CRUMB book launch. Hot off the press: CRUMB book launch for three new volumes about curating new media art.
Join CRUMB's co-founders Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham to launch their new book "Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media" from MIT Press (A Leonardo Book), as well as CRUMB researchers Axel Lapp and Verina Gfader to launch two new volumes of CRUMB dialogues especially produced (by The Green Box, Berlin) to coincide with CRUMB's 10th birthday - one volume of interviews with curators undertaken over the last decade, and one volume of conversations with artists about more hybrid ways of working. These books are definitive guides to this fast-moving field and seek to reflect on how our perceptions of new media art have changed and how different tactics for the work's presentation have emerged. These books seek to help curators develop tools for working with all forms of new art, from distributed systems to participatory practice. This launch follows on from the CRUMB/CAS symposium at BALTIC earlier the same day, but is open to all. http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/crumbs-birthday Friday, 05 March 2010 Time: 16:30 - 17:30 Location: Level 1, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art Street: South Shore Road Town/City: Gateshead, United Kingdom Rethinking Curating Art after New Media Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook Foreword by Steve Dietz http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071 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. 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. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
