I am a postgraduate student at King's College. My degree is a MA in Arts and Cultural Management.
For my current MA I am conducting a research about Internet Art.The main focus is about the challenges that Internet Art has brought to the art world and how the art world is giving value (not only commercial, but artistic value) to this art form.
Since one big part of net.art and online culture are mailing lists like The Thing, nettime and rhizome, I would like to start a threat about Internet art to know what curators, artists, collectors and visitors think about the topic.
Some of the questions I am working around are:
1. How do you define Internet Art?
2. How do you judge an Internet Art piece?
3. What is that excites you the most about Internet art?
4. What do you think is the most important input that Internet art brings to the art world today?
5. How do you curate Internet Art? What do you look for in Internet Art?
6. Are galleries a thing of the past when we think about Internet Art?
8. Are online platforms for display a way of institutionalizing Internet Art and give this kind of art a legitimization in the art world?
9. How is the art world dealing with the fact that net artists are jumping the ropes of the art world by showing their art without any need of validation? How will this affect your role as a curator?
10. Who collects Internet Art?
11. How do you sell Internet art? Do you materialize the idea?
12. Do you find a difference between traditional artists and Internet art artists?
13. Are Internet art audiences different than museum and galleries audiences? If so, do you think is important to form new audiences for Internet art? How is the art world, or you in your role as a curator, developing these audiences?
14. Are we in the “post-object” era and what does this mean to your role as a curator?
As part of my research project I am also making an Internet art piece of my own that will become part of my dissertation and that will be informed by the conversations I have with people about Internet art. If anyone would like to have a small talk over Skype about it I would be thrill to do it
I appreciate you reading my e-mail, and I will be looking forward to your response.
Thank you so much.
All the best,
Juana Romero