some resources on the topic…

SELECTED WRITINGS ONLINE

Artnodes 11 (Nov 2011) includes ten essays drawn from 2011 CAA panel (see also podcasts under MEDIA, below)

Shanken, Edward A. “Contemporary Art and New Media: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?” (draft, in process)
Johnson, Paddy. “Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New Media, Postmedia“  2011.
Shanken, Edward A. “Response to “Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New Media, Postmedia“ 2011.
Quaranta, Domenico, “The Postmedia Perspective” (excerpt from Media, New Media, Postmedia) 2010.
Shanken, Edward A. “Response to Domenico Quaranta’s ‘The Postmedia Perspective’”, 2011.
Anonymous (Brad Troemel), “[IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan”2010.
Slocum, Paul, “New Media and the Art Gallery,” 2010.
Jones, Caitlin, “My Artworld Is Bigger than Your Artworld,” 2005.
Lovink, Geert, “New Media, Art and Science: Explorations beyond the Official Discourse,” 2005.
Baumgaertel, Tilman, “Mafia Versus Mafia:  About Tribal Wars Between Conceptual Art And Net Art” 1999.

MEDIA

New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?
Panel discussion at CAA Annual Conference, 2011.
Full details (theme description, panelists, paper abstracts)
Podcasts (.mov audio files) Shared under Creative Commons CC BY-NC license
Part 1.  Shanken (chair’s intro), Cristina Albu, Jamie Allen (31′, 22MB)
Part 2.  Jean Gagnon, Ji-hoon Kim (28′, 23MB)
Part 3.  Philip Galanter, Jane Prophet, Christiane Paul (42′, 34MB)
Part 4.  Ronald Jones, Paul Thomas (41′, 33MB)

Conference papers forthcoming in online in bilingual (English/Spanish) journal, Artnodes 11.

Review of CAA, including this panel, in Metropolis M

Contemporary Art and New Media: Towards a Hybrid Discourse? Art Basel Conversation, 2010
Download or View video with Nicolas Bourriaud, Michael Grey, Peter Weibel, and Ed Shanken (36′)