Virtual Curation & Ethics is an online seminar class for MFA and Education graduate students, as well as 4th year Undergraduate students, which explores ethics and decolonization in virtual aesthetic practices.

This course considers how decolonial strategies may operate in online curatorial and exhibition spaces. Contemporary Indigenous and decolonial scholarship discusses the development of digital activisms, and digital territories as assertions of sovereignty and collaborative practices. This recent scholarship will be used to create a framework within which to consider ethics of online curatorial practices. Weekly readings will explore the context and history of Indigenous, Black, POC and settler-ally new media and digital engagements, with a focus on subjectivities in knowledge production. Through reading and reflection, students will consider their positionality in relation to online exhibitions and from that specific context, source analogous Settler-ally and BIPOC curatorial activisms on-line to develop ethical decolonial guidelines for their own and others' use.

Weekly breakdown:
Week 1 - Introduction & Art Ethics IRL
Week 2 - Non-Eurocentric Ethics & Art
Week 3 - Machine Ethics
Week 4 - The Ethics of Bodies in Time
Week 5 - The Ethics of Archives
Week 6 - The Artist’s Ethics
Week 7 - Curating Ethics: The Responsibility of the Institution
Week 8 - Midterm presentations
Week 9 - Ethics & the Environment
Week 10 - Ethics and the Representation of Trauma
Week 11 - Ethics of Censorship & Control
Week 12 - DIY & Remixing Ethics
Week 13 - Student project presentations
Week 14 - Student project presentations

Sample the course content:

SYLLABUS

INTRODUCTION VIDEO

HOW TO USE GATHER

LECTURE VIDEO: The Ethics of Bodies in Time