Artists, as mythmakers, are the first to explain new frontiers.
Kevin Kelly reviewing Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, in SIGNAL: Communication Tools for the Information Age edited by Kevin Kelly, 1988.
Artists will come to see the Internet as the world's largest gallery for their expressions and as a means of disseminating them directly to people...The real opportunity comes from the digital artist providing the hooks for mutation and change.
- Nicholas Negroponte, being digital, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
Brian Eno: "A new type of artist arises: someone whose task is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much larger theory of mine about the new role of curatorship, the big job of the next century.)"
- Excerpt from a discussion between Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno on "Unthinkable Futures" posted in a WELL conference run by the Global Business Network and reprinted in the Whole Earth Review, Summer 1993, No. 79
An artist is now a curator. An artist is now much more seen as a connector of things, a person who scans the enormous field of possible places for artistic attention, and says, What I am going to do is draw your attention to this sequence of things...there is no longer such a thing as "art history" but there are multiple "art stories." This is why the curator, the editor, the compiler, and the anthologist have become such big figures. They are all the people whose job it is to digest things, and to connect them together.
- Brian Eno, interviewed by Kevin Kelly, in Wired 3.05, May 1995