New collecting : exhibiting and audiences after new media art / edited by Beryl Graham ; foreword, Barbara London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Beryl, author, editor of compilation.

London, Barbara, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art.

Art museums--Exhibitions.

Art museums.

Museum techniques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

xx, 234 p. IL. 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new m

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I Documentation, Archive, Collection, Conservation; Introduction; 1 Modes of Collection; 2 Collecting New-Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different; 3 Old Media, New Media? Significant Difference and the Conservation of Software-Based Art; II Producing, Collecting, Exhibiting; 4 Self-Collection, Self-Exhibition? Rhizome and the New Museum; 5 From Exhibition to Collection: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; 6 The Museum as Producer: Processing Art and Performing a Collection

7 Objects, Intent, and Authenticity: Producing, Selling, and Conserving Media ArtIII Audiences, Collections, Exhibitions; 8 Curating Emerging Art and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum; 9 Collecting Experience: The Multiple Incarnations of Very Nervous System; 10 Murky Categorization and Bearing Witness; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-59789-6

1-317-08866-2

1-317-08865-4

1-4094-4895-9

9781315597898

OCLC:

874029393