'Future Cinema', created by ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, is the first major international anthology of current video-,film-,and computer-based work that embodies and anticipates the new cinematic techniques and modes of expression created by a new class of experts.
"Based on the exhibition of the same title, the book for the first time brings together a large number of highly significant installations, multimedia and Net-based works produced in the digital field by both young and established international artists exploring algorithmic procedures and immersive and technologically innovative environments, such as multi-screen, panoramic and dome projection, shared multi-user and online configurations, and multi-location virtual environments. Another focus is on works exploring creative approaches to the design of interactive, non-linear, modular narrative content. The catalogue also documents the historical trajectory of those many and variegated cinematic experiments that prefigure, inform, and contextualize our current cinematic condition: the cinematic imaginary beyond film."