[spectre] new books about curating new media

[Sarah Cook]

This spring CRUMB - www.crumbweb.org - the online resource for  
curators of new media art - turns 10!

This coincides with the release of our new book 'Rethinking Curating:  
Art After New Media', now available from MIT Press http:// 
mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071

To mark the occasion, The Green Box in Berlin has published two new  
volumes of material from the CRUMB archives: 'A Brief History of  
Curating New Media Art: Conversations with Curators' and 'A Brief  
History of Working with New Media Art: Conversations with Artists'
http://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/brief-history-curating-new-media-art
http://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/brief-history-working-new-media-art

These two volumes track the work of curators and practitioners in the  
field of new media art in order
to consider the massive changes and developments over a relatively  
short period of time. The curators and artists featured in these  
books range across the contemporary arts. They have been working  
away, not in the centre or the periphery, but in the nodes of this  
networked field of practice.

A Brief History of Curating New Media Art includes interviews with:  
Sarah Cook & Beryl Graham; Peter Weibel; Barbara London; Christiane  
Paul; Larry Rinder; Kathy Rae Huffman & Julie Lazar; Benjamin Weil;  
Liliane Schneiter, Yves Mettler & Anne-Julie Raccoursier; Liane  
Davison; Nathalie Anglès & Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria; Matthew  
Higgs; Magdalena Sawon & Tamas Banovich; Steve Dietz; Rudolf Frieling.

A Brief History of Working With New Media Art includes interviews  
with, or presentations by: Natalie Bookchin / Brendan Jackson; Jon  
Thomson & Alison Craighead, Wendy Kirkup, Nina Pope and Vuc Cosic;  
Michelle Kasprzak / Skawennati Tricia ; Simon Pope; Heath Bunting;  
Gregory Sholette / Nato Thompson; Marc Garrett / Ruth Catlow; Régine  
Debatty; Christiane Erharter; Nina Czegledy & Woon Tien Wien; Michael  
Mandiberg; Amanda McDonald Crowley & Patrick Lichty; Miki Fukuda;  
Simon Faithfull.

We are holding a book launch for these volumes this Friday March 5th  
at 4:30pm at BALTIC, The Center for Contemporary Art, UK. Talks and  
launch events will follow in April and May in New York, Ottawa,  
Montreal, Toronto and Banff.

Please do get in touch for further information,
Sarah Cook