Digital Practices: Rethinking Curating

My latest installment of Digital Practices is out in a-n magazine. It starts like this:

“One of the things that makes digital media so exciting is that they problematise many naturalised systems and spaces of communication. To put it simply, they offer tremendous opportunity to rethink all manner of cultural exchange. This year, two important books have been published on interrelated aspects of this ‘digital rethinking’.

Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook’s Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media addresses how curators and art audiences behave in light of digital/new media art, as well as how we can begin to conceptualise and work with these emergent behaviours. The book first looks at new media art’s history and themes artists in the field regularly address. Next, it focuses on different curatorial practices and how they are affected by new media artworks. Like much of Graham and Cook’s work with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss), there is an emphasis on assessing actual situations and providing – where possible – practical solutions. Indeed, there’s little heavy theory here, with the book offering user-friendly surveys of curatorial approaches operating today.” read more.