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SM5349 - Distributed Curation

Offering Academic Unit
School of Creative Media
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Course Offering Term*:
Semester B 2025/26

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course explores innovative ways of presenting artworks that break free from traditional museum structures by focusing on other possible forms of spectatorship and audience interaction, as well as contributing to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion: providing equal opportunities to people across borders, ethnicity, ideology, and gender identification. Through seminars and presentations, students will become familiarized with modes of curating, implementing such practices providing a theoretical and practical context for emerging presentational forms and social practices. The course will simultaneously study non-traditional experimental museum display design, impactful large-scale and public programs by art institutions involving technology, and will look more in depth at artists' projects working with mass media (radio/tv/internet networks) as well as involving large numbers of participants, and 'the outdoors'. Various modes of 'distributed curation' will be explored across physical and digital contexts by looking at historical and more recent case studies that have expanded the definitions of spectatorship, commonality, publicness and the public sphere. The course will also examine the artist's role as a curator and the challenges and opportunities that come with this role in particular 'institutional critique'.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 
Detailed Course Information

SM5349.pdf