Reading and Writing Art After the Internet
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32105
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output: a collection of creative and critical work on a related topic that address different aspects of a single project and are collectively greater than the sum of their parts
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Reading and Writing Art After The Internet researches models of digital collaboration and the concept of the feedback loop. Co-production, orchestration, and group consultation produced cultural artefacts testing how the method of collaboration influences the outcome, and exploring architectures of power in exhibition and the internet.
The And Or Project was a collective curatorial project with three permanent editors and a rotating cast of collaborators. It rethinks the relationship between art and the viewer, and the structure of the exhibition/publication/archive practices in the context of digital space. It combined non-linear art and writing, avoiding an authoritative subject position and authorial voice, allowing a user to navigate content on equivalent terms. The feedback loop as curatorial practice emerged from the co-productive practices of the first show, ‘Command Plus’, in 2014. And Or encompassed four exhibitions, several public presentations and a critical text that considered processes and products of exhibition and publication, how they are legitimized and become sites of power, and how co-production presents a challenge requiring a new model.
Ways of Something used orchestration, where an initiator invited a team of independent practitioners to produce discrete parts of a digital patchwork. Originally commissioned by The Sandberg Institute for Lorna Mills’ ‘One Minutes’ series, Ways appears at Episode 2, minute 20, harnessing the algorithms of a digital video-sharing platform and using appropriation to describe the cacophonous conditions of internet-era making.
The two formats of #unicornthings use dialogic and translational collaboration. Working closely with the curator of The New Black and responding to her script-prompt, the first iteration took aim at the critical arguments about ontology underpinning prevalent rhetoric of digital art and labour. The second iteration took the first iteration as material, and produced an experimental cabaret performance through consultation and performance-development. Both formats employed media archaeological methodologies from different perspectives.
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- Non-English
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