Under conditions of so-called “Platform Capitalism”, software and algorithms undertake the important task of designing the interaction amongst online users and establishing criteria of relevance for content. As such, they operate as curatorial agents of platforms’ content, establishing what is there to see, know and consume. This state of affairs calls for a revision of the traditional role of the (human) curator who is confronted with an online environment characterised by the unprecedented collision of commercial, aesthetic, cultural and political interests. The question of what kind of relationship the curator shall create with the algorithm then becomes crucial: is this a relationship of antagonism, resistance or alliance? How do these two curatorial agents influence each other? In this article, I analyse a cluster of hybrid artistic and curatorial experiments (including my own curatorial work) that foregrounds online platforms as discrete modes of socio-technical assemblages that curate particular forms of connectivity amongst networks of users, data layers and technical infrastructures. By doing so, I argue for the forging of strategic alliances between human and machinic curators as a strategy to channel new forms of creativity and cooperation under conditions of “Platform Capitalism” and to operationalise human-algorithmic curation as a political and aesthetic practice within the networked culture.

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打造战略联盟

在所谓的“平台资本主义”的条件下，软件和算法承担着设计在线用户之间的交互并建立与内容相关的标准的重要任务。这样，它们充当平台内容的策展人，建立在那里可以看到，了解和消费的内容。这种状况要求对（人类）策展人的传统角色进行修订，因为后者面临着以商业，美学，文化和政治利益的空前碰撞为特征的在线环境。然后，策展人应与算法建立什么样的关系这一问题变得至关重要：这是对立，抵抗还是同盟的关系？这两种策展人如何相互影响？在这篇文章中，我分析了一系列混合的艺术和策展实验（包括我自己的策展作品），这些实验将在线平台视为社会技术组合的离散模式，以管理用户，数据层和技术基础结构之间特定形式的连接。这样做，我主张在人类和机械策展人之间结成战略联盟，以此作为在“平台资本主义”条件下引导新形式的创造与合作的战略，并将人类算法策展作为一种政治和美学实践加以实施。网络文化。数据层和技术基础架构。这样做，我主张在人类和机械策展人之间结成战略联盟，以此作为在“平台资本主义”条件下引导新形式的创造与合作的战略，并将人类算法策展作为一种政治和美学实践加以实施。网络文化。数据层和技术基础架构。这样做，我主张在人类和机械策展人之间结成战略联盟，以此作为在“平台资本主义”条件下引导新形式的创造与合作的战略，并将人类算法策展作为一种政治和美学实践加以实施。网络文化。