Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists. Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists Tackles digital art s primary practical challenges how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital art

Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.* Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline* Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions* Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists* Tackles digital art's primary practical challenges - how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence* Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital art

List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction: From Digital to Post-Digital--Evolutions of an Art Form 1Christiane PaulPart I Histories of Digital Art 211 The Complex and Multifarious Expressions of Digital Art and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 23Oliver Grau2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts 46Darko Fritz3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art 69Erkki Huhtamo Copyrighted Material4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art 111Machiko Kusahara5 Generative Art Theory 146Philip Galanter6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism 181Jennifer Way7 The Hauntology of the Digital Image 203Charlie Gere8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display 226Rudolf FrielingPart II Aesthetics of Digital Art 2479 Small Abstract Aesthetics 249Max Bense10 Aesthetics of the Digital 265Sean Cubitt11 Computational Aesthetics 281M. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art 297Olga Goriunova13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process 310Nathaniel Stern14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives 330Anne BalsamoPart III Network Cultures: The Politics of Digital Art 35315 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication 355Armin Medosch16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media 384Konrad Becker17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the '90s 400McKenzie Wark18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice 413Kyle Chayka19 Artistic Visualization 426Lev Manovich20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox 445Mary FlanaganPart IV Digital Art and the Institution 46121 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? 463Edward A. Shanken22 One of Us!: On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions 482Richard Rinehart23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution--Where to Now? 494Sarah Cook with Aneta Krzemien´ Barkley24 The Nuts and Bolts of Handling Digital Art 516Ben Fino-Radin25 Trusting Amateurs with Our Future 537Jon Ippolito26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER 553Annet Dekker27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and Audiences 575Beryl GrahamIndex 597