Index

Contents

Series Foreword ix

Introduction: The New Materialism in Media Art History 1
Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas

I Considering the Methods of Media Art History

1 From Time-Lapse to Time Collapse or From Representation to Presentation 25
Zhang Ga

2 Pre-Socratic Media Theory 39
Brogan Bunt

3 Writing Media Art into (and out of) History 51
Darren Tofts

4 Viewer as Performer or Rhizomatic Archipelago of Interactive Art 65
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski

5 Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography 83
Edward A. Shanken

II Doing Media Art History: Europe

6 Histories of Networks and Live Meetings—Case Study: [New] Tendencies,
1961-1973 (1978) 99
Darko Fritz

7 The First Computer Art Show at the 1970 Venice Biennale: An Experiment or
Product of the Bourgeois Culture? 119
Francesca Franco

8 Between Punched Film Stock and the First Comuters: The Work of Konrad
Zuse 135
Andres Burbano

9 Polish Digital Poetry: Lack of "Prehistoric" Artifacts or
Missing Narrative? 149
Monika Górska-Olesińska

lll Doing Media Art History: New Zealand and Australia

10 Bush Video: Toward a New Secular Electronic Notion of the Divine 169
Stephen Jones

11 Erewhon: Media, Ecology, and Utopia in the Antipodes 191
Susan Ballard

12 Media Archeological Undertakings: Toward a Cartography of Australian Video
Art and New Media 209
John Conomos

13 Australian Video Art Histories: A Media Arts Archaeology
for the Future 21
Ross Harley

IV Artificial Life from Hardware to Wetware

14 Let Me Hear My Body Talk, My Body Talk 235
Douglas Kahn

15 The Living Effect: Autonomous Behavior in Early Electronic
Media Art 257
Caroline Seck Langill

16 Remediating Still Life, Pencils of Nature, and Fingerprints: Transhistorical
Perspectives on Biotechnological Art 275

17 Relationship of Art and Technology: Edward lhnatowicz’s Philosophical
 Investigation on the problem of Perception 309
Joanna Walewska

18 The Cadaver, the Comatose, and the Chimera: Avatars Have
No Organs 325
Stelarc

V Imagining the Future

19 Re:Copying-IT-RIGHT AGAIN 337
Jon Cates

20 Visual Digitality: Toward Another Understanding 347
Martin Constable and Adele Tan

21 Lifebox Immortality and How We Got There 357
Rudy Rucker and Leon Marvell

List of Contributors 371

Index 377