[Leonardo/ISAST Network] MediaArtHistories, edited by Oliver Grau (correct description)

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Apologies for the second announcement about /MediaArtHistories/. The 
last announcement also included information about another new release at 
the end of the description. The following is the correct description of 
/MediaArtHistories/.

NEW from The Leonardo Book Series and MIT Press
 
/MediaArtHistories/, Edited by Oliver Grau; with contributions by Rudolf 
Arnheim, Andreas Broeckmann, Ron Burnett, Edmond Couchot, Sean Cubitt, 
Dieter Daniels, Felice Frankel, Oliver Grau, Erkki Huhtamo, Douglas 
Kahn, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Machiko Kusahara, Timothy Lenoir, Lev 
Manovich, W. J. T. Mitchell, Gunalan Nadarajan, Christiane Paul, Louise 
Poissant, Edward A. Shanken, Barbara Maria Stafford and Peter Weibel.

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.

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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