We are visiting New York this April to mark ten years of work and three new books; we have teamed up with the best curators and artists for four different celebratory and discursive public events - you are all invited!CRUMB -- the UK-based online resource for curators of media arts -- are visiting New York this April to mark ten years of work and three new books. CRUMB has teamed up with the best curators and artists for four different celebratory and discursive public events - you are all invited!

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Friday 16th April 6:30pm
LECTURE ‘Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media’ Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham

Interactive Telecommunications program ITP
Tisch School of Arts, New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor

A lecture on the subject of how the participatory, immaterial, and time-based qualities of media art challenge traditional curatorial ways of working and some observed case studies of new 'modes' of curating. Free. Seating is limited and on a first-come first-served basis. If considering bringing a group, please email beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk

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Saturday 17th April 4:15-5:45pm
PANEL PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ‘Rethinking Curating: 10 years of the art formerly known as new media’ Christiane Paul, Sarah Cook and Beryl Graham

New School
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building,
66 West 12th Street, 5th floor, Room 517

A panel reflecting on ten years of artists and curators working with new media, as reflected in CRUMB's two ‘Brief History of...’ books, and looking ahead to the future. Part of the two-day conference, April 16-17 Critical Themes In Media Studies - The 10th Annual Conference at The New School. Special guest Christiane Paul is a curator, including acting as Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a writer, including Digital Art (Thames & Hudson), and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press).
Free. No tickets or reservations required. Seating is first-come first-served. For more information see http://criticalthemes.net/2010/

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Tuesday 20th April 4:00-6:30pm
PRESENTATION and CONVERSATION ‘Rethinking Curating: Participative, Collaborative and Educational Turns in Contemporary Art’ with special guest MARIA LIND

Artists’ Space
38 Greene Street (between Grand and Broome), 3rd Floor

A special event to discuss current issues in contemporary curatorial work, and launch CRUMB's three new books, which include contributions from curators Matthew Higgs, Lawrence Rinder, Barbara London and former director of Artists Space, Benjamin Weil. Special guest Maria Lind is Director of the CCS Bard Graduate Program, and has been Director of Kunstverein München, Munich, curator of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and publications include Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing).
Refreshments will be served. Free. Please RSVP to beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk

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Wednesday 21st April 4:00-5:30pm
HIGH TEA WITH CRUMB - BOOK CELEBRATION

Eyebeam Art and Technology Center
540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)

CRUMB books reference over 500 artists, curators, activists, writers, theorists and others, including Eyebeam Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley and Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg - we couldn't have done it without you all! Come for a nice cup of tea and a celebration, at CRUMB's research partner, Eyebeam.
Refreshments will be served. Free.

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CRUMB's NEW BOOKS are available to buy at Eyebeam and other bookshops in New York:

'Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media'
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook
Foreword by Steve Dietz
MIT Press, March 2010
ISBN-10: 0-262-01388-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01388-8
$34.95/£25.95 (CLOTH)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071

'A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations with Curators'
Edited by Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham, Verina Gfader and Axel Lapp
Includes interviews with: Peter Weibel; Barbara London; Christiane Paul; Larry Rinder; Kathy Rae Huffman & Julie Lazar; Benjamin Weil; Nathalie Anglès & Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria; Matthew Higgs; Magdalena Sawon & Tamas Banovich; Steve Dietz; Rudolf Frieling.
The Green Box, Berlin 2010
978-3-941644-20-5
EUR 13,00
http://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/brief-history-curating-new-media-art

'A Brief History of Working with New Media Art: Conversations with Artists'
Edited by Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham, Verina Gfader and Axel Lapp
Includes interviews with, or presentations by: Natalie Bookchin / Brendan Jackson; Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, Wendy Kirkup, Nina Pope and Vuk Cosic; Michelle Kasprzak / Skawennati Tricia Fragnito; Simon Pope; Heath Bunting; Gregory Sholette / Nato Thompson; Marc Garrett / Ruth Catlow; Régine Debatty; Christiane Erharter; Nina Czegledy & Woon Tien Wei; Michael Mandiberg; Amanda McDonald Crowley & Patrick Lichty; Miki Fukuda; Simon Faithfull.
The Green Box, Berlin 2010
978-3-941644-21-2
EUR 13,00
http://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/brief-history-working-new-media-art