Curators |
Robert Sakrowski |
Project Title |
CuratingYouTube |
Year |
2007 |
Description |
The CuratingYoutube (CYT) project explores how the mainstream video production and distribution enabled by YouTube has impacted professional and amateur artistic creation. To do so, Robert Sakrowski—the CYT founder— devised a software-based tool for curation, the Gridr, which enables users to aggregate YouTube content in visual grids, giving life to what he named the [CYT] HTML soundbank. The Gridr is both a software and a database and functions as a free and publicly accessible tool for curation based on the use of YouTube as an audiovisual database. The CYT soundbank functions as a matrix for assemblages of audio-visual material taken from YouTube: it can be experienced as an artwork and an exhibition, especially when it combines more than one video assemblage The CYT blog is used for presentation, contextualization and archiving purposes. |
url |
www.curatingyoutube.net |
Type of Intervention |
Technological Infrastructure |
YouTube, |
Keywords |
Appropriation, Algorithm, Assemblage, Archive, |