Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1	INTRODUCTION
Oliver Grau	1
2	THE COMING AND GOING OF IMAGES
Rudolf Arnheim	15
I	Origins: Evolution versus Revolution	19
3	IT IS FORBIDDEN NOT TO TOUCH
SOME REMARKS ON THE (FORGOTTEN PARTS OF THE) HISTORY OF INTERACTIVITY AND VIRTUALITY
Peter Weibel	21
4	HISTORICIZING ART AND TECHNOLOGY
FORGING A METHOD AND FIRING A CANNON
Edward A. Shanken	43
5	TWIN-TOUCH-TEST-REDUX
MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ART, INTERACTIVITY, AND TACTILITY
Erkki Huhtamo	71
6	DUCHAMP: INTERFACE: TURING
A HYPOTHETICAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE BACHELOR MACHINE AND THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE
Dieter Daniels	103
7	REMEMBER THE PHANTASMAGORIA!
ILLUSION POLITICS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND ITS MULTIMEDIAL AFTERLIFE
Oliver Grau	137
8	ISLAMIC AUTOMATION
A READING OF AL-JAZARI'S THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE OF INGENIOUS MECHANICAL DEVICES (1206)
Gunalan Nadarajan	163
II	Machine--Media--Exhibition	179
9	THE AUTOMATIZATION OF FIGURATIVE TECHNIQUES
TOWARD THE AUTONOMOUS IMAGE
Edmond Couchot	181
10	IMAGE, PROCESS, PERFORMANCE, MACHINE
ASPECTS OF AN AESTHETICS OF THE MACHINIC
Andreas Broeckmann	193
11	FROM FILM TO INTERACTIVE ART
TRANSFORMATIONS IN MEDIA ARTS
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski	207
12	THE PASSAGE FROM MATERIAL TO INTERFACE
Louise Poissant	229
13	THE MYTH OF MEDIA IMMATERIALITY
PRESENTING AND PRESERVING NEW MEDIA
Christiane Paul	251
III	Pop Meets Science	275
14	DEVICE ART
A NEW APPROACH IN UNDERSTANDING JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART MEDIA
Machiko Kusahara	277
15	PROJECTING MINDS
Ron Burnett	309
16	ABSTRACTION AND COMPLEXITY
Lev Manovich	339
17	MAKING STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA CRITICAL
Timothy Lenoir	355
IV	Image Science	381
18	IMAGE, MEANING, AND DISCOVERY
Felice Frankel	383
19	THERE ARE NO VISUAL MEDIA
W. J. T. Mitchell	395
20	PROJECTION
VANISHING AND BECOMING
Sean Cubitt	407
21	BETWEEN A BACH AND A BARD PLACE
PRODUCTIVE CONSTRAINT IN EARLY COMPUTER ARTS
Douglas Kahn	423
22	PICTURING UNCERTAINTY
FROM REPRESENTATION TO MENTAL REPRESENTATION
Barbara Maria Stafford	453