Experimenta Social #11: Curing Media: The Curator

EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL 11:: WED 9 AUGUST 2017 at ACMI X Curing Media: The Curator :: JOEL STERN How do slippery art forms such as video gaming, contemporary music composition and performance art find their audiences? How do living forms become solid and thus become able to be represented? What are the challenges facing forward-looking curators to place contemporary cultural works in the canon? What role does a cultural gate-keeper play in the internet age of what’s been called the 'amateurisation of everything'. Joel Stern (Liquid Architecture) joined Experimenta Social #11 to discuss some recent case studies in their curatorial careers and to pry open the decision making that goes into their organisational methodologies. * * * * Experimenta Social is a series of talks, discussions and demos designed to provide proximity to some of Australia’s most adventurous contemporary artists, researchers and creative technologists. This artist-led series is curated by Emile Zile in collaboration with Experimenta Media Arts and explores practices at the nexus of art and technology, science, culture and design. www.experimenta.org