RELIVE MEDIA ART HISTORIES

Leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of new media and at the same time write the histo ries of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials of historythe mate rials through which the past is mediated. Drawing on the tools of media archaeology and the history and philosophy of media, they pr opose a new materialist media art history.