I do not consider myself a curator, although I occasionally act like one. I am interested in art mainly from the author’s point of view. I have no wish whatsoever to be the Programme Director of a gallery or a similar institution. I loathe bureaucratic work. I find writing of promotional introductions for exhibitions truly funny. When I think of the necessity to deal with cultural politics, I am overwhelmed by horror beyond description. Why then act as curator in the first place?

As a practitioner, one sees a certain occurrence from within. Contacts with other authors and others involved (critics, theoreticians…) open a palette of information hardly accessible to those not involved. Hence, coming out of the position of participant, the curatorial approach offers to the public an insight into a realm previously inaccessible or opaque.

In the course of the WOA Laboratory process, which was the reason for this exhibition, I got to know several exceptionally interesting Istrian artists. I decided to select the work Nation – Culture by the artist Vuk Ćosić, residing in Slovenia, since I interpret the notion of “personally” from the title as being independent both from the other participating curators and the entire frame of the WOA Laboratory. The selection is thus a sort of sketch, a kernel of the exhibition that I would like to curate. And that would be an exhibition on computer art.

I find the work Nation – Culture interesting from several aspects. It is one of the works from the early era of Computer Art, when the themes developed within Net Art began to spread out of the computer space. The work unites the visual and the linguistic while its message does not lie in the obviously present, visual and meaningful. The core of this work is in its rich network of relations established with various social strata.