Edited by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
Upcoming volume in the series, to be published in 2024 by Open Humanities Press
This volume addresses a shift in contemporary curatorial field largely attributed to the ubiquitous presence of information and computational technologies, the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence, and the reclaiming of subaltern knowledges that emerge from the space of lacking. It poses questions about the implications of these “super-intelligences” for contemporary art and culture, and the new possibilities for curatorial practice and its future forms.
What are the lessons to be learnt? What can the practice of curating learn from AI, what can AI learn from curating, and how can both unlearn knowledges derived from undemocratic, centralised and colonialist frameworks of humans and machines? What kind of future infrastructures and curatorial practices can develop from the coming together of diverse human and non-human entities? What new kinds of curatorial knowledge can emerge from desires to reclaim marginalised categories such as automation, machine, nature, women, black and people of colour, indigenous people, LGBTQIA, from their usual positions in knowledge taxonomies as epistemological objects of study rather than curating subject /agencies? What new understandings, relationships, and new entities can emerge once open to the possibilities afforded by expanded human and machine epistemologies?
The book is part reader and part new commissions, compiled by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, including contributions by: Dominik Bonish, Marialaura Ghidini, Olga Goriunova, Francis Hunger, Eva Jaeger (in collaboration with Mercedes Bunz and Alasdair Milne); Nathan Jones, Sam Skinner and Tom Schofield; Murad Khan, Nora N. Khan, Joasia Krysa and Leonardo Impett; Christiane Paul; Gabriel Menotti, Mikhael Prolux, Jason Edward Lewis and Skawennati; Nicolas Malevé, Katrina Sluis and Gaia Tedone; Serpentine R&D Platform x Rival Strategy (Ben Vickers, Victoria Ivanova); Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard; Suzanne Treister, Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, Ashley Lee Wong, Elvia Vasconcelos, Mi You, Martin Zeilinger, and others (tbc).
The volume expands on Liverpool Biennial’s journal Stages 09: The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine: Curating, Biennials, and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Joasia Krysa and Manuela Moscoso on the occasion of Liverpool Biennial 2021 edition, and updates ideas first introduced in Data Browser volume 03: Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in Network Systems, 2006, edited by Joasia Krysa.