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Curatorial Governance
Even if most people don’t have a practiced intuition or diverse networks to produce strange objects, listening to one’s own network or intuition is much more likely to voice heterodoxical opinions on the value of a cultural object compared to the wisdom of the crowd or experts as there is less noise.
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
This question of which sources of information to trust is a challenge that all media and cultural object distribution companies – in particular social media companies with vast pools of cultural objects to pull from – have to deal with.
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
When determining whether a cultural object has value, is it best to trust:
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
We can define an expert as someone who has spent a significant amount of time studying a related field, and as such it’s reasonable to assume that experts are slightly better at avoiding the problems of information cascades, binary voting, and free market default values... This is because the time afforded to experts to think allows them the space ... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
One’s network or
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
The intent of this piece is not to deride public opinion; the goal of this piece is instead to figure out the pros and cons of each of the typical four sources of information (public opinion, experts, personal networks, intuition) one uses to make decisions, in order to create repeatable processes of organizing information that combine the best of ... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
Different disciplines give different weights to each one of these four sources of information. In fashion, most listen to their intuitions, while a small set of others may read Vanessa Friedman or Tim Blanks. When choosing restaurants, some consult Yelp, while others consult the Infatuation, and others go with what Pete Wells recommends. In fine ar... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
When analyzing the wisdom of the crowd, it’s easy to forget that opinions are not independent, and that social media is very driven by first mover opinions and “influencers”.
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
However, this greater time spent thinking also causes experts to be more rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. This combined with the ivory tower that experts can sometimes live in can result in them completely overlooking important, left-field new ideas.
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
“The curator is someone who insists on value, and who makes it, whether or not it actually exists,” says David Balzer, author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else.