By way of contrast (intellectual, methodological, and factual), here are
links to other reviews of the 'Curating Immateriality' (DATA browser series,
vol. 3) book that better engage with its subject matter and provide a more
informed response:
Leonardo Reviews, by Jonathan Zilbergon
http://leonardo.info/reviews/sept2006/curating_zilberg.html
Rhizome, by Luis Silva
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=22025&page=1#42736
Neural, by Alessandro Ludovico
http://www.neural.it/nnews/curating_immateriality_e.htm
on 8/2/07 12:30, Sarah Cook at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> some book reviews (of a kind) from Mute:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Control, Alt, Delete?
>> By Jonathan Harris
>>
>> Two anthologies published last year, Curating Immateriality: The Work
>> of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems and Art and its
>> Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations attempt
>> to grasp a Śworld art worldą undergoing profound transformation within
>> the Śhorizontalą and globalised matrix of post-fordism. But how
>> impartial are the diagnoses of art world professionals, and indeed how
>> ingenuous the calls for democratisation from within their left-liberal
>> ranks? Asks Jonathan Harris
>>
>> http://www.metamute.org/en/Control-Alt-Delete
>>
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