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Selected Writings on Contemporary Art
Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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SELECTED WRITINGS ON CONTEMPORARY ART

Telematic Embrace:  Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness
I edited this collection of essays by British artist/theorist Roy Ascott and authored the introductory chapter, "From Cybernetics to Telematics:  The Art, Theory, and Pedagogy of Roy Ascott.  University of California Press, 2003. Reviews:
Image & Narrative 8 (May 2004) by Jan Baetens
The Art Book 11:1( Jan 2004) by Charlie Gere (64k pdf)
Leonardo Digital Reviews (Nov 2003) by Sean Cubitt
Leonardo Digital Reviews (Aug 2003) by Stefaan Van Ryssen
San Francisco Chronicle (June 22, 2003) by Joel Weishaus

Art and Electronic Media: Exhibitions, Institutions, Research, Collaborations (SIGGRAPH 2007 Powerpoint: 5mb Quicktime)

Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method, Firing a Canon, Part 1, Part 2

Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms (.pdf) Video of lecture at Art | Sci Center, UCLA (Realplayer)

Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art

SONAR 2006 Review

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Headless Two-Headed Hydra, or, the Art of Michael Rees

Hot2Bot: Pygmalion's Lust, the Maharal's Fear, and the Cyborg Future of Art

Lowell Boyers: Inhale Exhale (exhibition review) Drain Magazine # 5 (April, 2006) link to Drain

Pioneers of Art and Science: Metzger (review of Gustav Metzger DVD) Drain Magazine # 4 (April, 2005) link to Drain

Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning

Telematic Embrace:  A Love Story?  Roy Ascott's Theory of Telematic Art

Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s (Excerpt)

Life as We Know It, and/or Life as It Could Be:
Epistemology and the Ontology/Ontogeny of Artificial Life

The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham's Concept of Software as a Metaphor for Art

Gemini Rising, Moon in Apollo: Art and Technologyin the US, 1966-1971

Virtual Perspective and the Artistic Vision: A Genealogy of Technology, Perception and Power

Divided We Stand: Interactive Art and the Limits of Freedom

Jeffrey Shaw's Golden Calf:  Art Meets Religion and Virtual Reality

From Drips to ZOOBS: The Cosmology of Artist/Inventor Michael Grey (full text) ArtByte article (juicy design; no notes)

Complete publication information available in Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


ARTISTS' LINKS click here


PROJECTS

Artists in Industry and the Academy: Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations. Leonardo 38:4 & Leonardo 38:5

Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Leonardo Education Forum

ISEA2006 Rapporteur

Thievery Corporation 2006 Summer Tour Blog

Altering Nature

Euro Media Arts Pilgrimage 2004 Blog

Art, Ethics, and Genetic Engineering: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac

North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Awards Recipients 1998-99 in Film/Video and Visual Art Exhibition


OTHER

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Profile in Duke University Arts & Sciences News (Summer, 2003)

re:place Second International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology

UCLA Art|Sci Center

ARTEXETRA IS A PALINDROME INSPIRED BY PALINDROPHILE AND KINETIC ARTIST FRANÇOIS MORELLET

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