Negotiating Equity at DAI (Dutch Art Institute Master Programme/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) aims to offer a participatory platform to address the ethics and practice of curatorship as a mode of art production, asserting that these terms of engagement imply rethinking the economic and social conditions of art. Negotiating Equity draws upon theories of fairness in questioning divergent value systems and testing artistic models amongst students, curators, artists, art critics and writers from around the world. The nature and format of this project favors cooperative endeavor, while considering the implications of self-curation. Specificially, this project will address collaborative curation and the position of the artist as curator- investigating experimental and conceptual art practices under physical as well as virtual conditions. DAI lectures and seminars will focus on ‘creating context’ in the broadest sense of this term. Drawing upon a wide range of artistic and art-related practices, some off the radar, undocumented and under-theorized, others representative of art historical paradigms, we will examine various exhibition and presentation models along with addressing and finding other audiences, virtual or otherwise, implicitly or explicitly challenging dominant regimes of spectatorship all too often considered self-evident. Negotiating Equity is organised by Renée Ridgway, co-initiator of n.e.w.s., an online platform for contemporary art and new media structured by curatorial positionings from around the world. Each month at DAI, contributors from the n.e.w.s. platform present their individual approaches to curating and their particular social and economic criteria regarding art production. Concomitantly, experts on the positioning of the so-called ‘artist/curator’ address this terminology with regard to present-day artistic and art-critical practice. By July, DAI participants will produce a one-hour television broadcast, parallel to developing their individual blog, along with reading and following n.e.w.s. This website contextualises the projects the past year.