Technology and Human Interaction as the Next Era of Contemporary Curating
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2018-12
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The Ohio State University
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This paper documents my investigation into contemporary curating through practical research at Urban Arts Space. As an Arts Management undergraduate in the Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy, I aimed to implement various theories of contemporary curating by curating the Ohio State University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts show in Autumn 2018, I have acted as a liaison between artist and viewer and artist and institution. Because of the physical limitations of Urban Arts Space’s gallery and the lack of cohesion between exhibiting artists and mediums, exhibition design was secondary in my role as curator. I sought nontraditional methods through social media content and audience building to engage with viewers, which will become vital for nonprofit arts institutions relevance in the future such as filming artists and their creative processes. I used academic sources by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian George, and Paul O’Neill to inform my research theoretically including meeting with artists individually to learn the creative processes and document their work, conducting artist interviews, and writing promotional texts.
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contemporary curating, exhibitions, bachelor of fine arts