Aesthetic Computing -- I Philosophy and Representation -- 1 An Introduction to Aesthetic Computing -- 2 Goodman's Aesthetics and the Languages of Computing -- 3 A Forty-Year Perspective on Aesthetic Computing in the LeonardoJournal -- 4 The Interface as Sign and as Aesthetic Event -- 5 Metaphorical Dimensions of Diagrammatic Graph Representations -- II Art and Design -- 6 Metaphoric Mappings: The Art of Visualization -- 7 Public Space of Knowledge: Artistic Practice in Aesthetic Computing -- 8 Visually Encoding Numbers Utilizing Prime Factors -- 9 From the Poesy of Programming to Research as Art Form -- 10 Transdisciplinary Collaboration in ''Cell'' -- 11 Processing Code: Programming within the Context of Visual Art and Design -- III Mathematics and Computing -- 12 Aesthetics and the Visualization and Quality of Software -- 13 Aesthetics and Mathematics: Connections Throughout History -- 14 Aesthetic Computing and Shape -- 15 The Foundations of Aesthetics -- 16 Aesthetics of Large-Scale Relational Information Visualization in Practice -- 17 The Well-Tempered Compiler? The Aesthetics of Program Auralization -- IV Interface and Interaction -- 19 Transparency and Reflectivity: Digital Art and the Aesthetics of Interface Design -- 20 Articulating the Use Qualities of Digital Designs -- 21 Exploring Attributes of Skins as Potential Antecedents of Emotion in HCI -- About the Authors -- Index.