The title of the publication Art and New Media defines both the collective author's field of interest and tactics of movement within the field. The term is constituted from two names - art and new media. This way we refer towards research focusing of mutual influences, references and fusions of artistic creativity and technology, especially with information and communication technologies (from radio, through first computer graphics, to virtual words and world wide web) following their development during 20th and the beginning of 21st century. Special attention is dedicated to the moments when the individual media were new and thus hopes and fears projected into them can be clearly detected in their reception. The presented collective monograph completes the work of the Musicology department of Faculty of Arts Masaryk University research team on the subject described as "function of technology in the development and in the production of performing arts", which was made possible thanks to the support of the Center of the Fundamental Research AMU&MU.