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).

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 MediäArchaeological Tradition in Art 69
Erkki Huhtamo Copyrighted Material 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 181
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: [...] 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 445Mary Flanagan Part IV Digital Art and the Institution 461 21 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? 463
Edward A. Shanken 22 One of Us!: On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions 482
Richard Rinehart 23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution-Where to Now? 494
Sarah Cook with Aneta Krzemien¿ Barkley 24 The Nuts and Bolts of Handling Digital Art 516
Ben Fino¿Radin 25 Trusting Amateurs with Our Future 537
Jon Ippolito 26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER 553
Annet Dekker 27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and Audiences 575
Beryl Graham Index 597