New Media in the White Cube and Beyond Curatorial Models for Digital Art

Name: New Media in the White Cube and Beyond Curatorial Models for Digital Art
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ISBN: 9780520255975

ISBN-10: 0520255976

ISBN-13: 9780520255975

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christiane Paul

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This provocative, cutting-edge anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art--artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object. As an art form that is inherently time based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable, and variable, new-media art resists objectification. It boldly challenges the traditional art world's customary methods of presentation and documentation as well as its approach to collection and preservation. Edited and introduced by Christiane Paul and featuring contributions by prominent practitioners in the field--institutional and independent curators, theorists, and conservators--this…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Christiane Paul is Professor of Visual Art at The New School. Her recent books include Context Providers--Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, coedited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna, and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Positioning New Media Art and Curatorial Models



New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age




Immateriality and Its Discontents: An Overview of Main Models and Issues for Curating New Media




Interfacing New Media



Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: From the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond




Curating Net Art: A Field Guide




From Object to Process and System



Distributed Curating and Immateriality




Death by Wall Label




Autonomous Cultural Zones



Participation, Flow, and the Redistribution of Authorship: The Challenges of Collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial Practice




Reconfiguring Curation: Noninstitutional New Media Curating and the Politics of Cultural Production




Case Studies



Serious Games




(re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as Cultural Intervention




Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice




games: Computerspiele von KunstlerInnen (games: Computer games by artists)



Contributors


List of Illustrations


Index