Augmenting Practices, the exhibition, closes tomorrow, concluding the IFA-Khoj curatorial residency.
qwiki-like concept to transform any text, audio and video into a video narrative for lean-back consumption demonstrated at Techcrunch’s Disrupt Beijing. The concept might well become mainstream for curators to provide content to mobile and TV platforms.
Panoramio and Google Earth image acceptance policy
In the course of experimenting with digital curation, and working with the Panoramio, Google Earth and Layar platforms, I’ve discovered that images such as those on the left will NOT get accepted while ones like that on the right will.
It would be nice if Google Earth would alter their policy to include art, at least public art works, as these are no less a part of the earth we inhabit, than the landscape on its own. Strangely, the use of Google Earth over the past few months have resurrected the memory of landscape painting, and the thought that Google Earth may be considered a sort of self-organizing collage of landscapes (photography rather than painting).
ASEMUS: Mapping Asian Museum Collections
Augmented Reality Archives
Last minute work on the exhibition… I had to wait to arrive in Delhi before being able to take photographs of the archival images viewed through the Layar augmented reality browser. This image documents a performance by Chinese artist Han Bing at Khoj International Artists’ Association. Unfortunately, I am unable to travel to the other sites in India to take similar photographs of this experiment in augmented reality art archives (Mumbai, Modinagar, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Srinagar, etc.). However, I think the 4 photographs of Delhi based AR images are sufficient to demonstrate how such archives ‘work.’
If you are in Delhi, please come to the exhibition opening on Thursday 3 November 2011, from 6pm… ‘Augmenting Practices’
A “kite” in Jordan used thousands of years ago to funnel animals into the “head” where they would be killed. Photo: David Kennedy
Google Unearth: Australian discovers new treasures from the past - from his office. Read more.
"Curation, like making a website, is an act of self-interest that enriches the commons and benefits everybody. I need to search, scan, and select the best resources I can find for my own personal interests, and by making my choices available to others, I create a resource for many besides myself. Curation is also a signal to others who share my interests, people I probably would not have known or known about otherwise, who, in turn, suggest resources to me. I feed the networks of people who do me the honor of valuing my choices, and they feed me back. It’s about knowing, learning, sharing, and teaching, all in one."
Howard Rheingold (via savvides)
Characteristic of a liberal perspective, but it leaves a great deal unsaid about the organizational dynamics of curating.
Statistics for Khoj Online at Panoramio
Tushar Joag
The Enlightening Army Of The Empire, 2008, Installation comprising 16 figures, perspex, plastic, brass, mild steel, wood, electric bulbs, wire and mixed media
