28/10/2000
iCurator
icurator.org, Los Angeles
Los Angeles. CA: icurator.org, a new open source, interdisciplinary venue for sharing information and production of new content will begin posting on the worldwide web starting today. iCurator is formed as "an arts-based playground to encourage cultural observation and speculative thinking" its mission begins, "Say what you mean. Work outside of your industry standards. Illuminate cultural patterning and behavior. Make it visual."
Los Angeles. CA: icurator.org, a new open source, interdisciplinary venue for
sharing information and production of new content will begin posting on the
worldwide web starting October 29, 2000.
iCurator is formed as "an arts-based playground to encourage cultural
observation and speculative thinking" its mission begins, "Say what you mean.
Work outside of your industry standards. Illuminate cultural patterning and
behavior. Make it visual."
Site features include simple, clean, quick graphics. No scrolling. No home
page. All work will be posted under one of five areas 'Visual Projects,
Popular Criticism, Opinion Papers, Liquid Platform, and Animal of the Week.
As areas, Visual Projects, Popular Criticism, Opinion Papers speak for
themselves. Liquid Platform is a dialogue-centric forum that will expand
according to participation. Animal of the Week is an in-house critical tool
to add humor to the site.
Does iCurator suggest that everyone is a curator? "I don't believe it does by
itself," say the founders of iCurator "but it's very important, in our
increasingly aesthetic society, that there be a progressive curatorial
platform for ideas to be dynamically developed that do not conveniently fall
into existing and ever-narrowing cultural lines. This is the challenge."
iCurator.org is co-founded by visual artist/curator/graphic designer Mitchell
Kane, "Hirsch Farm Project, an arts-based think tank," 1989-1998 and "Tt: a
working meeting to develop hybrid product"(`00); visual artist/web programmer
Gary Cannone, Disney Radio Internet and Extranet; and curator/arts writer
Joshua Decter, "a/drift" at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum/ Bard
('97),"Heaven: Private view/Public view" at P.S.1/NY ('98), "Transmute" at
the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago ('99) http://www.mcachicago.org/transmute ,
"Tele[visions]" at the Kunsthalle Vienna (October 2001), and, has contributed
to Artforum, Flash Art, Purple Prose, and Documents.