Richard Reinhart's presentation at Planning-ness Denver

1. How To Curate
Digital Art
Richard Rinehart
Berkeley Art Museum
Pacific Film Archive

2. 1:1, Lisa Jevbratt, 1999

4. Heuristic &
Analytical Tools
• Semiotics
• Neo-Marxist
• Psychoanalytic
• Etc.

5. How is the meme the same across
history?
How does the meme manifest differently
in different historical periods?

7. Victory Gardens, Future Farmers, 2007

8. Arts & Crafts Interior, 1890

9. Carnivore, Radical Software Group, 2001

10. Untitled, Donald Judd, 1966

11. Utopia, Thomas More, 1516

15. Utopia
• Contemporary utopia revives, but changes past utopian
impulses
• Contemporary Utopias .......
• Less totalizing, monumental, exclusive
• Reconcile with technology, modernity
• Recognize difference, diversity
• Smaller, attainable actions
• Not grand destination, but here/now; no-where

16. Unlogo, Jeff Crouse, 2010

17. Workshop
• Determine cultural meme at work in Unlogo
• Curate small exhibition around that meme
• Online, find at least 3 more artworks that
exhibit that meme
• Each team present their exhibit to group
• 30 min. Curating, 10 min. Presenting

18. Questions?

19. Helpful Links
Online database of digital art,
http://rhizome.org/art/
Unlogo
http://netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
Background
Paper on Utopia
http://www.coyoteyip.com/rinehart/papers_files/
utopia_now_and_then-rinehart.pdf
Richard Rinehart
Rinehart@berkely.edu