Near-Future Artworlds Curatorial Disruption Foresight Group
The Near-Future Artworlds Curatorial Disruption Foresight Group is a forum for informal dialogue about megatrends and the future of contemporary art institutions. Following its inaugural meeting as part of the Vessel / MADA 2015 International Curatorial Retreat in Bari, Italy in May 2015, the NFACDFG will convene for a second time in San Francisco. In the same way that the Internet has untethered television from fixed schedules and newspapers from print deadlines, the first meeting broadly addressed to what degree the organizational forms of art institutions are embracing or resisting similar transformations through various curatorial/editorial prototypes and prognosticative use-case scenarios. Convened by the Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes together with Kadist, this second meeting will bring together individuals and expertise in the Bay Area with an active interest in institutional prototyping and emergent usership. With an emphasis on cross-pollination between design thinking and curatorial thinking, the meeting will discuss, among other things, the notion of the post-disciplinary, and the question of appropriate speeds or periodicities of institutions. In order to be conducive to freedom of interaction, the meeting is held under the Chatham House Rule . This allows participants to express personal views, to listen, reflect and gather insights with a clear distinction from the position of their employers and/or the policies of any associated organization. This workshop is by invitation only