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.' (front flap)
Includes bibliography and index.
Leonardo Books Series
Onsite
English
2010
354
9780262013888
1
monograph
1. Introduction
What Is New Media Art?
What Is Curating?
The Structure of the Book
I. ART AFTER NEW MEDIA - HISTORIES, THEORIES, AND BEHAVIOURS
2. The Art Formerly Known as 'New Media'
The Hype of the New
New Media Art - Modernist or Avant-Garde?
From Postmodernism to a Postmedium Condition
Art Example: Cornelia Sollfrank, Net Art Generator(s), and Female Extension
Rethinking Curating
Exhibition Example: Harwood@Mongrel, Uncomfortable Proximity
Summary: Curating in a Postmedium Condition?
3. Space and Materiality
Dematerialisation - From Conceptual Art to Systems Art
How New Media Art Is Different
Art Example: Thomson & Craighead, Light from Tomorrow
Rethinking Curating
Exhibition Example: Let's Entertain and Art Entertainment Network, Walker Art Center
Summary: Dematerialised or Just Distributed?
4. Time
Time-Based Arts - Video and Performance
How New Media Art Is Different
Art Example: Rachel Reupke, Pico Mirador
Rethinking Curating
Exhibition Example: Medialounge, the Media Centre
Summary: Curating in Real Time?
5. Participative Systems
Interaction, Participation, and Collaboration
How New Media Art Is Different
Art Example: Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, Learning to Love You More
Rethinking Curating
Exhibition Example: Serious Games, Laing Art Gallery
Summary: How Participatory Are These Systems?
II. RETHINKING CURATING - CONTEXTS, PRACTICES, AND PROCESSES
6. Introduction to Rethinking Curating
Curating in Context - In and Out of the Institution
Models and Modes - The Practice of Curating
Summary: Curating Now - Distributed Processes?
7. On Interpretation, on Display, on Audience
Education, Interpretation, and Curating
Example: Tate Media
On Display
Audiences
Summary: A Useful Confusion?
8. Curating in an Art Museum
Why Would a New Media Artist Want to Exhibit in an Art Museum?
The Building or the Immaterial Systems?
Working across Departments
Example: 010101, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Documentation and Archiving
On Collections
Summary: Networking the Museum
9. Other Modes of Curating
Festivals - New, Hybrid, and (Upwardly?) Mobile
Example: Vuk Ćosić, Documenta Done and Net.art per me
Arts Agencies and Public Art - Located, Engaged, and Flexible
Example: New Media Scotland
Publishing and Broadcast - Distributed, Reproducible, and Networked
Example: Kate Rich
The Lab - Experimental, Interdisciplinary, and Research-Led
Example: V2_, Rotterdam
Summary: From Production to Distribution and Beyond
10. Collaboration in Curating
Artist-Run - Alternative Spaces and Independent Organisations
Swapping Roles - Artists as Curators
Example: NODE.London
Collaborative Practices - Networks and Audiences
Summary: Artist-Led or Audience-Led?
III. CONCLUSIONS
11. Conclusions: Histories, Vocabularies, Modes
A Set of Histories
Critical Vocabularies - Which Verbs, Which Systems?
Beyond Novelty - Curatorial Modes
The Task at Hand - Translation
Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media
What does this mean?
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