Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.

Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field.

Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between art and technology, and the exciting new cultural conditions we are experiencing. It will be ideal reading for students taking courses in digital art, and also for anyone seeking to understand these new creative forms.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Sources
• 1 Vision, Representation and Invention
• 2 The Machine Age and Modernism
• 3 The Electronic Era and Postmodernism
• Part 2 Media
• 4 Video as Time, Space, MOtion
• 5 Art in the Age of Digital Simulation
• 6 Art as Interactive Communications: Networking Global Culture
• 7 Transaesthetics