Art, Life and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Curating Social Practice

Curating Digital Life and Culture: Art and information

The space between digital life and real life continues to fade and nowhere is this more apparent than in arts and cultural contexts. Facilitated by digital capture and curation, social media, the network, Internet, and the web, these forces combine to empower artists to be digital curators of their own work, giving voice and narration to their artistic expression. In the paper entitled Digitali...

Capitalist crises, social capital and well-being

Alleviating poverty is among the most laudable aim of the Millennium Development Goals. However, policies aimed at alleviating poverty could only be successful if they are underpinned by clear understanding of mechanisms which contribute to poverty incidences and distributions. This study seeks to investigate the effect of major capitalist crises, such as the Asian financial crisis on health di...

Living Laboratories : Making and Curating Interactive Art

This paper describes the development of laboratory concepts in the making and curating of interactive art, in which the exhibition becomes a site for collaboration between curators, artists, and audiences. It describes Beta_space, an experimental public venue that seeks to realise the concept of the exhibition as living laboratory through the participatory qualities of interactive computer-base...

Seeing is Correcting: curating lexical resources using social interfaces

This note describes OpenWordnet-PT, an automatically created, manually curated wordnet for Portuguese and introduces the newly developed web interface we are using to speed up its manual curation. OpenWordNet-PT is part of a collection of wordnets for various languages, jointly described and distributed through the Open MultiLingual WordNet and the Global WordNet Association. OpenWordnet-PT has...

Cannibals, Amazons, and Social Reproduction in Amazonia