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A wild ride through the brave new world of electronic communication, computerized data and pixellated imagery. In his role as one of our most influential and exploratory critics of photography, art and mass media, Coleman concerned himself with the emerging communication systems and digital technologies long ago; the earliest of these texts dates from 1967. In the intervening 30 years, Coleman returned again and again to such issues as the credibility of digitized photographs, the shifting concept of intellectual property, the impact of computers and other "generative systems" on artists and audience alike, and the social implications of the Internet and the World Wide Web. This wide-ranging selection of essays, lectures and interviews speaks to that global transformation Coleman calls "the digital evolution," tracing the fascinating development of this epochal shift in our dominant information systems.
