This collection focuses on texts written in the twenty-first century that address work and ideas emerging within that period. It excludes things published prior to 2000.

Curated Indexes

Blais, Joline, and Jon Ippolito. At the Edge of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Connor, Michael, Aria Dean, and Dragan Espenschied, eds. The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology. New York: Rhizome, 2019.

Lieser, Wolf. The World of Digital Art. Cologne: H.F. Ullmann Publishing, 2010.

Maeda, John. Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Paul, Christiane, ed. A Companion to Digital Art. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

Reas, Casey, Chandler McWilliams, and LUST. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

Shanken, Edward A. Art and Electronic Media. London: Phaidon, 2009.

Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

Theory and Ideas

Anderson, Steve F. Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.

Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Translated by Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods. Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2002.

Bratton, Benjamin H. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Programmed Visions: Software and Memory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Cubitt, Sean. The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.

Flusser, Vilém. Into the Universe of Technical Images. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Originally published as Ins Universum der technischen Bilder (1985).

Fuller, Matthew. Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2003.

Galanter, Philip. “What Is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory.” 2003. http://philipgalanter.com/downloads/ga2003_what_is_genart.pdf

Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

Galloway, Alexander R., and Eugene Thacker. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Harrell, D. Fox. Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Hoy, Meredith. From Point to Pixel: A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2017.

Khan, Nora. “Seeing, Naming, Knowing.” The Brooklyn Rail, March 7, 2019.

Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Manovich, Lev. Software Takes Command. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

McHugh, Gene. Post Internet: Notes on the Internet and Art, 12.29.09–9.5.10. Brescia: Link Editions, 2011.

Menkman, Rosa. The Glitch Moment(um). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011.

Paglen, Trevor. “Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You).” The New Inquiry, October 2, 2017.

Quaranta, Domenico. In Your Computer. Brescia: Link Editions, 2011.

Quaranta, Domenico. Beyond New Media Art. Brescia: Link Editions, 2013.

Raley, Rita. Tactical Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Wagenknecht, Addie, ed. Deep Lab. Pittsburgh: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, 2014.

Wark, McKenzie. A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Wark, McKenzie. General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century. London: Verso, 2017.

Whitelaw, Mitchell. Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

Preservation and Curation

Fino-Radin, Ben. Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase. New York: Rhizome, 2011.

Graham, Beryl. New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.

Graham, Beryl, and Sarah Cook. Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.

Krysa, Joasia, ed. Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2005.

Rinehart, Richard, and Jon Ippolito. Re-Collections: Art, New Media, and Social Memory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.

Artist Monographs

Arcangel, Cory. The Source Digest. New York: Arcangel Surfware, 2017.

Cheng, Ian. Emissaries Guide to Worlding. Cologne: Koenig Books, 2018.

Leeson, Lynn Hershman. Civic Radar. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2016.

Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. Pseudomatismos / Pseudomatisms. Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2016.

Maeda, John. Maeda@Media. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Simon, John F., Jr. Outside In: Ten Years of Software Art. Reggio Emilia: Collezione Maramotti / Gli Ori, 2009.

Sollfrank, Cornelia. net.art generator: Programmed Seduction. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2004.

UBERMORGEN.COM. UBERMORGEN.COM. Milan: Fabio Paris Editions, 2009.

Essay Collections

Cornell, Lauren, and Ed Halter. Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.

Cox, Geoff, and Joasia Krysa, eds. Engineering Culture: On “The Author as (Digital) Producer”. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2005.

Fuller, Matthew, ed. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

Mansoux, Aymeric, and Marloes de Valk, eds. FLOSS+Art. Brussels: GOTO10, 2008.

Schmalstieg, Manuel. Manifestos for the Internet Age. Vienna: Greyscale Press, 2015.

Vesna, Victoria, ed. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Exhibition Catalogs and Festival Publications

010101: Art in Technological Times. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001.

Abstraction Now. Vienna: Künstlerhaus, 2003. Curated by Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Sandro Droschl.

Respini, Eva, ed. Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Archey, Karen, and Robin Peckham, eds. Art Post-Internet. Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2014.

Stocker, Gerfried, and Christine Schöpf, eds. Ars Electronica 2003: Code—The Language of Our Time. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003.

Coder le monde: Mutations/Créations. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2018.

Paul, Christiane, and Jemima Rellie, eds. Feedback: Art Responsive to Instructions, Input, or Its Environment. Gijón: LABoral, 2007.

Bernard, Yves, and Domenico Quaranta, eds. Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age. Brussels: iMAL, 2008.

Interaction ’01: Dialog with Expanded Images. Gifu: IAMAS, 2001.

Jaschko, Susanne, and Lucas Evers, eds. Process as Paradigm: Art in Development, Flux and Change. Gijón: LABoral, 2010.

Goriunova, Olga, and Alexei Shulgin, eds. read_me: Software Art & Cultures. Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, 2004.

Seeing / Knowing. Gambier, OH: Gund Gallery, 2011.

Evers, Frans, Lucas van der Velden, and Jan Peter van der Wenden, eds. Sonic Acts 2001: The Art of Programming. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2002.

Altena, Arie, ed. Sonic Acts X: Unsorted—Thoughts on the Information Arts. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2004.

The Anthology of Computer Art. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2006.

Debackere, Boris, and Arie Altena, eds. Sonic Acts XII: The Cinematic Experience. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2008.

Cornell, Lauren, and Helga Christoffersen, eds. Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial. New York: New Museum, 2015.

Miller, Abbott, and Ellen Lupton, eds. Swarm. Philadelphia: Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2005.

Broeckmann, Andreas, and Susanne Jaschko, eds. Transmediale.01: DIY Media—Art and Digital Media: Software, Participation, Distribution. Berlin: Berliner Kulturveranstaltungen, 2001.

Software and Free / Libre / Open Source (FLOSS)

DiBona, Chris, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone, eds. Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 1999.

Kelty, Christopher M. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Mansoux, Aymeric. Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production. PhD diss., 2017.

Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 1999.