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Digital Media/Animation

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.


Amerika, Mark. META/DATA: A Digital Poetics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 438 pp.; 18 color ills. Cloth $35.95 (9780262012231)

Austin, Tricia, and Richard Doust. New Media Design. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2007. 192 pp.; 450 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781856694315)

Grenville, Bruce, Tim Johnson, Seth Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Will Wright, Toshiya Ueno, and Kiyoshi Kusumi. KRAZY: The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art. Exh. cat. Berkeley: University of California Press and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group, 2008. 276 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520257849)

Bartscherer, Thomas, and Roderick Coover, eds. Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. 448 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780226038308)

Baume, Nicholas, ed. Super Vision. Exh. cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in association with MIT Press, 2005. 196 pp.; 90 color ills. $34.95 (0262026090)

Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna, Trish Cashen, and Hazel Gardiner, eds. Digital Art History: A Subject in Transition. Bristol, U.K.: Intellect, 2004. 123 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (1841501166)

Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna, Trish Cashen, and Hazel Gardiner, eds. Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 128 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (1841501689)

Branston, Gill, and Roy Stafford. The Media Student’s Book (second edition). New York: Routledge, 1998. 468 pp.; some b/w ills. Paper (0415173086)

Brown, Paul, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason, eds. White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. 450 pp.; 63 ills. Cloth $44.95 (978262026536)

Bryant, Mark. Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Ashgate, 1999. 254 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth (1840142863)

Cavalier, Stephen. The World History of Animation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. 416 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520261129)

Colson, Richard. The Fundamentals of Digital Art. Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2007. 176 pp.; 150 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9782940373581)

Di'an, Fan, and Zhang Ga, eds. Synthetic Times: Media Art China. Beijing: National Art Museum of China, 2010. 358 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $44.95 (9780262512268)

Dorin, Lisa. Film, Video, and New Media at the Art Institute of Chicago: With the Donna and Howard Stone Gift. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 112 pp.; 105 color ills. Paper $16.95 (9780300146905)

Drucker, Johanna. SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 264 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $70.00 (9780226165080)

Elmslie, Kenward, and Trevor Winkfield. Cyberspace. Granary Books, 1999. 48 pp.; 24 color ills. Paper (1887123334)

Fifield, George, and Judith S. Donath. Act/React: Interactive Installation Art. Exh. cat. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008. 84 pp. Paper and DVD $34.00 (9780981520810)

Fishwick, Paul. Aesthetic Computing. MIT Press, 2005. 488 pp.; 201 b/w ills. Cloth $42.50 (026206250X)

Fuller, Matthew. Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture. The MIT Press, 2007. 279 pp.; 11 ills. Paperback (9780262562263)

Furniss, Maureen. Animation: Art and Industry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780861966806)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Guallart, Vicente. Geologics: Geography Information Architecture. Barcelona: Actar, 2009. 384 pp. Cloth $47.00 (9788495951618)

Heller, Steven. Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. Allworth Press, 1998. 288 pp. Paper $19.95 (1581150350)

Jones, Amelia. Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 280 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Paper $35.95 (9780415345224)

Jones, Caroline A. Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. MIT Press, 2005. 268 pp.; 18 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. (0262101173)

Jones, Stephen. Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956–1975. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. 464 pp.; 108 ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780262014960 )

Klaver, Elizabeth, ed. Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Paper $19.95 (0299197948)

Lamarre, Thomas. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 424 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780816651559)

Levin, Thomas Y., Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel, eds. CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. MIT Press, 2001. 655 pp.; 350 color ills.; 600 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95

Lovejoy, Margot, Christiane Paul, and Victoria Vesna. Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2011. 350 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781841503080)

Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures. MIT Press, 1999. 240 pp.; 41 b/w ills. $32.95 (026212226X)

Lunenfeld, Peter. The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. 219 pp. Cloth $21.95 (9780262015479)

Lunning, Frenchy, ed. Mechademia: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 184 pp.; 13 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780816649457)

MacLean, Margaret, and Ben H. Davis, eds. Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity. Getty Trust Publications, 84 pp.; none color ills.; some b/w ills.; 0 ills. $9.95 (0892365839)

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 354 pp. Cloth $34.95 (0262133741)

Maranda, Michael, ed. Projecting Questions? Mike Hoolboom's Invisible Man between the art gallery and the movie theater. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2009. 144 pp.; 11 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780921972525)

McRobert, Laurie. Char Davies' Immersive Visual Art and the Essence of Spatiality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 290 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (080209094X)

Miller, Paul D., ed. Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. 416 pp.; 12 b/w ills. Paper and CD $29.95 (9780262633635)

Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. MIT Press, 1995. 225 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Paper $15.95 (0262631768)

Moffat, Ellen. Fault Lines. Regina, Saskatchewan: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2004. CD-ROM (1896470572)

Mulvey, Laura. Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 216 pp.; 37 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9781861892638)

Murray, Timothy. Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 336 pp. Paper $25.00 (9780816634026)

Parry, Ross, ed. Museums in a Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2009. 496 pp. Paper $52.95 (9780415402620)

Paul, Christiane, ed. New Media in the White Cube: Curatorial Models for Digital Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 288 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780520255975)

Ratner, Peter. Mastering 3D Animation. Allworth Press, 1999. 333 pp.; 660 b/w ills.; 700 ills. Paper $35.00 (1581150687)

Rieser, Martin, ed. The Mobile Audience: Media Art and Mobile Technologies. Architecture Technology Culture vol. 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 481 pp. Cloth $135.00 (9789042031272)

Russett, Robert. Hyperanimation: Digital Images and Virtual Worlds. New Barnet, U.K.: John Libbey Publishing, 2009. 300 pp.; 205 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780861966547)

Shanken, Edward A., ed. Art and Electronic Media. New York: Phaidon, 2009. 304 pp.; 250 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780714847825)

Simanowski, Roberto. Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 312 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816667383)

Simon, Mark. Facial Expressions Babies to Teens: A Visual Reference for Artists. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2008. 256 pp.; 3000 b/w ills. Cloth $21.95 (9780823096152)

Smith, Elizabeth. Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT. Exh. cat. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz in association with Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. 128 pp.; 94 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9783775723015)

Steiner, Hadas A. Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation. New York: Routledge, 2008. 272 pp.; 12 color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $43.95 (9780415394772)

Stubbs, Mike, and Karen Newman, eds. We Are the Real-Time Experiment. Liverpool: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 2010. 208 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9781846312998)

Tabata, Ayako. Tabaimo. Exh. cat. Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2007. 92 pp.; 60 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (0500976708)

Thames and Hudson. Art 20: The Thames & Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art, CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh. Thames and Hudson, 1998. 3500 ills. CD-ROM $125.00 (0500100152)

Treib, Marc. Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age. London: Routledge, 2008. 192 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $53.95 (9780415775618)

Tuer, Dot. Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance. YYZ Books, 2004. 224 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $20.95 (1920397352)

Vasudevan, Ravi, Ravi Sundaram, and Jeebesh Bagchi, eds. Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life. New Delhi: Sarai: the new media initiative, 2002. 376 pp. Paper $15.00 (8190142909)

Vasulka, Woody, and Peter Weibel, eds. Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973–1990. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. 800 pp.; 900 ills. Paper $59.95 (9780262720502)

Vesna, Victoria. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 328 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816641192)

Wigan, Mark. Sequential Images. Basic Illustration. Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2006. 176 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940373604)

Wood, John, ed. The Virtual Embodied: Presence/Practice/Technology. Routledge, 1997. 226 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Paper $24.99 (041516026X)

Zurich University of the Arts, New Media, ed. Media Arts Zürich: 13 Positions from the New Media Program. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008. 204 pp.; 400 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9783858812100)