Though they may call themselves scientists, activists or hackers rather than poets or performers, today's electronic visionaries are redefining art for the Internet Age.Art's recent eruption in fields as diverse as artificial life, computer games and community activism reveals a seismic shift in the role it plays in society. No longer content to sit on a pedestal or auction block, these works infiltrate stock markets, sway court cases and invade networked bedrooms, reaching across the globe to expand the edge of art.CONTENTS 1 Code as Muse: new artistic possibilities opened up by computer programming 2 Deep Play: new narrative forms and action' aesthetics of computer games 3 Autobotography: the rise of webcam-based performance art 4 Designing Politics: seemingly real' websites, used to subvert commercial and political enterprise 5 Reweaving Community: the emergence of an online art world' whose fugitive existence resists definition 6 Preserving Artificial Life: a new biology established via human-engineered viruses and other digital life-forms' 7 Redefining Art