Plate 1 László Moholy-Nagy, Sketch of a Score for a Mechanized Eccentric (1922–1925), collage. Courtesy of Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, University of Cologne. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015.

Plate 2 David Rokeby, The Giver of Names (since 1990), installation view. Photo David Rokeby. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 3 David Rokeby, Seen (2002), installation view. Photo by David Rokeby. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 4 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera (2007), installation view. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 5 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera (2007), sequence of screenshots. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 6 Jim Campbell, Church on Fifth Avenue (2001), installation view. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 7 Julien Maire, Memory Cone (2009), installation view. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 8 Julien Maire, Memory Cone (2009), projection detail. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 9 Herwig Weiser, Lucid Phantom Messenger (2010). Copyright © the artist.

Plate 10 David Tomas, Behind the Eye Lies the Hand of William Henry Fox Talbot (1984), installation view. Photo by Alex Neumann. Copyright © the artist.

Plate 11 El Lissitzky, New One (Neuer), from the series Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne), Kestner Mappe, sheet 10 (1923). Museum Folkwang, Essen. Photo © Museum Folkwang Essen—ARTOTHEK.

Plate 12 El Lissitzky, Globetrotter (in Time) (Globetrotter (in der Zeit)), from the series Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne), Kestner Mappe, sheet 5 (1923). Museum Folkwang, Essen. Photo © Museum Folkwang Essen—ARTOTHEK.

Plate 13 Seiko Mikami, Molecular Informatics—Morphogenic Substance via Eye Tracking, Ver. 2 (1996). Coproduced with Canon ARTLAB. Photo by Jan Sprij. Courtesy of V2_Organisation, Rotterdam.

Plate 14 Marko Peljhan, Projekt Atol/PACT Systems, Makrolab markIIex, Campalto Operations (2003), installation view, Campalto Island, Biennale di Venezia, 2003. Photo by Steve Dietel. Copyright © Projekt Atol/PACT Systems.

Plate 15 Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, Gravicells—Gravity and Resistance (2004), installation view. Commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan. Photo by Ryuichi Maruo. Courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.

Plate 16 Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan, polar m [mirrored] (2010), installation detail (robot). Commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Japan. Photo by Ryuichi Maruo. Courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.