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