Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers - people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative creative process, blurring boundaries between disciplines. Context Providers considers the work of media artists today who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration, active dialogue, and challenging creative work.<BR><BR>"For decades, it seems, there has been debate about the technological basis of so-called new media art. In this enlightening volume, the editors have enlisted a comprehensive body of opinion by theorists and practitioners to present one complex answer - it's the context, stupid."---Steve Dietz, founding artistic director, Northern Lights.mn and the OISJ Biennial.<BR><BR>"Media art is not just an art form that utilizes media technology, as people tend to think. This excellent volume, written by pioneers in the field, explores its real meanings to us and our society with ample examples and theoretical insight. Such a book has been long needed."---Machiko Kusahara, media art curator, author, Professor, Waseda University, Japan.<BR><BR>"With major essays written by a range of experts in this emerging field, Context Providers articulates a seminal language to previously unexplored territories. It explores ethics in the conditions of meaning in ways that are both accessible and provocative."---Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, filmmaker, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis.