Introduction: Shift­ing InterfacesHava AldoubyI Immersion, Empathy, and Presence: Manipulating the Boundaries of Self and BodyFrom Immersion to Empathy: The Legacy of Einfühlung in Virtual Reality and Digital ArtGrant BollmerAvatars: Shi­fting Identities in a Genealogical PerspectiveAndrea PinottiMeeting Yourself in Virtual Reality: A Performative Experiment in Self-CompassionDaniel LandauArt and Presence: Investigating Embodiment in a Virtual Art GalleryHava AldoubyShared Objective Empathy in Telematic SpacePaul SermonElaborating Mediation Through Media ArtsWendy CoonesII Subjects of Surveillance: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Big Data UniverseQualculative Poetics: An Artistic Critique of Rational JudgmentDerek Curry and Jennifer GradeckiGoogle, Shmoogle: A Critical Twist on Search Engine IdeologyZiv Neeman and Tsila HassineSculpting Time: The Art of Collective MemoryRyszard W. KluszczynskiThe Logic of Participation in Digital Art and Network CultureManuela NaveauAesthetic Strategies in the WasteoceneYvonne VolkartIII Bacteria and Smart Objects: Presences Beyond the HumanRehabilitating Bacteria: An Epistemological Art/Science InterfaceJens HauserExceptional MattersAdam W. BrownFrom So­ Sculpture to So­ Robotics: Retracing Entropic Aesthetics of the Life-likeJonas JørgensenNatures Mortes, Live Data: The Art Object in the IoT EraTsila Hassine, Olga KisselevaUnmanned Imaging of the AnthropoceneAaron BurtonList of ContributorsIndexColor PlatesUp-to-date account of media art issues in the early 21st centuryEarly 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the field, with a considerable representation of art-based research gaining salience in media art studies. The collection attends to art projects interrogating the destabilisation of identity and the breaching of individual privacy, the rekindled interest in phenomenology and in the neurocognitive workings of empathy, and the routes of interconnectivity beyond the human in the age of the Internet of Things. Offering a diversity of perspectives, ranging from purely theoretical to art-based research, and from aesthetics to social and cultural critique, this volume will be of great value for readers interested in contemporary art, art-science-technology interfaces, visual culture, and cultural studies.Contributors: Hava Aldouby (The Open University of Israel), Grant Bollmer (North Carolina State University / University of Sydney), Andrea Pinotti (University of Milan), Daniel H. Landau (Aalto University / Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), Wendy Jo Coones (Danube University Krems), Paul Sermon (University of Brighton), Ryszard Kluszczynski (University of Lodz), Derek Curry (Northeastern University, Boston), Jennifer Gradecki (SUNY Buffalo / Northeastern University, Boston), Tsila Hassine (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design / Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne), Ziv Neeman (independent scholar), Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica, Linz), Aaron Burton (University of Wollongong), Yvonne Volkart (Academy of Art and Design, FHNW Basel), Jens Hauser (IKK & Medical Museion, Copenhagen University), Adam Brown (Michigan State University), Jonas Jørgensen (IT University of Copenhagen), Olga Kisseleva (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)