(Un)Real: Curating the Digital in the Age of AI
<p><em>Bilingual in English and Chinese</em></p> <p>Digital technologies, blockchain cultures, and artificial intelligence are transforming how reality is produced, perceived, and curated. In this shifting terrain, curating no longer denotes the organization of objects in space but the navigation between physical and virtual worlds, between human and machine agency.</p> <p>The contributions in this issue examine how digital, web-based, and AI-induced formats reconfigure exhibition logics, participation, and mediation, while raising questions of alienation, spectacle, and decentralization. They range from hybrid reactivations of historical exhibitions and digital archives resisting information erosion, to Web3-driven experiments and collaborative ecologies of generative AI. At the center lies the question of how curatorial practice can remain critical, resistant, and situated amid technological acceleration. Here, the (Un)Real appears as a condition that shapes curatorial work across realities — opening interstitial spaces, enabling moments of delay, and upholding human negotiation within algorithmic environments.</p>
Series Editor: Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb
Editors: Birgit Mersmann, Hauke Ohls, Wen Xie
Contributors: Xi Li, Nan Ma, Birgit Mersmann, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Hauke Ohls, Dorothee Richter, Peggy Schoenegge, Yini Wang, Yiquan Wang, Ziwei Wu
Translators: Sarah Spiess, Wanying Li
Copy Editor: Sarah Spiess, Wanying Li
Designer: Biotop 3000
Part of: OnCurating
ISBN: 2673-2904
ISSN: 2673-2904