I have an expansive interest in the technologies and apparatuses of image formation. In other words, I care about all things visual, from magic lantern slides to memes. Particularly, I am interested in how the circulation of images across the networks creates patterns of aesthetics and meaning.
I have a thing for curating too. My understanding of the word keeps being re-assembled, though. I have, for quite some time now, considered it my practice.
To me, today, curating means staying alert to real-world issues and engaging with the messiness of the Web, where culture germinates as easily as it gets lost. At its best, curating might serve as a reflexive method to help retaining a sense of meaning and critical thinking. To help discerning what information, images and data are important and why. To interrogate where such information can circulate and where it cannot. To advocate for the power of language, education and creativity as tools to build strategic alliances between various forms of intelligence and to bridge divides, both digital and non.
Around these topics, I teach, write, consult and, of course, I curate. Not by myself, but as part of a wide constellation of agents, both human and non, and under the moniker ://ftp, a curatorial agency I funded with Marialaura Ghidini in 2021. More info can be found here: https://filetransferprotocols.hotglue.me
