中文简介：

网络文化世界的领军人物探讨了定义互联网时代的大众媒介的艺术家和事件

自1989年万维网诞生以来，网络文化的崛起引发了艺术界的变革。本书结合数字世界主要声音的个人叙述，全面调查了1989年至今这一领域的艺术家和创新者。在这本书中，奥马尔·科莱夫（Omar Kholeif）多产的职业生涯与互联网的发展同步，讲述了这一大众媒介的故事，以及它如何为胶片艺术家和数字艺术家培养了新的可能性。

本书展示了劳伦斯·阿布·哈姆丹、林恩·赫什曼·利森、白南准、希瑟·菲利普森和吴曾等传奇艺术家的各种媒体作品。从基于互联网的艺术的出现到NFTs的黎明，追溯主要艺术家和创新者，这是一个关于现在和未来的故事。

英文简介：

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time

Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital.

The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future.