Companion to 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).

• List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction: From Digital to Post‐Digital—Evolutions of an Art Form 1Christiane PaulPart I Histories of Digital Art 211 The Complex and Multifarious Expressions of Digital Art and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 23Oliver Grau2 International Networks of Early Digital Arts 46Darko Fritz3 Art in the Rear‐View Mirror: The Media‐Archaeological Tradition in Art 69Erkki Huhtamo Copyrighted Material4 Proto‐Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant‐garde Art 111Machiko Kusahara5 Generative Art Theory 146Philip Galanter6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism 181Jennifer Way7 The Hauntology of the Digital Image 203Charlie Gere8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of Display 226Rudolf FrielingPart II Aesthetics of Digital Art 2479 Small Abstract Aesthetics 249Max Bense10 Aesthetics of the Digital 265Sean Cubitt11 Computational Aesthetics 281M. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of Art 297Olga Goriunova13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to Process 310Nathaniel Stern14 The Cultural Work of Public Interactives 330Anne BalsamoPart III Network Cultures: The Politics of Digital Art 35315 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication 355Armin Medosch16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital Media 384Konrad Becker17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant‐Garde of the ’90s 400McKenzie Wark18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic Practice 413Kyle Chayka19 Artistic Visualization 426Lev Manovich20 Critical Play: The Productive Paradox 445Mary FlanaganPart IV Digital Art and the Institution 46121 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse? 463Edward A. Shanken22 One of Us!: On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art Institutions 482Richard Rinehart23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution—Where to Now? 494Sarah Cook with Aneta Krzemień Barkley24 The Nuts and Bolts of Handling Digital Art 516Ben Fino‐Radin25 Trusting Amateurs with Our Future 537Jon Ippolito26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVER 553Annet Dekker27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and Audiences 575Beryl GrahamIndex 597