Επιμέλεια ψηφιακών εκθέσεων, σύγχρονο πλαίσιο και πρακτικές
Curating digital exhibitions, contemporary framework and practices

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Ψηφιακή τέχνη ; Επιμέλεια εκθέσεων ; Σύγχρονη τέχνη ; Τέχνη διαδικτύου ; Ψηφιακά μέσαAbstract
Following the course and development that has taken place both academically and practically in the
field of culture and new media, with an emphasis on technical issues, staff management, and audience
management, we delve into the discussion of exhibition curation. Observing the lack of research work
in the area of curation as practical tools, we analyze the theoretically developing subject of digital
exhibition curation through the distinction between the institutional–museum curator, the independent
curator, and the festival curator. By analyzing theoretical examples, we are led through a series of
qualitative field research (case study) with interviews conducted with experts in Greece and abroad,
while quantitative research is contrasted with the perspective of the user–visitor through related
questionnaires. After the COVID-19 pandemic, it emerges that institutions seek other outlets closer to
hybrid and phygital exhibition models, as isolation and pure digitality are no longer points of interest. Is
this the right moment to provide the space, the time, and the funding for an equivalent methodological
research, so that the work presented in the digital space may become something more than either a
pretext to commemorate the net art period of the 1980s–90s, or a tool of resilience and survival in
isolation, especially in times of crisis such as the pandemic? The need for hybridity and immersion is
not only a feature of the present era, specialists comment, but also a way of expressing problems for
which no solution has yet been found, following the sociological and anthropological references of
Bourdieu. How useful is such an expression of art when the recipient does not possess the
capital—social, cultural, or economic—to engage with it, or when, correspondingly, the artists and
institutions creating the work lack the capital to sustain it holistically at every stage of research and
creation? Participation, the commons, and the care of networks may function as solutions amidst these
obstacles, as alternative approaches to art within the predetermined framework of capitalized art, and
more specifically within digital media.


