Robin Good
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The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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But why has the concept of curation risen to such prominence beyond the museum, and why now? For Steven Rosenbaum, curation “addresses two parallel trends: the explosive growth in data, and our need to be able to find information in coherent, reasonably contextual groupings” (Rosenbaum, 2011, 5). This latter need, to be able to find information,... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain... See more
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain... See more
A quote from The Prophet
Curation and life nudges
When you share what influences you, you’re not distracting from your work. You’re giving people a framework for understanding it.
The Role of Taste
the critical skill of the future is not generating new ideas but curating those developed by generative AI. The role of idea curators will be crucial in discerning the most promising concepts, refining them to enhance their viability, and promoting them to gain widespread acceptance.
Gleb Tsipursky: With the rise of AI, creativity shifts from generation to curation
We will have so much abundance of ideas, that the true rare skill will not be to have great ideas, but to be able to pick the very best ones from huge pools of alternatives.
CFC: What advice would you give to aspiring curators just starting their careers?
JA: I would say: cultivate a practice rooted in curiosity, listening, and long-term commitment. Curating is not only about articulating ideas, it is about building the conditions for others to create, experiment, and be heard. This requires patience, care, and the... See more
JA: I would say: cultivate a practice rooted in curiosity, listening, and long-term commitment. Curating is not only about articulating ideas, it is about building the conditions for others to create, experiment, and be heard. This requires patience, care, and the... See more
Meet Julieta Agriano: On Curating the Social and Technological Landscapes of Today - Call For Curators
Intelligence today means staying open. It means unlearning old frameworks, following genuine curiosity, and letting go of the need to appear sophisticated. It means practicing sense-making in public, without fear of being mid-thought.
Uncredentialed Futures
Luciano Floridi’s concept of distant writing – which is the textual production mediated by generative AI – has presented us with a challenge to traditional accounts of authorship and epistemic agency. In this paper, we analyze the epistemological consequences of this new paradigm, arguing that distant writing reframes rather than diminishes the... See more