Rethinking Curating by Beryl Graham - ISBN: 9780262528429
Paperback
Redefining curatorial practice for those working with new kinds of art.

Rethinking Curating

Art after New Media

  • Paperback

    370 pages

  • Release Date

    21 August 2015

Summary

Redefining curatorial practice for those working with new kinds of art.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, exhibit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262528429
ISBN-10:0262528428
Author:Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:370
Release Date:21 August 2015
Weight:712g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 22mm
Series:Leonardo
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Humorous and surprising, smart and provocative.

Humorous and surprising, smart and provocative.

Nathaniel Stern, Rhizome

About The Author

Beryl Graham

Beryl Graham, an arts organizer and educator, 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 is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of art, digital and electronic media, and science. She is the coauthor (with Beryl Graham) of Rethinking Curating- Art After New Media (MIT Press), and in 2004 cocurated the touring exhibition, “Database Imaginary.” She is Dundee Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

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