Art Curation: Challenges in the Digital Age

Dear Colleagues,

The canon of 20th century art has been expanded over the past few decades to include neglected artists and genres. Digital art, however, has largely remained outside of this "circle". This special issue will explore how art institutions, conservators, curators and scholars have helped, through curatorial practice, to integrate digital art into the wider field of contemporary art.

We invite potential contributors to submit original articles on their research, whether theoretical or empirical, to be considered by our review panel. We are particularly interested in contributions that address the following questions: How do art exhibitions help to trace the origins and trajectories of digital art? Can curatorial practice help to integrate digital art into the art history curriculum, and if so, how? How do art institutions, museums and galleries engage with the multi-cross-trans-disciplinary aspects of digital art, compared to art fairs, festivals and biennials? Are "conventional" or "old media" curatorial approaches still relevant or necessary when curating digital art? What are the issues involved in re-contextualizing and exhibiting pioneering artworks made in the 1960s and 1970s? Can curatorial practices increase public awareness of digital art? What are suitable curatorial approaches regarding digital art? And can curatorial practices help to understand the relations between digital art and other types of art?

Other topics of interest include aspects of the history of new media, challenges in the field, and evolving aesthetics, considered through the varied lenses of history and practice.

Dr. Francesca Franco
Guest Editor

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