Defragmentation - Curating Contemporary Music is a research project with the aim of anchoring discourses on gender and diversity, decolonization and technological change that are currently being conducted in many disciplines in new music institutions and discussing curatorial practices in this field. The volume brings together a four-day convention as part of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2018.

Vorwort - Foreword - Dorothee Richter: Propositions on Curating - Martin Tröndle: Concert Evolution: A Theoretical Approach - Tim Perkis: Speaking with the Mindless - Sandeep Bhagwati: How to Be a Node, a Temporary Abode. Some Ideas on Curating Contemporary Musicking - Rolando Vázquez: The Decolonial Option and the Practice of Listening - Florian Malzacher: Creating Temporal Realities. Performativity as a Curatorial Tool - Anke Charton: Default, Debug, Decolonize: Thoughts on Intersectionality and New Music - Nick Collind & Björn Gottstein: The curAltor - Camille Baker: Where is the Human in a World of Technology and the Arts? - Jérôme Glicenstein: Aesthetic Experience and its Dispositifs - AutorInnen / Authors - Programm Defragmentation (17.–20. Juli 2018)