Programme for emerging and aspiring curators with a specific interest in media art
IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] invites emerging and aspiring curators with a specific interest in media art and its relationship to technology and society to apply for the Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme. Deadline for applications is November 14, 11:59pm CET.
Full Spectrum Curatorship (FSC) is a programme by IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] which aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the practical and substantive aspects of curation in the field of media art and contemporary arts dealing with digital technologies and online environments. IMPAKT, as the premier media art festival in the Netherlands, offers recent graduates and curators at the beginning of their career the opportunity to develop their own curatorial programme under expert guidance. The experience of internationally recognised curators will be complemented by IMPAKT’s extensive archive and contemporary critical programming.
The third edition of the FSC programme will take place online across a period of five months, from February to June 2022. Core to FSC programme is the development of a project proposal, whereby participants and their paired coaches will work closely to exchange ideas and expand on focused sections of their project. This process, together with exchanges with other participants, will focus on aspects of networking, mentorship and skill development.
The training programme kicks off with an online conference in February with presentations by curators, mentoring sessions and exchange with the paired coach-curators to develop a particular project proposal. The FSC programme will include discussions on the history, theory, contextualisation, organisation and execution of media art-related programmes, and cover the development of curatorial concepts, critical and societal contextualisation, artwork selection, budgets and funding, audience reception and presentation formats. The focus will be on time-based media , with specific attention to technological history and change, logistical considerations, and the challenges and opportunities presented by multi-channel and interactive presentation formats.
The list of coach-curators include:
–Angelique Spaninks is director and curator at MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven. Spaninks was also the director and artistic manager at STRP Festival from 2012 to 2018, and international curator for the 6th Guangzhou Triennial in 2018.
–Doreen A. Ríos is an independent curator and chief curator at the Centre for Digital Culture in Mexico City. She is also the founder of [ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform dedicated to the research and exhibition of Latin-American Digital Art.
–Florian Wüst is a Berlin-based film curator, artist, and publisher. He has curated film programmes for international art institutions, cinemas, and festivals. From 2016 to 2020, Wüst was the film and video curator of transmediale.
–Paulien Dresscher is an independent researcher, curator and advisor. She curates Digital Culture Program of the Dutch Film Festival, is festival curator Noorderlicht Festival 2021 and advisor for Into the Great Wide Open, formerly curating for Cinekid MediaLab.
–Wade Wallerstein is a digital anthropologist, strategist and curator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Wade is the founder and director of Silicon Valet, a virtual parking lot for expanded Internet art, and co-director of TRANSFER Gallery in Los Angeles, an exhibition space devoted to simulation and computational art forms.
Recent graduates, as well as aspiring and emerging curators are invited to apply before November 14, 11:59pm CET.
Participation fee is 250 EUR and all meetings will be held in English.
Read more about the programme and how to apply here.
Questions
If you have further questions, please contact the programme coordinator at bernice@impakt.nl.
