just started reading:
Graham, Beryl and Cook, Sarah, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010, 354p. a few notes on what matters (beyond the technology):Following Graham and Cook, here "i define so-called new media as a set of behaviors, not as a medium" (xiv, forward by Dietz) "At one time, the new media of photography both changed the aesthetic understanding of painting and participated in the creation of a cultural understanding of (fixed) time and representation. At another time, the new media of video changed the aesthetic understanding of film while participating with television in the creation of a cultural understanding of (real) time and distance. The art most recently known as "new media" changes our understanding of the behaviors of contemporary art precisely because of its participation in the creation of a cultural understanding of computational interactivity and networked participation. In other words, art is different after new media because of new media ? not because new media is "next," but because its behaviors are the behaviors of our technological times." (xiv, Dietz)
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