Expanded Curation

Expanded curation is a contemporary curatorial practice that transcends traditional exhibition models and institutional confines. It engages with diverse media, platforms, and communities, emphasizing process, participation, and the creation of meaning beyond conventional art objects. It incorporates elements such as live events, digital interfaces, community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. It challenges the static nature of exhibitions by fostering dynamic, interactive, and often ephemeral experiences.

My approach to expanded curation positions the curator not merely as a selector of artworks but as a facilitator of dialogues, experiences, and relationships. It emphasizes care, inclusion, and responsiveness to cultural contexts, aiming to create spaces for the art audience and participants that are reflective, thoughtful and transformative.

By embracing the principles of expanded curation, I acknowledge the evolving landscape of art and its presentation, fostering practices that are as diverse and dynamic as the communities my work serves. Below is a selection of my most significant expanded curation projects in the past 5 years:

  1. Constellations, the flagship screen-based exhibition for ISEA2024, hosted across three venues in Brisbane in June 2024. https://isea2024.isea-international.org/creative-program/constellations/Featuring 98 digital artworks organised into seven thematic ‘nodes’, Constellations was designed as a dynamic software assemblage—integrating algorithmic, planetary, and ecological logics.
  2. Animations from the Constellations exhibition were later selected for a guest program at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
  3. Exhibition Co-Chair or IEEE Visual Arts Program (Melbourne, 2023) and General Chair of IEEE Vis Art Program 2024 ( Tampa, Florida, 2024). Both roles involved extensive curation of the exhibitions as well as catalogue writing, framing the annual themes (‘Pervasive Presence’ and ‘Diverse Data’).https://visap.net/2023/
  4. Co-Curated the ACM x ISEA Speculative Futures Student Contests (2024 & 2025) at QUT Brisbane, Seoul National University, Korea, and SIGGRAPH Denver (2024) and Vancouver (2025)
  5. Co-convener of two ACM SPARKS online symposia hosted by the ACM Digital Arts Community. These initiatives foreground my commitment to inclusive, future-facing curatorial frameworks that centre experimental technologies and emerging voices.
  6. Curated the FASTLab Performance Experiment for Ars Electronica: In Kepler’s Garden (2020), creating a pioneering browser-based interactive environment for performance and exhibition.

Through this ongoing practice, I have come to understand expanded curation not simply as exhibition-making but as a speculative, relational, and infrastructural methodology—one that engages digital systems, cultural practice, and technological experimentation as tools for critical reflection. Through collaborative research, public engagement, and platform design, I aim to create curatorial environments that are responsive, ethical, and generative.