Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is an Emeritus Professor of Computing at London South Bank University in London, UK, an Adjunct Professor at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, and Chair of Museophile Limited, a UK consultancy company in the field of museums and IT. In 1994, he founded the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), part of the WWW Virtual Library, later adopted by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). He was invited to be the Honorary Chair of the first Museums and the Web conference in 1997 and was a regular contributor subsequently. More recently he has been co-chair of the annual EVA London Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. In 2013. he was a co-editor of Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture, published in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. In 2017, he co-authored The Turing Guide, on the life and work of the computing pioneer Alan Turing, published by Oxford University Press and, in 2019, he co-edited Museums and Digital Culture, again in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Professor Bowen is a Life Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and an Emeritus Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT).

Introduction.- Part I: Prelude to 21st Century Computational Culture: Pioneers of Art and Science.- Part II: Curating Art: A Paradigm Shift from Digital to Computational Culture.- Part III: Art and Emerging Sociocultural Global Movements.- Part IV: The Metaverse.- Part V: Education in the Age of Computational Culture.- Part VI: Human States of Being: Real and Artificial Consciousness.- Part VII: The Arts on the Global Virtual Stage.- Part VIII: The Future of Computational Arts and Life.