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📖 Our June courses are here! 1️⃣ Art, Ecology and Environmental Activism with Ela Spalding @elaspalding Learn how to apply ecological principles to creative projects that inspire action. 📆 June 02 - June 30, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Tuesdays, 7-9 PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/ixyhtqamht or 🔗 in bio 2️⃣ Legal Essentials in the Arts: Copyright, Contracts, and Logistics with Ana Llorente Torres @ana_llorente Learn strategies to handle the common legal issues faced by curators, gallerists, artists, and other art professionals. 📆 June 11 - July 09, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Thursday, 3-5 PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/kxlyjrbvif or 🔗 in bio 3️⃣ Launching an Independent Art Space: Conceptual and Practical Skills with Nora Mayr @_noramayr Start your own art space, including potential organisational structures, developing a curatorial line, handling finances as well as PR strategies. 📆 June 15 - July 13 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Mondays, 1-3 PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/uedhcrxcne or 🔗 in bio 4️⃣ Creative Art Criticism and Writing with An Paenhuysen @anpaenhuysen Delve into experimental and hybrid forms of art writing and develop a better sense of your own personal interests, voice and style along the way. 📆 June 17 - July15, 2026 | | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Wednesdays, 3-5 PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/tlckxhsqfs or 🔗 in bio #NodeCourses #CuratingCourses #CuratorialStudies #CuratorialPractice

📝 Running a successful art gallery is no easy feat. It requires a delicate balance of creative vision, strategic planning, and business savvy. Join our "Managing an Art Gallery" course and learn what it takes to run a successful art gallery - whether it's a small independent venture or a large commercial space. 📆 May. 11 - Jun. 08, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Monday, 3-5PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/ruimtofzgo or 🔗 in bio With @dorisfriedl #nodecourses #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses #independentartgallery #artmarket #artgalleries

💥 Applications are now open!💥 Dive into the future of exhibition-making with Curating the Digital: a 6-month program exploring the possibilities and challenges of curating in the Digital Age. Apply here: https://f.mtr.cool/sumwzilupm 📆 Duration: Jul. 08 - Dec. 09, 2026 ⏰ Application deadline: June 24, 2026 👤 Lecturers: Marco Mancuso, Bika Rebek, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Yulia Loginova Program Highlights: ✔️Overview of diverse approaches to digital art and curating ✔️Curatorial experimentation with technologies such as AI, VR, and AR ✔️Master tools for developing and coordinating digital curatorial projects ✔️Craft strategies for audience engagement in the digital age ✔️Develop your own curatorial project using digital technologies #DigitalArt #DigitalCurating #VirtualExhibitions #AIArt #VRArt #CuratorialStudies #CuratingCourses

📚 AI, Ethics and Art: Reading recommendations for our upcoming course "AI and Art". Swipe to explore the list! ⏰ Only a few days left to enroll in this course with that explores how AI is reshaping art and curatorial practices. WIth Marco Mancuso @mancusodigicult 📆 May. 05 - Jun. 02, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Tuesdays, 7-9PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/dzsfrpmdnc or 🔗 in bio More about our reading list: 📘 Decentring Ethics: AI Art as Method (2025) edited by Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K. Sunde. The book advances a decentred approach to ethics. It draws on non-Western, ecocritical and feminist worldviews, and acknowledges the more-than-human as an agent with the capacity to act. 📘 The Rise of Metacreativity. AI Aesthetics After Remix (2023) by Eduardo Navas. This book brings together history and theory in art and media to examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning in culture, and reflects on the implications of delegating parts of the creative process to AI. 📘 AI Ethics, Aesthetics, Art and Artistry, July 2024. By Eduardo Navas. In book: Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (pp.173-186). This chapter provides an overview of AI aesthetics and AI ethics to consider the ways in which humans and machines are able to interface and collaborate based on intentionality to support the ongoing practice of artistry. 📘 Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (2014) by Joanna Zylinska. This book argues for a minimal, life-centered ethics of responsibility toward both human and nonhuman others in an age of ecological crisis. #Nodecourses #AIandArt #AIEthics #AIart

🔭Explore our May curating courses! 1️⃣ AI and Art. With Marco Mancuso @mancusodigicult Explore how automated digital technologies are defining the future of contemporary art and curating. 📆 May. 05 - Jun. 02, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Tuesdays, 7-9PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/dzsfrpmdnc or 🔗 in bio 2️⃣ Writing for Curators: Sharpen Your Voice, Strengthen Your Practice. With An Paenhuysen @anpaenhuysen Learn to cultivate a holistic writing practice that serves you through the phases of curation, from personal ideation to public communication 📆 May. 06 - Jun. 03, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Wednesday, 3-5PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/acsahjrfrw or 🔗 in bio 3️⃣ Audience Engagement in the Arts: A Guide to Public Programming. With Daniel Atkinson A comprehensive guide to audience engagement and public programming in the arts by exploring their history, theory, and especially their practice. 📆 May. 06 - Jun. 03, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Wednesdays, 7-9PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/bhbtavrzud or 🔗 in bio 4️⃣ Managing an Art Gallery. With Doris Friedl @dorisfriedl Gain the fundamental knowledge to successfully develop and manage an art gallery. 📆 May. 11 - Jun. 08, 2026 | 🖥️ Live Sessions: Monday, 3-5PM CEST. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/ruimtofzgo or 🔗 in bio #nodecourses #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses #arteducation #aiandart #curotorialwriting

🔦 #NodeAlumni Project Spotlight: "Dressed in Art" by Welmoed Wildenberg @w3lmoed is an exhibition that steps outside the gallery and onto the street as a public intervention in the shop window. Developed during the International Curatorial Program Spring 2025, the project traces the conversation between fashion and art—two disciplines that have always responded to the same cultural moments. 📣 Applications for the International Curatorial Program - Spring 2026 close soon! ➡️ Apply now via https://f.mtr.cool/qssgjncmdo or 🔗 in bio 📆 Duration: Apr. 09, 2026 - Mar. 18, 2027 ⏰ Apply by: April 6, 2026 About Welmoed: Welmoed Wildenberg is a fashion branding creative and curator based in Amsterdam. Her practice moves between fashion, art and cultural contexts, with a particular interest in how exhibitions function as public propositions. #ICPSpring2026 #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses #nodeprograms #curatorialprogram

🔦 #NodeAlumni Project Spotlight: "Detroit Resonating" is a multidisciplinary pop-up exhibition celebrating Detroit’s legacy as a global center of innovation. Developed by Node alumn Kim Theus @kimtheus during the International Curatorial Program Spring 2025, the immersive exhibition concept blends sonic landscapes, historical archives, and fine arts, briding the city’s industrial past with its creative future. 📣 Applications for the International Curatorial Program - Spring 2026 are open! ➡️ Apply now via https://f.mtr.cool/qssgjncmdo or 🔗 in bio 📆 Duration: Apr. 09, 2026 - Mar. 18, 2027 ⏰ Apply by: April 6, 2026 About Kim: Kim Theus is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Canfield Consortium @canfieldconsortium , where she leverages creative placemaking and art-driven strategies to drive community revitalization in Detroit. With a professional background spanning the City of Detroit’s Arts & Culture Office and Bloomberg Associates, she now curates the East Canfield Art Park to preserve neighborhood culture and foster urban resilience. A dedicated patron and advocate, Kim serves on the Emerging Patrons Council of MOCAD. Kim focuses her work on elevating Detroit-based artists across all mediums. #ICPSpring2026 #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses #nodeprograms #curatorialprogram

📖 Check out our book recommendations for our upcoming course "Art Publishing as Curating: From Idea to Print" with Maria Burmester @maria.nm.burmester ! 📆 Apr. 09 - May. 07, 2026 | Enrol before: Apr. 04, 2026 🖥️ Live Sessions: Thursdays, 3-5PM CET. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/gkjxktqrnm or 🔗 in bio About the books: 1️⃣ Ulieses Carrion, ‘The New Art of Making Books’ in Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID Distributors, 1980, available via Monoskop. The New Art of Making Books” by Ulieses Carrion - a key figure in artists’ books and experimental publishing - challenges traditional ideas of the book by seeing it as more than just a container for text, focusing instead on its structure, meaning and basic elements. 2️⃣ Annette Gilbert (ed.), Publishing as Artistic Practice, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. This book examines how contemporary artists, publishers and scholars are rethinking publishing through experimental practices in art and literature. 3️⃣ Sarah De Bondt, Fraser Muggeridge (eds), The Form of the Book Book, London: London Book Arts, 2015. This book compiles key essays by leading designers and historians exploring the history, present, and future of book design. It examines pivotal moments in design to better understand how books are evolving in the digital age. 4️⃣ Lionel Bovier (ed.), Clive Phillpot, Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists’ Books (1972-2010), Zurich: JRP|Ringier and Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2013. Clive Phillpot has spent over 40 years advocating artists’ books as a critic, curator, editor, and museum library director, helping define the field and distinguish it from related forms. Booktrek collects his influential writings, offering an essential account of the development and rise of the artist’s book. #nodecourses #artpublishing #artbooks #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses

Explore our April courses! 1️⃣ Art Criticism & Writing. With An Paenhuysen @anpaenhuysen In this course, you'll learn how to formulate an idea with clarity, how to analyze and evaluate art and its display in a thoughtful, meaningful way. 📆 Apr. 01 - Apr. 29, 2026 | Enrol before: Mar. 27, 2026 🖥️ Live Sessions: Wednesdays, 3-5PM CET. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/sedzkdebbk or 🔗 in bio 2️⃣ Art Publishing as Curatorial Practice: From Idea to Print. With Maria Burmester @maria.nm.burmester Learn how to develop and publish catalogues, artist books, and other forms of printed matter. Transform a curatorial idea into a publication concept with a clear position and purpose 📆 Apr. 09 - May. 07, 2026 | Enrol before: Apr. 04, 2026 🖥️ Live Sessions: Thursdays, 3-5PM CET. Recordings available ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/gkjxktqrnm or 🔗 in bio 3️⃣ Creating Social Media Content for the Arts: 2 Day Workshop. With Boudewien Chalmers Hoynck van Papendrecht @boudewienhoynck This hands-on workshop will address the challenges of creating social media content for the arts. 📆 Apr. 13 - Apr. 20, 2026 | Enrol before: Apr. 09, 2026 🖥️ Live Sessions: On two Mondays, 3-6 PM CET. ➡️ Enroll here: https://f.mtr.cool/qybqcxvqxv or 🔗 in bio #nodecourses #curatorialstudies #curatingcourses #artwriting #artcriticism #artbooks

🚨Application deadline ending soon! The International Curatorial Program - Spring 2026 edition is still accepting applications. Here’s the breakdown of what you’ll learn in this 11-month program. ➡️ Apply now via https://f.mtr.cool/qssgjncmdo or 🔗 in bio 📆 Duration: Apr. 09, 2026 - Mar. 18, 2027 ⏰ Apply by: March 26, 2026 👤 Instructors: Tšhegofatšo Mabaso, Gris García, Joe Rowley, Doris Friedl, An Paenhuysen, Nora Mayr, Sean Lee, Kim Kraczon, Fabiana Dicuonzo, Eva Riess Apply now: nodecenter.net or via 🔗 in bio #NodePrograms #CuratorialProgram #CuratorialStudies #CuratorProgram #CuratingCourses

📢 Meet our instructors for the upcoming International Curatorial Program - Spring 2026! Get to know the experts who will guide you through this 11-month journey, bringing real-world experience straight to the classroom. Swipe through to learn more about them! ➡️ Apply now via https://f.mtr.cool/qssgjncmdo or 🔗 in bio 📆 Duration: Apr. 09, 2026 - Mar. 18, 2027 ⏰ Apply by: March 26, 2026 👤 Instructors: Tšhegofatšo Mabaso, Gris García, Joe Rowley, Doris Friedl, An Paenhuysen, Nora Mayr, Sean Lee, Kim Kraczon, Fabiana Dicuonzo, Eva Riess Apply now: nodecenter.net or via 🔗 in bio #NodePrograms #CuratorialProgram #CuratorialStudies #CuratorProgram #CuratingCourses

📚 Reading recs for our upcoming "Queer Art & Queer Curating" course! Explore the intersections of queer theory, art, and curatorial practices in our upcoming course with Sylvia Sadzinksi (@sylv_inski )! 📆 Course duration: Mar. 17 - Apr. 14, 2026 | Live sessions every Tuesday 7-9PM CET (recordings available if you miss a session) ➡️ Enroll via nodecenter.net or 🔗 in bio. Recommended readings: 1. "Disidentifications. Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics" by José Esteban Muñoz (1999) looks at how those outside the racial & sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather, by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. 2. "Queer Exhibition Histories," edited by Bas Hendrikx (2023) comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. 3. "Queer Curating, from Definition to Deconstruction," by Adam Barbu (2018) invites nine contributors —Lacie Burning, Jon Davies, SD Holman, Kama La Mackerel, Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue (FAG: Feminist Art Gallery), Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis (Videofag) and Syrus Marcus Ware—to discuss whether it's possible to identify a mode of curatorial practice that possesses a specifically queer orientation. 4. "Radicalizing Care Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating," edited by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann (2022), features essays, practice-informed case studies, and manifestos that offer insights into what happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice. #NodeCourses #QueerCurating #QueerArt #CuratingCourses