeys Identified Mail.
The next major development in email deliverability included the standardization of reputation scores. ‘SenderScore’ and other reputation systems emerged at this time. False positives were further reduced by adding sender authentication mechanisms like Sender Policy Framework, SenderID, and Domainkeys Identified Mail. Of course, if you're familiar with how these technologies work then you'll notice that most of them are reliant upon centralized gatekeepers who assign IP addresses and control domain registrations.
As a result, today over over 90% of email users are captured by 5 companies.
·blog.lopp.net·
The Death of Decentralized Email
How I Use OMG.lol Statuses
How I Use OMG.lol Statuses
The fun little service omg.lol is the new hotness on micro.blog and seems to be seeping out into the wider internet. Not only is it ridiculously cheap for what you get, the developer Adam seems to be making constant updates and offering more and more value for money.
·gregmorris.co.uk·
How I Use OMG.lol Statuses
47 best blogging platforms to start your site
47 best blogging platforms to start your site
These are 47 of the best blogging platforms where you can start your site in 2020, publish amazing content and build your audience. It’s easier than ever to start a site and create your online home.
·markosaric.com·
47 best blogging platforms to start your site
blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.
·blakewatson.com·
blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because o
·web.archive.org·
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
The Bullshit Web
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]
·pxlnv.com·
The Bullshit Web
Rediscovering the Small Web
Rediscovering the Small Web
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
One consequence of this is that most of the websites that people get to "organically" are created by professionals and marketers who "position" themselves on those keywords. This means that the smaller, amateur web gets hidden in the shadows of web professionals who design around specific keywords and audiences.
·neustadt.fr·
Rediscovering the Small Web