List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: From Digital to PostDigital--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 RearView Mirror: The MediaArchaeological Tradition in Art 69 Erkki Huhtamo Copyrighted Material 4 ProtoMedia Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avantgarde 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: Nettime.org and the AvantGarde 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 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 FinoRadin 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.