Research Catalog

Title

Engineering nature : art & consciousness in the post-biological era / edited by Roy Ascott.

Publication

Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ascott, Roy.
• International CAiiA Research Conference (5th : 2003 : University of Wales)

Description

333 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Art > Psychology > Congresses
• Arts > Philosophy > Congresses
• Arts > Psychological aspects > Congresses
• Consciousness in art > Congresses
• Technology and the arts > Congresses

Genre/Form

• works of art.
• Art.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Œuvres d'art.

Note

• "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"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. The mind -- 1.1. Towards a conscious art / Robert Pepperell -- 1.2. Effing the ineffable : an engineering approach to consciousness / Steve Grand -- 1.3. (Re)constructing (non)dualism / Andrea Gaugusch -- 1.4. Another view from the blender / Michael Punt -- 1.5. Bio-electromagnetism : discrete interpretations / Nina Czegledy -- 1.6. MEDIATE : steps towards a self-organising interface / Paul Newland, Chris Creed and Maestro Ron Geesin -- 1.7. Facts about P-E-M (psycho-enhanced memberships) you must know / Armando Montilla -- 1.8. Happenstances / Evgenija Demnievska -- 1.9. Ontological engineering : connectivity in the nanofield / Roy Ascott -- 2. The body -- 2.1. Are the semi-living semi-good or semi-evil? / Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts -- 2.2. Absent body project / Yacov Sharir -- 2.3. Our body as primary knowledge base / Kjell Yngve Petersen -- 2.4. Electronic cruelty / Gordana Novakovic -- 2.5. Design against nature / Anthony Crabbe -- 2.6. Why look at artificial animals? / Geoff Cox and Adrian Ward -- 2.7. Biopoetry / Eduardo Kac -- 3. The place -- 3.1. Real virtuality : authenticity in electronic and non-electronic environments / Eril Baily -- 3.2. Sharing virtual reality environments across the international grid (iGrid) / Margaret Dolinsky -- 3.3. Interactive, responsive environments : a broader artistic context / Garth Paine -- 3.4. Towards defining the 'atmosphere' and spatial meaning of virtual environments / Ioanna Spanou and Dimitris Charitos -- 3.5. Symbiotic interactivity in multisensory environments / Stahl Stenslie -- 3.6. Aesthetics within ego shooter games / Maia Engeli -- 3.7. Creative communities in networked hybrid spaces / Mauro Cavalletti -- 3.8. From multiuser environments as space to space as a multiuser environment : cell phones in art and public spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- 3.9. Arch-OS v1.1 (architecture operating systems), software for buildings / Mike Phillips and Chris Speed -- 3.10. (an)Architecture, eros, memory : the Naxsmash project / Christina McPhee -- 3.11. Who plays the nightingale? / Claudia Westermann -- 3.12. Breeding, feeding, leeching / Shaun Murray -- 4. The text -- 4.1. The potential of electronic textuality / Dene Grigar -- 4.2. Art and information / David Topping -- 4.3. Metaphorical vestiges on info-viz trails / Donna Cox -- 4.4. Interstellar messaging, xenolinguistics, and consciousness : LiveGlide meets the SETI enterprise / Diana Reed Slattery and Charles Rene Mathis -- 4.5. Art and HCI : a creative collaboration / Ernest Edmonds, Linda Candy, Mark Fell and Alastair Weakly -- 5. The art -- 5.1. The idea becomes a machine : AI and a-life in early British computer arts / Paul Brown -- 5.2. The interactivity of the moving document as the diegetic space of consciousness / Clive Myer -- 5.3. Assimilating consciousness : strategies in photographic practice / Jane Tormey -- 5.4. Simultaneity, theatre and consciousness / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe -- 5.5. Cinematic soteriology : darshanic effects in the Tamil Bakthi films / Niranjan Rajah -- 5.6. Search for utopia : human consciousness and desire / Julia Rice -- 5.7. Super interactivity : art, consciousness, and the dawn of the participatory age / Alex Shalom Kohav -- 5.8. Pete and repeat were sitting on a fence : iteration, interactive cognition and an interactive design method / Ron Wakkary -- 5.9. Visual art as an earning process : the new economics of art / Nicholas Tresilian -- 5.10. Culture, ecology and the real / Paul O'Brien -- 5.11. The immersive experience of Osmose and Ephemere : an audience study / Hal Thwaites -- 5.12. On making music with artificial life models / Eduardo Reck Miranda -- 5.13. Artistic strategies for using the arts as an agent through the creation of hyper-reality situations / Karin Sondergaard -- 6. The future -- 6.1. The nanomeme syndrome : blurring of fact and fiction in the construction of a new science / Jim Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna.

ISBN

• 184150128X
• 9781841501284

LCCN

2006278784

OCLC

• ocm63129356
• 63129356
• SCSB-1408304

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library