why curation...

The long tail is a business model and a way of bringing work to the world. More is better.

Curation, on the other hand, offers a different reward for the publisher/creator.

Either your motto is, “we don’t sell anything, we sell everything” or “we put our name on this one.”

Lately, there’s pressure to be somewhere in the middle. To be sort of proud of... See more

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