Is it possibile to write a history of sorts on contemporary artists working with science and technology? Stephen Wilson, an academic, takes on the formidabile task in his massive new tome, Information Arts (MIT Press). Of course, some areas might seem lacking, such as Wilson's coverage of net art, but the author casts a wide net and makes a case for the importance of creative applications of math, physics, biology, and engineering. Most interesting is a playful quiz that Wilson presents, in which he asks the reader to guess what odd experiments are either art pieces or bizarre lab trials.