Foreword

Hannes Leopoldseder

Preface

Gerfried Stocker

Christine Schopf

Introduction: Ready or Not?

Timothy Druckrey

HISTORY

Prologue (1979)

Herbert W. Franke

A Medium Matures: Video and the Cinematic Enterprise (1984)

Gene Youngblood

On the History and Aesthetic of the Digital Image (1984)

Peter Weibel

MIDI---What it is and What it Means to Electronic Artists (1984)

Robert Moog

Ten Indications of an Emerging Computer Culture (1986)

Hannes Leopoldseder

Art from the Screen (1986)

Herbert W. Franke

The Visual Artist Turns to Computer Programming (1986)

Herve Huitric

Monique Nahas

Gesamtdatenwerk: Connectivity, Transformation and Transcendence (1989)

Roy Ascott

Radio Art (1989)

Heidi Grundmann

Werner Alone Has Looked on Reality Bare: Proposal for a Really New ``New Physics'' (1990)

Nick Herbert

Virtual Environments, Personal Simulation & Telepresence (1990)

Scott S. Fisher

The Future of Cyberspace: Wild Frontier vs. Hyperreal Estate (1990)

Bruce Sterling

The Universal Robot (1991)

Hans Moravec

Thresholds of Control: Destruction Art and Terminal Culture (1991)

Kristine Stiles

Video and Architecture: Beyond the Screen (1994)

Kathy Rae Huffman

The Noise of the Observer (1995)

Peter Weibel

Vector in Open Space (1996)

Gerfried Stocker

The Memesis Network Discussion (1996)

Geert Lovink

Mind Viruses (1996)

Richard Dawkins

For a Digital Renaissance of Situationism (1996)

Heimo Ranzenbacher

Neuron-Silicon Junction or Brain-Computer Junction? (1997)

Peter Fromherz

Bad Girl Versus the Astronaut Christ: The Strange Political Journey of the Cyborg (1997)

Hari Kunzru

On the History of the Theory of Information Warfare (1998)

Friedrich Kittler

Expansion of Media Art: What Will Remain of the Electronic Age? (1984)

Jurgen Claus

Media Art (1986)

Gerhard Johann Lischka

``An Ear Alone Is Not a Being'' (1987)

Daniel Charles

The Sound of Music (1987)

Douglas Kahn

Memories (1988)

Vilem Flusser

Virtual Worlds: The Emperor's New Bodies (1990)

Peter Weibel

Cybermedia and the Fatal Attraction of Realities (1990)

Bilwet

Adilkno

Filwis

The Future Merging of Science, Art, and Psychology (1990)

Marvin Minsky

Virtual Reality for Collective Cognitive Processing (1990)

Derrick de Kerckhove

Riding the Giant Worm to Saturn: Post-Symbolic Communication in Virtual Reality. Excerpt from an Interview with Jaron Lanier (1990)

Morgan Russell

Endophysics---Physics from Within (1992)

Otto E. Rossler

The Three Faces of Life (1993)

John L. Casti

Trace Apparatus (1993)

Thomas Feuerstein

Klaus Strickner

Artificial Life (1993)

Christopher G. Langton

Praise to the Parasites (1993)

Florian Rotzer

The Overexposed City (1994)

Paul Virilio

The Medialization of the Cities (1994)

Edouard Bannwart

Winds of the Media from Asia: Human Beings and Art in the B-ISDN Era (1994)

Keigo Yamamoto

Keep Him on the Phone: The Human Body in the Realm of Technology (1995)

Melita Zajc

Slacker Luddites (1995)

Critical Art Ensemble

NETOPOS ... NOTOPOS The Fate of Reason in the Global Network: Teleology, Telegraphy, Telephony, Television, Telesthetics (1995)

Timothy Druckrey

Media Memory (1996)

Allucquere Rosanne Stone

Becoming Positive (1996)

Sadie Plant

Economics, Computers, and the War Machine (1998)

Manuel De Landa

Infowar (1998)

Paul Virilio

Derrick de Kerckhove

Norn Attacks and Marine Doom (1998)

Birgit Richard

The World in 24 Hours (1982)

Robert Adrian

Sky Art (1982)

Otto Piene

Mind of Universe (1984)

Isao Tomita

The Philosophical Data Bank of Minus Delta T (1984)

Mike Hentz

Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image (1986)

Gene Youngblood

A Contemplation of Dangerous Games (1986)

Cabaret Voltaire

Statement about Art and Technology (1986)

John Sanborn

Terminal Art (1986)

Jurgen Claus

Propositions on the Dark Age of Television (1986)

Bazon Brock

Pompino Project (1990)

Van Gogh TV

``Nobody is Safe'' (1991)

Stadtwerkstatt TV

Cartesian Chaos (1992)

Peter Weibel

Bob O'Kane

Interactive Evolution (1993)

Karl Sims

Simulation Room (1993)

KR+cF Knowbotic Research

Interactive Plant Growing (1993)

Christa Sommerer

Laurent Mignonneau

Audience Participation (1994)

Loren

Rachel Carpenter

Horizontal Radio---24 Hours Live (1995)

Gerfried Stocker

What's That Supposed to Be, What's Program? (1996)

Just Merrit

Parasite Visions: Alternate, Intimate, and Involuntary Experiences (1997)

Stelarc

Fragments from ``Borderscape 2000.'' From ``The Chicano State Department Chronicles'' (1997)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Roberto Sifuentes

Humanistic Intelligence (1997)

Steve Mann

Music Plays Images x Images Play Music (1997)

Toshio Iwai

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ground Truth (1998)

Robin Bargar

Insook Choi

Are You Online? Presence and Participation in Network Art (1998)

Andreas Broeckmann

Biographies

Acknowledgments

Sources