Frank Popper

And so also Frank Popper is one of the best art historians about electronic and digital art. He considered kinetic art to be one of the seven foundational touchstones for electronic art.

Peter Bauman, Georg Bak on the Analog Era: 1950s Art

So the short answer is that my favorite history of digital art or electronic art is probably Frank Popper's Art of the Electronic Age. And he begins the story of electronic art with the arts and crafts movement, and the arts and crafts movement was directly inspired by this London Great Exhibition, this World's Fair in London in 1851.

Peter Bauman, Kate Vass on the Modern Era, 1850–1940s