This third updated & expanded edition of Christiane Pauls acclaimed book investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained in prominence in recent years including the emergence & impact of location-based media interactive public installation augmentive & mixed reality social networking & file-sharing & tablet technologies It explores themes raised by digital artworks such as viewer interaction artificial life & intelligence political & social activism networks & telepresence & issues surrounding the collection presentation & preservation of digital art It also looks at the impact of digital techniques & media on traditional forms of art such as printing painting photography & sculpture as well as exploring the ways in which entirely new forms such as internet & software art digital installation & virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices