Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance is a far more informative, down-to-earth and easy to read history of curating than Hans Ulrich Obrist’s A Brief History of Curating. Learned that the hard way. The first chapter is available free on scribd.
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Also recommended, Deconstructing Installation Art: Fine Art and Media Art 1986 – 2006, the entirety of which is available for free here:
http://www.installationart.net/index.html
Oh, those UK fine art research institutions!
cover image: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation (2002)
Finally, recommended viewing. The Reality Club recently held a salon at the Hotel Ritz, Paris, during which Stanislas Dehaene gave a talk on new developments in discovering the Signatures of Consciousness. The 120 minute talk and transcript is here, at http://edge.org/3rd_culture/dehaene09/dehaene09_index.html
Salon D'ete at the Hotel Ritz, Paris
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