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Joasia Krysa

Joasia Krysa is an independent curator and currently lecturer in Art and Technology teaching MA/MSc/MRes and BA/BSc DAT at the Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth, UK. She holds a MA in Fine Art Administration and Curating (Goldsmiths College, UK, 1998), MA in Cultural Studies (University of Wroclaw, Poland, 1997) and MSc in Political Sciences (University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland, 1997). She is currently engaged in PhD research investigating issues around curating in the context of immateriality and network systems at the Planetary Collegium.

She is a member of Editorial Board of the DATA browser series (Autonomedia, New York); Member of the Council of Management for the WRO Center for Media Art Foundation (Wroclaw, Poland); recent Jury Member for the ARCO / Beep New Media Art Awards 2007, (Madrid, Spain) and Share Award 2007, Piemonte Share Festival (Torino, Italy); and founding member and co-organiser of the Curatorial Network (with Arts Council England, South West, UK).

In 2004, she established KURATOR, a curatorial practice-based research project to investigate the cultural context of network technologies and immaterial production. KURATOR promotes work through programme of public events, commissions, residencies, conferences, seminars, talks and publications. Recent projects include the edited book Curating Immateriality (Autonomedia, 2006), open source software kurator (in progress) and the conference Curating, Immateriality, Systems (Tate Modern, London, 2005).