Luis Silva publicó en Source Code una idea polémica: On blogging as curating. Los blogs (de arte) son en realidad exposiciones y los bloggers son los comisarios que organizan las "obras" para su exhibición pública:
Carlos Katastrofsky inició con este comentario al post de Luis Silva un larguísimo e interesante debate:The idea isn't new at all, but is still somewhat difficult to accept by those practicing traditional curatorial activities. I thought about it last week. What has SOURCE CODE become? I (the blogger) am responsible for selecting works (and other relevant documentation for the purpose of this blog/exhibition), displaying them (their urls) and recontextualizing them from my own point of view. What I am doing in this process is basically what any curator does. Starting from my own subjective views of the world, I try to organize, to give meaning, to make sense out of the cultural production I'm interested in. I include them in my discourse, using them to pass a message. The choices I make have a purpose, they are not random, and consequences can arise from them.
The practice of curating remains the same, only the context changes.
So start staging your own shows. Select, include, exclude, draw similarities, contextualize, organise the unorganisable. Blog your heart out.
El debate ha continuado en Source Code y en los blogs de Carlos Katastrofskya curator is also someone who contextualises artworks in a spatial manner (called exhibition)which is, in my opinion, more than showing it (or a picture of it) in a blog. this is a additional layer of meaning that a blog cannot afford
Merece la pena visitar las "exhibiciones" (perdón los blogs) de ambos para conocer algunos de sus proyectos nacidos como consecuencia del debate (por ejemplo los experimentos de Katastrofsky con del.icio.us).
