Index

          Contents:

          Preface 7 

          Introduction 8 
          The Internet's History ond Pre-History 14; 
          The Art-Historical Context for Internet Art 19 

Chapter I Early Internet Art 31 
          Participation in Public Spaces 34; Russian Internet Art Scene 36; 
          NewVocabularies 39; Travel and Documentary Modes 45; Net.art 52; 
          Cyberfeminism 62; Corporate Aesthetics 65; Telepresence 67 

Chapter 2 Isolating the Elements 73 
          Email-based Communities 73; Exhibition Formats and Collective 
          Projects 78; Browsers, ASCII, Automation and Error 84; Parody, 
          Appropriation and Remixing 92; Mapping Authorship 103; Hypertext 
          and Textual Aesthetics 104; Remodelling Bodies 108; New Forms 
          of Distribution 110; Sexual Personae 111 

Chapter 3 Themes in Internet Art 119 
          Infowar and Tactical Media in Practice 119; Turn of the Millennium,War 
          and the Dotcom Crash 128; Data Visualization and Databases 132; 
          Games 144; Generative and Software Art 152; Open Works 164; 
          The Crash of 2000 168 

Chapter 4 Art for Networks 173 
          Voyeurism, Surveillance and Borders 173; Wireless 180; 
          E-commerce 184; Forms of Sharing 188; Video ond Filmic 
          Discourses 191; Low-fi Aesthetics 200; 'Art for Networks' 206 

          Timeline 214 
          Glossary 214 
          Projects and Resources 216; Select Exhibitions 217; 
          Festivals, Events and Venues 218; Mailing Lists 218 
          Select Bibliography 218 
          Illustration List 220 
          Index 222