why curation...

There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.

This begs the question: What might it mean to reimagine the form of these datasets in a world unconstrained by pressures like speed, scale, and universality? By looking to artists like Anna Ridler and others for their rejection of “off-the-shelf” datasets, we can imagine what it would be like to curate datasets with much deeper intention and... See more