Index

Table of Contents

Introduction: Shifting Interfaces   7
Hava Aldouby
I Immersion, Empathy, and Presence: 
Manipulating the Boundaries of Self and Body

From Immersion to Empathy: e Legacy of Einfühlung in Virtual Reality
andDigitalArt   17
Grant Bollmer

Avatars: Shifting Identities in a Genealogical Perspective   31
Andrea Pinotti

Meeting Yourself in Virtual Reality: A Performative Experiment in Self-Compassion   47
Daniel Landau

Art and Presence: Investigating Embodiment in a Virtual Art Gallery   59
Hava Aldouby

Shared Objective Empathy inTelematicSpace   75
Paul Sermon

Elaborating Mediation rough Media Arts   91
Wendy Coones

II Subjects of Surveillance: 
Reclaiming Human Agency in the Big Data Universe 

Qualculative Poetics: An Artistic Critique of Rational Judgment   113
Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki

Google, Shmoogle: A Critical Twist on Search Engine Ideology   129
Ziv Neeman and Tsila Hassine

Sculpting Time: e Art of Collective Memory   143
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński

The Logic of Participation in Digital Art andNetwork Culture   161
Manuela Naveau

Aesthetic Strategies in the Wasteocene   177
Yvonne Volkart

III Bacteria and Smart Objects: 
Presences Beyond the Human

Rehabilitating Bacteria: An Epistemological Art/Science Interface   193
Jens Hauser

Exceptional Matters   213
Adam W. Brown
From Sof Sculpture to Sof Robotics: Retracing Entropic Aesthetics of the Life-like   223
Jonas Jørgensen

Natures Mortes, Live Data: The Art Object in the IoT Era   243
Tsila Hassine, Olga Kisseleva

Unmanned Imaging of the Anthropocene   257
Aaron Burton

List of Contributors   277
Index   287
Color Plates   303