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DATA browser 03
CURATING IMMATERIALITY
THE WORK OF THE CURATOR IN THE AGE OF NETWORK SYSTEMS

Edited by Joasia Krysa

Publisher: Autonomedia (DATA browser 03)
ISBN: 1-57027-170-4
Pages: 288, Paper Perfectbound
Price: $15.95 US / £15 in UK

The third book in the DATA Browser series of critical texts that explore
issues at the intersection of culture and technology. The site of curatorial
production has been expanded to include the space of the Internet and the
focus of curatorial attention has been extended from the object to processes
to dynamic network systems. As a result, curatorial work has become more
widely distributed between multiple agents, including technological networks
and software. This upgraded 'operating system' of art presents new
possibilities of online curating that is collective and distributed - even
to the extreme of a self-organising system that curates itself. The curator
is part of this entire system but not central to it. This book reflects on
these changes and examines the work of the curator in relation to a wider
socio-political context articulated through two key issues: immateriality
and network systems. It considers how the practice of curating has been
transformed by distributed networks beyond the rhetoric of free software and
open systems.

Contributors:
0100101110101101.ORG & [epidemiC] | Josephine Berry Slater | Geoff Cox |
Alexander R. Galloway & Eugene Thacker | Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin |
Beryl Graham | Eva Grubinger | Piotr Krajewski | Jacob Lillemose | low-fi |
Franziska Nori | Matteo Pasquinelli | Christiane Paul | Trebor Scholz |
Grzesiek Sedek | Tiziana Terranova | Marina Vishmidt

For more information see <http://www.data-browser.net/03/>

All texts released under a Creative Commons License 2006.

The DATA browser series presents critical texts that explore issues at the
intersection of culture and technology. The editorial group are Geoff Cox,
Joasia Krysa, Anya Lewin, Malcolm Miles, Mike Punt & Hugo de Rijke
<http://www.data-browser.net/>. This volume is produced in association with
Arts Council England and University of Plymouth.