OnCurating Issue 37: Queer Curating

by Jonathan Katz, Isabel Hufschmidt (Editor), Änne Söll (Editor)

Queer Theory understands gender and sexuality as relational constructs, subject to significant historical and cultural variation. Refusing to stabilize these variations into any singular norm, queer curating thus presents a challenge to the museum as a normalizing, meaning-making entity and asks how these concerns can be addressed in museum-practices, that have, for the most part, silently and unknowingly reproduced and solidified contemporary heteronormative structures and desires. How have queer issues, queer curators, and queer exhibitions at one and the same time both shaken the foundations of traditional curatorial practice, and found their potential for intervention papered over or silenced? How can queer desires continue to force the museum to evolve? What does queer change in the museum look like? This issue is an attempt to foster a dialogue about queer curating in a transnational frame. Edited by Jonathan Katz, Isabel Hufschmidt, Änne Söll Contributions by Birgit Bosold, Brian Curtin, Julia Friedrich, Vera Hofmann, Simon Martin, Fiona McGovern, Maura Reilly, Patrik Steorn, Ladislav Zikmund-Lender Proofreading by Jared Auton

84 pages, Paperback

Published June 8, 2018

About the author

Jonathan Katz is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University where he conducts research on cryptography and cybersecurity. In 2013–2019 he was director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center at the University of Maryland.

Katz's research interests lie broadly in the areas of cryptography, computer and network security and complexity theory, with his most recent work focusing on secure multi-party computation, database privacy and the science of cybersecurity. He has co-authored the textbook Introduction to Modern Cryptography (2007), which has been used by colleges and universities throughout the world and published more than 100 scientific articles. He has also done extensive consulting work for U.S. government agencies and private corporations, mostly involving cryptographic protocols and algorithms.

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[queen carrasco · Rating 4 out of 5]

informative + packed. definitely something to reread and compare based on publication then n now