Abstract
The article points out that publicly accessible net art challenges museum practice. As the web is increasingly integrated into artistic creation, the launching of exhibitions and the building of archives has become a creative practice. A case in point was the 2001 biennial, "Beau Monde: Towards a Redeed Cosmopolitanism," curated by Dave Hickey. It links the curator's name to the exhibition, so that the curators can be as prestigious as the artists they exhibit. Another example is Rhizome ArtBase, a new media art platform developed for Rhizome's net art community. Which encourages artists to invent new strategies for bridging, nullifying the divide between art, programming, and practice. Today, publicly accessible, searchable databases and "digital" art exhibitions have transformed the way archives are conceived, managed and operated.
Preservation Process
Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=99.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Chienyu Chen, Spring 2022, ART 104.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Alena
(2002)
"Net Art and Process: Some Thoughts on Curatorial Practice,"
SWITCH: Vol. 17:
No.
3, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/switch/vol17/iss3/11