‘Technological development has significantly impacted the curatorial profession and how the audience perceives them today,’ said Sophie Nowakowska, a Masters student at the Royal College of Art (UK) whose dissertation explores the relationship between Instagram and curators’ careers.
Nowakowska said that in the 1960s-70s, when the ideas and context behind artworks became more prominent than the work itself, the role of the curator ’changed from standing in the shadow of great artists and institutions into a well-connected professional who sets trends, questions exhibition formats and the ways of experiencing art’.
