Madja-Edelstein Gomez, curator of The Recombinants, was interviewed by Annet Dekker on “Curating Digital Art” (Valiz publishers, Netherlands).
The printed book ‘Curating Digital Art’:
is dedicated to pioneering curators, artists and designers and presents a collection of interviews that were conducted between 2022 and 2020. The interviews emerged from the concern that too little knowledge was available about the potential of exhibiting digital art, either in museum spaces and galleries, or on the Web.
The interview provides some insights about Madja’s online group exhibition “The Recombinants,” curated by artificial intelligence using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a neural network, and a deep learning "serendipity" algorithm to recombine and mutate artworks unpredictably. During that lapse of time, “Cataratas” was mixed, streamed, and altered by AI.
This machine-curated exploratory work is part of the section about online curation displayed on digital platforms and dedicated to “networked co-curating”
can be framed as a new space of performativity: signaling a move from curating a set of objects to a conceptual and operational process that puts different constellations of human and machinic agents, objects and practices into relation with one another.
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More info:
book: Curating Digital Art
editor: Annet Dekker is a Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) at London South Bank University (LSBU), and Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
artwork: CATARATAS
news:
‘Cataratas’ at the collective exhibition ‘Cultural Matter’. LI-MA (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
In-person opening of “The Recombinants”. “Cataratas” is on display during Art-O-Rama fair at La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille, France).
Virtual opening of “The Recombinants”on Rhizome.org (Front-page, Online). “Cataratas” is on display.
Exhibition, “Cataratas” is shown at “Les Recombinants” (www.therecombinants.com, Online).