Claudia Costa Pederson is Associate Professor of Art History at Wichita State University and Curator of New Media for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College. She has contributed to multiple journals and edited volumes on film and media.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Avant-Garde Plays2. Action, Participation, and the Digital Avant-Garde3. Cybernetic Ecologies of Art and Counterculture4. Gaming Electronic Civil Disobedience5. A Dreampolitik of Persuasive and Other Queer GamesConclusion: Unfinished ProcessesReferencesIndex

"Pederson brings a particular and consistent understanding of what a 'game' is, one that distinguishes her work from that of other gaming scholars."—Kevin Hamilton, author of Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War"Gaming Utopia is meticulously researched and provides original insights through its focus on the relationship between avant-garde traditions and political theories of emancipatory social change. . . . It uses highly accessible language and will most definitely be of interest to a general audience interested in the history and culture of videogames, as well as in issues relating to activism and emancipatory social change."—Judith Aston, editor of I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary