Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. She is the Mondriaan Fonds Fellow and Curator-in-Residence at CCS Bard for the Spring 2016 semester. Currently she is researcher digital preservation at Tate, London, visiting lecturer at London South Bank University/The Photographers’ Gallery, London, fellow at Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, and tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. She publishes widely on issues of digital art and preservation in international peer reviewed journals, books and magazines, and edited several publications. Previously she worked as Web curator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain, 2010–2012), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform (2008–2010), and head of exhibitions, education and artists-in-residence at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (1999–2008). In 2014 she completed her PhD on strategies for conserving net art at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. Thesis title: Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER. A study of networks, processes and ambiguity in net art and the need for an expanded practice of conservation.
This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Plus One