Curating Online Exhibitions: Art, Archives, and Digital Platforms

This workshop aimed at graduate students will introduce students of arts and literatures to the design and composition of online exhibitions. How to translate the artistic, historical, and theoretical complexity of an artist's archive—artwork, documents, notes, among others—onto a website? What are some of the promises and threats of new media in the context of environmental crisis? The discussion will depart from professor Brizuela's own curatorial experience with the Waldemar Cordeiro: Bits of the Planet digital exhibition, featuring the digital archive of prominent Brazilian post-war artist and theorist. Waldemar Cordeiro: Bits of the Planet, co-curated with Ian Alan Paul and Rachel Price, brings Cordeiro's visionary legacy into the digital realm, offering algorithmically generative ways to engage with Cordeiro's work.

About the Presenter:

Natalia Brizuela writes and teaches about visual culture, art, film, media, literature and critical theory from Latin America, with a particular focus on experimental practices that bridge aesthetics and politics. She is the author of, among others, Fotografia e Imperio (2012), Depois da fotografia (2014), and co-editor of The Matter of Photography in the Americas (2018) and La cámara como método (2021) and has curated numerous exhibitions and film programs. She recently launched the online experimental exhibition Bits of the Planet, which she co-curated with Rachel Price and Ian Alan Paul. Brizuela is also finishing a book on the refusal of Time. She is Class of 1930 Chair of Letters & Sciences, the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley, and a Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese.