Project

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,