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OnCurating Issue 56 / August 2023 Curating the Digital Expanded UNArt and OnCurating co-edited this issue, supported by Prohelvetia Shanghai, to encourage interdisciplinary discourses and international collaboration in arts and curation. www.on-curating.org Editors Chen Siyi, Christine M. Kaiser, Ronald Kolb, Li Ruixuan, Dorothee Richter, Paul Stewart, Sun Yimeng, Yang Yuanjun Contributors Bi Xin, KA Bird, Chen Xiaowen, Helen Hester, Sabine Himmelsbach, Li Ruixuan, Li Zhenhua, Ruth Patir, Dorothee Richter, New Scenario, Joshua Simon, Paul Stewart, Sun Uchan, Allison Yang Jing, Zhou Jiangshan Translators Zhang Weiyi, Chen Yueqi, Jiang Ziqi, Deng Jiajie Proofreaders Curaxuan, LLC, Sean Tierney The original issue "OnCurating 45: Curating the Digital" in April 2020 compiled a series of perspectives on artmaking and curating that consider forms of production through contemporary digital networks as well as increased reliance on digital technologies across Europe. We considered the issue as a much-needed start to discuss curating under digital conditions on our platform. This expanded, bilingual issue and translation include articles and interviews across new perspectives alongside selected contributions from the original issue to revisit, translate and make new the perspectives and contexts to a wider audience. Each interview, artwork, and article think through contemporary practices that rework or examine what the relationship of place, automation, labour, and archives have in relation to technological effects in physical and digital curating and arts production. Interviews focus on art practice and digital artmaking and how the digital is an asset in the making and communication of art and society. We are excited to present and bring together the thoughts and words of such a variety of strong and needed voices that exist in the art, political, and academic worl