{"id":15061,"date":"2014-11-12T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-word-curate-is-thrown-around-a-lot-lately\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:33:06","slug":"the-word-curate-is-thrown-around-a-lot-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-word-curate-is-thrown-around-a-lot-lately\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15061 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-word-curate-is-thrown-around-a-lot-lately\/attachment\/15062\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nexzm1eaAy1qbup7mo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The word &ldquo;curate&rdquo; is thrown around a lot lately, especially since Valve Software deemed its 100 million users &ldquo;curators.&rdquo; But before the democratization of &ldquo;curation&rdquo; in video games, there were the traditional curators; the ones who primarily curate for the sake of art, not commerce. <\/p>\n<p>Today, a &ldquo;curator&rdquo; of video games might be thought as a person who digs up interesting games with the purpose of putting them in front of people who would like to try or buy them. That&rsquo;s a useful practice, especially with the amount of video games released every day, but it&rsquo;s not exactly the purpose of the curator in the traditional sense. The &ldquo;true&rdquo; video game curators have the crucial task of preserving video games, and making them relevant to society at large. <\/p>\n<p>JP Dyson with the National Museum of Play at The Strong explains, &ldquo;A curator is someone involved in the selection, collection, preservation, and interpretation of things (originally those were only physical objects but today they include digital objects such as downloadable games). (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/228411\/As_definition_of_curator_evolves_traditional_curation_still_crucial_for_games.php\">Gamasutra &#8211; As definition of &lsquo;curator&rsquo; evolves, traditional curation still crucial for games<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &ldquo;curate&rdquo; is thrown around a lot lately, especially since Valve Software deemed its 100 million users &ldquo;curators.&rdquo; But before the democratization of &ldquo;curation&rdquo; in video games, there were the traditional curators; the ones who primarily curate for the sake of art, not commerce. Today, a &ldquo;curator&rdquo; of video games might be thought as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3UV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15063,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions\/15063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}