This unrivalled new companion to the dynamic and fast-moving world of digital art gives readers an in-depth understanding of the form, covering its history and evolution, aesthetics, and politics, as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions. This unrivalled new companion to the dynamic and fast-moving world of digital art gives readers an in-depth understanding of the form, covering its history and evolution, aesthetics, and politics, as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions. List of Figures ii Notes on Contributors iii Acknowledgementsiv INTRODUCTION 0v From Digital to Post-Digital Evolutions of an Art Form v Christiane Paul PART I: HISTORIES OF DIGITAL ART 1 The Complex and Multifarious Expression of Digital Art and its Impact on Archives and Humanities Oliver Grau 2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts Darko Fritz 3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in Art Erkki Huhtamo 4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art Machiko Kusahara 5 Generative Art Theory Philip Galanter 6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism Jennifer Way 07 The Hauntology of the Digital Image Charlie Gere 8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display Rudolf Frieling PART II: AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL ART 9 Small Abstract Aesthetics Max Bense 10 Aesthetics of the Digital Sean Cubitt 11 Computational Aesthetics Matthew Fuller and Beatrice Fazi 12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art Olga Goriunova 13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process Nathaniel Stern 14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives Anne Balsamo PART III: NETWORK CULTURES: THE POLITICS OF DIGITAL ART 15 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication Armin Medosch 16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media Konrad Becker 17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the 90s McKenzie Wark 18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice Kyle Chayka 19 Big Data and Artistic Visualization Lev Manovich 20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox Mary Flanagan PART IV: DIGITAL ART AND THE INSTITUTION 21 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? Edward A. Shanken 22 One of Us! On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions Richard Rinehart 23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution Where to Now? Sarah Cook 24 Digital Conservation - Tools, Methods, Strategies Ben Fino-Radin 25 Trusting Amateurs with Our Future Jon Ippolito 26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER Annet Dekker 27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and Audiences Beryl Graham