<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As I, with great interest, follow the two ongoing discussions on IDC, I'm struck by the fact that they despite their superficial differences actually pay heed to the same kind of problem. Looking at them separately you'd get:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>a) Keen is mean, and stupid, and wrong. The internet has done great things for creativity.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>b) Curating today is really tricky, and posits brand new challenges.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In the latter discussion, Jerome Grand recently pointed out that modern curating is in fact a form of production, and that the way in which cultural institutions frame and juxtapose artworks is a creative activity in and of itself. In the former debate, people are fuming because Keen is peddling a rather romantic notion of what creative work is. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Now, the fun part is of course that what Keen misses is the exact point that Grand so elegantly put forth. We are no longer in a world where we can just focus on the individual "work of genius" (and maybe we never were), and curating is one of the technologies we use to handle this. So, in a cheeky little move, we could pose the following to Keen (and meld together two IDC-threads):</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Are curators merely "amateurs" because they do not create in the same way as e.g. sculptors? And does Keen realize that a lot of what he seems to pine for (the old, proper cultural world) was in fact staged and curated, i.e. created through collaborations, establishing connections, collage-work, mashing-up...?</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="">-- </div><div style="">Professor Alf Rehn -- <a href="http://www.alfrehn.com">http://www.alfrehn.com</a>/</div><div style="">Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Royal Institute of Technology)</div><div style="">(On leave as Chair of Management and Organization (Åbo Akademi University))</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Royal Institute of Technology</div><div style="">Department of Industrial Economics and Management</div><div style="">10044 Stockholm, SWEDEN</div><div style=""><br style=""></div><div style=""><a href="mailto:alfrehn@mac.com">alfrehn@mac.com</a></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">"Velox, vilis, immunda"</div><div style=""><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>