Curating & New Technologies: Alfredo Cramerotti’s talk for New Curators curatorial platform, hosted by A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, SA
Thursday 15 December 2022, 1pm UK time
A new training course for aspiring curators from lower socio-economic backgrounds has been launched by three former Tate specialists. “So many people who would be interested in curating don’t even try to enter the profession because the courses are prohibitively expensive,” says Mark Godfrey, a former senior curator of international art at Tate Modern.
Godfrey will run the New Curators training programme in collaboration with two co-directors: Kerryn Greenberg, former head of international collection exhibitions at Tate, and Rudi Minto de Wijs, who worked in the institution’s marketing department and served as co-chair of its Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) network.
Cramerotti’s talk will focus on how artists relate to technology:
How can artists and curators understand and mobilise changes in technology, from the internet and smart phone to AI, block-chain, NFTs etc?
What are the risks of replicating spectacle-culture and potentials of resisting it?
What do we make of the initial hype surrounding NFTs and subsequent fall?
What does this mean for the future?
What advice would we give emerging curators who are interested in learning about artists working with new technologies?
xxnft – the future of crypto is female
Presentation by Alfredo Cramerotti (@curatorview), India Price (iceprice99) and Auronda Scalera (@auronda) for NFT.London 2022 by NFT.NYC
3-4 November 2022, Queen Elizabeth II Convention Centre, London
xxnft is an art curating, collection intelligence & publishing platform focused on the work of women and female-identifying artists working with NFTs,
We focus on female artists because, when NFT narratives don’t celebrate women, they reiterate a marginalization that happened many times in art history (and not only in art). We want to emphasize the women’s presence in the application of NFT technology to art form from the start to alter the record. The women we focus on via interviews, features, and curated collection of artworks represent globally diverse populations, communities and politics.
The publishing platform is made of four social media – Instagram, Twitter, Discord and the xxnft website & newsletter (launch 1 September 2022).
Some argue that to promote and highlight women separately is to marginalize them, but we believe that, side-lined as they remain (currently, 95% of crypto and NFT art sales are by male artists – Artnet report – and the vast majority white and western), it’s important to tackle this imbalance form the very beginning, and not wait for celebrating the work of women artists 50 years after they made it – as it’s happening now with the ‘rediscovery’ of the work by leading female figures working in the 1950s-1970s).
With xxnft, we create the moments for questioning and influencing how art, aesthetics, politics are being recorded for posterity.
Team xxnft:
Auronda Scalera & Alfredo Cramerotti
Co-Founders
Nadia Mishchanka
Philanthropy Advisor
India Price
Associate Editor
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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