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Title Engineering nature : art & consciousness in the post-biological era / edited by Roy Ascott
Published Bristol ; Portland : Intellect, ©2006

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Contents Part 1. The Mind -- Towards a Conscious Art / Robert Pepperell -- Effing the Ineffable : An Engineering Approach to Consciousness / Steve Grand -- (Re)Constructing (Non)Dualism / Andrea Gaugusch -- Another View from the Blender / Michael Punt -- Bio-electromagnetism : Discrete Interpretations / Nina Czegledy -- MEDIATE : Steps Towards a Self-Organising Interface / Paul Newland, Chris Creed and Maestro Ron Geesin -- Facts about P-E-M (Psycho-Enhanced Memberships) you must know / Armando Montilla -- Happenstances / Evgenija Demnievska -- Ontological Engineering : Connectivity in the Nanofield / Roy Ascott -- Part 2. The Body -- Are the Semi-Living Semi-good or Semi-evil? / Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts -- Absent Body Project / Yacov Sharir -- Our Body as Primary Knowledge Base / Kjell Yngve Petersen -- Electronic Cruelty / Gordana Novakovic -- Design Against Nature / Anthony Crabbe -- Why Look at Artificial Animals? / Geoff Cox and Adrian Ward -- Biopoetry / Eduardo Kac -- Part 3. The Place -- Real Virtuality : Authenticity in Electronic and Non-electronic Environments / Eril Baily -- Sharing Virtual Reality Environments across the International Grid (iGrid) / Margaret Dolinsky -- Interactive, Responsive Environments : a Broader Artistic Context / Garth Paine -- Towards Defining the "Atmosphere" and Spatial Meaning of Virtual Environments / Ioanna Spanou and Dimitris Charitos -- Symbiotic Interactivity in Multisensory Environments / Stahl Stenslie -- Aesthetics Within Ego Shooter Games / Maia Engeli -- Creative Communities in Networked Hybrid Spaces / Mauro Cavalletti -- From Multiuser Environments as Space to Space as a Multiuser Environment : Cell Phones in Art and Public Spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- Arch-OS v (Architecture Operating Systems), Software for Buildings / Mike Phillips and Chris Speed -- (an)Architecture, Eros, Memory : the Naxsmash Project / Christina McPhee -- Who Plays the Nightingale? / Claudia Westermann -- Breeding, Feeding, Leeching / Shaun Murray -- Part 4. The Text -- The Potential of Electronic Textuality / Dene Grigar -- Art and Information / David Topping -- Metaphorical Vestiges on Info-Viz Trails / Donna Cox -- Interstellar Messaging, Xenolinguistics, and Consciousness : LiveGlide Meets the SETI Enterprise / Diana Reed Slattery and Charles René Mathis -- Art and HCI : A Creative Collaboration / Ernest Edmonds [and others] -- Part 5. The Art -- The Idea Becomes a Machine : AI and A-Life in Early British Computer Arts / Paul Brown -- The Interactivity of the Moving Document as the Diegetic Space of Consciousness / Clive Myer -- Assimilating Consciousness : Strategies in Photographic Practice / Jane Tormey -- Simultaneity, Theatre and Consciousness / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe -- Cinematic Soteriology : Darshanic Effects in the Tamil Bakthi Films / Niranjan Rajah -- Search For Utopia : Human Consciousness and Desire / Julia Rice -- Super Interactivity : Art, Consciousness, and the Dawn of the Participatory Age / Alex Shalom Kohav -- Pete and Repeat were Sitting on a Fence : Iteration, Interactive Cognition and an Interactive Design Method / Ron Wakkary -- Visual Art as an Earning Process : The New Economics of Art / Nicholas Tresilian -- Culture, Ecology and the Real / Paul O'Brien -- The Immersive Experience of Osmose and Ephémère : An Audience Study / Hal Thwaites -- On Making Music with Artificial Life Models / Eduardo Reck Miranda -- Artistic Strategies for Using the Arts as an Agent through the Creation of Hyper-Reality Situations / Karin Søndergaard -- Part 6. The Future -- The Nanomeme Syndrome : Blurring of Fact and Fiction in the Construction of a New Science / Jim Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna
Summary This third volume in the Consciousness Reframed series, documenting the very latest artistic and theoretical research in new media and telematics including aspects of artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and intelligent architecture. The contributions to this volume represent the work produced at conferences and in journals which are only now emerging into more accessible literature. With over fifty highly respected practitioners and theorists in art and science contributing, there is a stimulating diversity of approach and a rich background of knowledge
Notes These papers have been selected in part from the proceedings of the Fifth International Research Conference of Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the postbiological era that took place July 31st August 3rd, 2003 at the Caerleon campus of the University of Wales, Newport
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Consciousness in art -- Congresses
Art -- Psychology -- Congresses
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Performance.
Consciousness in art
Art -- Psychology
Kunst.
Bewustzijn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Ascott, Roy
International CAiiA Research Conference (2003 : University of Wales)
ISBN 1841509280
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