A Companion to Digital Art

List of Figures viii
 
Notes on Contributors xi
 
Acknowledgments xix
 
Introduction: From Digital to Post-Digital--Evolutions of an Art Form 1
Christiane Paul
 
Part I Histories of Digital Art 21
 
1 The Complex and Multifarious Expressions of Digital Art and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 23
Oliver Grau
 
2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts 46
Darko Fritz
 
3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art 69
Erkki Huhtamo
 
4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art 111
Machiko Kusahara
 
5 Generative Art Theory 146
Philip Galanter
 
6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism 18
Jennifer Way
 
7 The Hauntology of the Digital Image 203
Charlie Gere
 
8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display 226
Rudolf Frieling
 
Part II Aesthetics of Digital Art 247
 
9 Small Abstract Aesthetics 249
Max Bense
 
10 Aesthetics of the Digital 265
Sean Cubitt
 
11 Computational Aesthetics 281
M. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller
 
12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art 297
Olga Goriunova
 
13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process 310
Nathaniel Stern
 
14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives 330
Anne Balsamo
 
Part III Network Cultures: The Politics of Digital Art 353
 
15 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication 355
Armin Medosch
 
16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media 384
Konrad Becker
 
17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the '90s 400
McKenzie Wark
 
18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice 413
Kyle Chayka
 
19 Artistic Visualization 426
Lev Manovich
 
20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox 445
Mary Flanagan
 
Part IV Digital Art

Christiane Paul is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School, New York, USA, and also Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prof. Paul is a noted curator who oversees the Whitney's artport website and has for more than a decade conceived and administered the museum's new media exhibitions, including Data Dynamics (2001), Profiling (2007), and Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011). Other curatorial work includes The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, 2013); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); Feedforward - The Angel of History (LABoral, Spain, 2009); and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, 2009). She is the author of Digital Art (2003), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008), and co-editor with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna of Context Providers - Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (2011).