Index

Contents

Introduction
Digital Art: 1960s-Now
Pita Arreolo, Corinna Gardner and Melanie Lenz
6

1960s-1970s
From Analogue to Digital:
Computer Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Douglas Dodds
16

1970s-1980s
Skews, Simulations and Satellites:
Digital Art in the 1970s and 1980s
Tina Rivers Ryan
48

1990s-2000s
Build Your Own Art Worlds!
Net Art in the 1990s
Ruth Catlow and More Garrett
72

2000s-Now
Data is the New Gold: Digital Art in the 2000s
Pita Arreola
90

Interviews

Frieder Nake
Interviewed by Melanie Lenz
35

Vera Molnar
Interviewed by Melanie Lenz
39

Lawrence Lek and David Em
Moderated by Melanie Lenz
63

Olia Lialina
Interviewed by Pita Arreola
83

Trevor Paglen
Interviewed by Catherine Troiano
110

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Interviewed by Natalie Kane
113

Harm van den Dorpel and Sarah Friend
Moderated by Melanie Lenz
118

Conversations

Technology, Access and Creative Tools
Ibiye Camp, William Latham, and Manfred Mohr with Melanie Lenz
128

Self-Organized DigitalArt Communities
Paul Brown, Doreen Ríos and Mindy Seu with Pita Arreola
142

Presenting, Collecting and Preserving Digital Art
Lisa Long, Kelani Nichole and Nimrod Vardi with Corinna Gardner
154

Timeline 168
Glossary 187
Further Reading 193
Acknowledgments 195
Contributor Biographies 196
Picture Credits 198
Index 200

donated by Dasha Ilina