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Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
curation, for a really long time, has been top-down. The idea of a very small pool of people deciding a lot of what people consume is never really a good idea. Injecting the voice of the people, and allowing for individuals who maybe would be talented curators on their own, to have the opportunity to pull new artists that we never would have... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
I don't think we're going to enter a world where any one way wins the day. But I think we are starting to wake up to the contemporary over-indexing towards the voice of the crowd, when it comes to the distillation of that being an algorithmic culture and understanding.
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
allowing people to be rewarded and capture some of the value that they actually create is really important, and allowing disparate voices to enter the fold through people who otherwise wouldn't be curators… That's a unique opportunity.
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
It’s going to be an expert through the proving of data — an expert through action, rather than an expert through appointment.
Andrew Ryce • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
in an era of media overabundance people are searching for a way to distill the overabundance, and it tends to be through voices that they trust. So yeah, there's filtering, but that can also happen through systems. I don't think it's any one group of people, whether that's critics or people just relying on their networks or just on their own... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
You can have a corporate brand, even, and still stand for something. I think there's going to be a mixing of expert opinion and the voice of the crowd in the curation of an ideal festival. And if you can state a set of values that comes from experts and then use the voice of the crowd to find the examples of things that align with those values, I... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
Any one single source of truth to define expertise is not going to work — you're going to need to pull it in from multiple places to really capture what it means to be an expert. I think Web3 presents a really interesting opportunity because it's decentralized.
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
shine a light on things that I think are historically, critically, or culturally important that haven't been assigned the proper value… but "proper" is pretty subjective. Hopefully, collectively, you can figure out how to value artists like Sylvester — people who've had more influential roles in music history than most people realize — or also... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
There's something in academia that is definitely an inspiration for me, the H index, though it is not perfect. An H index is a measure of an influential paper and what it does. Let's use CRISPR as an example. CRISPR is probably one of the most advanced and important technologies of the past 20 years, but we don't measure its importance by the... See more