"Rt"
Rt is an online website based project that aims to explore the relation between gallery and virtual space. Furthermore it is an opportunity for curatorial and critical practices to collaborate with an array of mixed medias that might bring up pertinent questions regarding the role of the internet, the art, the curator, the artist and the viewer as well as their relationship to one another.
Rt will function as a virtual, curated space that features art, especially by young and emerging artists. It is my hopes that be focusing on young and emerging artists I can open a dialogue and a collaboration process where by the site actively participates in discussing how virtual reality creates, displays and informs a viewer about the object and ideology of an art piece.
The site will feature a main page that has a playful theme of "drugs." Though not promoting the use of drugs the site will appropriate the ideas attached to most drugs incuding the theme of: addiction, prescription, treatment, health and individual purpose. That is to say that the site will utilize the image of pills and prescription drugs to reate a parallel to art which describes art and the viewing of art as a process of cause and effect.
As a curatorial space Rt will attempt to assume a role that is simmilar to a realistic gallery space and will function as a space that is open to include: critical analysies and writings, images, videos, sounds, event promotions, merchandise, animations and any other array of "art form" that satisfies the sites manifesto (to be written).
The ideal of Rt is to create a curatorial space that also confronts different forms of gallery spaces including institutional, alternative and commercial and utilizes those aspects to create a hybrid virtual space that can offer the same or similar services.
Potential services available to the user will be: available newsletters, browsing abilities on a unique interface, forum (?), download audio and visual pieces, oekaki, game play (?), purchasing rights.
Ultimately Rt is a quest into the potential role of a curator in the virtual realm that will utilizes conventional forms of gallery space in order to disolve previous boundries and offers a new way to look at objects.
Week 1:
- Manifesto
- Digital Imaging of Main Site
- Site Layout - Home Page, Contact Page, Manifesto Page
- Research Newsletters
Week 2:
- Site Layout - Home Page, Events Page
- Digital Imaging of Artist 1
- Site Layout Collaboration with Artist 1
- Research Forums/Message Boards
Week 3:
- Site Layout - Newslettering (On Contacts Page), Affeliations, Artist 1
- Build Affeliate Connections
- 1 Critical Review of a Current Exhibition
- Research Oekaki
Week 4:
- Site Layout - Forums, Oekaki, Artist 1
- Digital Imaging of Artist 2
- Site Layout Collaboration with Artist 2
-Curatorial Statement Artist 1
Week 5:
- Site Layout - Artist 2 (+ any other incomplete)
- Curatorial Statement Artist 2
- 1 Critical Review of a Current Exhibition
1 comment:
Your proposal is very thorough and challenging. As I said during the in-class presentation of your outline, I think it would be great if you could research online galleries to hone the idea of the relationship between virtual and physical gallery space. The drug RT metaphor is very evocative and promising, and your workplan indicates a lot of really focused research, so your MidTerm will be very exciting! I look forward to seeing what you have worked on to date. Unfortunately, your attendance is sketchy so I think we are rather out of touch and you may have missed some relevant material. All the more important to see what you are working on independently. If there's anything I can do to help you, or if you would like to meet one-to-one, please e-mail me or let's make arrangements during class. That might be the best way to focus on your specific needs. Also, if you have programming ideas you'd like to run by Craig let me know - now's the time for us to tailor our workshops to your specific project-based interests.
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