Margot Lovejoy & Victoria Vesna 
Context Providers [EPUB ebook] 
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts

Introduction

PART ONE

Defining Conditions For Digital Arts: Social Function, Authorship, and Audience – Margot Lovejoy

Missing In Action: Agency and Meaning In Interactive Art – Kristine Stiles and Edward A. Shanken

Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art – Sharon Daniel

Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges – Mary Flanagan

PART TWO

Contextual Networks: Data, Identity, and Collective Production – Christiane Paul

Aesthetics of Information Visualization – Warren Sack

Identity Operated In New Mode: Context and Body/Space/Time – Marina Gržinić

Game Engines As Creative Frameworks – Robert F. Nideffer

Mapping the Collective – Sara Diamond

PART THREE 

Shifting Media Contexts: When Scientific Labs Become Art Studios – Victoria Vesna

Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm – Anna Munster

Working With Wetware – Ruth G. West

Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications – Ellen K. Levy

Art and Science Research: Active Contexts and Discourses – Jill Scott and Daniel Bisig

Margot Lovejoy is professor emerita of visual arts at SUNY Purchase and the author of Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age.
Christiane Paul is adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art.
Victoria Vesna is a media artist and professor in the Department of Design and Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the UCLA Art|Sci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network.