Once bound to the interiors of art institutions and modern museums, the new breed of curator is more likely to be bound by internet browsers and social networks than the four walls of a museum.
- Andrew Apostola, The Evolution of the Curator
A curator is one who finds, understands, and collates.
Their skill sets include tried and tested methods and mechanisms for doing the finding, the understanding and the collating.
To be an efficient journalist, one must also be a finder, an understander and a collater.
So, are journalists curators?
I believe they occupy an interdisciplinary space of the curatorialist.
Their skill sets include tried and tested methods and mechanisms for doing the finding, the understanding and the collating.
To be an efficient journalist, one must also be a finder, an understander and a collater.
So, are journalists curators?
I believe they occupy an interdisciplinary space of the curatorialist.
A curatorialist - a journalist and a curator all in one.
A thought leader, and a trusted source for go-to information.
A 'bringer-together' of information from far and wide, who adds their own voice and flair to the debate and then passes it on to others.
This is where I believe the future of journalism and the future on online media-making is going.
Organisations are already starting to bring in specialised types of curators to finely curate their online platforms and profiles. Digital strategy agencies such as Deepend and ntegrity are leading this market in Australia. They are tasked with building, maintaining and growing audiences in the online world.
However, there are also significant risks associated with this path. Andrew Apostola claims that in a world where individuals are now faced not with the tyranny of limited channels but too many channels to choose from, “we need to turn those who are more nuanced in specific subject matter than ourselves, lest we fall into the self-induced black holes of own personal archives”. In other words, maybe it’s just better left to the professionals.
But I think there’s something to be said for the skills of being a curator. They’re one who transcends the simple passive consumption of information, and they go even further than just critique information. They incorporate it into their knowledge flows and truly use the information and the potential held within it.
In an ever-changing media environment, perhaps it will be these curators who can find, understand, and collate material who will thrive the most.
A thought leader, and a trusted source for go-to information.
A 'bringer-together' of information from far and wide, who adds their own voice and flair to the debate and then passes it on to others.
This is where I believe the future of journalism and the future on online media-making is going.
Organisations are already starting to bring in specialised types of curators to finely curate their online platforms and profiles. Digital strategy agencies such as Deepend and ntegrity are leading this market in Australia. They are tasked with building, maintaining and growing audiences in the online world.
However, there are also significant risks associated with this path. Andrew Apostola claims that in a world where individuals are now faced not with the tyranny of limited channels but too many channels to choose from, “we need to turn those who are more nuanced in specific subject matter than ourselves, lest we fall into the self-induced black holes of own personal archives”. In other words, maybe it’s just better left to the professionals.
But I think there’s something to be said for the skills of being a curator. They’re one who transcends the simple passive consumption of information, and they go even further than just critique information. They incorporate it into their knowledge flows and truly use the information and the potential held within it.
In an ever-changing media environment, perhaps it will be these curators who can find, understand, and collate material who will thrive the most.