Writings/Bibliographies
Essays
The following essays provide historical background and information on my approach to digital art and new forms of contemporary art.
The Engagement of Digital Art with Contemporary Art
Keynote speech, EVA Conference, British Computer Art Society, London, 2017
BruceWandsEVAPaper.PDF
Defining Digital Art
http://brucewands.com/writing/defining-digital-art/
The Contemporary Becomes Digital
http://brucewands.com/writing/the-contemporary-becomes-digital/
Creating Continuity between Computer Art History and Contemporary Art
http://brucewands.com/writing/creating-continuity-between-computer-art-history-and-contemporary-art/
Books
Recommended Reading
These books will provide a small, affordable library that will give you a fundamental and comprehensive overview of digital art.
Oliver Grau, Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, 2003, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
United States
Christiane Paul, Digital Art, 2008, Thames & Hudson, 2nd edition, London, UK
Frank Popper, From Technological to Virtual Art, 2007, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, United States
Edward Shanken, Art and Electronic Media, 2009, Phaidon Press, London, UK
Bruce Wands, Art of the Digital Age, 2006, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
Stephen Wilson, Information Arts, 2002, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, United States
Further Reading
You might want to consider adding some of these additional books to your personal library on digital art. More resources can be found in the bibliographies listings.
ACM, Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH), Visual Proceedings (including the art show catalogs)
Ars Electronica, Cyberarts (catalogs of conferences and awards)
Ascott, Roy, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, Edward A. Shanken, ed., Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003
Benjamin, Walter, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illumination, Hannah Arendt, ed., New York: Schocken Books, 1968
Blais, Joline and Ippolito, Jon, At the Edge of Art, New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2006
Gere, Charlie, Digital Culture, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2002
Grau, Oliver, Media Art Histories, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007
Green, Rachel, Internet Art, London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2004
Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
Manovich, Lev, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002
Malloy, Judy, ed., Women, Art, and Technology, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003
Mongeon, Bridgette, 3D Technology in Fine Art and Craft: Exploring 3D Printing, Scanning, Sculpting and Milling, Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2016
Packer, Randall and Ken Jordan, eds., Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001
Popper, Frank, Art of the Electronic Age, London: Thames & Hudson, Ltd., 1993
Rush, Michael, New Media in Art, New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2009
Simon, John F. Jr., Drawing Your Own Path, Berkely, CA: Parallax Press, 2016
Spalter, Anne Morgan, The Computer in the Visual Arts, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1999
Taylor, Grant D., When the Machine Made Art, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014
Weibel, Peter, and Timothy Druckrey, eds., net_condition: Art and Global Media, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001
Wilson, Stephen, Art + Science Now, New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2013
Bibliographies
The bibliographies that follow include books, essays, periodicals and other information designed to provide a wealth of knowledge about digital art, new media art and many other topics. While some stand on their own, others are parts of larger websites that I encourage you to explore.
Please contact the copyright holders to obtain written permission to use the work and cite the appropriate credits.
Oliver Grau, New Media Art Bibliography
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920105/obo-9780199920105-0082.xml
Stephen Wilson, Bibliography – Art, Science, Technology
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/infoarts/links/wilson.artscibib.html
Ken Rinaldo, List of Digital Art Publications
http://newmediaartist.org/index.php/chapter-18/174-chapter-18
Frank Popper, Virtual Art and Artists
https://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/virtualartbib.html
Dejan Grba, Selected Bibliography of Digital Art and Culture
http://dejangrba.dyndns.org/teaching/en/pda/platform/documents/bibliography.pdf
Bruce Wands, Art of the Digital Age Further Reading, p. 214
New York Digital Salon Resources
http://nydigitalsalon.org/resources.php
Leonardo Education and Art Forum Bibliography
https://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/LEFbiblio.html
Leonardo Book Series
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/leonardo-book-series
