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/MediaArtHistories/, Edited by Oliver Grau; with contributions by Rudolf 
Arnheim <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12053>, 
Andreas Broeckmann 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=16019>, Ron 
Burnett <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20708>, 
Edmond Couchot 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34331>, Sean 
Cubitt <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12534>, 
Dieter Daniels 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34332>, Felice 
Frankel <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=15483>, 
Oliver Grau 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12229>, Erkki 
Huhtamo <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12077>, 
Douglas Kahn 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=475>, Ryszard W. 
Kluszczynski 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34333>, Machiko 
Kusahara <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=15028>, 
Timothy Lenoir 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20706>, Lev 
Manovich <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=564>, 
W. J. T. Mitchell 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=6912>, Gunalan 
Nadarajan 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=34334>, 
Christiane Paul 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=11960>, Louise 
Poissant <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12210>, 
Edward A. Shanken 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=12055>, Barbara 
Maria Stafford 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=352> and Peter 
Weibel <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=796>

Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to 
achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely 
collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other 
academic disciplines. In /MediaArtHistories/, leading scholars seek to 
change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the 
backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art 
cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be 
understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity 
to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer 
science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.

Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century 
Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic 
lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions 
and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art 
theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred 
dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between 
art images and science images. Finally, /MediaArtHistories/ offers an 
approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs 
the "trained eye" of art history.

Essays by:
Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha 
Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, 
Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Jenni Sorkin.

Artists include:
Marina Abramovic(, Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Louise 
Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, 
Valie Export, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Joan Jonas, Mary Kelly, 
Maria Lassnig, Linda Montano, Alice Neel, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine 
O'Grady, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Howardena Pindell, Yvonne 
Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, 
Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, and 
Hannah Wilke.

Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department 
for Cultural Studies, Danube University Krems. He is the author of 
/Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion/ (MIT Press, 2003), editor of 
/Mediale Emotionen/ (2005) and founder of the pioneering international 
digital art archive www.virtualart.at. 
 
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