Mohammad Salemy and Cécile Malaspina: On Curating & Filtering | Ringvorlesung #NoFilter

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Using #nofilter on social media platforms like Instagram often signals authenticity by highlighting an absence of manipulation, a more genuine and unmediated experience. At the root of this is a contradictory desire: at the same time that we want genuine experiences we can relate to, we want to receive these in the most seamless way possible by the algorithm of these networks. For instance, when we receive influencers' "daily routine" in front of a well-placed tripod, they use authenticity as an aesthetic, portraying the "real" experience of living elsewhere, going to the gym, or eating in a particular restaurant. In this presentation, I will formulate a quick history of the evolution of curating side by side with curatorial algorithms in Social Media, arguing that the role of curatorial texts can be seen as interpretative filters that parallel the contemporary search for a non-curated "authenticity" in digital culture.

About Mohammad Salemy:

He is an independent Berlin-based artist, critic and curator from Canada. Salemy is the Organizer at The New Centre for Research & Practice. He has been the cofounding Organizer of The New Centre since 2014 and the editor-in-chief of its publishing arm, Triple Ampersand.

About Cécile Malaspina:

She directrice de programme Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (Ciph); programmer for Art & Curatorial Practice at the New Centre for Research and Practice, Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. She is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the principal translator of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects.