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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"curator"”.
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A manifesto of an (un)ethical Curator: from a curator as a person - to a curator as a process
… the paradigm of curating. From understanding 'a curator’ as a fixed professional identity of a person — to recognising ‘a curator’ as an implicated, entangled, pluralistic and non- hierarchical process, which lasts for the duration of a singular curatorial project and redefines the terms of …
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Mother as curator: performance, family and ethics
This thesis attends to the mother-artist developing a performance-based practice with her family in the home. This is a practice-as-research exploration which integrates areas of maternal ethics and the mother-artist, family and narrative enquiry, the home and sited practices. It consists of a …
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An accumulation of care: affect in the role of the contemporary curator
… an affective approach to contemporary curatorial practice that is shaped by an accumulation of care. By retracing my working methods and noticing small shifts or interruptions, I reveal transformative, incremental changes in my work as a curator. I introduce curatorial practice where …
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Curating as practice and profession: an exploration and definition of a contemporary independent curator.
… to explore and define a Contemporary Independent Curator and his/her practice. This type and method of curating activity occurs in a cultural context by an individual who practices (mostly) outwith a cultural institution. Independent curators can be described in essence as wild spirits (Schumpeter …
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The Collection Displays of the Ateneum Art Museum in 1915, 1931 and 1959
… collection hang was renewed by a different Chief Curator. Thus, the images provide an overview of the approach that the three Chief Curators who managed the Ateneum Art Museum between the years 1914–59 each had towards the collection display. Besides the photographs from the Finnish National …
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Investigating formations of gender and sexuality in the avant-gardes: interventionist art history and scholarly curation
… to these artists in my roles as museums (Curator at Kunsthalle Basel and Curator at Large at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland) and independent curator, as well as numerous institutional catalogue texts and magazine articles. I focused my investigations on the recontextualisation of women …
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Effects of Design Features on Visitors' Behavior in a Museum Setting
… of the display; 2) ranking art pieces by the curator on three scales: canonical value, popularity, and the Museum goals; and 3) tracking visitors' paths, stops and time-spent. Correlation analysis was used to discover the relationships between design features and visitors' behavior. …
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Art, Authorship, and Artificial Intelligence
… in the case of AI-generated texts there is a curator in place of an author. Whereas an author creates what I call Traditional Texts, a curator discovers what I call Artificial Texts. I argue that the only theory of authorial intent that can explain how Artificial Texts acquire literary meaning …
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Fine art, folk art,and web 2.0
… of Design, the artist Michael Szpakowski and the curator and critic Pryle Behrman. In this interview I discuss work I have made over the last five years. I draw links between my early and later work, and discuss themes throughout my work, such as social networking, online communication and …
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What are the possibilities of the sonic laboratory?
This research is informed by my work as a curator working with sonic arts and DIY technology. It considers the historical and contemporary concepts and practices of the sonic laboratory, investigating the origins of laboratory terminology and examining various typologies. From there, it closely …
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… between the art institution and the independent curator. With regards to methodology, I propose various readings of an exhibition that fall under two types of knowledge, namely visible and invisible knowledge. The former refers to all aspects of the exhibition that are seen in the public domain, …
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South African landscape painting, 1848-2008 : a handbook for teachers
… Godby, at the University of Cape Town, the curator of the landscape exhibition, to be held at the Old Town House in Cape Town from 9 June to 11 September 2010. The handbook is designed to be distributed to educators at the Ibhabhathane Project Workshop organised to coincide with the …
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‘The sister arts’: Modern Sculpture and its settings in Britain, c. 1725-1895
… not as a historian of sculpture nor as a curator of sculpture, but rather as a curator of historic houses and of international exhibitions, where sculpture, furniture, architecture and paintings are studied together as equals, among the ‘sister arts’ of visual culture.
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Live Materials: Womens Work, Pauline Oliveros & the feminist performance score
… Shiomi. I explore through my own practice as a curator how to work with such feminist performance scores and the wider historical ecology in which they emerged, leading to the demand for an embodied curator, a host to the live materiality of these works. I situate this thesis within the …
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's Approach Toward Contemporary Curatorial Practice
This study is an analysis of contemporary curatorial practice at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York. The Guggenheim Museum demonstrates how contemporary museums are updating exhibition practice, despite the difficulties of spatial engagement encountered in Frank Lloyd Wright's …
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Defining Museum Intervention: An Analysis of James Putnam's Time Machine
… and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, independent curator James Putnam coins the term ‘museum intervention’ to describe a type of artwork created by some artists as a means to critique organizing principles of the museum. Putnam’s book analyzes examples of museum interventions, including his own …
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