ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how a technological perspective can contribute to thinking about the ways in which the curatorial practice is organized, and how curatorial agency is expressed — in other words, shifting discussions from the curatorial turn in contemporary art to the technological turn in curating. The developing discourse around curating allows for an expanded understanding of curating as a specific knowledge domain and as a creative and critical practice in its own right. In parallel to the sketch of the historical development of curating lay a set of ideas that have developed more overtly in relation to technology. The socio-technical structure of a distributed network provides a useful framework for rethinking contemporary curating and its political dimensions predominantly follows a centralized model. The consequences for curating are to question the sovereign role of the curator, to identify the biopolitical exercise of control in the curatorial process and the emergent forces that constitute curatorial knowledge.
