The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Digital Art Books

As the holiday season approaches, it's time to curl up with a good book or find the perfect gift for the art enthusiast in your life. We've curated a list of must-read books about digital art.

Digital Art: 1960s to Now

Author: Pita Arreola, Corinna Gardner, Melanie Lenz (V&A, London, UK)

About: A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors. This is the global story of digital art from its earliest beginnings to the innovative work of today, encompassing wide-ranging, experimental practices, from computer-generated works on paper created by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, programmers and artists in the 1960s to interactive installations, virtual reality, net art and videogames. A collaborative, dynamic approach still characterizes the practice of today's digital artists, who employ technology as a tool while examining its social, ethical and political impact.

Publication Date: October 2024

Type: Book

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Taschen Book “On NFTs.”

Author: Robert Alice (and contributors)

About: Encompassing the entire NFT ecosystem—from algorithmic art to avatars—the first major art historical survey of this field includes 10 academic essays and richly illustrated profiles of 101 key artists. Connecting the disruptive contemporary medium to its context in art history, this volume offers a deep dive into the sphere of non-fungible tokens and is also available for purchase in crypto.

Publication Date: April 2024

Type: Book

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Right Click Save Book “The New Digital Art Community”

Author: Alex Estorick (and contributors)

About: Documenting a new community of creators and collectors, this is a selection of essays, interviews and roundtable discussions. Some of the biggest hits from our first two years for you to cozy up with.

Publication Date: February 2024

Type: Book

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Crypto Art - Begins

Author: Andrea Concas and Eleonora Brizi

About: The volume tells of this exciting movement through the history and works of 50 crypto artists—including Hackatao, Refik Anadol, Kevin Abosch, Osinachi, Federico Clapis, Giant Swan, and DADA.Art—who contributed to its creation and form a part of it with their NFTs (non-fungible tokens) representing the present and future of this new world.

Publication Date: September 19, 2023

Type: Book

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World of Art - Digital Art

Author: Christiane Paul

About: The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art’s most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. This new edition of Christiane Paul’s acclaimed book investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained in prominence in recent years, including the emergence and impact of location-based media, interactive public installation, augmentive and mixed reality, social networking and file-sharing and tablet technologies.

Publication Date: May 9, 2023

Type: Book

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Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs

Author: Omar Kholeif

About: 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.

Publication Date: April 26, 2023

Type: Book

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Proof of Work - Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021

Author: Rhea Myers (and contributors)

About: A beautifully produced anthology of crypto-artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers's pioneering blockchain art, along with a selection of her essays, reviews, and fictions. DAO? BTC? NFT? ETH? ART? WTF? HODL as OG crypto-artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic hashes, follows a day in the life of a young shibe in the year 2032, and patiently explains why all art should be destructively uploaded to the blockchain.

Publication Date: April 11, 2023

Type: Book

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Radical Friends

Author: Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty (with contributors)

About: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their joint ventures using blockchain technology. This new book, edited by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, who have been at the forefront of investigations into the relationship between DAOs and the arts, constitutes over 5 years of research with essays, interviews, exercises and prototypes from leading thinkers, artists and technologists across this emerging field.

Publication Date: August 2022

Type: Book

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Video/Art: The First Fifty Years

Author: Barbara London

About: Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. This first-hand account by the curator who has been following video art from its beginnings in the late 1960s, when artists first adapted portable consumer technology to art-making, spotlights video’s ongoing importance in the art world, tracing the genre’s development alongside the advances in technology that have continued to open up new possibilities for artists.

Publication Date: January 22, 2020

Type: Book

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The RAREST Pepe Book

Author: Eleanora Brizi and Louis Parker

About: “The Rarest Book” is a physical volume collecting 36 series of Rare Pepes, 1774 in total, along with essays that cover the history of the project and put it in context. It’s a fat paperback edition with a striking green cover, as playful and comprehensive as the work it covers. The Rare Pepe Blockchain Project shows the strength of social and memetic content for building community and value in crypto projects. This book is an excellent way of doing that and makes a strong case for the interest, value, and alterity of the project.

Edition: 300 volumes only

Publication Date: December 2018

Type: Book

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