INTERVIEW with David Gryn of Daata Editions

This week we interview Daata Editions’ Director David Gryn on the world of Digital Curating. Gryn is the founder of Artprojx and Curator of Film and Sound, Art Basel in Miami Beach. He has a strong reputation worldwide in producing, curating and promoting artists’ audio visual projects and events that have consistently excited and attracted large audiences and introduced new audiences to the arts. Here is a snapshot of his answers to our questions on this most contemporary of art forms.


 

1. What is the concept behind Daata Editions and what do you think online platforms can offer to digital artists?

Daata is conceived to nurture an online marketplace and online venue for artist’s digital mediums. Artists digital mediums have a natural home online. It isn’t perfect – but they make sense and it is a natural environment. There needs to be plethoras of online platforms to serve artists and the artworld better.

 

2. How do you select and work with the artists on Daata Editions?

We select artists that we have knowledge of or that we hear about through the vast reaches of the artworld eco-system. Great artists are good, but great artists that we can communicate with well are even better. We then commission them to make work/s.

 

3. How do you see Daata Editions developing in the future?

 

It is always hard to predict an ever evolving now let alone the future. However, my aim is that it becomes a more self sustaining model that can keep commissioning artists. Daata is not about wacky innovation but the support of the very now and current. New technologies are interesting – but not when their life span is too short.

 

4. What is the significance of a festival dedicated to time based media?

 

It’s essence is to empower art students, artists, audiences, community – who are all connected to the medium. In essence we are all connected – so the festival is trying offer a platform for engagement with art mediums that utilise time.

 

5. How does your curation change in an art fair context?

 

The art fair is totally dominant in the artworld – as a means to view, buy, sell, exhibit, dialogue with artworks. It does not mean it is the best way for art. So we all have to find ways to engage with audiences at these times. I try and consider showing artist works in the best and most impactful way. Sometimes it works well and sometimes not. The art fair process is not so conducive to showing time based mediums. But we all must try as best as we can.

 

6. What digital artists are you most excited about at the moment?

 

Artists include Jacky Connolly, Zadie Xa, Sue de Beer, Takeshi Murata, Larry Achiampong, Molly Palmer.

 

7. What tips would you give young, emerging digital media artists?

 

Top tip – is to send artwork via links to people like me. Make sure we are aware. Social media is such a vast field – that it often means that modes of communication are confused and at worst lost.

“AIM TO UNDERSTAND THE ARTWORLD YOU ARE OR WISH TO INHABIT. AS THIS UNDERSTANDING WILL PUT YOU IN GOOD STEAD.”

 

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