Engineering Nature

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.

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)

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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