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xv, 354 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Leonardo Book Series. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. "This work 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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; The art formerly known as "new media"; Space and materiality; Time; Participative systems; Introduction to rethinking curating; On interpretation, on display, on audience; Curating in an art museum; Other modes of curating; Collaboration in curating; Conclusions: histories, vocabularies, modes. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 200109
Bibliographic Details
Title: Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ
About this title
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 are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology and 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.
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. Rethinking Curating offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists' practice.
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