[rohrpost] Interview with Sarah Cook: ART, NEW MEDIA AND THE CURATORIAL

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ART, NEW MEDIA AND THE CURATORIAL
In conversation with Sarah Cook
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=4538

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The book "Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media" was published in March
2010 by MIT Press and immediately became a standard work about current
developments in the field of curating new media art. It explores the
characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality
and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary
art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and
performance art. The authors Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham, both of whom have
extensive experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and
exhibitions to illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be
redefined in light of new media art’s characteristics. They discuss modes of
curating, from the familiar default mode of the museum, through parallels
with publishing, broadcasting, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid
ways of working online and off, including collaboration and social
networking. Rethinking Curating offers curators a route through the hype
around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current
artists' practice.

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Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is
currently a research fellow at the University of Sunderland where she
co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media
art and teaches on the MA Curating course.

http://www.crumbweb.org
http://www.sarahcook.info

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