Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. He explores the architectures we construct—from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds—through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. His interactive Marching Cubes performances and installations (2016—present) have been featured in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, Tehran, and across America. He was a 2023 Fellow at the Newkirk Center for Science & Society, a 2014 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, and the 2008 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jackson is Professor of Electronic Art & Design at the University of California, Irvine, in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology. His website is http://jessecolinjackson.com/.Antoinette LaFarge is an artist-writer with particular interest in nonlinear narrative and alternate histories. She has published several books, most recently Fictive Art: Art, Hoax, and Provocation (2021) and Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design (2019). Her articles on fictive art, new media, and related subjects have been published in the periodicals including Art Journal, Leonardo, Wired, and in books from MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and ICI Press, among others. She has exhibited her artwork internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and documenta, and is the co-curator of two early exhibitions on computer games and art: “SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art” (2000) and “ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games” (2003). She is Emerita Professor of Digital Media at the University of California, Irvine. Her website is http://www.antoinettelafarge.com.

• ForewordMarcel O’GormanList of FiguresNotes on contributorsArt as Experiment: an IntroductionJesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFargeWorking Thinking Things Like Really Differently PeopleValerie OlsonI Phenomena1 Rebecca Cummins2 Jennifer Willet3 Clea T. Waite4 Betsy Stirratt5 Brad NecykPortfolio IAja Rose Bond; Enrica Costello; Rebecca Cummins; Brad Necyk; Jonathon Paden; Betty Spackman; Betsy Stirratt; Kristine Thompson; Clea T. Waite; Devon Ward; Jennifer Willet; and Maria WhitemanII Mediation6 Ava Aviva Avnisan7 Catherine Griffiths8 Rebecca Uliasz and Quran Karriem9 Jiayi Young10 Mark Marino11 Yvette GranataPortfolio IiAva Aviva Avnisan; Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon; Yvette Granata; Catherine Griffiths; Will Hallett; LissaHolloway-Attaway; Jesse Colin Jackson; Antoinette LaFarge; Eddie Lohmeyer; Kimberly Lyle; Mark Marino and LA Inundacion; Steven Oscherwitz; Robert Rhee; Owen Smith; The Speculative Prototyping Lab; Dennis Summers; Rebecca Uliasz and Quran Karriem; and Jiayi Young, Tim Hyde, Jean-Marc Chomaz, and Samuel BianchiniIII Place12 Krista Davis and Nina Vroemen13 Maria Michails14 Margaretha Haughwout and efrén cruz cortés15 Yulia GilichPortfolio IiiCoven Intelligence Program (efrén cruz cortés and Margaretha Haughwout) with Elæ Moss and Suzanne Husky; Christel Dillbohner; Yulia Gilich; Erika Lynne Hanson; Paul Harris; Ro Lawrence; Jason McDermott; Victoria McReynolds; Maria Michails; Heather Parrish; Emilio Taiveaho Pelaez; and Nina Vroemen and Krista DavisIndex