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April 2005
7 x 9, 496 pp., 50 illus.
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At a Distance
Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
Edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark

Series Forewordix
Foreword
Joel Slayton
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Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction: Relays, Delays, and Distance
Norie Neumark
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ICritical Perspectives on Distance Art/Activist Practices26
1Interactive, Algorithmic, Networked: Aesthetics of New Media Art
Johanna Drucker
34
2Immaterial Material: Physicality, Corporality, and Dematerialization in Telecommunication Artworks
Tilman Baumgärtel
60
3From Representation to Networks: Interplays of Visualities, Apparatuses, Discourses, Territories and Bodies
Reinhard Braun; Translated by Cecilia White
72
4The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies
John Held, Jr.
88
5Fluxus Praxis: An Exploration of Connections, Creativity, and Community
Owen F. Smith
116
IIArtists/Activists Re-view Their Projects140
6Animating the Social: Mobile Image/Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
Annmarie Chandler
152
7An Unsuspected Future in Broadcasting: Negativland
Don Joyce
176
8Mini-FM: Performing Microscopic Distance (an Email Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa)
Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark
190
9From the Gulf War to the Battle of Seattle: Building an International Alternative Media
Jesse Drew
210
10The Form: 1970-1979 and Other Extemporaneous Anomalous Assemblings
M. Sumner Carnahan
226
11Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana
Craig Saper
246
12From Mail Art to Telepresence: Communication at a Distance in the Works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac
Simone Osthoff
260
13Distance Makes the Art Grow Further: Distributed Authorship and Telematic Textuality in La Plissure du Texte
Roy Ascott
282
14From BBS to Wireless: A Story of Art in Chips
Andrew Garton
298
15REALTIME -- Radio Art, Telematic Art, and Telerobotics: Two Examples
Heidi Grundmann
314
IIINetworking Art/Activist Practices336
16Estri-Dentistas: Taking the Teeth out of Futurism
María Fernández
342
17Computer Network Music Bands: A History of the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub
Chris Brown and John Bischoff
372
18Assembling Magazines and Alternative Artists' Networks
Stephen Perkins
392
19The Wealth and Poverty of Networks
Ken Friedman
408
20From Internationalism to Transnations: Networked Art and Activism
Sean Cubitt
424
Conclusion
Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark
438
Timeline444
List of Contributors
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Index
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