Ars Electronica : facing the future : a survey of two decades / edited by Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Hannes Leopoldseder -- Preface / Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schopf -- Introduction: Ready or not? / Timothy Druckrey -- Prologue (1979) / Herbert W. Franke -- A medium matures: video and the cinematic enterprise (1984) / Gene Youngblood -- On the history and aesthetics of the digital image (1984) / Peter Weibel -- MIDI--what it is and what it means to electronic artists (1984) / Robert Moog -- Ten indications of an emerging computer culture (1986) / Hannes Leopoldseder -- Art from the screen (1986) / Herbert W. Franke -- The visual artist turns to computer programming (1986) / Herve Huitric, Monique Nahas -- Gesamtdatenwerk: connectivity, transformation and transcendence (1989) / Roy Ascott -- Radio art (1989) / Heidi Grundmann -- Werner alone has looked on reality bare: proposal for a really new "new physics" (1990) / Nick Herbert -- Virtual environments, personal simulation and telepresence (1990) / Scott S. Fisher -- The future of cyberspace: wild frontier vs. hyperreal estate (1990) / Bruce Sterling -- The universal robot (1991) / Hans Moravec -- Thresholds of control: destruction art and terminal culture (1991) / Kristine Stiles -- Video and architecture: beyond the screen (1994) / Kathy Rae Huffman -- The noise of the observer (1995) / Peter Weibel -- Vector in open space (1996) / Gerfried Stocker -- The memesis network discussion (1996) / Geert Lovink -- Mind viruses (1996) / Richard Dawkins -- For a digital renaissance of situationism (1996) / Heimo Ranzenbacher.