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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
Open and closed systems: new media art in museums and galleries
Graham was invited by the editor to be a contributor to the book, based on previous work concerning participative systems in contemporary art. This chapter investigates examples of participatory systems in museums, for example, audiences contributing to artworks or tagging collections of art, applying understandings from new media art in museums. The volume ‘Museum and Media’, edited by Michelle Henning (who has edited and published with Open University Press, Routledge, and works at the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE) is one of 5 volumes in the International Handbook of Museum Studies series (general editors Helen Rees Leahy and Sharon Macdonald) for Wiley-Blackwell. This 9,000 word chapter with 3 illustrations in a hardback book, marks a significant inclusion of new media art museological critique in a book concerning contemporary museums in general.
Other chapters in the book include international authors in contemporary museums studies: Angelina Russo, Jon Ippolito and John Bell, Beat Hächler, Nils Lindahl, Fiona Candlin, Karin Harrasser, and Nancy Proctor. Previous Wiley-Blackwell publish museums studies books internationally, including the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award-winning 2010 A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies). Wiley-Blackwell peer review all publications.
