Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age surveys the major impact of video and digital
technologies on visual culture and artistic practice and examines the revolutionary changes
taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement
of those artists who pioneered early use of electronic mediums in the arts, describing the
development of entirely new forms of representation and practice such as those associated
with video and digital installations, net art, viewer participation, and virtual, augmented
reality.


Digital media have catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think,
and work and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated. Lovejoy
discusses key works and the new issues they raise in the context of today.s major cultural
shifts. This third expanded, updated edition has a new chapter on the Internet and new
sections on sound, narrative, and on science, and art, making it an ideal new media and
visual culture source book.

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