Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / ix Introduction christiane paul / 1 ONE POSITIONING NEW MEDIA ART AND CURATORIAL MODELS 1 New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age charlie gere / 13 2 Immateriality and Its Discontents: An Overview of Main Models and Issues for Curating New Media sarah cook / 26 TWO INTERFACING NEW MEDIA 3 Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: From the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond christiane paul / 51 4 Curating Net Art: A Field Guide steve dietz / 75 THREE FROM OBJECT TO PROCESS AND SYSTEM 5 Distributed Curating and Immateriality joasia krysa / 87 6 Death by Wall Label jon ippolito / 106 FOUR AUTONOMOUS CULTURAL ZONES 7 Participation, Flow, and the Redistribution of Authorship: The Challenges of Collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial Practice sara diamond / 135 8 Reconfiguring Curation: Noninstitutional New Media Curating and the Politics of Cultural Production patrick lichty / 163 FIVE CASE STUDIES 9 Serious Games beryl graham / 191 10 (re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as Cultural Intervention patrick lichty / 207 11 Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice caitlin jones and carol stringari / 220 12 games: Computerspiele von KunstlerInnen (games: Computer games by artists) tilman baumgartel, hans d. christ, and iris dressler / 233 Contributors / 251 List of Illustrations / 259 Index / 261

About the Author

Christiane Paul is Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Adjunct Faculty at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the Rhode Island School of Design; the University of California, Berkeley; and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Reviews

"Eloquently addresses the philosophical, conceptual, and practical issues of new media art concerning current changes in the method of cultural production and the impact on audience and curatorial practices." Naea News "A good compendium of the inherent discourse." Neural "Fascinating." Art Asia Pacific