I started a new blog on Crowdfunding called artistandaudience.net.
Crowdfunding is not only a new form of collective cooperation by people who pool their money together to support cultural projects - in my opinion it’s also a crucial shift in the relationship of artist & their audiences in general.

As I am planning to finance my next short film via crowdfunding I am sharing my questions, thoughts & experiences on the subject, visit the blog to get to know more!

The internet is the dominant cultural memory of our time. Video hosting web sites like YouTube are cumulate enormous archives of moving images (in YouTube’s case 20 hours of footage are uploa-ded every minute), nourishing the old story of the information overlaod. But indeed, structuring the-se archives is an important question, and besides technical developments in search algorhythms and semantics, the personal recommendation has become one of the most important organisation prin-ciples of web. Blogs, Playlists, Channels, Links and Likes have become important entry points, and as the archives of visual culture have become inexhaustible, access is no longer the paradigm but selection.

At this point the curator steps in and is confrontated with the new medium challeging his profession. Not only she herself has to find ways to discover the gems in this ocean of videos, but there are so-me demanding questions she has to deal with. First of all there are no proper terms for what forms of online video exist. On the internet the borders blur between commercial and private content, ama-teur and professional and there are no rules how to define their aesthetic qualities. So while the big-gest question for the curator is how and what to choose for exhibiting it, the medium also bears new questions of where to exhibit (physical or virtual spaces) and questions of authorship and copyright. Moreover curators are experimenting with how to exhibit works online and are crossing the edge to artistic expression when they arrange footage in video sculptures (e.g. the exhibition „3 Hours in 1 Second“ at http://grid.curatingyoutube.net/show/index.html).

The project Curating the Web contributes to the discourse of how web video can be categorized and conceptualized from curational points of view.

I’ll start off the project with a lecture&screening at Cluj, Romania, and as a seminar/exhibition at University of Siegen.

I took part in an exhibition called 3 hours in 1 second, along with Constant Dullaart, Jodi ans lots of other great artists, curated by Sakrowski from Curating YouTube. Sakrowski programmed a front-end which gave the artists the oppurtunity to combine up to 16 YouTube-Videos into on big multi-channel installation.

I made two installations called Attention and Evolution of dance. I really enjoyed the opening venue at Basso Berlin on february 5th, 2010. There you could interact with the installations, play and pause videos, level the audio, it was almost like playing an audiovisual set. The exhibition was installed only for one day but you can still watch the artworks online here.