[NetBehaviour] Book Review - Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media.

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Book Review - Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media.

Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media, by Beryl Graham and Sarah 
Cook. Foreword by Steve Dietz (available at amazon UK and USA)

Publisher The MIT Press says: 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.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/10/rethinking-curating.php