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Rethinking Curating
Art after New Media
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook
Foreword by Steve Dietz

Table of Contents and Sample Chapters

As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art—
but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and
computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media
artworks, difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum
categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology. These works
present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation,
exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these challenges as
opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. It helps curators of new media
art develop a set of flexible tools for working in this fast-moving field,
and it offers useful lessons from curators and artists for those working in
such other areas of art as distributive and participatory systems.

Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media
art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and
relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art,
socially engaged art, and performance art. The authors, both of whom have
extensive experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and
exhibitions to illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be
redefined in light of new media art's characteristics. They discuss modes of
curating, from the familiar default mode of the museum, through parallels
with publishing, broadcasting, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid
ways of working online and off, including collaboration and social
networking. Rethinking Curating offers curators a route through the hype
around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current
artists' practice.

A Leonardo Book

About the Authors

Beryl Graham, an educator, artist, arts organizer, and curator, is Professor
of New Media Art at the University of Sunderland and coeditor of CRUMB (the
Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss Web site).

Sarah Cook, a research fellow and cofounder of CRUMB, has curated exhibitions
of new media art internationally.

Endorsements
"Rethinking Curating is an invaluable road map to the landscape of
contemporary curating and the ways in which the 'behaviors' of new media art
have changed institutions, exhibitions, and the roles of curators and
audiences. Outlining the characteristics of new media art and their
histories, the book comprehensively explores functions of the curator—as
filter, producer, or editor—and the exhibition—as touring show, festival,
or platform. Multiple artworks and exhibitions serve as case studies that
effectively illustrate the complex topography of curating in and for the 21st
century."
—Christiane Paul, Curator, Whitney Museum

"The processes of displaying, collecting, and interpreting new media artworks
offer considerable challenges to individuals and institutions across the
contemporary art world. New media projects and exhibitions are innately
complex. And whatever their complexity, they frequently involve much higher
levels of public participation and interactivity. In this context, Beryl
Graham and Sarah Cook's Rethinking Curating provides an intelligent,
well-informed, and creative analysis which will be immensely valuable for the
better understanding of this fast-changing field."
—Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London

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