The Synthetic Curatorium

The Synthetic Curatorium is a research group at Aalto University investigating how computation, with generative systems as its most visible instance today, is transforming curatorial knowledge and practice. Its research examines how computation reshapes the way cultural meaning, relation, and value are formed, and what this means for what curating is and does. A shared line of inquiry runs through curatorial thinking, practice, and education, attending throughout to the economies of cultural production under computation. This work is theoretical and practice-based, tested in curatorial and pedagogical settings. The research stays open to the possibility that curating is being reconstituted in forms very different from those it has inherited, and works toward a curatorial knowledge able to think these changes and to shape what they become.