Living in the Interface

New Media art and older categorical names like§Digital art,Computer art,Multimedia art,and§Interactive art are often used interchangeably, but§for the purposes of this book I decided to use the§term New Media art to describe projects that make use§of emerging media technologies and are concerned with§the cultural, political and aesthetic possibilities§of these tools.Location of New Media art as a subset§of two broader categories:Art and Technology and§Media art. Art and Technology refers to practices§that involve technologies which are new but not§necessarily media-related. Media art includes art§forms that incorporate media technologies which by§the 1990s were no longer new. New Media art is thus§the intersection of these two domains. I chose to§limit the scope of this book to work that was made§after the term New Media art was broadly adopted in§1994, and to focus on works that are particularly§influential, that exemplify an important domain of§New Media art practice, and that display an§exceptional degree of conceptual sophistication,§technological innovation, or social relevance. In the§second part of the book I proposed management§concepts,tools and methods for New Media arts.