Abstract

Forming an introduction to the panel. Drawing on experience from the Walker Art Center, touring exhibitions and festivals, this presentation gives an overview of the issues for curating across the boundaries of educational, online, and physical contexts. It addresses (some of) the challenges for curating new media: classification, ghettoization, medium specificity, expectations, infrastructure, legal bugs, presentation, moving targets, participation, platforms, collaboration, collecting, popular culture.

• Steve Dietz is the founding director and former curator of new media at the Walker Art Center, where he curated the online Gallery 9 (gallery9.walkerart.org). He has curated more than 10 exhibitions of online and onsite digital artworks, including “Beyond Interface” (yproductions.com/beyondinterface), Art Entertainment Network (aen.walkerart.org),
  Telematic Connections (telematic.walkerart.org), and Translocations (translocations.walkerart.org) and has written extensively on new media art.

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