Abstract

Curators are concerned with the placement of art works for their access by audiences. The question of ‘where?’ the experience of net-based art resides has led to an investigation of ‘locative media art’ or geographical-sited online art. Many of the projects I have found interesting have been those that gather, in database form, information about real world experience to share with others. These works suggest that the essential functions of the Internet (the storage and retrieval of information) form an inherent part of the art experience. Questions addressed in this presentation include: How ‘locative’ is the online experience? How do you make the online experience relevant to a ‘local’ audience? What can be learned from other community-based collaborative models?

• Sarah Cook is an independent curator and the co-editor of the online curating resource CRUMB. She holds the Doctoral Research position in New Media Curating at the University of Sunderland in conjunction with BALTIC. Sarah has a Master’s Degree from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies (New York), and has curated at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Banff Center for the Arts, and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). She has spoken at the Tate (London), the Fruitmarket Gallery, (Edinburgh), and has written for the Arts Council of England, AN and Public Art Journal. She is co-editor of CRUMB.

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