Information and communication technology allows new forms of engaging with art and artifacts. We touch and are touched by (installation) art and artifacts, and intuitively and affectively browse and navigate heritage collections online. Databases and interfaces online and onsite mediate our access to and interpretation of art and artifacts. Information technology is therefore a transformative cultural phenomenon, providing new sensory experiences and affective responses, and new knowledge infrastructures to access and interpret the objects belonging to our cultural heritage. This collection of essays invites readers to think along with the authors about the cultural meaning of information and communication technology. How is the sensory experience of art and heritage to be theorized? What does information technology mean for the authority, appropriation and ownership of heritage? And how does it affect the acquisition and production of knowledge? These are some of the questions addressed in this interdisciplinary take on art and heritage in a digital culture. Book jacket.