Prof. Renate Buschmann is co-organizer of the conference "Digital Curating: Ethics of Access and Sustainability" (Photo: Studium fundamentale)
Digital technologies offer cultural institutions and stakeholders new perspectives for managing their collections and open up innovative avenues for public participation.
Renate Buschmann, Chair ofDigital Arts and Cultural Mediationat the WittenLab, is a member of the interdisciplinary research group "Access to Cultural Goods in the Digital Transformation" at the University of Münster. Together with Prof Dr Ursula Frohne and Josina Dehn, she conceived the international conference "Digital Curating: Ethics of Access and Sustainability", which deals with the influence of digital technologies on curatorial practices and the resulting ethical, ecological and social challenges. Experts from museums, universities and cultural institutions will discuss how the digital transformation is expanding access to cultural heritage, challenging existing hierarchies and enabling new forms of participatory knowledge production. The focus will be on questions of authenticity, representation and responsibility in dealing with digital artefacts, reproductions and virtual spaces. The possibilities and risks of artificial intelligence for curatorial processes and the ecological impact of digital infrastructures will also be addressed. The aim of the conference is to open up perspectives on a sustainable and fair design of cultural access in the digital age and to bring together the aesthetic, ethical and ecological dimensions of a globally networked cultural practice.
For the programme and registration, see
https://www.uni-muenster.de/KFG-Zugang/veranstaltungen/digitalcurating.html