CHArt Twenty-Second Annual Conference

PANEL SESSION: Approaches to the Practice of Curating New Media Art
Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham and Ele Carpenter, CRUMB, University of Sunderland

CRUMB, at the University of Sunderland (<http://www.crumbweb.org>) is an online resource for curators of new media art, but do those descriptions still apply when curators are also producers, moderators and facilitators, and new media art isn't necessarily new and sometimes isn’t even art? The papers presented draw on CRUMB’s research as well as extensive first-hand knowledge of curating and examples of exhibitions, festivals and commissions, such as 'The Art Formerly Known As New Media' (exhibition, The Banff Centre, November 2005); ‘Node London’ (Season of Media Arts, March 2006); 'ISEA Symposium and ZeroOne festival of Art on the Edge' (San Jose, CA, August 2006) and ‘RISK’ (exhibition, CCA Glasgow, 2005) to determine the state of curating new media art now. Furthermore, these papers suggest ways that the professional development of curatorial practice can be supported when both art forms and methods are in a state of constant emergence and transformation as a result of new media technologies.

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