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As an online platform, Cognitive Sensations are conscious of the challenging constraints that digital programming may pose to art and its audiences. Tailoring online spaces to fit with the psychological and experiential needs of users online is an essential component of digital curation, and is a skill and concept that underlines our practice. During the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, there became a need for revisiting these approaches in the face of a sudden influx of digital consumption, intertwining work, leisure, communication and connectivity, all in one environment.
Curating on the Web ignites dialogue on this new chapter of digital transformation in the arts and its wider impact on audience experience. This series captures multiple perspectives of artists and curators, paving the way for new modes of web-based curation through an introspective narrative of a creative industry gone digital. We pay a special consideration to the cognitive and attentional processes underlying this shift, highlighting the speed of interchange and underlying quality of digital experience which has reshaped the experience of art.
A central question underlies the roots of this series: will this new era change the art world for good? From Reece Griffiths’ exploration of online art as a powerful tool for the democratisation of opinion in minority communities, to Kate Reeve-Edward’s reflection upon Instagram as a site for self-selling art and the challenge this poses for artist-gallery-relations, Curating on the Web highlights the stories behind the changing dynamics of this period.
Can digital art provide solutions that can be carried forward into real life politics? This article explores the transformation of digital art by the Coronavirus pandemic, and questions what these changes mean for the working-class, the oppressed minorities and political consciousness from an anti-imperialist standpoint.
How has the Artist Support Pledge shaped the concept of self-selling art? Art writer Kate Reeve-Edwards discusses how artists are taking back control of their work through Instagram, questioning what impact this will have on the relationship between artists and galleries.
MA Curating students meet on WhatsApp to discuss their experiences of art and curatorial practice as it moved online during Covid-19. Through online projects and an analysis of the digital transformation of art, the three emerging curators discuss their experiences.
In the course of the pandemic, the dimensions of everyday life became restructured. Domestic and public space shrank, whilst our virtual worlds opened. How can exhibition design and online art help us connect with our environments, and redefine personal space?
Blog Short Series #3: Mediated content has become the sole channel for connecting audiences with culture, creating an advent of new engagement practices and a steep learning curve in how these are approached. As audiences disappear into the unknown territories of their homes, what do we know about the quality of their experience?
Blog Short Series #2: What makes an online artwork memorable, and not just another digital image amongst the hundreds that you have consumed that day? Read this review of recent online exhibitions and their approach to visitor experience, featuring shows by arebyte, Art in Flux and the Piksel Festival.
Blog Short Series #1: Introducing a new set of articles analysing the internet as a medium of expression in art and curatorial practice. As Covid forces industries, practices and disciplines online, how can new digital methods be applied to better communicate their content to audiences?
