Dear List,
In the spirit of praising the good rather than telling off the bad, I'd
like to say that the policy of not having art-form specific departments
is a fine argument in itself, it's just that the policy seems to go
with not actually showing any new media art in practice. So I'd like to
mention a couple of books which have managed to integrate discussion of
contemporary themes across media and artforms, and have learnt a lot
from the process:
Rugg, Judith and Michele Sedgewick (eds.) (2007) Issues in Curating,
Contemporary Art and Performance. London: Intellect Press.
Manages to reveal more about curatorial process than any curating book
I've seen so far, and includes not only lessons from curating "women's
art" but also curating performance, architecture, and software art
(Geoff Cox).
I'd also like to mention that Anna Dezeuze has edited a book on
participatory art that manages to include both discussion of relational
aesthetics and a chapter on new media critical vocabularies of
participation (by me). To be published by Manchester University Press.
So, it is possible, after all, it just needs a wider knowledge base ...
yrs
Beryl
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House,
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Sunderland
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CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
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