How To CurateDigital Art

Richard RinehartBerkeley Art MuseumPacific Film Archive

1:1, Lisa Jevbratt, 1999

Heuristic & Analytical Tools

• Semiotics

• Neo-Marxist

• Psychoanalytic

• Etc.

How is the meme the same across history?

How does the meme manifest differently in different historical periods?

Victory Gardens, Future Farmers, 2007

Arts & Crafts Interior, 1890

Carnivore, Radical Software Group, 2001

Untitled, Donald Judd, 1966

Utopia, Thomas More, 1516

Utopia• Contemporary utopia revives, but changes past utopian

impulses

• Contemporary Utopias .......

• Less totalizing, monumental, exclusive

• Reconcile with technology, modernity

• Recognize difference, diversity

• Smaller, attainable actions

• Not grand destination, but here/now; no-where

Unlogo, Jeff Crouse, 2010

Workshop• Determine cultural meme at work in Unlogo

• Curate small exhibition around that meme

• Online, find at least 3 more artworks that exhibit that meme

• Each team present their exhibit to group

• 30 min. Curating, 10 min. Presenting

Questions?

Online database of digital art, http://rhizome.org/art/

Unlogo http://netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Helpful Links

BackgroundPaper on Utopia http://www.coyoteyip.com/rinehart/papers_files/utopia_now_and_then-rinehart.pdf

Richard Rinehart Rinehart@berkely.edu