Apologies for the double posting. The following has the correct intro:


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

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, the
crystallization of a systematic theoretical knowledge and the establishment
of a history (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