Index

Contents

1 Introduction: imagery in the 21st Century 1 
Oliver Grau and Thomas Veigl

1 Image Phenomena of the 21st Century 19

2 Current Screens 21 
Sean Cubitt

3 The Unmasking of Images: The Anachronism of TV-Faces 37 
Martin Schulz

4 Bio Art: From Genesis to Natural History of the Enigma 57 
Eduardo Kac

5 Machinima: On the Invention and Innovation of a New Visual Media Technology 81
Thomas Veigl

6 Steps toward Collaborative Video: Time and Authorship 97 
Stefan Heidenreich

7 Imaging Science: The Pictorial Turn in Bio- and Neurosciences 111 
Otaf Bretdbach

8 Toward New Conventions for Visualizing Blood Flow in the Era of Fascination 
with Visibility and Imagery 129
Dolores Steinman and David Steinman

9 Visual Practices across the University: A Report 149 
James Elkins

II Critical Terms of the 21st Century 175

10 On Sourcery, or Code as Fetish 177 
Wendy Bui Kyong Chun

11 Cultural Interfaces: Interaction Revisited 201 
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau

12 Feeling the Image: Some Critical Notes on Affect 219 
Marie-Luise Angerer

13 Web 2.0 and the Museum 235 
Peter Weibel

14 Kawaii: Cute Interactive Media 245 
Adrian David Cheok

15 Universal Synthesizer and Window: Cellular Automata as a New Kind of 
Cybernetic Image 269
Tim Otto Roth and Andreas Deutsch

16 Interdependence and Consequence: En Route toward a Grammar of 
Hypermedia Communication Design 289
Harald Kraemer

III New Tools for Us: Strategies for Image Analysis 313

17 Visualizing Change: Computer Graphics as a Research Method 315 
Lev Manovich and jeremy Douglass

18 "God Is in the Details/' or The Filing Box Answers 339 
Martin Warnke

19 Media Art's Challenge to Our Societies 349 
Oliver Grau

IV Coda 375

20 In and Out of Time: Is There Anything New Under the Cyber-Sun? 377 
Martin Kemp

Contributors 399 
Index 405