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,
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.