reading response

1) I suppose that it feels right to have some form of a curator involved in the exhibiting of online art. This, however, does not have to pertain to the traditional and more controlling role that the curator takes on in say a museum or a gallery. I believe that because of the eclectic nature of online art shows that the curator may take on the role of simply online liaison, that they can simply invite others to contribute to a project and wait on the work to arrive. A couple examples of this would be my own project yoguy.info, in which I have made use of a Tumblr template and created a hub for users and viewers to contribute video works of any kind. All works are accepted but all that had to exist was the place for those works to go… kind of like Kevin Costners Field of Dreams, "if you build it they will come. Another really interesting example of this looser kind of online curation would be Krystal Souths QR Art show at the Portland Art Museum in which she invited a number of online artists to take images from the Museums online archive and re-work them or re-mix them to make newer works that would then be put to an online place (her website) and then made into QR codes that would be installed along side the original artworks. Being a part of this project was pretty fun and exciting as many of the artist involved were no-bodies while others were maybe more well known. This same kind of thing happened with YoGuy and I believe that these models of curation are interesting contrasts to Lichty's traditional models. I do think that many online artists and users will believe in the traditions of curation but mostly because those  directions are safer and more likely to create commercial properties to online artworks. An attribute that i think is neither bad nor good… really it all depends on the work, the only problem is falling into bad pigeons holes. One such example would be the recent USB show that took place in France and that the only Female artist involved was my friend Frieda-raye Green. A very intense discussion took place over this show and I think was justified as we should be weary of the future of art and online art, that it is meant to be a more levelling platform and not a continuing hierarchy.