Cultural Context Providers: Command Performances   Currently,
there is much advocacy for cultural practices that demand a
particular involvement on the part of the audience, creating
situations in which art projects are co-produced. People
interact with networked computer systems and artifacts evolve
out of experimental relationships between several people. The
media art curator is not exclusively the "middle person" between
artists and museums or galleries anymore. Curators do not merely
organise exhibitions and edit, filter and arrange museum
collections. Now, her practice includes facilitating events,
screenings, temporary discursive situations, writing/publishing,
symposia, conferences, talks, research, the creation of open
archives, and mailing lists. Curators become meta-artists. They
set up contexts for artists who provide contexts. The model of
the curated website has become a useful recognition mechanism.
In media art many cultural context providers function in various
registers including that of the