Collecting New Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different by Steve Dietz

"Collecting new media art is first and foremost a curatorial issue. The medium poses challenges to traditional notions of collecting but little more than much contemporary art. Proven ability to preserve and conserve new media art remains at the theoretical level, but this will be a moot question for a vast swathe of contemporary artistic—at least for museums—unless they take the first step and begin to collect, critically and assiduously." (...)

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