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WHO
Ritz Wu / 吳睿之
b. 1990, California
I'm a curator, researcher, and developer interested in creating projects which use technology to change the way we access and experience art.
As a curator and researcher, I am interested in challenging conventional forms of display, particularly looking at how alternatives to the traditional museum/gallery experience can expand our relationship to art or transgress disciplinary boundaries.
As a Ruby/Javascript developer, I use front and backend technologies to create a variety of websites and web applications.
I code in HTML5, CSS, JS, and Ruby. Frameworks and tools I use are React/Redux, Node, Express, Sinatra, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, SASS.
My other areas of interest include systems theory, sociology, and politics.
BA Art History, BA French, New York University (2011)
MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (2014)
WHERE
I'm currently based in Seattle, Washington. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I'm always interested in collaborating on projects, experiments, and pursuing new opportunities.
SCRAPBOOK!
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Exploring Japanese funeral and festivity with new technologies
Etsuko Ichihara
Open Space 2016: Media Conscious, NTT ICC Center
Animal cracker,
Takadanobaba
Taro Okamoto,
Myth of Tomorrow,
Shibuya Station
Socially Engaged Art, 3 3 8 Chiyoda
Beautiful Distress (artists residency)
Founded on the fact that there is a lot of mental suffering, that not enough people are aware and that not enough is done to stop it.
Fujio Akatsuka, cartoonist for Spectator Magazine (commemoration edition)
Nakai
Kyoji Takahashi, Identify
Bookmarc, Harajuku
Takkiduda, Experimental music and performance
Bar Gari Gari, Ikeno-Ue
WEB DEVELOPMENT
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WRITING
Curating in the Field of Complexity
January, 2014
Words: 10,582
For my MA dissertation, I looked at sociological complexity theory and how it might expand insight into the curatorial field. As the spread of media communications and globalism in our society causes it to become more fluid and complex, it also impacts upon how different industries, social functions, and indeed ways of thinking may affect each other. This paper is a exploration into an alternative language for analysing the creative industries.
Study vs. Dialogue
June, 2013
Words: 3,844
The contemporary arts exhibition, not simply as a public social space but a visual experience is unique as it incorporates the aspect of conscious perception. It has a rhythm which does not naturally “emerge” but is intently formulated toward the act of contemplation. Rhythm transforms the exhibition into a performance: an effervescent, dynamic expression, instead of simply a static occurrence. With Henri Lefebvre's essay,'Rhythmanalysis' as a starting point, I analyse and critique two photographic exhibitions from a rhythmic perspective.
The installation as avatar: Curating political works of virtual reality
April, 2013
Words: 4,927
Installation view of “Virtual Jihadi” in Subversion, at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. © Ibraaz
This essay analyses selected artist projects that address political conflict through rendering them in virtual reality. These fictive and fantastical models of subjectivity create a psychological shift for the viewer, perhaps allowing for greater accessibility and engagement from the audience who is able to reperform and redefine political events. Each project demonstrates how at different points in the last decade artists and curators have attempted to deal with presenting and sharing these works in digital or physical contexts.