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From: Oliver Grau [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wed 31/01/2007 19:45
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Subject: MediaArtHisories : Anthology on the Histories of Media Art

Dear List Members,
I'm glad to report that our book MediaArtHistories appeared:
MediaArtHistories, Cambridge/Mass. MIT-Press 2/2007
MediaArtHistories, Edited by Oliver Grau; with contributions by Rudolf
Arnheim, Andreas Broeckmann, Ron Burnett, Edmond Couchot, Sean Cubitt,
Dieter Daniels, Felice Frankel, Oliver Grau, Erkki Huhtamo, Douglas
Kahn, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Machiko Kusahara, Timothy Lenoir,
Lev Manovich, W. J. T. Mitchell, Gunalan Nadarajan, Christiane Paul,
Louise Poissant, Edward A. Shanken, Barbara Maria Stafford and
Peter Weibel
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has
yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions;
it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history
or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars
seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it
against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that
today's media art cannot be understood by technological details
alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be
understood in proximity to other disciplines - film, cultural and
media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences
dealing with images.
 
Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth century
Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth century phantasmagoria,
magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's
inventions and 1960s Kinetic and Op Art. They reexamine and redefine
key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider
the blurred dividing lines between art produ
 
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