The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science by Cretien van Campen

What does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia, or when two or more senses cooperate in perception. van Campen looks at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research.

Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
by Matthew Fuller

In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes, "to produce patterns, dangers, and potentials." Fuller draws on texts by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze as well as writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, Friedrich Kittler, and others, to define and extend the idea of "media ecology."

From Technological to Virtual Art by Frank Popper

In From Technological to Virtual Art, respected historian of art and technology Frank Popper traces the development of immersive, interactive new media art from its historical antecedents through today's digital, multimedia, and networked art. Popper shows that contemporary virtual art is a further refinement of the technological art of the late twentieth century and also a departure from it. 

Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology by Susan Kozel

In Closer, Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies, and the philosophical approach of phenomenology. Trained in dance and philosophy, Kozel places the human body at the center of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems, and affective computing, asking what can be discovered as we become closer to our computers—as they become extensions of our ways of thinking, moving, and touching.

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark