Michelle Kasprzak is the Founder of Curating.info, a blog with 4700+ fans on Facebook and in the Top 100 Technorati art blogs. She is also an expert for Culture at the European Commission. Michelle has been a blogger since 2004 and online since the web was gray.

Michelle Kasprzak is a culture pundit with a career in curating, speaking, and writing that spans across Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and NRC Handelsblad and on radio and television broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Recently she has delivered lectures at PICNIC (Amsterdam), the London School of Economics, transmediale festival (Berlin), and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).

In 2006 Michelle founded a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info, which is a top Technorati arts blog and was featured in a LabforCulture publication. Starting from zero, Curating.info now has an editorial team of four correspondents from across Europe and Canada and is quickly approaching the 5000 fan mark on Facebook. In addition to her Editor-in-Chief duties at Curating.info, Michelle has written critical essays for magazines, blogs, journals and anthologies worldwide on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. The art exhibitions she has curated have been presented in venues across North America and Europe.

Michelle is currently Curator at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, a cultural network project that will celebrate Marshall “the medium is the message” McLuhan and his impact on European art and culture through a series of manifestations to occur across Europe in 2011, the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Michelle has many intersecting areas of expertise and draws on over a decade of international experience working in the creative industries and producing her own independent projects. She is often invited to speak on topics such as urban media and urban screens; curating; writing for the web, online journalism, and blogging; new media art; the art market; and building online communities. Her experience ranges from commissioning six artists to create online artworks to delight and surprise users of a free wireless network in Canada to running a 0% interest loan scheme for purchases of contemporary art and craft in Scotland.

The common thread in all of Michelle’s work and play is that she finds ways to connect people in new and innovative ways with art and culture.