Abstract

I have run this one-week professional development course in London annually since 2014, including discussions with curators at Tate, V&A, Iniva, Open Data Institute, The Photographers' Gallery, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection, Autograph, Furtherfield, Museum of London, and Machines Room.

Participants have included curators from Hong Kong, Bahrain, India, USA, Canada, Austria, The Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, France and the UK.

This intensive week-long course in London is aimed at curators, exhibition organisers, educators and others working with contemporary art. The course critically examines how contemporary curating can best match contemporary art practices, including practices that might be collaborative, or participatory. Since new media including social networking, augmented reality and open source have changed thinking on how art works in time and space, this course aims to update professional knowledge in the field. The local, national and international contexts of curating are rigourously examined.