Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory (Leonardo Book Series) - Hardcover

Richard Rinehart; Jon Ippolito

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262027003 ISBN 13: 9780262027007

Publisher: MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

Re-Collection

About this title

Review:

'Art is just one professional field that is trying to grapple with the preservation of digital and new media material, ' says Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. With fellow digi-trailblazer Jon Ippolito, Rinehart has penned what will be the first book dedicated to the subject of conserving new media art, Re-collection: New Media, Art, and Social Memory. It is due to be released by MIT Press in the spring.

--ARTnews

Part informational overview, part professional manual, and part preliminary theoretical dialogue, this useful, thought-provoking book collates and calibrates information about the emergent field of cultural technology preservation.

--Choice

As curators, Ippolito's and Rinehart's sense of passion for saving digital art and our social memory is evident in Re-Collection and their book is a manifesto for museum professionals who are feeling the anxieties over how to best hold on to a sense of our collective, cultural heritage in the digital age.

--Hyperrhiz

Although the focus of the book is on new media art, it is of interest for anybody who deals with the preservation of non-traditional media in museums - which also include digital exhibitions.

--Uncommon Culture

About the Author:

Richard Rinehart is Director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. Jon Ippolito is Associate Professor of New Media and Codirector of the Still Water Lab and Digital Curation Program at the University of Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262027003
• ISBN 13: 9780262027007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296