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Preservation of New Media:
Annotated Bibliography
Jessica Santone (October 2005)

NEW MEDIA STUDIES

1. Schwarz, Hans-Peter. — Media-art-history: media museum: ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. — München : Prestel ; Karlsruhe: ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 1997. — 191 p. — Includes an index. — Includes a bibliography. — Includes a glossary. — Includes a CD-ROM. — ISBN 3791318780.

CATEGORY: New media studies
SUMMARY: Interesting glossary. First chapter is a history of media art by Hans-Peter Schwarz. What follows is a catalog of media art and artists, broken into categories: media museums, media nets, media games, media space, media visions.

2. The new media book. — Edited by Dan Harries. — London : British Film Institute, 2002. — 262 p. — Includes an index. — Includes a bibliography. — ISBN 0851709249.

CATEGORY: New media studies
SUMMARY: Divided into five sections: technologies (emerging media technologies, portability, erosion of material differences between media), production (ownership, ethics), texts (intertextuality, interactivity, aesthetic boundaries), consumption (spectator, consumer/producer relations), contexts (in light of old media).

3. Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition. — Edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins. — Cambridge : MIT Press, 2003. — 404 p. — Includes an index. — ISBN 0262201461.

CATEGORY: New media studies
SUMMARY: Talks about how media evolve, emerge, converge, and change. Focuses particularly on recently emerging forms and practices, especially in visual culture. Argues for the self-consciousness of emerging media and their gradual process of convergence. Good introduction.

4. Rudolf Frieling. “Form Follows Format: Tensions, museums, media technology and media art” 369-74, in Medien Kunst Netz : Medienkunst im Überblick = Media Art Net : Survey of Media Art. — Edited by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels. — [Vienne] : Springer, 2004. — 399 p. — Includes an index. — Includes a bibliography. — ISBN 3211005706.

CATEGORY: New media studies
SUMMARY: Discusses presentation (museum) format; significance of medium itself.

5. Ippolito, Jon. — «Ten myths of Internet art». — Leonardo. — Vol. 35, no. 5 (2002). — P. 485-487.

CATEGORY: New media studies, Collections Management – Museums and Curating
SUMMARY: Outlines ten museum misconceptions about internet art, i.e. that it is a medium for delivering miniature forms of other art mediums, it requires expensive equipment and special training to make, it contributes to the ‘digital divide,’ it is impossible to collect, and that it will never be important because you can’t sell a web site.

6. Hansen, Mark H. — New philosophy for new media. — Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. — 333 p. — Includes an index. — ISBN 0262083213.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies
SUMMARY: Has some good information on virtual reality and the role of the body in new media.

7. Esthétique des arts médiatiques. — Edited by Louise Poissant. — Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1995. — 2 vol. — (Esthétique). — ISBN 2760508080 (tome 1), ISBN 2760508382 (tome 2).

CATEGORY: New Media Studies
SUMMARY: Volume one provides a general overview of media arts c. 1995, with good historical essays on individual practices like copy art and holography. There are two general essays on aesthetics: Louise Poissant’s “Elements pour une esthetique des art mediatique,” 1-23, and Fred Foret’s “Manifests pour une esthetique de la communication,” 23-61 – the latter particularly interesting, laying out specific characteristics of media arts. Volume two is more thematically than media-oriented and has more information on cybernetics.

8. Beyond the box: diverging curatorial practices. — Edited by Melanie Townsend. — Banff: The Banff Centre Press, 2003. — 187 p. — ISBN 0920159990.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies, Collections Management – Museums and Curating
SUMMARY: Contains a section on new media – curating, context, aesthetics, practice, and institutional role. Canadian focus.

9. Boek voor de instabiele media = Book for the unstable media. — Edited by Alex Adriaansens, Joke Brouwer, Rik Delhaas and Eugenie den Uyl. — Rotterdam: V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media, 1992. — 163 p. — Includes a bibliography. — ISBN 9090048405.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies
SUMMARY: Two possibly interesting articles: Kristine Stiles’s essay on destruction art, 43-63, and Florian Rotzer’s “Fascinations, Reactions, Virtual Worlds and Other Matter,” 77-99.

10. Steiner, Christine, and J. Neuburger. “New Media and Emerging Technology…” 1995.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies

11. Eloquent images: word and image in the age of new media. — Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. — 318 p. — Includes an index. — ISBN 0262083175.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies

12. New media language. — Edited by Jean Aitchison and Diana Lewis. — London: Routledge, 2003. — 209 p. — Includes an index. — ISBN 0415283043.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies

13. Wise, Richard; Steemers, Jeanette. — Multimedia: a critical introduction. — London: Routledge, 2000. — 228 p. — Includes a bibliography. — ISBN 0415121515.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies
SUMMARY: Has a lot on dead media.

14. L’art à l’époque du virtuel. — Edited by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. — Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003. — 243 p. — (Collection arts 8). — ISBN 2747555097.

CATEGORY: New Media Studies