Cocurated Digital Culture: Machinima

What is it about?

This paper explores hybrid curatorial practices that have developed around digital ‘socio-techno-cultural’ practices such as machinima. Machinima is a creative cultural movement that has evolved considerably since its emergence in 1996. The paper highlights interrelated themes of curatorial practice: co-evolving sense-making and social consumption; creative cognition and exploratory visualization; technologies as cultural intermediary; social products, materialized expression and collective memory; capturing contexts through co-curation; and, sustainability and stability of cultural capital. The paper concludes that curation is a process of continually evolving interpretation of the artefact, representing shifts in the technology landscape, network of community members and audience interactions.

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