New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries.

Foreword Paying Attention to Media Art’s History, Barbara London; Introduction, Beryl Graham; Chapter 1 Modes of Collection, Beryl Graham; Chapter 2 Collecting New-Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different, Steve Dietz; Chapter 3 Old Media, New Media? Significant Difference and the Conservation of Software-Based Art, Pip Laurenson; Chapter 4 Self-Collection, Self-Exhibition? Rhizome and the New Museum, Heather Corcoran, Beryl Graham; Chapter 5 From Exhibition to Collection: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lindsay Taylor; Chapter 6 The Museum as Producer: Processing Art and Performing a Collection, Rudolf Frieling; Chapter 7 Objects, Intent, and Authenticity: Producing, Selling, and Conserving Media Art, Caitlin Jones; Chapter 8 Curating Emerging Art and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Louise Shannon; Chapter 9 Collecting Experience: The Multiple Incarnations of Very Nervous System, Lizzie Muller; Chapter 10 Murky Categorization and Bearing Witness: The Varied Processes of the Historicization of New Media Art, Sarah Cook;

Beryl Graham is Research Professor at the University of Sunderland, UK.