Christiane Paul

This is a rather comprehensive introduction to the field of digital art, ranging from the 1970s to the present day and tracing its origins in a brief historical sketch. The presentation is richly illustrated and comprises many examples that will be inspirational for interaction design, perhaps primarily in the field of ubicomp. Paul's style, however, is a bit dry at times and the thematic discussion is not executed as powerfully as I would have preferred.

The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art’s most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. Digital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the ‘digital revolution’ into the social media era and to the postdigital and post-Internet landscape. This new, expanded edition of this invaluable overview of the medium traces the emergence of artificial intelligence, augmented and mixed realities, and show more Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and surveys themes explored by digital artworks in the areas of activism, networks and telepresence, and ecological art and the Anthropocene. show less