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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Christiane.

Contributor:

Paul, Christiane, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Exhibition techniques.

Curatorial models.

Digital art--Exhibitions.

Museums--Curatorship.

Computer art--Exhibition techniques--Exhibitions.

Computer art.

Art--Curatorship.

Art.

Museums.

Local Subjects:

Art--Exhibition techniques.

Curatorial models.

Digital art--Exhibitions.

Museums--Curatorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

New Media in the White Cube and Beyond

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 practiti

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: POSITIONING NEW MEDIA ART AND CURATORIAL MODELS; 1 New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age; 2 Immateriality and Its Discontents: An Overview of Main Models and Issues for Curating New Media; TWO: INTERFACING NEW MEDIA; 3 Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: From the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond; 4 Curating Net Art: A Field Guide; THREE: FROM OBJECT TO PROCESS AND SYSTEM; 5 Distributed Curating and Immateriality; 6 Death by Wall Labe; FOUR: AUTONOMOUS CULTURAL ZONES

7 Participation, Flow, and the Redistribution of Authorship: The Challenges of Collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial Practice8 Reconfiguring Curation: Noninstitutional New Media Curating and the Politics of Cultural Production; FIVE: CASE STUDIES; 9 Serious Games; 10 (re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as Cultural Intervention; 11 Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice; 12 games: Computerspiele von KünstlerInnen (games: Computer games by artists); Contributors; List of Illustrations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S

TU; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-94234-5

OCLC:

773565001