Acknowledgments

Books are not only about the author whose name is on the cover, but also the people who help out in affective, intellectual, friendly, and loving ways. Here’s a list of you who have supported this book in one way or another. Thank you to Antje Ehmann, Tomáš Dvořák, Michal Šimůnek, Tereza Stejskalová, Josef Ledvina, Martin Charvat, Trevor Paglen, Ryan Bishop, Shannon Mattern, Sunil Manghani, Giuliana Bruno, Francisco Alarcon, Bernhard Siegert, Doreen Mende, Jane Birkin, Athina Stamatopoulou, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Stephen Cornford, Samir Bhowmik, Benjamin Bratton, Sean Cubitt, Larry Lynch, Joasia Krysa, Geoff Cox, Sasha Anikina, Aura Satz, Beny Wagner, Daphne Dragona, Robert Pietrusko, Rosemary Lee, Miha Brebenel, Chris Speed, Eda Sancakdar, Xinyi Wen, Xuefei Cao, Sheung Yiu, Mika Elo, Tuomo Rainio, Jesper Olsson, Jannice Käll, Andrew Fisher, Alejandro Limpo, David Benqué, Ned Rossiter, Asia Bazdyrieva, Solveig Suess, Eleonora Roaro, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Sebastian Scholz, Pasi Väliaho, Rebecca Birch, Lindsay Smith Zrull, and Sarah Lavellee. And thank you to Elise Misao Hunchuck for her expertise and help in editing the book’s language and expressions.

I also want to collectively thank the institutions that supported this book along the way: the department of photography at FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague; the department of Digital Design and Information Studies and the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre at Aarhus University; and the Winchester School of Art (at the University of Southampton). I want to thank the organizers and audience members of talks at the University of Edinburgh (Design Informatics), Bath Spa University, the University of Arts in Helsinki, the Royal College of Art, the London South Bank University’s Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) research center at Bauhaus University in Weimar, and Aalto University in Helsinki. Thanks to conference organizers at the Media and Cultural Studies Association (UK) annual conference in 2020 in Brighton; Narrative 2020 (The International Society for the Study of Narrative) in New Orleans; the Digital Arts: Multiple Realities, Ludic Realities; International Congress of Art, Science, Technology (2021) at UEMG (Belo Horizonte in Brazil); the 2021 Estonian Graduate Winter School of Culture Studies and the Arts (University of Tallinn); and Zone 1: Re-Thinking Methodologies at Intersections of the Arts and the Humanities (Linköping University).

The staff at the University of Minnesota Press were amazing all the way through. Thank you to Doug Armato, Zenyse Miller, and everyone else involved throughout this process. The anonymous reviewers offered several good suggestions. Thank you to Fred Kameny for the index.

This book’s research and writing were supported by the Operational Images and Visual Culture project, funded by the Czech Science Foundation’s EXPRO grant 19-26865X.