Vague Terrain

[Holy Fire: the Electroboutique corner / Photo: Yves Bernard]

Yesterday we launched Vague Terrain 11: Curediting, the newest issue of our digital arts publication. This collection of texts and essays, subtitled Translational Online Work, explores established, emerging and experimental modes of curation of internet and new media-based artwork. The issue provides

a "screenshot" of actual tendencies within curatorial and editorial models: artistic creation and the processes of its re-formulation within different presentational contexts are brought together under the label CUREDITING, a hybrid between the two concepts of "curating" and "editing".

This combinatory notion of curating/editing is discussed in a range of ventures which span computer assisted curation, email art, online video, social networking and crowdsourced curation as well as questioning the presentation of net art in a number of contexts, within both web-based and traditional spaces of exhibition.

Vague Terrain 11: Curediting was curated by the Vienna-based CONT3XT.NET collective and includes work from: Joasia Krysa, Laboratorio 060 (Lourdes Morales, Javier Toscano, Daniela Wolf), Annette Finnsdottir, Eva Moraga, CRUMB (Beryl Graham and Verina Gfader), Greg. J. Smith & Neil Wiernik, Ela Kagel & Ursula Endlicher, Michelle Kasprzak, Furtherfield (Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow), Geoff Cox, Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans) and Domenico Quaranta.