{"title":"Winner of the 2022 Journal of Curatorial Studies Emerging Writer AwardMiao Ying, Field Guide to Ideology","authors":"Bronte Cronsberry","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00057_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00057_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43877652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barring Freedom, a travelling exhibition featuring artworks engaging the histories and current conditions of prisons and policing in the United States, was to open in April 2020. While COVID-19 disrupted that plan, the realities of inequity in the United States placed into stark relief by the pandemic and the uprisings of summer 2020 brought urgency to rethinking the curatorial vision of the exhibition to reach audiences beyond the gallery walls. Buoyed by the idea that, in the words of Angela Davis, art can ‘propel people towards social emancipation’, the exhibition and related programming was reconceived as an ongoing, interdisciplinary, public scholarship initiative reaching across the borders normally perceived between museums, prisons and universities. Opportunities arose for expanded forms of community building and participation that welcomed different forms of knowledge, furthering the political and aesthetic aims of the project to shift the social attachment to prisons.
{"title":"Barring Freedom: Art, Abolition and the Museum in Pandemic Times","authors":"Alexandra Moore, Rachel Nelson","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00055_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00055_1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Barring Freedom, a travelling exhibition featuring artworks engaging the histories and current conditions of prisons and policing in the United States, was to open in April 2020. While COVID-19 disrupted that plan, the realities of inequity in the United States placed into stark relief by the pandemic and the uprisings of summer 2020 brought urgency to rethinking the curatorial vision of the exhibition to reach audiences beyond the gallery walls. Buoyed by the idea that, in the words of Angela Davis, art can ‘propel people towards social emancipation’, the exhibition and related programming was reconceived as an ongoing, interdisciplinary, public scholarship initiative reaching across the borders normally perceived between museums, prisons and universities. Opportunities arose for expanded forms of community building and participation that welcomed different forms of knowledge, furthering the political and aesthetic aims of the project to shift the social attachment to prisons.","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48862080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since the mid-1990s, cultural organizations have increasingly digitized their physical collections and made them available online; however, museums are still puzzled over what to do with these growing digital collections. Meanwhile, art institutions’ reluctance to produce virtual exhibitions, linked to a prevailing skeuomorphic paradigm, has left the matter of curating art digitizations unresolved. While museum computing scholarship has aptly identified the problematic absence of authentically digital curatorial processes, it has largely overlooked the fact that online collections and in-gallery group shows similarly condition artistic reception owing to a shared database logic, subjecting both to a mediation paradox in contemporary culture. This article examines the effects of this shared logic on public engagement, along with recent digital curatorial strategies that have emerged in response around notions of the digital aura and networked objects. The article concludes by proposing three conditions for an alternative curatorial process capable of adequately mediating art digitizations online without sacrificing aesthetic experience to the limited affordances of screen-based information and communications technologies.
{"title":"Curating Online Collections: Towards an Authentically Digital, Mediation Protocol for Art Digitizations","authors":"S. Bertrand","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00054_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00054_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since the mid-1990s, cultural organizations have increasingly digitized their physical collections and made them available online; however, museums are still puzzled over what to do with these growing digital collections. Meanwhile, art institutions’ reluctance to produce virtual\u0000 exhibitions, linked to a prevailing skeuomorphic paradigm, has left the matter of curating art digitizations unresolved. While museum computing scholarship has aptly identified the problematic absence of authentically digital curatorial processes, it has largely overlooked the fact that online\u0000 collections and in-gallery group shows similarly condition artistic reception owing to a shared database logic, subjecting both to a mediation paradox in contemporary culture. This article examines the effects of this shared logic on public engagement, along with recent digital curatorial\u0000 strategies that have emerged in response around notions of the digital aura and networked objects. The article concludes by proposing three conditions for an alternative curatorial process capable of adequately mediating art digitizations online without sacrificing aesthetic experience to\u0000 the limited affordances of screen-based information and communications technologies.","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joshua Citarella, Memes as Politics","authors":"A. Smirnova","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00066_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00066_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47619636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in early 2020, were felt across all industries and public institutions, including art museums. Shuttered art museums sought to maintain public interest in their collections and exhibitions by promoting existing online tools, such as the virtual art museum tours hosted by Google Arts & Culture. This article analyses these tours from the perspective of museology and architecture and argues that, rather than a form of virtual reality, these tours are a peculiar kind of image database. As such, they are part of Google’s growing efforts towards mass digitization and data accumulation.
{"title":"The Museum in Quarantine: Architecture, Experience and the Virtual Museum","authors":"A. Wasielewski","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00053_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00053_1","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in early 2020, were felt across all industries and public institutions, including art museums. Shuttered art museums sought to maintain public interest in their collections and exhibitions by promoting existing online tools, such as the virtual art museum tours hosted by Google Arts & Culture. This article analyses these tours from the perspective of museology and architecture and argues that, rather than a form of virtual reality, these tours are a peculiar kind of image database. As such, they are part of Google’s growing efforts towards mass digitization and data accumulation.","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44233794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History, Anne Massey","authors":"R. Arya","doi":"10.1386/jcs_00064_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00064_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History, Anne Massey\u0000Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2020), 216 pp.,\u0000ISBN: 978-1-7896-2127-3, h/bk, £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-7896-2128-0, p/bk, £24.95","PeriodicalId":41456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Curatorial Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45488118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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