Index
Table of Contents
Foreword 2
Preface 14
Introduction: Ready or Not? 16
Prologue (1979) 22
A Medium Matures Video and the Cinematic Enterprise (1984) 43
On the History and Aesthetics of the Digital Image (1984) 51
MIDI - What It Is and What It Means to Electronic Artists (1984) 66
Ten Indications of an Emerging Computer Culture (1986) 67
Art from the Screen (1986) 71
The Visual Artist Turns to Computer Programming (1986) 81
Gesamtdatenwerk: Connectivity, Transformation and Transcendence (1989) 86
Radio Art (1989) 90
Werner Alone Has Looked on Reality Bare: Proposal for a Really New "New Physics" (1990) 101
Virtual Environments, Personal Simulation & Telepresence (1990) 107
The Future of Cyberspace: Wild Frontier vs Hyperreal Estate (1990) 114
The Universal Robot (1991) 116
Thresholds of Control: Destruction Art and Terminal Culture (1991) 124
Video and Architecture: Beyond the Screen (1994) 135
The Noise of the Observer (1995) 140
Vector in Open Space (1996) 149
The Memesis Network Discussion (1996) 152
Mind Viruses (1996) 158
For a Digital Renaissance of Situationism (1996) 161
Neuron-Silicon Junction or Brain-Computer Junction? (1997) 166
Bad Girl Versus the Astronaut Christ. The Strange Political Journey of the Cyborg (1997) 168
On the History of the Theory of Information Warfare (1998) 173
Expansion of Media Art: What Will Remain of the Electronic Age? (1984) 180
Media Art (1986) 185
"An Ear Alone is Not a Being" (1987) 188
The Sound of Music (1987) 192
Memories (1988) 202
Virtual Worlds: The Emperor's New Bodies (1990) 207
Cybermedia and the Fatal Attraction of Realities (1990) 224
The Future Merging of Science, Art, and Psychology (1990) 229
Virtual Reality for Collective Cognitive Processing (1990) 234
Riding the Giant Worm to Saturn: Post-Symbolic Communication in Virtual Reality Excerpt from an Interview with Jaron Lanier (1990) 242
Endophysics - Physics from Within (1992) 244
The Three Faces of Life (1993) 249
Trace Apparatus (1993) 257
Artificial Life (1993) 261
Praise to the Parasites (1993) 269
The Overexposed City (1994) 276
The Medialization of the Cities (1994) 284
Winds of the Media from Asia: Human Beings and Art in the B-ISDN Era (1994) 286
Keep Him on the Phone: The Human Body in the Realm of Technology (1995) 292
Slacker Luddites (1995) 300
NETOPOS ... NOTOPOS: The Fate of Reason in the Global Network: Teleology, Telegraphy, Telephony, Television, Telesthetics (1995) 305
Media Memory (1996) 312
Becoming Positive (1996) 315
Economics, Computers, and the War Machine (1998) 319
Infowar (1998) 326
Norn Attacks and Marine Doom (1998) 336
The World in 24 Hours (1982) 346
Sky Art (1982) 352
Mind of Universe (1984) 356
The Philosophical Data Bank of Minus Delta T (1984) 358
Virtual Space' The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image (1986) 360
A Contemplation of Dangerous Games (1986) 366
Statement about Art and Technology (1986) 368
Terminal Art (1986) 370
Propositions on the Dark Age of Television (1986) 376
Pompino Project (1990) 378
"Nobody is Safe" (1991) 383
Cartesian Chaos (1992) 389
Interactive Evolution (1993) 390
Simulation Room (1993) 391
Interactive Plant Growing (1993) 393
Audience Participation (1994) 395
Horizontal Radio - 24 Hours Live (1995) 397
What's That Supposed to Be, What's Program? (1996) 403
Parasite Visions, Alternate, Intimate, and Involuntary Experiences (1997) 411
Fragments from "Borderscape 2000." From "The Chicano State Department Chronicles" (1997) 416
Humanistic Intelligence (1997) 420
Music Plays Images x Images Play Music (1997) 428
Ground Truth (1998) 431
Are You Online? Presence and Participation in Network Art (1998) 438
Biographies 442
Acknowledgments 447
Sources 448
