A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance.

How global biotechnology is redefining "life itself."

A critical analysis of the protocols that control theInternet and the resistance to them.

Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion.

And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire. What is synesthesia?

By providing a context for this work--showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns-- At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art ...

The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn.

" "The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media. ..

In "MediaArtHistories," leading scholars take a wider view of new media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.

In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history.