Annet Dekker, eds. – Curating Digital Art

#1 min Anežka Kořínková

26. 11. 2022

Annet Dekker, eds. Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021. ISBN 9789493246010
Annet Dekker, eds. Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021. ISBN 9789493246010
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Annet Dekker, the initiator and editor of this publication, began interviewing experimenters in the field of making accessible and presenting digital art in 2011 to raise awareness of the possibilities in exhibiting it. A set of twenty interviews carried out between 2011 and 2020 (thus also reflecting the increase in online activity of the Covid period) with curators, artists and designers here provides an opportunity to capture the specificity, development and changes accompanying the field. An important feature that complements the publication is a timeline charting the history of exhibition projects presented online. It begins with a smiley emoticon from 1982.

 

Text: Anežka Kořínková

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This edition departs from our series of thematic issues, as it is a celebration of the magazine’s twentieth birthday. As is usually the case with birthday celebrations (particularly such important ones), memories of the past intersect with the future. This is why this issue is dedicated to our activities and a summary of them, along with talents we believe in. In place of allotting the second part of the magazine to theory and current news, as in other issues, we decided to create a special edition on a topic that we have been discussing for years – now, the time has finally come to open it, grasp it fully, and thus change the art market in the Czech Republic. The topic at hand is collecting.

Insights – Yes to Photography. Institutions and (Collecting) Photography

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Insights – Yes to Photography. Institutions and (Collecting) Photography

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The first issue of the Fotograf magazine included a survey that asked leading Czech theorists and curators about how established the medium of photography is on the contemporary art scene and what they believe could threaten it. Twenty years later, the editorial staff decided to return to the survey format once again, this time with the aim of mapping how photography has fared in both public and private collection institutions both in the Czech Republic and internationally in the past few decades, and what we can expect in the future.