These three articles serve as introductions to each volume of The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art.

Volume 1: History and Theory - Introduction
by Charlie Gere
‘New media art’ was one of the many names given to a variety of art practices usually, though not always, involving forms of electronic and digital technologies.

Volume 2: Artists and Practice - Introduction
by Paul Thomas and Seán Cubitt
The articles in this volume of the Encyclopedia of New Media Art are all written by artists. Each artist writes from their own perspective in order to make sense of new media art practice: its dreams, expectations, achievements and failures.

Volume 3: Curation and Culture - Introduction
by Vince Dziekan and Anna Munster
The global cultural phenomenon of new media art has revolutionized the role and impact of art in our technological times. The third and final volume of The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art presents a combined focus on Curation and Culture that accounts for the evolving nature of the field, which has been characterized by continual diversification of media practices and multiple other disruptive factors that new media art holds in tension.