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the insights gained from this experiment were presented at the interna- Marialaura Ghidini and Gaia Tedone. Curating online 3 – Cultural heritage,
tional conference hosted by the Vienna-based organizers, Ra/Upture: creativity and the summer of artificial intelligence. Is everything a remix?
Xenofuturities Specters Anachrony (October 3 – 4, 2020). (4) The AI became a platform for presentations by Eduardo Navas, Emily L. Spratt,
curator was also presented at the EUNIC AI Science Café Series: AI & Barbora Trnková (ScreenSaverGallery), Daniel Kvak, Andreas Sudmann
Art (12 May 2021), organized by Czech Center London. (5) The curato- and Man Tan Lin.
rial concept applied in the Black Box project was shared with the par-
ticipants of the Signal Talks symposium with the subheading PLAN C: We want to thank Alina Matějová and Roman Novotný, editors of
Sustainability of Cultural and Artistic Environments (15 October 2021). (6) the HUMAIN conference proceedings, and Barbara Büscher, editor
The project was also developed as a contribution to the HUMAIN confer- of the online journal MAP – Media – Archive – Performance, for their
ence proceedings (published in 2021).(7) permission to publish the revised or translated texts.
The Black Box Book could not have been published without the fi-
nancial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic,
A C K N O W L ED G EM EN T S the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, the Department of
Musicology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Galerie TIC and
In this place, we would like to thank several individuals and institutions the Center for New Media Art – Vašulka Kitchen Brno.
for their support, without which this book could not have been pro-
duced. Among our colleagues, we must mention the curators of Galerie
TIC, Katarína Hládeková, Zuzana Janečková, who together with Marika Jana Horáková et al.
Kupková were at the very beginning of this project and imbued it with
an ethos of care and a certain healthy intellectual skepticism towards
the seemingly easy transition online. Alina Matějová and Oliver Staša
helped transform the Black Box concept into an original web design.
Pavel Sikora and Štěpán Miklánek deserve special thanks for their will-
ingness to assist in experimental exploration of the limits of intelligent
software tools. A big thank you goes to Svatava Doubková and Ivan Kout-
ný, post-graduate students of the Digital Culture and Creative Industries
program, who co-organized the Digital Curator symposium on curating
digital art, software art and net art (2. 12. - 3. 12.) which was a precursor to
the Curating Online symposium series held in April, October and December
2021. We would like to thank all the participants of the online symposia
for their presentations and contributions to the discussion, which sig-
nificantly contributed to shaping our ideas about the form of the book.
The Digital Curator symposium featured Wendy Coones and Oliver Grau,
Alessandro Ludovico, Alex McLean, Hans Bernhard (UBERMORGEN),
Amy Alexander, Sarah Cook and Roddy Hunter, Barbora Kundračíková,
Michal Klodner (in chronological order as they appeared in the program),
and others. Karina Kottová (Jindřich Chalupecký Society), Marek Pokorný
(galerie Plato), Tomáš Hrůza (galerie Fotograf), Michal Novotný (Nation-
al Gallery Prague) took part in the Curating online 1 – Transforming art
institutions into online modes. Loss of institutional aura? symposium.
The symposium Curating online 2 - The show goes on? Media art festi-
vals during COVID times featured presentations by Lenka Hámošová and
Michal Kučerák (UROBOROS festival), Lucie Dubačová (Sensorium,
digital art and culture festival), Markéta Polášková (PAF Olomouc –
animated film festival), Martin Pošta (Signal festival), Szymon Stem-
plewski (Short Waves Festival), Christl Baur (Ars Electronica festival), Klio
Krajewska (Biennale WRO), and independent researchers and curators
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