[NMF] TEXT: Media Art - A Mixed History, book review by Horea AVRAM

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Media Art Histories, Edited by Oliver Grau;
Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: MIT Press, 2007.
More information: mediaarthistory.org

Media Art Histories, edited by Oliver Grau aims to occupy a central position
among an increasing number of edited volumes of essays or overview histories
dedicated to new media art. Like other such endeavours Media Art Histories
proposes to fill the gap between a full-speed developing practice, and the
crystallization of a systematic theoretical knowledge and the establishment
of an organized historical basis (and in fact legitimacy) for the phenomenon
of new media art.

The principal merit of this book is synthesized in the title itself: it
doesn