Ricardo, co-founder of the Digital Video Research Archive, presents 10 essays by artists and academics that discuss various works of art/text, with each essay followed by an interview with the author by Ricardo that further comments on and clarifies the works they've described and the issues raised. Among the works featured are Text rain, by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, slippingglimpse, by Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, and Paul Ryan; and Drift, by Teri Rueb. The volume is illustrated in b&w and includes an introduction by Ricardo on the theory and history of this new direction in art. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)