Art, Media, Technology/Histories, Theories, and Practices

Through trans-disciplinary theories, considers technological experiments and multi-disciplinary artistic exploration in post-WWII kinetics, cybernetics, computers, intermedia, expanded cinema, virtual reality, and new media with advent of technoculture, cyberspace, nano- and endo-culture, telematics, telepresence, bioart, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and emergent systems; and how media artists address the ways in which the global military, industrial, communications, computer, and information complex include mind control, surveillance, and infowar, and effect social interactions, and the environment and animals in the creation of the integrated spectacle.