Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation

A collection of essays and interviews on how digital and net-based art is shown, collected and kept, edited by the researcher and curator Annet Dekker.

The book asks whether the traditional models and methods of presenting and accessing digital art can be reconfigured. It gathers contributions from curators, artists and researchers on web-based curatorial practice, and on how that practice strains the values of the museum. The title names the arc: from presenting and collecting digital art to what Dekker calls networked co-curation, where the work of selection is shared across a network. It runs to 352 pages in paperback and appeared in Valiz's Making Public series in 2021.

Dekker teaches at the University of Amsterdam and co-directs the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. Earlier she was a curator at the Netherlands Media Art Institute and a digital-preservation researcher at Tate. Her monograph Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge, 2018) covers related ground from the conservation side.