Rethinking curating : art after new media /

Graham, Beryl

Rethinking curating : art after new media / Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook ; foreword by Steve Dietz - Cambridge ; London : MIT Press, 2010 - xv, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm - Leonardo . - Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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.

9780262013888 . 9780262013888 . £25.95


New media art
Museums--Curatorship
Art and Design.
Museology & heritage studies
Other graphic art forms
The arts: general issues
History of art
Non-graphic art forms