Steve Gibson performing When Ghosts Will Die,
Victoria, BC, spring 2005
What is Curatorial Design?
digital media
Artist-curator Blake Shell looks at her work of art at “Windows
into Art,” June 2010; photo by Christina Broussard-Pearson.
Kathi Rick and Anne John’s video installation at “Windows into
Art,” June 2010; photo by Christina Broussard-Pearson.
Like painting, sculpture, etc. we talk about it as both a
form and a technology, but its make up and the way we
experience it differs widely.
Ephemeral
• Embodies both the spatiotemporal positioning found in
the preposition, epi––“on,
“upon,” “on the surface of”––
and the noun, hemera, day:
upon a day
•
•
Suggests a state of
temporariness, an object
existing but for a fleeting
moment
Involves an aesthetic of beauty
found in the moment, of loss
and of passing
Dene Grigar performing “Things of Day and Dream” in the
MOVE Lab, a black box site; photo by Jeannette Altman. Live
performance constitutes an ephemeral art form.
From Dene Grigar’s “E-Ject: On the Ephemeral Nature,
Mechanisms, and Implications of Electronic Objects”
Immersive
From the Latin verb,
“immergere,” or to dip,
immersion is a quality of digital
media where the “active
creation of belief” (Murray 319)
occurs so effectively that one
dips into a new reality, a new
space, and a new world
different than the one usually
occupied (Grigar).
Dene Grigar, experiencing Simon Biggs’ work, “reRead,” DAC
2009, UC Irvine, December 2009
DIGITAL MEDIA IS AN ANCESTOR OF
THE OPTICAL ILLUSION
“They created an appearance of reality by tricking the senses
through a mix of technical manipulations” (Dziekan 76).
From “Optical Illusions 4 Kids,”
http://opticalillusions4kids.blogspot.c
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Curator’s
aesthetic
Space
Material
Object
Audience’
s
aesthetic
“A dialectic of relational thinking that points to the inherent
tension
exists
in the very
structure
of their
exhibition”
Curatingthat
involves
Aesthetic,
Material,
& Spatial
practices
(76).
Virtuality
Steve Gibson and Dene Grigar perform Virtual DJ over the net, with
Gibson in Victoria, BC and Grigar in Dallas, TX; spring 2005; photo by
John Barber
. . . has “a dialectical nature: its cross-referencing of what is
being experienced through imaginative immersion ‘within’
the artwork with what remains ‘without” (Dziekan 80).
Curatorial Design
Dene Grigar captures the photo she takes of
herself with an iPhone in real time for an online
site
The 3D image of an engine seemingly pops up out of the iPad
frame with the help of the augmented reality program, Metaio;
“Autovation,” by CMDC OMSI Fellows, spring 2012
“. . . how the overlaps and exchanges that characterise
the integration of digital media in real space [may] lead
to a reconsideration of the exhibition interface”
(Dziekan 83).