Index

                                          Acknowledgments  vii	
                                             Introduction   ix	
                                           VICTORIA VESNA

                              PART I. DATABASE AESTHETICS	

                  1. Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: 
                    The Database Aesthetics of Everything    3	
                                           VICTORIA VESNA

                             2. Database as Symbolic Form   39	
                                             LEV MANOVICH

                                3. Ocean, Database, Recut   61	
                                         GRAHAME WEINBREN

                     4. Waiting for the World to Explode: 
                            How Data Convert into a Novel   86	
                                          NORMAN M. KLEIN

             5. The Database as System and Cultural Form: 
                         Anatomies of Cultural Narratives   95	
                                          CHRISTIANE PAUL

                               6. The Database Imaginary: 
                            Memory_Archive_Database V 4.0  110	
                                              STEVE DIETZ

   7. Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics  121	
                                              BILL SEAMAN

                8. The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity  142	
                                            SHARON DANIEL

                                    9. Network Aesthetics  183	
                                              WARREN SACK

                     10. Game Engines as Embedded Systems  211	
                                       ROBERT F. NIDEFFER

                       PART II. ARTISTS AND DATA PROJECTS	

                                  11. Stock Market Skirt: 
The Evolution of the Internet, the Interface, and an Idea  233	
                                           NANCY PATERSON

                             12. Pockets Full of Memories  243	
                                          GEORGE LEGRADY
  
         13. The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies, and 
                              the Shape of Things to Come  249	
                                     LYNN HERSHMAN-LEESON

              14. Time Capsule: Networking the Biological 
                                     [Biotech and Trauma]  253	
                                              EDUARDO KAC

                               15. Aesthetics of ecosystm  260	
                                               JOHN KLIMA

                                                16. Polar  269	
                                            MARKO PELJHAN

                                      Publication History  279
	
                                             Contributors  281	

                                                    Index  285