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 iiNotes on Contributors iiiAcknowledgements ivINTRODUCTION ov From Digital to Post-Digital — Evolutions of an Art Form vChristiane PaulPART I: HISTORIES OF DIGITAL ART1 The Complex and Multifarious Expression of Digital Art and its Impact on Archives and HumanitiesOliver Grau2 International Networks of Early Digital ArtsDarko Fritz3 Art in the Rear-View Mirror: The Media-Archaeological Tradition in ArtErkki Huhtamo4 Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde ArtMachiko Kusahara5 Generative Art TheoryPhilip Galanter6 Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and FeminismJennifer Way07 The Hauntology of the Digital ImageCharlie Gere8 Participatory Art: Histories and Experiences of DisplayRudolf FrielingPART II: AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL ART9 Small Abstract AestheticsMax Bense10 Aesthetics of the DigitalSean Cubitt11 Computational AestheticsM. Beatrice Fazi and Matthew Fuller12 Participatory Platforms and the Emergence of ArtOlga Goriunova13 Interactive Art: Interventions in/to ProcessNathaniel Stern14 The Cultural Work of Public InteractivesAnne BalsamoPART III: NETWORK CULTURES: THE POLITICS OF DIGITAL ART15 Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and CommunicationArmin Medosch16 Critical Intelligence in Art and Digital MediaKonrad Becker17 The Silver Age of Social Media: Nettime.org and the Avant-Garde of the 90sMcKenzie Wark18 Art in the Corporatized Sphere: The Impact of Commercial Social Media on Online Artistic PracticeKyle Chayka19 Big Data and Artistic VisualizationLev Manovich20 Critical Play: The Productive ParadoxMary FlanaganPART IV: DIGITAL ART AND THE INSTITUTION21 Contemporary Art and New Media: Digital Divide or Hybrid Discourse?Edward A. Shanken22 One of Us! On the Coupling of New Media Art and Art InstitutionsRichard Rinehart23 The Digital Arts In and Out of the Institution — Where to Now?Sarah Cook24 Digital Conservation - Tools, Methods, StrategiesBen Fino-Radin25 Trusting Amateurs with Our FutureJon Ippolito 26 Enabling the Future, or How to Survive FOREVERAnnet Dekker27 Exhibition Histories and Futures: The Importance of Participation and AudiencesBeryl Graham