Engineering Nature

by Ascott, Roy

• ISBN13: 9781841501284
• ISBN10: 184150128X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

This is the third book in a series drawing on papers presented at annual Consciousness Reframed conferences. In addition to focusing on the 2003 conference, it also includes papers published in the journalTechnoetic Arts. With some 45 contributors, each chapter presents current issues arising in the context of art, technology and consciousness.

Author Biography

Roy Ascott is Director of the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth and Visiting Professor in Design/Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.  His previous publications include Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003)

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(2)
The Mind
Towards a Conscious Art	11	(6)
Robert Pepperell
Effing the Ineffable: An Engineering Approach to Consciousness	17	(16)
Steve Grand
(Re)Constructing (Non)Dualism	33	(6)
Andrea Gaugusch
Another View from the Blender	39	(8)
Michael Punt
Bio-electromagnetism: Discrete Interpretations	47	(6)
Nina Czegledy
MEDIATE: Steps Towards a Self-Organising Interface	53	(4)
Paul Newland
Chris Creed
Maestro Ron Geesin
Facts about P-E-M (Psycho-Enhanced Memberships) you must know	57	(8)
Armando Montilla
Happenstances	65	(4)
Evgenija Demnievska
Ontological Engineering: Connectivity in the Nanofield	69	(8)
Roy Ascott
The Body
Are the Semi-Living Semi-good or Semi-evil?	77	(14)
Ionat Zurr
Oron Catts
Absent Body Project	91	(6)
Yacov Sharir
Our Body as Primary Knowledge Base	97	(6)
Kjell Yngve Petersen
Electronic Cruelty	103	(6)
Gordana Novakovic
Design Against Nature	109	(6)
Anthony Crabbe
Why Look at Artificial Animals?	115	(6)
Geoff Cox
Adrian Ward
Biopoetry	121	(6)
Eduardo Kac
The Place
Real Virtuality: Authenticity in Electronic and Non-electronic Environments	127	(6)
Eril Baily
Sharing Virtual Reality Environments across the International Grid (iGrid)	133	(4)
Margaret Dolinsky
Interactive, Responsive Environments: a Broader Artistic Context	137	(8)
Garth Paine
Towards Defining the `Atmosphere' and Spatial Meaning of Virtual Environments	145	(8)
Ioanna Spanou
Dimitris Charitos
Symbiotic Interactivity in Multisensory Environments	153	(6)
Stahl Stenslie
Aesthetics Within Ego Shooter Games	159	(4)
Maia Engeli
Creative Communities in Networked Hybrid Spaces	163	(8)
Mauro Cavalletti
From Multiuser Environments as Space to Space as a Multiuser Environment: Cell Phones in Art and Public Spaces	171	(6)
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Arch-OS v1.1 (Architecture Operating Systems), Software for Buildings	177	(6)
Mike Phillips
Chris Speed
(an)Architecture, Eros, Memory: the Naxsmash Project	183	(6)
Christina McPhee
Who Plays the Nightingale?	189	(6)
Claudia Westermann
Breeding, Feeding, Leeching	195	(6)
Shaun Murray
The Text
The Potential of Electronic Textuality	201	(6)
Dene Grigar
Art and Information	207	(6)
David Topping
Metaphorical Vestiges on Info-Viz Trails	213	(4)
Donna Cox
Interstellar Messaging, Xenolinguistics, and Consciousness: LiveGlide Meets the SETI Enterprise	217	(6)
Diana Reed Slattery
Charles Rene Mathis
Art and HCI: A Creative Collaboration	223	(6)
Ernest Edmonds
Linda Candy
Mark Fell
Alastair Weakly
The Art
The Idea Becomes a Machine: Al and A-Life in Early British Computer Arts	229	(6)
Paul Brown
The Interactivity of the Moving Document as the Diegetic Space of Consciousness	235	(6)
Clive Myer
Assimilating Consciousness: Strategies in Photographic Practice	241	(6)
Jane Tormey
Simultaneity, Theatre and Consciousness	247	(6)
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Cinematic Soteriology: Darshanic Effects in the Tamil Bakthi Films	253	(6)
Niranjan Rajah
Search For Utopia: Human Consciousness and Desire	259	(4)
Julia Rice
Super Interactivity: Art, Consciousness, and the Dawn of the Participatory Age	263	(8)
Alex Shalom Kohav
Pete and Repeat were Sitting on a Fence: Iteration, Interactive Cognition and an Interactive Design Method	271	(8)
Ron Wakkary
Visual Art as an Earning Process: The New Economics of Art	279	(6)
Nicholas Tresilian
Culture, Ecology and the Real	285	(6)
Paul O'Brien
The Immersive Experience of Osmose and Ephemere: An Audience Study	291	(8)
Hal Thwaites
On Making Music with Artificial Life Models	299	(6)
Eduardo Reck Miranda
Artistic Strategies for Using the Arts as an Agent through the Creation of Hyper-Reality Situations	305	(6)
Karin Sondergaard
The Future
The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of Fact and Fiction in the Construction of a New Science	311	(18)
Jim Gimzewski
Victoria Vesna
Contributor Biographies	329

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