Getting back to your online curation, what are the core concepts of the GIM?
The core concepts of the gim are (these are all on my website btw):
+ sincerity
this used to mean "absence of irony" just because im personally not interested in "ironic" art, however i have occasionally found the strange creature that is a sincerely ironic work. like a criticality that stems from the ironic, yet truly scrutinizes or points at something in a sincere way. hope thats remotely clear.
+ a subjective representation of girliness that can ultimately convey a more universal -yet specific- statement on the female condition
the "specific" part i just added recently, because it dawned on me how obvious it is that there is not a "universal" statement to be made on the female condition. yet i do believe that the internet environment provides for specific experiences for different groups of women,and im kinda thinking about #gamergate, or #TheseTweetsAreCalledMyBack, and how these groups have collective responses to a given situation or system around them. i think artists, while representing an individual's perspective can also become a sort of voice of a collective as well.
+ a sensibility to translate artistic intention into online-representation and vice versa
this one used to include the word "branding" which has aged terribly, lol. Specifically since the recent shift/fad from net art to "post-internet" in which the familiarity of artists with corporate brands became a point of contention, and i agree. i guess what i mean with this "sensibility" is finding a balance or equilibrium between online self-representation and the exposure of one's artistic practice. im thinking of Hannah Black's twitter which is great, or Adriana Minoliti's various groups/endeavors and Deanna Havas' online presence which is a discourse of its own. that kinda presence is not "work" per se, but i think it informs their work.
+ the acknowledgement of the fluidity between emotions/reality in the online/offline worlds, meaning, the cyborg condition we all embody in present times.
this one's a direct reference to Donna Haraway, whose work informs the GIM immensely. its specifically about the part on the cyborg manifesto where she talks about evolution blurring the line between human/animal, then the machines of the XXth century blurring the line between human/machine, and the blurring of the limits of the "physical" and well yeah, why the hell would "URL feelz" be less real than IRL?