july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Can you share more about why you prefer human to AI curation?

I think more because great curation is an art. And as Walter Benjamin in the “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” points out - the artistic aura of a work of art matters, the context of the locale and culture it is embedded into matters. The time and space in which it exists matters. 

It really means that the directness of the experience matters. Somewhere even the knowledge of owning an original painting knowing the artist painted it versus it was produced mechanically in a repetitive manner changes the mood of how one feels towards the work

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

it’s entirely possible that some folks around here don’t realize that people go to school to study curating, it’s a vocation adjacent and not dissimilar to artistic production itself. usually that means expertise in assembling and displaying artworks in a physical gallery but can also extend to monographs, catalogue raisonné, all sorts of publications.

so, imo makes sense to prefer this type of curation in the same way that you would likely buy a painting by a human painter vs. making something on Midjourney to hang on your wall.

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„Curation“ is very loosely used in our context here. I myself should be more responsible with using the term 🤔