Carly Whitaker

© Carly Whitaker Carly Whitaker is an independent curator, researcher and artist currently based in
Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her PhD at the University of Reading (UK) in 2024, focusing on curatorial networked methodologies in South Africa. Passionate about fostering opportunities for creatives, curators, artists, and digital practitioners, she specialises in the digital medium, particularly emphasising the global south/majority world.
She has experience initiating and working in substantial institutions that are innovative in their curatorial approach and focus on practice-based research. Her position as Artistic and
Curatorial Director at TMRW reflects this and curatorial projects such as Floating Reverie, an online digital residency running for over six years, and Blue Ocean, an online digital project space initiated in 2022.
Whitaker seamlessly integrates research and curatorial mechanisms into her work, leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to offer creative and critical solutions. Her multifaceted experience in lecturing, industry roles, and research positions contributes to her extensive knowledge of design research practices. Committed to creating spaces for digital artists and those working with technology, she is particularly interested in the online medium's potential for artistic research and its role in shaping artistic practices.