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Connect The Dots

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Symposium and discussion forum
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Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Please fill out the Questionnaire form below. Because we are asking artists to see their curatorial strategies as experiments, we plan to present this information in the form of a science fair. This will examine a specific practice in art through the middle-school equivalent of a science convention - where practitioners share strategies, developments, and distribute information within a community of their immediate peers.

When responding to us, these might be helpful ideas to think about:
Since professional competition is the dominant model within the artworld, how do you find an individual place within emerging collectivity?
What is your relationship to others in the network created by your curatorial project? (Examples of roles: Rule maker, conceptual engineer, organizer, modifier, exhibition designer, participant, solvent, insider / outsider, name on a list, more than one or all of these, or no preference?)

Connect The Dots: Questionnaire Form
Please describe your exhibition by using the scientific method (below):

1. Problem or Question.
In the planning for one of your past exhibitions, please identify a problem or question you wanted to explore, that you then investigated through the use empirical observation and then documented in the form of the final exhibition or journal.
2. Hypothesis.
Try to articulate your intentions or strategies you adopted employed for re-presenting the work produced by your peers. Also include the original press release or exhibition statement if available.
3. Materials & Resources.
List what was needed for the exhibition to take place; e.g. materials, equipment, grants, private support or personal financing, venue opportunities, volunteers, help or advice from colleagues, artists fulfilling specific needs or services within the exhibition.
4. Procedure.
Your procedure was your plan of action or a list of what you did. Describe the events that took place throughout the planning, experimentation, and making of the exhibition.
5. Data.
This is the basic information about the exhibition, such as its title, dates and location, names of co-curators, artists involved, support staff, special thanks, and any other credits or relevant information.
6. Results.
Show what happened - the observations critical and documentation you or your peers have made . Provide a visual or textual description of the final exhibition (objects or events). Please include any critical reception of the exhibition (reviews, articles).
7. Conclusions.
Tell what you learned. Answer your original question and state whether your hypothesis was reflected in the final results, and if this illuminated anything new or valuable in your hypothesis.