CRUMB, the online resource for curators, has been wrangling with the joyous affordances of new media art for over ten years. Having just published three books about curating the stuff,1 it seems like a good time to stop and reflect, somewhere between the glacial evolution of academic publication and the evanescence of daily tweeting. As explored in our co-authored volume, Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, there are some peculiar timescales relative to “the art formerly known as new media.” Rather than a smooth development curve of critical knowledge of new media art, there has been a “hype To read the full text of this article purchase the print issue (via The behaviors of new media: towards a post-hype hostipitality aesthetics? by Beryl Graham & Sarah Cook | ART LIES: A Contemporary Art Quarterly)