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Mitteleuropa Foundation

Bolzano

[ http://www.Mitteleuropafoundation.it ]

10-12 Juin 2002

The legacy of Kanisza

in cognitive sciences

Kanisza est l’auteur de

La Grammaire du voir. Essais sur la perception.

Diderot. 1998

Un ouvrage de base pour les spécialistes de l’image

 

 

The legacy of the Austrian tradition of Gestalt Psychology can be best gauged by looking at the investigations on vision carried out by Gaetano Kanizsa, the most outstanding of Musatti’s pupils. Of Central European origin (his mother was Slovenian, his father Ungarian), Kanizsa taught mainly in Trieste, the city of his birth, where he inherited the chair vacated by Metelli after only two years. Thus established was the link between the centres of psychological research in Padua and Trieste that has persisted until the present day.

After his early studies on chromatic perception and apparent movement Kanizsa gave further and original development to the distinction between perceptive perception and mental presentation drawn experimentally by Benussi during his research into the phenomena of amodal perception. In other words, Kanizsa specified further aspects of the nature of the passage from perception to abstract knowledge (i.e. the phenomenal domain at the basis of mental presentations), a field of research which has interested all the members of Meinong’s school of Graz. Kanizsa’s results make a number of theoretical points that warrant the closest consideration: for example, his distinction between ‘seeing’ and ‘thinking’ relative to the difference between ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ process, and his concept of ‘amodal completion’ relative to the distinction between ‘encountered’ perceptive presence and ‘imagined’ or mental presence. From this point of view, Kanizsa’s work represents a sophisticated version of the Graz two-storey model, mediated by the influence of the Berlin school and also by opposition to contemporaray cognitivist views on theory of knowledge.

Confirmed Speakers and Titles of Their Talks:

Albertazzi, L., Schools of Gestalt perception

Biederman, I., Michael C. Mangini, A neurocomputational account of face representation

Carsetti, A., Rational perception and self-organization of forms

Hoffman, D., The role of attention in face perception

Kubovy, M., Phenomenology, phenomenological psychophysics, and perceptual organization

Luccio, R., The Emergence of Praegnanz

Malik, J., Ecological Statistics and Perceptual Organization

Massironi, M., (TBA)

Nugochi, K., The relationship between visual illusions and aesthetic preference

Palmer, S., Early vs late grouping

Petitot, J., Geometry of V1 and Kanizsa's contours

Stadler, M.A., Bottom up and top-down components in perception of multistable visual patterns

Vicario, G.B., On masking in visual field

Zanforlin, M., Stereokinetic anomalous contours

Zimmer, A., The role of invariants for stability and singularity in perception

(This conference follows the meeting held in Rome during June 2001, jointly organized with CREA-Paris and University of Tor Vergata in Rome) 
(If you are interested in receiving further information, send a mail to
Liliana Albertazzi)

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International Conference and Research Center

for Computer Science

Schloss Dagstuhl

 

14-17 Juillet 2002

 

Seminar

 

Aesthetic computing

 

[ http://www.dagstuhl.de/02291/index.en.phtml ]

 

 

 

Organisateurs: P. Fishwick, R. Malina, Ch. Sommerer.

Etude de représentations alternatives motivées par la culture et l’esthétique de modèles provenant de la science du calcul.

Emploi de méthodes et de procédés  artistiques dans les représentations courantes de l’informatique.

Computer art.

 

 

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ICMPC7

 

7th International Conference on

Music Perception & Cognition

 

University of New South Wales

Sydney Australia

 

17-21 Juillet 2002

 

[ http://www.uws.edu.au/marcs/icmpc7/welcome.htm ]

 

 

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4th Annual Symposium on

 

Systems Research in the Arts

 

Music, environmental designs

and the choreography of space

 

Baden-Baden

 

31Juillet-3 Août 2002

 

[ http://www.jcrhodes.net/Program.htm ]

 

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Mitteleuropa Foundation

 

Bolzano. Italie

 

2-6 Septembre 2002

 

[ http://www.Mitteleuropafoundation.it ]

 

BISCA


Design and Cognition

Sept 2 - 6 , 2002

(Exile. Painting by Michael Leyton)

 

Description:

Most of the world that we know is designed. Furthermore, almost everyone in the Western world has become a designer at their personal computer (e.g., publishing their own web-pages). Design has become everyone's domain, and the 21st century communicates via design. This has made it extremely important to understand the relation between design and cognition. This school brings together four speakers who are internationally known for their work in the areas of design and cognition.

 

Speakers:

John Gero

Lectures:

 

John Gero is Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Department of Architectural and Design Science, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 30 books and over 400 papers in the fields of design science, artificial intelligence, optimization and computer-aided design. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science at UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, Singapore and Korea. He has been the recipient of many excellence awards including the Harkness, two Fulbrights, two SRC Fellowships and various named chairs. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals related to computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering and is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design.

 

Michael Leyton

Lectures:

 

Michael Leyton is on the faculty in the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers. His mathematical work on shape has been used in over 20 disciplines from chemical engineering to radiology. His scientific contributions have received several prizes, such as a presidential award, and a medal for scientific achievement. His paintings, sculptures, and architectural projects, have been featured in international design journals and invited exhibitions. The scores of his string quartets are currently being published. Leyton's books "Symmetry, Causality, Mind" (MIT Press) and "A Generative Theory of Shape" (Springer-Verlag) elaborate a new theory of geometry which argues that geometry is the means of recording history; i.e., that geometry is equivalent to memory storage. Related to this, he argues that art works are maximal memory stores. This is supported with lengthy studies of art-works as well as the design process itself. Leyton is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics.

 

Michael J. Pratt

Lectures:

 

Michael Pratt has been Professor of Computer Aided Engineering and Head of the Department of Applied Computing and Mathematics at Cranfield University in the UK. He has held a senior research positions at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include all aspects of product modelling in mechanical engineering, and especially the use of geometry in the integration of computer aided design (CAD). He is actively involved in the development of the international standard ISO 10303 (STEP) for the exchange of product data; in this context he leads the ISO TC184/SC4 Parametrics Group. Pratt has an MA in physics from Oxford University, an MSc in aeronautical science and a PhD in mechanical engineering from Cranfield. He has published numerous papers and book contributions on CAD and related topics, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Computer Aided Geometric Design, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Shape Modelling.

 

Gerhard Schmitt

Lectures:

 

Gerhard Schmitt is Professor of Architecture and Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich. His research focuses on the development of intelligent design support systems and the architectural design of the information territory. Since April, 1998, he is Vice President for Planning and Logistics of ETH Zürich. His most recent books are Architektur mit dem Computer (Vieweg, 1996), a publication on physical, virtual and information architecture, Architectura et Machina (Vieweg, 1993) and Information Architecture (Testo & Immagine) describing the rapidly growing relations between architecture and the machine. In 1996, he completed a two-year term as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at ETH Zurich. From 1984-88 he was on the Faculty of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Munich and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Musique et intelligence artificielle

 

Edinburgh

 

12-14 Septembre 2002

 

 

 
icmai 2002
II International Conference
on Music and Artificial Intelligence


University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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The 2002 International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI'02) is being held on 12-14 September 2002, at the historic St. Cecilias's Hall, in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland.


 
 

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PHAROS

Centre International d’Etudes et de Recherches

Su la Science, la Philosophie et l’Art

 

Urbino  Rimini

 

14 – 20 Septembre 2002

 

Colloque international

 

La genèse des formes

dans les sciences et les arts

 

[ http://www.uniurb.it/semiotica/pharos.rtf ]

 

Le propos de ce colloque est de développer une réflexion sur l'importance que le renouvellement et la réactualisation d'une pensée des formes pourraient avoir pour l'élaboration d'idées et méthodes nouvelles indispensables à la compréhension de quelques enjeux fondamentaux face auxquels se trouvent aujourd'hui plus que jamais confrontés tant les sciences de la nature et de la vie que les arts visuels et sonores. Son but est de suggérer de nouvelles conceptualisations théoriques et des approches concrètes différentes de la question de la genèse et du développement des formes, ainsi que de leurs rapports avec notre conception de l'être humain, de la nature, de la vie et de la création artistique. 

Le niveau morphologique (lieu privilégié de l'émergence des formes) représente un niveau d'organisation structural permettant la constitution de la réalité physique, de la matière vivante et du monde phénoménal. Il est en même temps source de systèmes signifiants comme les représentations perceptives, la pensée artistique et symbolique et le langage.

Des recherches récentes dans différents domaines ont montré que certains processus d'auto-organisation jouent un rôle important dans la constitution de divers types de phénomènes aux niveaux tant macroscopique que nanoscopique et microscopique, et qu'ils sont au demeurant en quelque sorte responsables de l'émergence de formes nouvelles dans le monde naturel et dans le règne du vivant.

Ces mêmes recherches ont également permis de mettre en évidence l'existence de certains principes fondamentaux (de nature géométrique, topologique ou physique) qui permettraient de mieux comprendre les processus sous-jacents au changement et à l'évolution des phénomènes. Des symétries plus riches que les symétrie « classiques » connues jusqu'à maintenant et les symétries « brisées » sont au compte de ces principes. Dans plusieurs domaines de la nature et du vivant, il est apparu de plus en plus clairement que ces principes gouvernent les transformations endogènes et les interactions entre les « agents internes » et les « milieux externes », et qu'ils contribuent de façon importante à l'organisation structurale et à la conformation fonctionnelle des composantes, qui ne peuvent se manifester elles-mêmes que dans la mesure où se maintient l'intégrité de la structure globale tout entière. On atteint ici une notion nouvelle dont la portée et la signification sont grandes : la structure dépend pour une large part des phénomènes dynamiques qu'elle organise et qui en deviennent une part intégrante.

Un fait important est que les processus d'organisation et d'auto-organisation des formes s'inscrivent dans une dimension temporelle et donc historique essentielle. Ceci a lieu grâce à des trajectoires temporelles qui évoluent dans un espace caractérisé par certaines variables d'état et des paramètres d'ordre. Il s'agit de l'espace des phases ou des configurations que peut prendre un système. Cette action du temps sur les phénomènes engendre une situation dynamique et, en orientant avec les propriétés de l'espace, leur évolution, crée en quelque sorte leur propre histoire. Cette histoire, bien que s'inscrivant dans des contextes singuliers et spécifiques, n'en révélera pas moins une portée et une validité universelles.

L'une des conséquences les plus marquantes de cette évolution est une conception de la Nature qui ne sépare pas complètement le monde humain du milieu vivant et celui-ci de la nature soi-disant inerte. Cette évolution comporte la prise en compte à la fois des transformations spatiales, de la dimension temporelle et des non-linéarités, sources d'une infinité de formes et de comportements. On voit par là que la diversité peut être le reflet d'un ordre sous-jacent, insoupçonnable à première vue, et que la grande variété de phénomènes et de formes apparentes que l'on rencontre dans la nature et dans le monde sensible peut être la manifestation des modalités suivant lesquelles les phénomènes sont sujets à une transmutation et différenciation incessantes sous l'action de quelques grands principes spatio-temporels et/ou dynamiques.

Cette situation ouvre des perspectives radicalement nouvelles sur nombre de problèmes, dont le plus fondamental est peut-être la nature et l'origine des formes qui, depuis bien des siècles, jettent une sorte de défi à l'explication scientifique, philosophique et esthétique. Un ensemble d'idées inédites s'en dégagent, concernant notamment notre façon de comprendre les rapports entre la biosphère et la monde vivant, le rôle des symétries et des brisures des symétries dans la morphogenèse, l'action dynamique du temps sur la transformation des systèmes naturels et biologiques, sur la formation des événements historiques et sur les changements anthropologiques.  Elles contribuent d'ores et déjà à remettre en question certaines cloisons qui traditionnellement séparent les sciences mathématiques des sciences naturelles et des sciences humaines. Ainsi, des connexions insoupçonnées jusqu'à présent se font jour entre en particulier les objets mathématiques, les processus naturels et les modes de la création artistique.

Avec ce colloque, on se propose d'approfondir certains thèmes qui nous paraissent être au cœur même de la problématique des formes, autant de leur genèse et constitution que de leur évolution et développement, mais aussi des risques qui incombent sur la possibilité même de leur existence. Résumons certains de ses objectifs dont il s’agit de dégager leur signification et portée à la fois scientifique, philosophique et esthétique.

(i) Développer une vision intrinsèque des choses et des événements, qui donne une place beaucoup plus importante à leurs aspects à la fois qualitatifs, contextuels et singuliers. Il nous apparaît à ce propos d'une extrême importance d'arriver à mieux comprendre la genèse géométrique des formes naturelles et les processus topologiques sous-jacents à la perception des formes et des qualités sensibles. Des concepts géométriques et topologiques fondamentaux semblent être à l'œuvre dans de nombreuses situations où il y a genèse et apparition de formes nouvelles, notamment, dans le développement embryogénétique, l'évolution moléculaire et cellulaire, les transitions de phases dans la matière organique et inorganique, la croissance des plantes et d'autres organismes du règne végétal, dans la reconnaissance et l'interprétation des formes perceptives et sensibles, et dans bien d'autres situations. Dans tous ces phénomènes, nous sommes en présence d'une situation dans laquelle se produit quelque chose d'absolument extraordinaire et le plus souvent inattendu : engendrement de nouvelles formes spatiales (surfaces, variétés, nœuds, et d'autres formes pouvant être encore plus complexes) aux structures différentes et plus riches à partir d'un support spatial sur lequel on fait agir un certain nombre de symétries spatio-temporelles et de d’autres paramètres dynamiques. Par ailleurs, des objets géométriques et topologiques apparemment simples peuvent engendrer des propriétés et des comportements très complexes. 

(ii) Etudier ces phénomènes qui se situent à l'interface entre certains processus endogènes et d'autres exogènes, entre facteurs internes inhérents par exemple aux organismes, et facteurs externes inhérents à l'environnement, car on commence à comprendre que l'interface elle-même constitue un milieu hautement dynamique permettant l'émergence et le développement de formes nouvelles. Les membranes biologiques, par exemple, sont le siège de processus morphologiques et dynamiques essentiels à la croissance de tous les organismes vivants.

(iii) Mettre en évidence qu'il existe une signification esthétique fondamentale dans les processus d'évolution et de transformation des objets et des organismes, signification qui est inséparable de la question du sens. Il est clair, par exemple, qu'il existe des rapports très étroits entre la perception des formes (visuelles, sonores et autres) et les qualités sensibles des objets et des organismes, ou entre la reconnaissance et la connaissance des formes dans notre espace ambiant et l'évolution et la survie de notre espèce et d'autres espèces animales et végétales.

(iv) Approfondir l'étude des dimensions dynamique et interprétative de l'histoire dans les processus d'évolution et de transformation des phénomènes et des systèmes physiques et biologiques, mais aussi des formations culturelles et symboliques. Il apparaît de plus en plus clairement qu'une autre histoire, sous le mode de trajectoires et de figures temporelles non linéaires et multidimensionnelles, de l'entropie et d'une certaine irréversibilité, de la mémoire et de la sédimentation du paysage géophysique, mais aussi des systèmes de référence cognitifs et sémiotiques, joue un rôle important dans le façonnement de la réalité, dans sa diversification morphologique et phénoménologique et dans son polymorphisme sémantique.

La compréhension des formes, de leur évolution et transformation, ne peut en aucun cas se réduire à une description mécanique de leurs bases physiques, chimiques, ou bien encore, analytique et algorithmique. Cela est vrai aussi bien des formes naturelles et biologiques, que des formes esthétiques et symboliques. Par cette méthode, on détruit la forme, ou plutôt, on détruit la structure interne de la forme, c'est-à-dire son âme, son être et ses possibilités en puissance de se développer et s'épanouir dans son intégralité. La nature et la vie sont formation de formes, et dès qu'on prétend connaître ces formes en analysant et en déterminant ses composantes séparément de sa morphogenèse et de son interaction avec leur milieu vital, on finit par traiter des matières informes, car les formes vivantes sont des « totalités » dont le sens réside dans leur tendance à se réaliser comme telles au cours de leur évolution. Et c'est la raison pour laquelle elles peuvent être saisies dans une vision, jamais dans une division.

Le problème de la forme et ses enjeux actuels incitent tous, chercheurs, philosophes et artistes, à esquisser les jalons d'une nouvelle conception de la réalité, dans laquelle la croyance dans le réductionnisme et l'applicabilité doit être remplacée par les concepts d'auto-organisation et de morphogenèse. De même qu'il est impossible de réduire l'explication du monde physique dans sa totalité et complexité macroscopique, nanoscopique et microscopique à quelques simples lois atomiques et subatomiques fondamentales, ou supposées telles, de même, il semblerait illusoire de vouloir ramener tout ce qui concerne l'organisme vivant à de la chimie, depuis le rhume et les maladies mentales jusqu'au langage et le plaisir esthétique pour la peinture et la musique. Il y a sûrement davantage de niveaux d'organisation entre la perception esthétique ou la représentation symbolique et l'ADN qu'entre l'ADN et l'électrodynamique quantique, et chaque niveau de la réalité peut exiger, pour sa compréhension, que l'on invente des concepts entièrement nouveaux. Par exemple, il est clair que toute explication véritable en biologie, à partir de ses bases moléculaires les plus fines, doit remonter vers la morphologie complexe tridimensionnelle, vers l'organisme complet, achevé ou en cours de construction. C'est à la condition que la morphogenèse et la morphologie retrouvent leur juste place dans la recherche scientifique, philosophique et artistique, mais également dans nos démarches étiques et culturelles, que l'on peut espérer réaliser un nouveau rapprochement entre la nature, le vivant et la création esthétique.

L'essence, la fin et la dignité de toute chose résident dans la forme. La forme est ainsi l'être en devenir de tout phénomène. En ce sens, elle unit le présent au passé, mais en même temps, le présent représente autre chose qui ouvre vers un futur aux résultats inattendus. Toute forme est la trace ou le témoignage vivant des directions multiples qu'a suivies l'évolution sur notre planète, et des transformations de la matière, des organismes et des cultures transmises de génération en génération par les systèmes physiques, biologiques et symboliques. C'est pourquoi aujourd'hui la réhabilitation d'une pensée rationnelle et sensible des formes correspond à la nécessité encore plus qu'au besoin d'une nouvelle intelligibilité scientifique, philosophique et esthétique de la nature et des êtres vivants. Mais il s'agit aussi d'un « combat d’idées » pour sauver notre Terre, protéger la biosphère, préserver la diversité et la richesse des espèces naturelles, animales et végétales, des cultures, des langues et de la mémoire historique à travers le monde entier. En bref, c'est un combat, non pas pour n'importe quel développement et n'importe quel progrès, responsables en grande partie de la disparition et la destruction de très nombreuses forme naturelles, de vie et d'expression, mais bien plutôt, pour la valorisation et le respect de toutes les ressources naturelles, vitales et humaines qu'offre la surface de la Terre et la biosphère, pour le développement d'un nouvel humanisme qui parvienne à réconcilier la science (en tant que création de concepts et non pas exploitation de technologies) à la réflexion philosophique et à l’imagination esthétique. C'est ce combat intellectuel pour les formes et pour une nouvelle perception de leur rôle dans la pensée rationnelle et sensible qui, aujourd’hui, peut permettre d'arrêter les catastrophes, les inondations ou les incendies, et autres désastres qui menacent la nature et la communauté des hommes et des femmes, et qui est la condition d'une existence digne, du bonheur de l'esprit et de la « nourriture » même du corps.

 

 

Tra i temi che saranno affrontati durante il convegno/Les principaux thèmes qui seront abordés durant le colloque/The most important topics which will be addressed during the symposium :

. Le forme tra ars inveniendi e ars vivendi

. La matematica: il regno delle forme, dagli spazi alle superfici e ai nodi

. Forme platoniche e forme naturali

. Forme e strutture matematiche delle teorie fisiche

. Singolarità, catastrofi e morfogenesi

. Simmetrie, simmetrie infrante e genesi delle forme

. Forma dell'universo, formazione delle terra e storia naturale della vita

. Embriogenesi, morfogenesi e ontogenesi: dall'embrione all'individuo

. Forme e processi vitali: dalle mollecole alle cellule e all'organismo

. Scienze delle forme e dinamiche delle forme

. Automata cellulaires et genèse des formes dans la nature et l’art

. Semantica delle forme e pregnanze

. Forme antropologiche, culturali, simboliche e interazioni tra uomo, natura e cultura

. Forme di civilizzazione e forme culturali: unità e varietà delle forme d'espressione e di vita

. Forme letterarie, mondi possibili e stili di vita

. La forme come anima degli esseri viventi

. Concettualizzazioni filosofiche delle forme: da Aristotele, Leibniz et Kant a Husserl, D'Arcy Thompson e Thom

. Forme estetiche e creazione artistica, forme e materia, luci, ombre e colori

. Mutimodalità della percezione: dall'ideologia dell'immagine all'elogio della multisensorialità

. Forme, tecnica ed etica

. Percezione delle forme e aspetti contestuali e globali della percezione: elementi psico-fisici, fisiologici e psicologici

. Il problema della Gestalt e l’idea di una nuova filosofia della natura

. Forme del tempo, evoluzione e emergenza delle forme

. Strutture spaziali tridimensionali e comportamento funzionale negli organismi biologici

. Geofisica e morfologia terrestre : stratificazioni e cambiamenti dinamici

. Stabilità e instabilità delle forme geometriche nella meccanica dei fluidi, in idrodinamica, in geofisica e nei sistemi chimici e biologici

. Rapporti tra forme naturali e forme artistiche ; genesi, formazione e costruzione

. Diversità e unità dei modi di organizzazione delle forme locali e globali, microscopiche e macroscopiche

. Modelli, strutture, origini e dinamiche delle forme

. Le origini della vita, il mistero dell’ontogenesi e le leggi della complessità ; auto-organizzazione e non-linearità

. Le forme dell’invenzione e della creazione umana nell’arte e nella scienza


 

 

Programme

 

 

 

 

Découvertes dans le jardin harmonieux : création, dynamique et « âme » des formes – Systèmes dynamiques, auto-organisation et émergence des formes naturelles

 

Giuseppe Caglioti (Politecnico di Milano)

“Senso del bello, creatività e autoorganizzazione”

 

Jean-Marc Lévy-Léblond (Université de Nice)

“Groupes et formes des théories physiques”

 

Riccardo Pulselli & Marco Rosini (Università di Siena)

“Termodinamica del non equilibrio e forme urbane”

 

Fabiana Mapelli (Università di Siena)

“Tra forma e complessità : per una epistemologia del divenire”

 

Bruno Giorgini (Università di Bologna)

“Forme del tempo e fisica macroscopica”

 

Enzo Tiezzi e Nadia Marchettini (Università di Siena)

“Forme del tempo, evoluzione e meraviglie delle forme:

dalla biologia all'ecologia”

 

Yves Couder (ENS, Paris)

“Morphogenèse et auto-organisation”

 

 

 

 

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Promenade dans l’« Académie de Platon » : une quête des rapports intimes entre formes mathématiques et formes naturelles. Genèse géométrique des formes et émergence des structures

 

 

Moncef Ladjimi (CNRS e Université Paris VI, Parigi)

“Structures tridimensionnelles des protéines et leurs fonctions”

 

Pier Luigi Luisi (Politecnico Federale di Zurigo)

“Forme del tempo e ritmi nel mondo biologico”

 

 

Valentin Poenaru (Université de Paris-Sud Orsay)

“Les mystères de la dimension 4 de l'espace et l’hypothèse

de Poincaré en dimension 3”

 

Pierre Cartier (CNRS-ENS, Paris, e IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette)

“Mathématiques magiques...”

 

Daniel Bennequin (Université de Paris-7)

“Invariants et genèse de formes mathématiques”

 

Luciano Boi (EHESS, CAMS)

“Trasformazioni topologiche e forme nodali nella genesi dei processi     naturali e vitali: ciò che unisce le striscie di Möbius alle molecole”

 

Stefan Hildebrandt (Universität Bonn)

“Mathematics and optimal forms”

 

Giuseppe Longo (CNRS-ENS, Parigi)

“Morphological complexity in some natural phenomena”

 

 

 

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De la perception des formes à la constitution du sens

 

Paola Bressan (Università di Padova)

“Effetti contestuali e olistici nella percezione dei colori”

 

Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Paris)

“Le rôle du mouvement et de l’action dans la perception des formes”

 

Jacques Ninio (CNRS – École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

“Géométrie et perception des formes”

 

Ruggero Pierantoni (Istituto di Cibernetica del CNR, Camogli)

“L’enigma della forma nella percezione : dalla matematica all’arte”

 

 

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TAVOLA ROTONDA/Table ronde/Round table

(diretta da/animée par/leaded by Giuseppe O. Longo)

seguita da dibattito

sul tema/sur le thème/on the theme

«Embryogenèse, formes et caractères spécifiques du vivant, son milieu vital et les manipulations génétiques : critique historico-philosophique et réflexion ético-spirituelle»

 

Interventi di/Avec/With :

Enzo Tiezzi (Università di Siena)

Rosine Chendebois (Université d'Aix-en-Provence)

Edoardo Boncinelli (SISSA, Trieste)

Giuliano Pancaldi (Università di Bologna)

 

 

 

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I.Morphogenèse du vivant : des molécules aux cellules et à l’organisme

Edoardo Boncinelli (Direttore SISSA, Trieste)

“ La genesi della forma vivente”

 

Stuart Kauffman (Pensylvannia University e Institute Santa Fe)

“The Genesis of Order and Self-Organization in Complex Dynamical Systems”

 

Hans Meinhardt (Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen)

“Biological Pettern Formation and Complex Dynamics”

 

Rosine Chandebois (Université d'Aix-en-Provence)

“La morphogenèse chez l’animal pluricellulaire : un progres

social sur des principes cybernetiques”

 

II.Topos, cosmos et formes de la matière : de la cosmologie à la physique quantique

 

Jean-Pierre Luminet (CNRS e Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)

“La forme de l'univers”

 

Piet Hut (Instute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

“Evolution of galaxies and cosmos ”

 

Sergio Albeverio (Bonn Universität)

“Mathematical Forms of Quantum Field Theories”

 

Ignatios Antoniadis (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

“La forme géométrique des cordes et la nature de la physique

à l’échelle de Planck”

 

 

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Formes, signes et mythes, en littérature, en sémiotique et dans l’anthropologie

 

Giuseppe Paioni (Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica, UdU)

“ Forma/informe”

 

Jackie Pigeaud (Université de Nantes e Institut Universitaire de France)

“Forme de l’art et du vivant”

 

Carlo Ossola (Collège de France, Parigi)

“Forme interpretative in letteratura, da Dante a Borges”

 

Paolo Fabbri (DAMS, Università di Bologna)

“Passioni, emozioni e forme semiotiche’

 

TAVOLA ROTONDA/Table ronde/Round table

(diretta da Enrico Castelli Gattinara e Roberto Barbanti)

sul tema/sur/on

«Formes historiques et sociales, formes symboliques et formes de spatialité vécues»

 

Interventi di/Avec/With :

Pino Ricci (Università di Urbino)

Pascal Gabellone (Université de Montpellier III)

Odile Hamburger (Ecole d'Architecture de la Villette, Paris)

Silvia Mancini (Université de Bordeaux)

James Michels (Wayne State University, Detroit)

Richard Raspa (Wayne State University, Detroit)

 

 

 

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I. Formes esthétiques et création artistique : les formes dans l’art et les mystères des formes – Le langage magique des nœuds

 

Événement sur l’œuvre de l’artiste, écrivain et poète

 

Jorge Eduardo EIELSON

 

Intervento dell'artista :

“Dai Quipus Nazca alla ‘scala infinita’ di Leonardo: le radici e le ali della creazione artistica e poetica”

 

William Rowe (Birkbeck College, University of London)

“Surfaces of Delight : Forms of Space in the Poetry of Jorge Eduardo Eielson”

 

Lorraine Verner (Paris)

“Le langage magique des nœuds dans l'art de Eielson ”

 

Martha Canfield (Università di Venezia)

“L’œuvre ouverte de Jorge Eielson”

 

Jean-Claude Bonne (EHESS, Parigi)

“Entrelacs et contorsions”

 

 

II. Formes naturelles, visuelles et sonores ; transdisciplinarité de la création et perception esthétique et artistiques

 

Paolo D'Angelo (Università di Roma III “Tor Vergata”)

“Forme dell’arte ambientale”

 

Claire Fagnart (Université Paris VIII)

“Les formes du sujet historique et esthétique”

 

Roberto Barbanti (Università di Montpellier III)

“Per un nuovo paradigma estetico”

 

Makis Salomos (Institut Universitaire de France)

“Notes sur la relation entre la forme en musique et l’idée de nature”

 

Daniel Charles (Università di Nizza)

“Une critique esthétique des formes actuelles des arts”

 

 

 

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Conceptualisations philosophiques et épistémologiques des formes

 

Gino Tarozzi (Università di Urbino)

“Forme e strutture matematiche delle teorie fisiche”

 

Giulio Giorello (Università Statale di Milano)

“Forme e modelli della conoscenza: da Mach a Feyrabend”

 

Aldo Gargani (Università di Pisa)

“Forme del sapere e stili di vita”

 

Giuseppe O. Longo (Università di Trieste e SISSA)

“Informazione, evoluzione e creazione: una riflessione epistemologica”

 

 

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Complexity

Art and complex systems

 

Exposition

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

SUNY New Paltz

 

14 Septembre – 24 Novembre 2002

 

[ http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/complexity.pdf ]

 

Complexity: Art and Complex Systems *
September 14- November 24, 2002

A group exhibition organized by Ellen K Levy and Philip Galanter.

COMPLEXITY is the second major museum exhibition about complex systems. It creates bridges across many branches of science and also offers a revolutionary intellectual vector that has ramifications for other disciplines such as art and philosophy.

Included are prescient early works by Hans Haacke and Steina Vasulka that anticipated current science, plus contemporary works by Mauro Annunziato, Manuel Baez, Jonathan Callan, Remo Campopiano, Guy Marsden & Jonathan Schull, Nancy Chunn, Janet Cohen, Philip Galanter, Frank Gillette, David Goldes, Paul Hertz, Ellen K. Levy, Brian Lytel, Daro Montag, Jack Ox, Daniel Reynolds, Marianne Selsjord, John Simon Jr., Karl Sims, Nell Tenhaaf, and Leo Villareal.

 

 

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Creativity and Cognition 4

Processes and artefacts :

Art, technology and science

 

An ACM SIGCHI International Conference

 

14-16 Octobre 2002

 

Loughborough University

England

 

[ http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/co  ] 

 

 

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Color Perception: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

 

University of California, San Diego, 11-12 October 2002

 

University of British Columbia, October 2003

 


Color Vision

Organizers

Jonathan Cohen, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Mohan Matthen, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Overview

Questions about color have played a central role in philosophy for virtually the whole history of the subject: such thinkers as Democritus, Aristotle, Epicurus, Lucretius, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Goethe, Carnap, and Wittgenstein (to name a few) have appealed to color in their attempts to advance views about the nature of minds, the world, knowledge, language, meaning, perception, and morality. Color has been such a focus of interest because it is extremely unclear what colors are. The naive perceiver sees color as a property of surfaces, but, as the atomist Democritus saw very early, it is unclear how surfaces can have such a property when atoms do not. The point was well put by Lucretius, a first century B.C. atomist: ``All colors without exception change, but under no circumstances should the primary elements do this.'' The variability of color presents another puzzle of very long standing: why is it that things look different colors to different people in different circumstances? To quote Lucretius again, ``Consider the iridescence imparted by sunlight to the plumage that rings and garlands the neck of the dove: sometime it is glossed with red garnet, sometimes it appears to blend green emeralds with blue lazuli. Since these colors are produced by a certain incidence of light, obviously we must not suppose that they can be produced without it.'' These problems, articulated in the ancient world, formed the basis for the treatment of color by scientists and philosophers around the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century such as Galileo, Newton, Descartes, and Locke.

Of course, color is of interest to fields outside of philosophy as well, including psychology, biology, physics, computer science, and anthropology. But, while the best philosophical treatments of color of the 17th and 18th centuries (Locke's, for example) took current empirical science of color very seriously, philosophical work on color in much of the 19th and 20th centuries proceeded largely in ignorance of the vast body of subsequent developments in color science. For example, the work of 19th century color psychophysicists Hering and Helmholtz was read by some philosophers (e.g., Carnap and Wittgenstein), but this seemed to make little difference to the content of their theories.

spectralAll this changed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a number of philosophers breathed new philosophical life into the subject by bringing recent results in physics, colorimetry, computational vision, physiology, psychophysics, evolutionary biology, and other fields of color science to bear on ontological and epistemological questions about color. By doing so, these authors made genuine inroads on problems on which there had been no significant advances for generations. Since this time, there has been a flowering of empirically informed philosophical work on color: color has become a prominent topic in the field, is now discussed in articles in the best philosophical journals, conferences, and graduate seminars, and has been the subject of a number of new anthologies and monographs. Much of this work delivers on the often-made (but too seldom-realized) promises of interdisciplinary collaboration: new results from color science really have reframed old debates, suggested new arguments against old positions, inspired new views, and generally restructured the philosophical landscape. At the same time, philosophical attention to empirical color science has fostered inquiry into the conceptual and methodological foundations of the relevant sciences.

Despite the increased interest in topics at the intersection of philosophy and color science, there are a number of empirical phenomena surrounding color perception whose philosophical repercussions have been insufficiently acknowledged. Our conferences will be devoted to these issues. In each case, our aim will be to set out the empirical phenomena as clearly and as broadly as possible, and then to consider what these phenomena imply about the ontology and epistemology of color. The empirical problems we have in mind are:

  1. variability of color perception across species and individuals, and in different kinds of perceptual circumstances;
  2. the co-evolution hypothesis (the view that the colors of plants and animals evolved together with systems for color perception in animals);
  3. color categorization (why do visual systems naturally break the continuous range of colors into a small number of categories --- red, blue, orange, etc., and what determines the categories used by a given visual system?); and
  4. uses of color vision (i.e., what is color used for within the human or other cognitive systems?).

We believe that the time is ripe for substantive interchange on these matters between philosophers and color scientists, and that the UCSD and UBC conferences will provide opportunities for sustained and focussed discussion of these topics.

 

Format

The conference will occur in two installments: one in October of 2002 in San Diego, at which we will set up the empirical issues and the challenges they pose, and then another in October of 2003 in Vancouver, at which we will attempt to delineate viable philosophical accommodations to the problems posed at the first meeting. The conferences will be run as round-tables (rather than having concurrent sessions) at which a relatively small number of the best philosophers and scientists working on color can weigh in on all of our themes. It is our hope that this format, which includes a year's worth of time for reflection in the light of the first meeting, will result in a more unified set of discussions than would otherwise be possible.

 

Reading List

The conference participants have assembled a pre-meeting reading list of papers that will provide useful background and (with any luck) will lubricate interdisciplinary conversation at the time of the conferences.

 

Participants

Kathleen Akins, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University

Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University

Alex Byrne, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT

Austen Clark, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

Paul Churchland, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Jonathan Cohen, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Michael D'Zmura, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

C. L. Hardin, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University (emeritus)

David Hilbert, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kimberly Jameson, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Peter Lennie, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Don MacLeod, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Mohan Matthen, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Rainer Mausfeld, Institute of Psychology, Christian-Albrecht-University of Kiel

Brian McLaughlin, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University

J. D. Mollon, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge

Kathy Mullen, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University

John Werner, Department of Ophthalmology and Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis

 

[ http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/events/colorPerception.html ]

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Résonances

Rencontres internationales

des technologies pour la musique

 

IRCAM

13-20 Octobre 2002

 


 

 

RENCONTRES SCIENTIFIQUES
CONFÉRENCE ISMIR
ATELIERS DU FORUM
L'ECOUTE INSTRUMENTÉE
SESSION MÉTADONNÉES
SESSIONS THÉMATIQUES
ESPACE D'EXPOSITION
JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE À LA CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE
RENCONTRES ARTISTIQUES
SONIC PROCESS
CONCERTS CURSUS
EVÉNEMENTS ASSOCIÉS
INSTALLATIONS SONORES
PROJECTIONS
WEEK-END NOUVEAUX INSTRUMENTS
ATELIERS CONCERTS
ATELIERS POUR ENFANTS
CONFÉRENCES DÉMONSTRATIONS
GALERIE NOUVEAUX INSTRUMENTS
PORTES OUVERTES DE LA RECHERCHE

 

EDITORIAL

urant la dernière décennie du XXème siècle, les conditions technologiques et industrielles ont été réunies pour que se mette en place un système technique entièrement numérique qui constitue pour les musiques dans leur ensemble une rupture sans doute aussi immense que le fut en son temps l'apparition du phonographe.

C'est sans doute cette évolution majeure qu'évoquait Glenn Gould en écrivant dès 1966 que, « aussi limité soit-il, la manipulation des cadrans et des boutons est un acte d'interprétation. Il y a quarante ans, tout ce que l'auditeur pouvait faire consistait à mettre en marche ou à éteindre son tourne-disque - et éventuellement, s'il était très perfectionné, à en ajuster un tout petit peu le volume. Aujourd'hui, la diversité des contrôles qui sont à sa disposition nécessite de sa part une capacité de jugement analytique. Encore ces contrôles ne sont-ils que des dispositifs de réglage très primitifs en comparaison des possibilités de participation qui seront offertes à l'auditeur lorsque les techniques actuelles très sophistiquées de laboratoire seront intégrées aux appareils domestiques. »

Cette évolution technique est aussi ce qui a conduit à ce que la musique sous toutes ses formes devienne l'un des marchés les plus convoités pour le développement des nouvelles industries culturelles issues de la numérisation des textes, des images et des sons.

L'Ircam a mission d'explorer aux plus hauts niveaux d'exigences scientifiques, artistiques et philosophiques les questions ouvertes par le devenir des technologies électroniques. Il a décidé de s'y employer en créant ces Résonances, journées internationales des technologies pour la musique. Les Résonances permettront de brosser à l'automne de chaque année, au niveau mondial, un tableau précis des évolutions en cours et de leurs concrétisations aussi bien artistiques qu'industrielles, et seront aussi l'occasion de manifestations artistiques variées : concerts, installations et expositions.

Sur le thème « Nouvelles formes d'écoute et nouveaux instruments », les Résonances 2002 mettent en scène la convergence numérique entre dispositifs d'écoute de plus en plus « active » et la lutherie électronique, permise par les nouvelles technologies d'analyse du son et de la musique.

 

 

 


Comité d'organisation

 

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3rd International Seminar on

Mathematical Music Theory and Music Informatics

Institut für Informatik/MultiMedia Lab

Universität Zürich

24-26 Octobre 2002

[ http://ww.i2.musics.org ]

 

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Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani

Venice. Isola San Servolo

25-27 Octobre 2002

The neurosciences and music

Mutual interactions and implications on developmental fonctions

[ http://www.fondazione-mariani.org/inglese/formazione/international_meetings/neuromusic/music_prog.html ]

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Mucsarnok/ Kunsthalle Budapest

19-20 Octobre 2002

[ http://vision.c3.hu/en/symposion.html ]

Symposium

Image and the brain

R. Gregory. Putting illusions in their place.

S. Zielinski. An interface without a medium. Empedokles’ concept of seeing and some consequences for the     philosophy of nature.

G. Kovacs. The vision of the ancestors-object and shape representation in Palaeolithic cave art.

P. Weibel- H. Diebner. A time continuous cognitive system.

B. Gulyas. Vision, visual imagery, art and the brain.

N. Wade. Images of vision.

J.P. Changeux. A neurocognitive and evolutionary approach to art- the example of visual arts.

D. Melcher-F. Bacci.  The „monument of an instant“: the portrayal of central and peripheral vision in the work of the italian „impressionist“ sculptor Medardo Rosso.

Z. Vidnyanszky. Attention! Active vision .

M.A. Goodale. Seeing and doing : Why vision is more than perception.

J. Andel. Jan Evangelista Purkinje and the emergence of neuroscience, modern art and new media.

I. Kovacs. Capturing time: from E.J. Marey to modern neuroscience.

 

 

 

 

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Artmedia VIII - Paris
De "l'esthétique de la communication" au Net art

Colloque - 29, 30 novembre & 1er décembre 2002

Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur
10 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris

Le colloque Artmedia VIII Paris est organisé par Mario Costa, Fred Forest et Annick Bureaud, en partenariat avec l'Université de Salerne, le Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur et le concours de Leonardo/Olats.

 

[ http://www.olats.org/olats/artmedia/2002/participants.html   ]


ORGANISATEURS & PARTENAIRES

1 - Organisateurs

Organisateurs : Mario Costa, professeur d'Esthétique à l'Université de Salerne et de Méthodologie de la critique à l'Université de Naples (I.U.O.) en collaboration avec Annick Bureaud et Fred Forest, professeur émérite à l'Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

Institutions organisatrices : Université de Salerne, Département de Philosophie ; Centre Francais du Commerce Extérieur.

 

2 - Comité scientifique

Anne Cauquelin, professeur émérite d'Université, théoricienne en art contemporain, agrégée de philosophie, docteur d'Etat, co-directeur de la Revue d'esthétique

Edmond Couchot, professeur Université Paris VIII, ancien directeur du département ATI (Arts et Technologies de l'Image) de l'UFR Arts, esthétique et philosophie

Derrick de Kerckhove, directeur du Programme Marshall Mc Luhan, Université de Toronto

Jean-Paul Longavesne, professeur Université Paris XI & ENSAD, directeur du GRIP (Groupe de Recherche en Informatique Picturale)

Roger Malina, directeur de Leonardo, directeur du Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale de Marseille, CNRS

Pierre Moeglin, directeur du Laboratoire des Sciences de l'information et de la communication, Paris XIII et chargé de mission "Maison des sciences de l'homme 'Paris Nord'" pour le compte du ministère de la recherche

Karen O'Rourke, maître de conférence à Paris I, Sorbonne, Saint-Charles

Louise Poissant, directrice du programme de doctorat en Etudes et Pratiques des Arts, directrice du GRAM (Groupe de Recherche en Arts Médiatiques), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Annick Bureaud

Mario Costa

Fred Forest

 

 

[français] - [english]

 

PROGRAMME

 

VENDREDI 29 NOVEMBRE 2002 / FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29th 2002

sessions au CFCE / sessions at the CFCE, 10 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris

Session 1 : Histoire d'une esthétique de la communication technologique / History of an Aesthetics of Technological Communication

Modérateur / Moderator : Frank Popper

:Louise Poissant, Le Dictionnaire des Arts Médiatiques / Media Arts Dictionnary

 Natan Karczmar, Le Vidéocollectif / The Videocollectif

 Fred Forest, Petit voyage à rebrousse temps : en remontant du Net art aux… fondements historiques de l'esthétique de la communication / Small Journey in thePast: by going back from Net art to the historic foundations of theaesthetics of communication

Louis-José Lestocart, Emergences-l'art en espace partagé / Emergences - Art in Shared Space

: Conclusion, Frank Popper  

Session 2 : Forme et événements dans les réseaux / Form and Events in the Networks

Modératrice / Moderator : Louise Poissant

Mario Costa, "Bloc communiquant" et esthétique du flux / "Communicating Block" and Aesthetics of the Flux

Mariapaola Fimiani, Esthétique et éthique : la force des choses / Aesthetics and Ethics : The Strength of Things

Edmond Couchot, De la communication à la commutation / From Communication to Commutation

 Conclusion, Louise Poissant  

Session 3 (1ère partie) : Thématisation de l'espace-temps comme pratique artistique / "Thematizing" Space-Time as Artistic Practice

Modérateur / Moderator : Roger Malina

 Samuel Bianchini, Image interactive : stratégies de manipulation / Interactive Image: Stategies of manipulation

: Nicolas Reeves, Les terrifiants pépins de la lucidité : Essai sur les mondes pseudo-infinis / The Terrifying Pips of Lucidity: Essay on Pseudo Infinite Worlds

 Jean-Paul Longavesne, Esthétique et rhétorique des arts technologiques : l'art des machines / Aesthetics and Rethorics of Technological Arts : The Art of The Machines

Andreas Broeckmann, Réseau/Résonance - Les processus de connectivité et la pratique artistique / Reseau/Resonance - Connective Processes and Artistic Practice

Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss, Métaphores de la navigation en ligne : netzspannung.org - un espace collaboratif de savoir pour l'art et la technologie, une plate-forme Internet communautaire / Metaphors of Online Navigation: netzspannung.org – a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Art and Technology, a Community-based Internet Platform

:Conclusion, Roger Malina 

Session 3 (2ème partie) : Thématisation de l'espace-temps comme pratique artistique / "Thematizing" Space-Time as Artistic Practice

Modérateur / Moderator : Mario Costa

Karen O'Rourke & Sharon Daniel, Cartographier la base de données : la représentation en ligne de l'expérience spatio-temporelle / Mapping Databases: Online Representation of Spatiotemporal Experience

Christophe Charles, Pratiques de la (dé)(com)position / Practice of (de)(com)position

Roberto Barbanti, "Ultramédialité" et question éthique / "Ultramediality" and Ethical Question

Daniel Charles, À propos des "Paysages Imaginaires" de John Cage / About John Cage's "Imaginary Landscapes"

 Conclusion, Mario Costa

SAMEDI 30 NOVEMBRE 2002 / SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30th 2002

sessions au CFCE / sessions at the CFCE, 10 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris

Session 4 : Jeux vidéos et arts hybrides dans les réseaux / Video Games and Hybrid Arts in the Networks

Modérateur / Moderator : Derrick de Kerckhove

Timothée Rolin, Histoires parallèles / Parallel Stories

: Bruno Samper, Créateurs de mondes persistants : les artistes acteurs de la convergence / Creators of Persisting Worlds: The Artists, Players of the Convergence

 Bruno Beusch & Tina Cassani, Jeux Illimités / Games Unlimited

Gilbertto Prado, Expériences récentes d'environnements virtuels multi- utilisateurs au Brésil / Recent Experiments in Multiuser Virtual Environments in Brazil

 Conclusion, Derrick de Kerckhove

Session 5 : Le Net art dans le cadre muséal, les circuits marchands et institutionnels à l'heure de la mondialisation / Net Art in the Museum Context, Commercial and Institutional Circuits in Times of Globalization

Modérateur / Moderator : Pierre Restany

 Steve Dietz, Translocations et comment les latitudes deviennent formes / Translocations and How Latitudes Become Forms

 Jemima Rellie, L'expérience de la Tate Gallery / The experience at the Tate Gallery

 Table-ronde et discussion avec / Panel and discussion with : Steve Dietz (Walker Art Center), Jemima Rellie (Tate Gallery), Angeline Scherf (Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris), Benjamin Weil (SFMoMA), Pierre Restany (modérateur/moderator)

 

Session 6 : Présence à distance, Téléprésence / Presence at a Distance, Telepresence

Modérateur / Moderator : Pierre Moeglin

: Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, Les chemins de l'œuvre d'art au-delà de l'utilisabilité (à portée de net : quelle proximité ?) / Artwork's Pathes beyond Utilisability (Whitin Net Range: Which Kind of Proximity?)

Eduardo Kac, Téléprésence, biotélématique et art transgénique / Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art

Vincenzo Cuomo, Tele-cum-être-ici. Topologie de l’impersonnalité / Tele- cum-being-here: Topology of Impersonnality

Reynald Drouhin & Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Les coulisses de l'œuvre net.art : Des_Frags Process / Behind the Curtain of a Work of net.art: Des_Frags Process

Gregory Chatonsky, La fiction programmatique / Programmatic Fiction

Stephan Barron, "Ozone, o-o-o, Contact"... des œuvres technoromantiques entre présence et absence / "Ozone, o-o-o, Contact"...Technoromantic Artworks between Presence and Absence

: Conclusion, Pierre Moeglin  

Session 7 : Réseaux et futur de l'écriture / Networks and the Future of Writing

Modératrice / Moderator : Marie-Claude Vettraino-Soulard

Jean-Pierre Balpe, Vers une littérature diffractée / Toward a Diffracted Literature

Matteo d'Ambrosio, Une sémiotique à venir pour la cyberpoésie / A Semiotic Approach to Cyberpoetry

: Eric Sadin, Surfaces urbaines / territoires textuels > signs, bits & the city / Urban Surfaces / Textual Territories > signs, bits & the cit

: Conclusion, Marie-Claude Vettraino-Soulard

 

DIMANCHE 1er DECEMBRE 2002 / SUNDAY DECEMBER 1st 2002

sessions au CFCE / sessions at the CFCE, 10 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris

Session 8 : Architecture, urbanisme et technologies de la communication / Architecture, Urban Design and Communication Technologies

Modératrice / Moderator : Anne Cauquelin

: Pierre Lévy, Le "design culturel", une nouvelle forme d'art conceptuel : le projet de l'intelligence collective / "Cultural Design", a New Conceptual Art Form: The Collective Intelligence Project

Luc Courchesne, La découverte de l'horizon / The Discovery of the Horizon

: Anolga Rodionoff, Architectures de réseau, architectures de l'interactivité… ? / Network Architecture, Architecture of Interactivity ?

: Maurizio Bolognini, "SMSMS (Short Message Service Mediated Sublime)": l'art et le sublime technologique dans l'environnement urbain / "SMSMS (Short Message Service Mediated Sublime)": Art and Technological Sublime in the Urban Environment

: Olivier Auber, Esthétique de la perspective numérique / Aesthetics of Digital Perspective

Mit Mitropoulos, Articulation des espaces électroniques et du comportement en leur sein —comparés à des espaces semi privés/public et à une conception minimaliste pour des sites distants / Articulation of Electronic Spaces, and Behaviour in them --as compared to Semi-private/public Spaces and Minimal Design for Remote Sites

Conclusion, Anne Cauquelin  

Session 9 (1ère partie) : Corps, cortex et réseaux / Body, Cortex and Networks

Modérateur / Moderator : François Soulages

: Angelo Trimarco, La critique à l’ère du virtuel / The Critic at the Era of the Virtual

Victoria Vesna, Changement de l'esprit et futur du corps : des réseaux aux systèmes nanologiques / Mind Shifting and Future Bodies: from Networks to Nanosystems

Roy Ascott, Voyager dans la conscience : art et technologies transformatives / Navigating Consciousness: Art and Transformative Technologies.

: Dominique Lestel, Eléments d’une phylogenèse de l’esthétique en réseau : rationalité expressive et régression créatrice / Elements for a Phylogenesis of a Networked Aesthetics: Expressive Rationality and Creative Regression

: Conclusion, François Soulages  

Session 9 (2ème partie) : Corps, cortex et réseaux / Body, Cortex and Networks

Modérateur / Moderator : Edmond Couchot

Roger Malina, L'univers est-il numérique ? / Is the Universe Digital ?

Maurice Benayoun, Représentation/Situation, fluidité et rugosité du virtuel / Representation/Situation, Fluidity and Rugosity of the Virtual

Sophie Lavaud, L’implication du corps dans les scénographies interactives / The Implication of the Body in Interactive Scenographies

: Derrick de Kerckhove, Les arts numériques comme des objets mentaux externes / Digital Arts as External Mental Objects

: Conclusion, Edmond Couchot

LUNDI 2 DECEMBRE 2002 / MONDAY DECEMBER 2nd 2002

Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), 45, rue d'Ulm, 75015 Paris, salle Dussane

: Séance de clôture : Cognition & art en réseaux / Cognition and Art in the Networks

Organisateur et modérateur / Coordinator and moderator : Dominique Lestel

avec/with : Mario Costa, Fred Forest, Annick Bureaud, Dominique Lestel, Jean-Paul Longavesne, Edmond Couchot, Derrick de Kerkhove, Pierre Lévy, Roy Ascott, Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié.


 

 

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Computer art

Congrès

 

2-3 Décembre 2002

 

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture

254 Boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

 

[ http://europia.org/CAC ]

 

Thèmes

Esthétique du computer art

Art algorithmique

Art et computer art

Computer art et culture nonlinéaire

Computer art et couleur

Culture globale. Art de collaboration

Histoire du Computer art

Computer art interactif

Linguistique et computer art

Musique et computer art

Computer art en ligne

 

Organisateurs

Bernard Caillaud

Khaldoun Zreik

 

 C.A.C.1

1st Computer Art Congress

2-3 décembre 2002

Amphithéâtre Ciné

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA)

254, Boulevard Raspail - 75014 Paris, FRANCE

Métro Raspail

Program

 

Monday December 2, 2002

9h00 Registration

9h15 Opening session

Jacques BOULET (ESA), Bernard CAILLAUD (Digital Artist),

Khaldoun ZREIK (C.A.E.N, University of Caen)

Session 1 (Chairman: B. Caillaud)

9h45 – 10h30                 Simon DINER

Ancien Directeur de Recherche au CNRS.

e-mail : si.diner@wanadoo.fr

Site web: http://www.oiseaudefeu-omphalos.com

Du nombre d'or à l'information algorithmique / Vers une esthétique mathématique.

From  The Golden Number  to  Algorithmic  Information / Towards  a Mathematical  Aesthetics.

10h30 – 11h00 Coffee break

11h00 – 11h45   Aleksandra DULIC et Kenneth NEWBY

Computing Arts & Design Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, B.C. Canada

Towards a Cinema of Braided Processes : HeteroForm in New Media Composition.

11H45 – 12h30   Giovanni DE PAOLI

Groupe de recherche en CAO, École d'architecture,

Université de Montréal, Canada

e-mail : giovanni.de.paoli@umontreal.ca

http://www.grcao.umontreal.ca/depaoli/

Méthodes de modélisation numérique et artistique :  cas de la plate-forme virtuelle de création pour les artistes des nouveaux Complexes Cirque du Cirque du Soleil.

Methods  of digital and  artistic modelling : the exemple  of the virtual plate-forme  for creation for artists of the new " Complexes Cirque du Cirque du Soleil".

12h30 – 14h30 Lunch Break (No lunches have been organised, participants can find many restaurants around the ESA)

 

Session 2 ( Chair: S. DINER)

14h30 – 15h15   Julie TOLMIE

Simon Fraser University
e-mail : jatolmie@sfu.ca

From mathematical visualization to immersive  abstraction.

15h15 – 16h00   Stephen JONES

PhD student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Technology, Sydney

The Evolution of Computer Art in Australia.

16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break

16h30 – 17h15   Jean VIVIER

Professeur de Psychologie

Directeur Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Pathologique

Pôle "Modélisation en Sciences Cognitives"

Maison de la recherche en Sciences Humaines

Université de Caen - Basse-Normandie

Reflexions psychologiques sur la temporalité dans le Computer Art.

Temporality  in Computer Art : a psychological point of view.

17h15 – 18h00   Christine FERNANDEZ MALOIGNE

Laboratoire IRCOM-SIC (Signal, Image et Communications)

UMR CNRS 6615

Futuroscope

Couleur numérique et psychométrie.

Digital Color and Psychometry.

 

18h00 – 19h15  Artists/ Statements ( Animator Victor GRILLO )

             avec                Martine ARGUILLÈRE

                                    Christian BURGAUD

                                    Nadège JEANNE

                                   Amr KHADR

 

 

Tuesday December 3, 2002

Session 3 ( Chair : M. LEGLISE)

9h30 – 10h00                 Bernard CAILLAUD

Digital Artist

Co-responsable du C.A.E.N. (Cercle d'Art et d'Espaces Numériques)

Chercheur associé - G.R.E.Y.C - Université de Caen

e-mail : Bernard.Caillaud@info.unicaen.fr

Automates cellulaires : développement temporel, choix et création.

Cellular Automata : developement over time, choice and creation.

10h00 – 11h00   Jean Pierre BALPE

Directeur du département Hypermédia

Co-Directeur des laboratoires PARAGRAPHE, CIREN et CITU

Directeur de l'école doctorale SIIC

Université Paris 8

Art et technologies.

Art and Technlogy.

11h00 – 11h30 Coffee break

11h30 – 12H15   Jean-Paul LONGAVESNE

Professor, University Paris XI and

École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD),

Director of the "Groupe de Recherche en Informatique Picturale" (GRIP),

Invited Professor at University of Québec, Montréal (UQAM)

Esthétique et Rhétorique des arts technologiques - L'Art des machines.

Thématisation de l'espace-temps comme pratique artistique...

Aesthetics and Rhetoric  of Technological Art - The Art of Machines.

Space-time Thematics as an artistic practice...

12H15 – 13h00   Michael PORADA

Architect, PhD

Ancien enseignant des Ecoles d’Architecture à Paris

Computer  Art ?

 

13h00 – 14h30 Lunch Break (No lunches have been organised, participants can find many restaurants around the ESA)

 

14h30-15h15  Christian LAVIGNE

                Ecrivain et artiste multimedia

                Robotsculpture et télésculpture

                Président de Toile Metisse  [ http://www.toile-metisse.org ]

                Cofondateur d’Intersculpt  [ http://intersculpt.org ]

Matérialisation et dématérialisation de l’art : la sculpture numérique abolit les contraires.

Materialization and dematerialization of art : computer sculpture abolishes these contraries.        

 

15h15– 16h00 Artshow (Animator : Bernard CAILLAUD

16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break

 

 

Closing Session

16h30 – 18h00 Round Table with all the participants animated by K. ZREIK, B. CAILLAUD, J. BOULET.

 

 

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GA 2002

5 th International Conference on GENERATIVE ART

 

11-13 Décembre 2002

Ecole Polytechnique Université de Milan

 

[ http://www.generativeart.com ]

 

 

 

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Art et Cognition

Conférence virtuelle

 

A partir du 18 Novembre 2002

Jusqu’en Février 2003

 

[ http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcog ]

 

Articles et discussions mis en ligne

Une formule originale et vivante qui aura sans doute tendance à se développer

 

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CERN

London Institute

(College of art, design and communication)

 

 

Signatures of the invisible

 

An art exhibition inspired by particle physics

 

 

 

[ http://www.signatures.linst.ac.uk/framesetexp.htm ]

Voir aussi la présentation sur

[ http://www.straddle3.net/context/01/010508.en.html ]

 

 

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Berkeley, California

Saturday, January 11, 2003

 

 

 

The First Conference

Institute of Neuroesthetics

Minerva Foundation

Email Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Musée Thyssen Bornemisza

Madrid

11 Février-25 Mai 2003

 

Analogies musicales

Kandinsky et ses contemporains

 

Organisée par Javier Arnaldo. Illustration des relations entre la peinture abstraite et les termes musicaux. Kupka, Klee, Baranov-Rossiné, Picabia, Balla, Severino, Boccioni, Matyushin. Hétérophonie, modulation, polyphonie, variations, nocturne, simultanéisme: vision circulaire, orchestration, rythme: vortex et résonance.,

 

 

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DEAF 03

Dutch Electronic Art Festival

 

Data knitting

 

Rotterdam

25 Février-9 Mars 2003

 

[ http://www.deaf.v2.nl ]

 

Un festival d’art digital qui questionne la société de l’information.

Les médias deviennent de plus en plus des moyens de construire la réalité plutôt que de la représenter.

 

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Paris

Site Richelieu

25 Mars-22 Juin 2003

 

 

Fouquet

Peintre et enlumineur

du XV ème siècle

 

[ http://expositions.bnf.fr/fouquet ]

 

L’oeuvre admirable de Fouquet donne lieu sur le site et dans la catalogue

a des spéculations pour le moins hasardeuses sur l’emploi du nombre d’or.

S’il est indéniable que Fouquet a recours à des tracés régulateurs, rien ne permet d’y faire jouer au nombre d’or un rôle particulier.

Ce rôle esthétique n’a jamais été invoqué par quiconque jusqu’au XIX ème siècle. Historiquement et mathématiquement le nombre d’or ne joue aucun rôle dans une esthétique des proportions.

Une manifestation navrante de la légèreté scientifique

 des conservateurs de musée,

intoxiqués par M. Ghyka, E. Maillard et C. Bouleau.

 

[ http://expositions.bnf.fr/fouquet/arret/geometrie/2.htm ]

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University of Toronto

 

Subtle Technologies 03

 

22-25 Mai 2003

 

[ http://www.www.subtletecnologies.com/2003/schedule.html ]

 

Un festival Art et science annuel.

 

 

 

News

Programs

Symposium

Performance

Installation

Schedule

Registration

Schedule

 

Thursday May 22 2003
Deconism Gallery 330 Dundas West, Toronto

 

 

 

7pm

Opening Panel: Cyborg DECONtact
An opening panel with
Arthur Kroker, Derrick de Kerckhove, Steve Mann and Simon Penny.

 

 

 

9 pm

 

Exhibition
Opening of Bedlam Telekinesis by Simon Penny and Bill Vorn

 

 

 

Friday May 23 2003
Innis Townhall 2 Sussex Avenue, UofT campus, Toronto

 

 

 

11am

 

Swipe Project
by Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer

Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer will present their on-going project, Swipe, a collaboration with Jamie Schulte. Swipe, a multi-disciplinary performance, addresses the gathering of data from drivers' licenses, a form of data-collection that businesses are starting to practice nation-wide.

Swipe Booth: check what sort of information is stored on your driver’s license.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1pm

 

Plant Anima Project: A Biotechnological Architecture
by Aniko Meszaros
Plant Anima is an ongoing project to study the transformation of tools of biotechnology into devices of culture. It proposes a new inhabitable architecture generated through the invention of unique plant organisms that is wired yet vegetable, responsive yet independent, artificial and alive.

 

 

 

2pm

 

Growing Houses
by Tony Paginton
Growing Houses examines the possibilities for a future environment in which buildings are grown rather than built.

 

 

 

3pm

 

IntelligentCITY
by Sophia Lycouris and Yacov Sharir
IntelligentCITY
uses choreographic practices in dialogue with interactive technologies to transform and accentuate the perception of everyday built environments, such as shopping centers, by live audiences who are also the regular users of such environments.

 

 

 

4pm

 

Risky Surveillance: Distributed and Multiple Identity(ies) as Resistance
by Nancy Nisbet
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchip implantation is one of several commercially attractive human tracking and authentication systems. This presentation will explore creative opportunities for resisting such surveillance and challenging officials to ensure protection for individual privacy and freedom.

 

 

 

Evening Performance

8pm

 

Palindrome performance and discussion
German inter-media dance troupe Palindrome use dance movement in conjunction with interactive electronic systems to control a layered environment of video projections, music and lighting.
Discussion by Palindrome’s artistic director Robert Weschler follows the presentation.

 

 

 

Saturday May 24 2003
Innis Townhall 2 Sussex Avenue, U of T campus, Toronto

 

 

 

9am

 

Locative Media: Mapping and Positioning Ad-hoc Wireless Networking
by Marc Tuters

Marc Tuters contrasts corporate driven wireless experiments, such as HP’s Cooltown, with grass-roots collaborative wireless mapping projects which he argues facilitates its users to become 'architects of their own social spaces'

 

 

10am

 

Squaring the Circle: An Artist’s Exploration of Time, Space, Frequency and Sound
by Steve Heimbecker
Steve Heimbecker describes his philosophic and creative path as an audio artist leading to the creation of the network sensor system Wind Array Cascade Machine and the installation "Pod" (on exhibit at InterAccess during the festival)

 

 

 

11am

 

Synesthesia and Digital Perception
by Sergio Basbaum
Perceptual habits of western culture since Greece operated through a synesthetical approach to reality that lasts until 18th century. Modernism separated the senses, and modern art has operated through this logic. But contemporary digital culture seems to be again turning into those older models of perception, largely synesthetical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1pm

 

Brain Basis of Musical Performance, Cognition, Perception and Improvisation
by Lawrence Parsons
This presentation will review new scientific findings indicating that indeed distributed throughout the brain are discrete neural systems and computations for particular music experiences and skills.

 

 

 

2pm

 

Interacting Galaxies: Gravity as Art
by John Dubinski
We observe interacting galaxies in the universe as images frozen in time but the beautiful structures they exhibit are the result of gravitational dynamical processes. John Dubinski will present work that attempts to breathe life into these images using the power of computer simulation and animation.

 

 

 

3pm

 

Something out of Nothing: the Effects of the Vacuum
by Ivette Fuentes-Guridi

What does the vacuum mean? Can anything happen there? This presentation will discuss how Ivette Fuentes-Guridi has looked for answers concerning this topic via artistic and scientific explorations

 

 

 

4pm

 

Are the Laws of Quantum Theory a Consequence of the Human Condition?
By Lucien Hardy

Quantum theory is deeply strange. Why, we might ask, does nature turn out to be described by such a weird theory? Lucien Hardy’s attempts to answer this question have led him to rethink the relationship between ourselves and the world we are immersed in

 

 

 

Opening Reception
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre #444-401 Richmond St Toronto

5pm

 

Wind Array Cascade Machine:Pod
by Steve Heimbecker

Interactive installation as part of Signal, an exhibition of telematic art.

Festival Party
Centre for the Arts # 303 - 533 College Street, Toronto

9pm

 

SHED and Mixmotion provide music and visuals for our party celebration.

Sunday May 25 2003
Innis Townhall 2 Sussex Avenue, U of T campus, Toronto

 

 

 

10am

 

A Discussion of Bedlam & other Robotic Art projects
by Simon Penny and Bill Vorn

Bedlam is a telematic and teleoperative art installation comprising telerobotics, machine vision, interactive sound and video, with user interaction at each physical site and via the web.

 

 

 

11am

 

The Art of Time of Strange Attractors
by Robert Krawczyk

Strange attractors generate repeating point patterns in two-dimensional space while their coloring algorithms which represent time produce images of coherent three-dimensional forms. Robert Krawczyk investigates the subsurface structures of these patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1pm

 

Art, Science and Democracy
by Lee Smolin

This talk will explore historical and contemporary points of contact between the development of our understanding of space and time and our conception of human society. It will be argued that the practices of science, art and politics, different as they are, share certain ethical precepts without which none would progress.

 

 

 

2pm

 

Industrial Culture:
Conversion Performances by Johannes Birringer

This is a preview of a laboratory to be conducted in an abandoned coal-mine in Germany this summer. Various perspectives on interactive media as "conversion performances" are sketched, and conversions described as alternative economies of communication and connection, which use interactivity for practices that link technologies with everyday culture and education.

 

 

 

3pm

 

Rewilding North America from the Urban Out
by Adam Zaretsky

Architectural Ecology for the Sustainable Urban Psyche: Can we use our green imaginations to create realities of urban design which are not incompatible with sustainable futures?

 

 

 

4pm

 

Wrap-up Panel Discussion
Moderated by Jack Butler
Interdisciplinary artist Jack Butler's works bridge between the visual pleasure of art and the rational demands of science. He has exhibited installations, video projections, computer animations and performance works internationally. His work is in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada. Butler has degrees in Visual Art and Philosophy and 30 years experience as a medical model builder and published researcher in human development. He has taught at many institutions including Carnegie Mellon University and, most recently, at the Banff Centre for the Arts and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Fifth CaiiA International

Research Conference

UWCN Caerleon Campus, Wales UK

 

3-5 Juillet 2003

 

Consciousness reframed 2003:

Art and cosciousness in the post biological era

 

Leonardo Digital Reviews

 

Consciousness Reframed 2003: Art and Consciousness in the Post-biological Era

The Fifth CAiiA International Research Conference
UWCN, Caerleon Campus, Wales UK
July 3-5, 2003
Convenor: Roy Ascott

Reviewed by Pia Tikka
Elomedia research school
University of Art and Design
Hämeentie 135 C, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
pia.tikka@uiah.fi


Consciousness Reframed 2003 returned to Caerleon where the conference was first convened in 1997, as the multidiciplinary arena for issues of art, technology and consciousness. Combining both theory and practice, it offered an extremely broad range of presentations. The issues varied from purely philosophical approaches to consciousness allowing a glance on the hotspot dialogue between virtual reality and our everyday reality, to practice-based analysis and the exploration of embodied mind and its possible applications in negotiating the boundaries between arts and sciences. Many perspectives seemed to involve the post-biological condition of art, put to practical use in the symbiosis of technology and consciousness, or, the technoetic as defined by Roy Ascott. [1 ] Many apparent differences between various approaches on the conceptual level may only be matter of perspective. As Eril Baily put it at the Newport train sation: "We all know, what we are talking about, but we do not know, what it is".

When attending the presentations, it seemed to me that philosophers, on one hand, artists on the other, understand and discuss consciousness very differently. This is, why, as a preface to my review for Consciousness Reframed, I would like to briefly sketch my vision of convergence between conventionally distinct disciplines like, let‘s say, cognitive materialism, represented by Daniel Dennett [2], and conceptual idealism [3] adopted for example in the theories of telematic art by Roy Ascott. Transgressing the preset conceptual borders of these distinct domains enables us to scrutinize their structure from outside. This method of stepping outside is traditionally used by artists, trying to view phenomena from unconventional perspectives, e.g. upside-down, or, as a collage of conflicting perspectives. The inside and outside are interdependent entities, evolving in a continuous interaction and transformation. This interaction is emergent and productive as such, but viewed in the scientific context, it needs to be, if not explained, but somehow conceptualized, or described.

Neuroscientists and consciousness researchers may or may not accept a view of the global neuronal workspace model as a conceptual metaphor for consciousness, but in this review I reflect it as a plausible one. The workspace model, according to Dennett [4] , suggests a non-hierarcial, collateral, co-operative, even competitive, modular system, which allows a multidimensional global accessibility. I claim that the metaphor of consciousness as a global workspace attributed above, characterizes perfectly well the assertion of phenomena both on the neuro-biological and techno-social levels of observation. This is why I am tempted to suggest a broadscale conceptual isomorphism ranging in-between the microscale structure of consciousness to the macroscale structure of the planetary consciousness. I dare to put forward this idea, because I am convinced that the fundamental structure of human conceptual system is relatively independent of the differences in languages and cultural inheritance, but intrinsically dependent on the embodied orientation to the environment. I also assume that the way we speak about very different issues is based on the repetition and recycling of same, assumably limited and slowly changing embodied inference structures, such as the body-based orientational metaphors of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. [5] And this allows us to conclude that at least artists and other visionaries can freely use the method of intrusion, transgression and analogizing when exploring the conceptual resources of other disciplines. For an artist the tools of broadscale conceptual isomorphism, and, the metaphor of multidimensional global workspace enable an access to the infinite domain of conceptual evolution – from private/neuro-biological to public/cultural dimensions of consciousness. Through my understanding, this no-one’s land is where the micro and macro-environments of consciousness research intertwine, and where a holistic dynamic organism-like ontology about consciousness as a subject-environment interaction emerges.

Consciousness seems to be easier to explain in conceptual form than to grasp in material form (e.g. neurobiological, electrochemical). It reveals itself, not in products, but in processes, like the behavior or interaction of a Subject within his or her environment. For a journey to an unfamiliar and exotic environment as consciousness is, between the mystical and rational, Michael Punt suggested adapting the phenomenal aspects of nineteenth century science. Observing and experimenting with the actual processes, as they appear, might expose something to our scrutiny that is conventionally, scientifically, or even intuitively, not presupposed to appear.

Consciousness Reframed, literally, puts out the question whether we can study consciousness only from outside, inside, or outskirts. The sovereignty that inhabits peripheral fields of consciousness is Art, or, more widely, imagination plus conceptual structures mediated by metaphors. These are the tools that enable an access to consciousness, which becomes both Subject and Object of research. For observing the phenomena of world-embedded self-consciousness, for example, Robert Pepperell introduced the metaphoric tool of video feedback, a loop of infinite regression. I am tempted to suggest that innovation of this kind of experiment supports the idea of the broad-scale conceptual isomorphism outlined above. According to Pepperell, the video feedback’s actual self-reference in interaction with the dynamics of its environment visualizes the system's awareness of its audience, and its own awareness of this awareness – it becomes the conscious artwork.

Many participants of the conference worked on sketching the "Big Picture". But how big can the picture be? And, what there is to frame? Artists, while exploring how to couple the separate environments of virtual and real (e.g. "Matrix"), seemed to concentrate in the human mind/body experience, either conscious, and/ or subconscious, or preconscious, depending from the perspective. Roger Malina pointed out to the other direction: most of our environment, the universe, is inaccessible to human senses. It is virtual in the deep sense, Malina affirms. The universe as a virtual environment is described only by augmented and amplified senses of simulations and visualizations, and with the help of machines and non-human scale techniques. Of course, we also can claim that these tools are extensions of human imaginative consciousness. Seen from either the material or phenomenological point of view, even if we did not know anything about the existence of universe, we would still inhabit it.

The functions (thoughts, behaviours, material products) of conscious mind can be seen as reflecting the evolutive (biological) state of that proper individual mind, and, simultaneously, the evolutive (cultural) state of the global techno-social consciousness. In some aspect, conciousness with its imaginative power, is virtual in as deep sense as Malina’s universe. When added that augmented digital technologies enable human mind to escape its bio-physical stone-age prison, the matrix of a ‘reality’. Eril Baily suggested that every-day-reality can be considered a sub-set of the virtual. According to her "the authentic locus of consciousness [is located] within the virtual out of which realities are fabricated and substantiated".

While cosmologists continue working with the macro-scale mysteries of the universe, such as dark matter and dark energy, which are assumed to compose 70% of the universe, the same mysterious 70% must also somehow penetrate and define the micro-scale environment of human bio-physical body. This is relevant question in the perspective of the broad-scale conceptual isomorphism. Could human body and its sensitivity for embodied emergent phenomena work as another kind of experiment field for observing these phenomena normally related to cosmology? What is the material cause for private experiences like emotions or the feelings of what happens? In his presentation Jim Laukes proposed that interactive art could provide the toolkit for verifying identical, shared subjective experience, such as empathy.

A remarkably large number of presenters’ curriculum vitae included active participation in creating interactive immersive art. Many cases were practice-based, functioning as a starting point for combining artwork and theory. Char Davies presented her view on immersive virtual reality experienced in a real cave environment – a perception of a shared "expanded" consciousness. The sensual dimension of aesthetic experience, built around bio-spherical metaphors, also guided Stahl Stenslie’s multi-sensory experiments. According to Stenslie, the dynamic indirect, tacit and body-based processes are a fundamental modus operandi to the consciousness. Yacov Sharir had created a control tool for an interactive dance performance, where his disembodied dancer/self is re-embodied in cyber-performers. The domain that rarely is approached or defined from the preconceptual, which is its most natural and sovereign field, is the body. Kjell Petersen claimed that advanced formal body language is the primary knowledge base in investigating "how the technological augmenting of our access to the world can be understood from the perspective of the body".

How to tell difference between fictive, or virtual reality and the normality? In Karin Søndergaard’s work the fictive reality of actors gets intertwined with the every-day-environment of the normal-others, who will never know that they participated in a scripted trans-normal situation. On the one hand, fiction is fiction. On the other hand, once emerged in human mind, imaginative ideas tend to turn out factual. Only literature can deal with the blurred line between cognitive science and science fiction, says Armando Montilla. I would like to ask how soon will the future entertainment transform external body media (e.g. audio-visual books, film) into internal, being directly "printed" into the individual’s brains, as anticipated in the science fiction by Montilla.

According to Adriana de Souza e Silva, the cell phone environment is creating a hybridization of physical space, with a novel generation of cyberspace nomads always connected, navigating in the digital/virtual environments. In order to interact more deeply with complex virtual (mind and environment) spaces, Lucia Leão suggests that the orientation of the ancient maps and labyrinths could help us to better understand phenomenon of expanded consciousness. Also the sense of atmosphere could be described as virtual environment, or consciousness. As Ioanna Spanou and Dimitris Charitos associate atmosphere "not only with the interface between perception and cognition, but also with the interface between perception and feeling". Shaun Murray’s three architectural experiments with the life-like organic-dynamic metaphors Breeding, Feeding, and Leeching, are produced in order to observe an object interacting with the environment, resulting a set of most interactive and astonishing 2D still images I have experienced in a while.

Consciousness Reframed 2003 juxtaposed many apparently different discourses of art and science, characterized by dicothomy between theory and practice, private and social, biology and technology, virtual and real. It seemed to allow interrelated, competitive, and cooperative human activities emerge in a mutually accessible global workspace. The reason may be found in Ascott‘s words: "To artists (…) it is less a matter of seeking to explain consciousness and more a matter of exploring how [consciousness] might be navigated, altered, or extended; in short, reframed." [6]

The facts of reality forced me to leave out more profound scrutiny of many interesting presentations. We look forward to the forthcoming publications of the collected texts which will do justice to those, whom I was not able to include, and open the debates to a wider constiuency. Consciouness Reframed 2003 fullfilled my expectations as a planetary platform, or workspace, and, as returning to Finland to my own solitary research chamber, I knew that many enthustiatic artists and researchers were out there to reconnect.

Abstracts are found in
http://www.caiia-star.net/production/conref-03/abstracts.html

[1 ] R. Ascott (ed.), Reframing Consciousness (Exeter: Intellect Books, 1999) p.1.

[2] D. Dennett, Tietoisuuden selitys (Consciousness Explained), Finnish edition, translator Tiina Kartano (Helsinki: Art House, 1999)

[3] See the introduction by E. A. Shanken (ed.) Telematic Embrace: A Love Story? Roy Ascott's Theories of Telematic Art. "Peter Russell, writing in 1982, built on Teilhard’s notion of noosphere in his thesis on the ‘global brain.’ Such an idea appealed to Ascott, who in 1966-67 had theorized that ‘A highly interactive CAM network on an international level might form the embryonic structure of a world brain.’ [See R. Ascott, "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision", Cybernetica: Review of the International Association for Cybernetics, Vol. X, No. 1, 1967, 25-56 pp.37.]" Reference in http://telematic.walkerart.org/timeline/timeline_shanken.html

[4] D. Dennett, "Are we Explaining Consciousness Yet?" , Final draft [cognition.fin] for Cognition, (August 27, 2000)
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/cognition.fin.html

[5] G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and it’s Challenge to Western Thought (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

[6] R. Ascott (ed.), Reframing Consciousness (Exeter: Intellect Books, 1999) p.2.

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Tate Britain. London

 

26 Juin – 28 Septembre 2003

 

Bridget Riley

 

L’univers des expériences visuelles

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Musée d’Orsay. Paris

 

Juin-Août 2003

 

Le daguerréotype français

Un objet photographique

 

Le procédé de Daguerre marque l’invention de la photographie.

Ce procédé est présenté en août 1839 par le physicien Arago à l’Académie des Sciences. Le daguerréotype est une plaque de cuivre recouverte d’argent sur laquelle l’image se matérialise.

 

Cette exposition sensible donne l’occasion de regretter une fois de plus l’absence de véritable collaboration entre historiens d’art et scientifiques.

 

Scientifiques et historiens s'opposent sur la paternité de la photographie

LE MONDE | 04.06.03 | 13h28     MIS A JOUR LE 04.06.03 | 16h35

Le daguerréotype est au cœur de l'invention de la photographie, qui divise encore les partisans de Niépce, Daguerre ou Bayard. Des textes du catalogue qui accompagne l'exposition évoquent le débat. Mais les douze auteurs sont historiens d'art, "aucun n'est scientifique", s'étonne Jacques Roquencourt, ingénieur, ancien chef de laboratoire chez Thomson, qui fait autorité sur Daguerre. "On ne peut analyser un daguerréotype sans maîtriser les techniques. L'historien Helmut Gernsheim a écrit que le procédé de Daguerre nécessitait une prise de vue de 20 minutes, ce qui interdit le portrait. J'ai ensuite prouvé que Daguerre pouvait réaliser un portrait en une à deux minutes ; Gernsheim a eu l'honnêteté de reconnaître son erreur."

Deux signataires du catalogue, Françoise Raynaud et Sylvie Aubenas, rendent un hommage appuyé à Jacques Roquencourt, qui a patiemment reconstitué les protocoles de Daguerre et vérifié la littérature sur l'invention de la photographie. Certains se sont fait expliquer par ce scientifique la chimie et l'optique de Daguerre ; d'autres lui ont soumis leur texte. Le scientifique n'a pourtant pas été invité à participer au livre. "Manque de place", dit Quentin Bajac, du Musée d'Orsay et coresponsable du projet. Voyons plutôt une coutume française : les conservateurs de musée et historiens d'art répugnent à faire appel à des spécialistes qui, même plus érudits, échappent à leur caste. Ainsi le texte d'ouverture du catalogue est-il confié à Stephen Pinson, universitaire américain, qui a rédigé une thèse consacrée surtout à Daguerre peintre et non au Daguerréotype.

"UN BON PAQUET D'ERREURS"

Jacques Roquencourt demande comment Quentin Bajac peut assurer la "responsabilité scientifique" du catalogue, alors même qu'il a commis "une grossière erreur" dans la définition du daguerréotype dans deux ouvrages précédents. "Tout le monde fait des erreurs, reconnaît ce dernier. Mais Roquencourt pourrait aussi saluer des informations nouvelles dans le catalogue." Après lecture, Roquencourt, tout en saluant l'analyse de Paul-Louis Roubert sur l'écho du daguerréotype dans le mouvement moderne, pointe "un bon paquet d'erreurs" chez des auteurs "qui reprennent sans les vérifier les informations souvent erronées que l'on trouve dans les livres sur l'invention. Ils n'ont pas les connaissances techniques qui leur permettraient de faire des vérifications. Et ils ne connaissent pas certains documents."

Jacques Roquencourt est sévère avec le texte de Dominique Planchon-de Font-Réaulx, qui reprend la thèse d'un Bayard photographe et inventeur, "rival malheureux" de Daguerre, inventeur d'un procédé antérieur au daguerréotype. "Bayard est un menteur, un récupérateur des inventions des autres. Je le prouve à qui le souhaite." La conservatrice, elle, "ne voit pas Bayard en escroc ; mais sans doute faudra-t-il revoir ce que chacun a apporté à l'invention de la photographie."

Pour Jacques Roquencourt, ce livre a un objectif inavoué : "Nier le rôle d'inventeur de Daguerre." Il cite Stephen Pinson, qui, au-delà de "nombreuses erreurs factuelles" et "des contresens sur le peintre", étale des documents "anti-Daguerre" mais "passe sous silence ses positions. C'est un texte non contradictoire". Quentin Bajac, il est vrai, est convaincu que "l'invention de Daguerre se situe dans la suite des travaux de Niépce". Pour Roquencourt, au contraire, "le principe physico-chimique de Daguerre est différent de celui de Niépce, il est même à la base du contrat qu'ils ont passé. Je peux le prouver à M. Bajac. Mais, pour un historien d'art, c'est difficile à comprendre. Ou à accepter. Pour eux, il faut un bon inventeur, Niépce, et un méchant, Daguerre."

Michel Guerrin

ARTICLE PARU DANS L'EDITION DU 05.06.03

 

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Université de Grenade. Espagne

 

23-25 Juillet 2003

 

Joint meeting of

ISAMA 2003 and

6th annual BRIDGES Conference

 

              ISAMA                             BRIDGES        

The International Society Mathematical Connections

Of the Arts, Mathematics   in Art, Music and Science

And Architecture

 

 

Mathematical vizualisation

Mathematics and music,

Computer generated art

Symmetry structures

Origami

Mathematics and architecture

Tesselations and tilings

Aesthetical connections between mathematics and humanities

Geometric art in two and three dimensions

Geometries in quilting

 

 

 

 

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San Diego. California

 

27 – 31 Juillet 2003

 

SIGGRAPH 2003

 

[ http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/ap.html ]

 

30 ème conférence annuelle de graphisme numérique et de techniques interactives.

Parmi les douze raisons d’y assister :

Des mathématiciens qui pensent comme des artistes, des artistes qui pensent comme des ingénieurs, la convergence annuelle mondialement la plus fascinante de l’art et de la technologie.

Des cours, des sessions spéciales, des conférences, une exposition de produits et de services.

Un impressionnant panorama de problématiques et de technologies.

 

Sujets remarqués :

La vérité avant la beauté : principes directeurs pour la visiualisation scientifique et médicale (session spéciale).

Les systèmes-L et au delà (cours de Prezmyslaw Prusinkiewicz )

 

 

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Budapest. Hongrie.

 

Chateau Royal de Buda

 

16-22 Août 2003

 

 

Symmetry Festival 2003

Where Science meets Art

 

Symmetry

A synthesis of constancy and change

 

[ http://www.conferences.hu/symmetry2003/festival-Pre.html ]

 

All kinds of interpretation, application and representation of symmetry (asymmetry, dissymmetry, broken symmetry, antisymmetry) and its related terms ( like invariance, harmony, proportion, rythm, conservation, self-organisation...) are welcome. Special interest will be devoted to its relation to beauty and truth, to search for any perfect and good.

 

 

 

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FNAC Digitale

 

77-81 Boulevard Saint Germain. Paris

 

Intersculpt 2003

6éme biennale mondiale de sculpture numérique

exposition et conférences

 

10-18 Octobre 2003

 

[ http://www.intersculpt.org ]

 

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Résonances

Rencontres internationales

des technologies pour la musique

 

IRCAM

15-24 Octobre 2003

 

 


 

 

RENCONTRES SCIENTIFIQUES
AUTOUR DE LA SET-THEORY
COLLOQUE MUSIQUES ELECTROACOUSTIQUES
STANDS DE DÉMONSTRATIONS
RENCONTRES PROFESSIONNELLES
ATELIERS DU FORUM
FORUM INTERNATIONAL DU SON MULTICANAL
JOURNÉE DU LOGICIEL LIBRE MUSICAL
SOIRÉES THÉMATIQUES
RENCONTRES ARTISTIQUES
CONCERT SET THEORY
CONCERT AUX BOUFFES DU NORD
CONCERT ELECTROACOUSTIQUE
CONCERTS CURSUS
EVÉNEMENTS ASSOCIÉS
INSTALLATIONS SONORES
PROJECTIONS
WEEKEND TECHNOLOGIES DU SPECTACLE
ATELIERS CONCERTS
CONFÉRENCES DÉMONSTRATIONS
ESPACE PERFORMANCES
PORTES OUVERTES DE LA RECHERCHE
RENCONTRES EDUCATION MUSICALE

Résonances 2002

 

RÉSONANCES 2003 - DU 15 AU 24 OCTOBRE

es thèmes de 2003 :
Outils pour l'analyse musicale
Technologies dans le spectacle vivant.

 

L'évolution de l'industrie musicale, de plus en plus concentrée et mondialisée, l'intégration de ses diverses fonctions par la technologie numérique autour de l'ordinateur, l'avènement d'un accès généralisé par le Web, l'évidence d'une profonde convergence entre les outils de création et les outils d'écoute esquissent peu à peu les contours d'un nouveau système technique de la musique. Cet horizon en pleine transformation appelle à la fois :

- un renouveau des concepts de l'organologie et de la musicologie, par une réactivation des problématiques ancestrales de la musique relatives aux techniques d'écriture et de composition, d'analyse, de représentation, d'écoute, de conception instrumentale, d'apprentissage, d'interprétation, et même de répétition ;

- et la prise en compte du fait que la « lutherie » électronique converge de plus en plus avec les instruments numériques désormais couramment en usage dans le domaine artistique - comme si la question organologique devait finalement être étendue à l'ensemble de l'espace transartistique.

La thématique de l'instrument était déjà au cœur des premières Résonances qui se sont tenues à l'Ircam en octobre 2002 et ont rassemblé plus de 6 000 visiteurs - scientifiques, ingénieurs, musiciens, professionnels et grand public - sur la double thématique des nouvelles formes d'écoute et des nouveaux instruments.

Il s'agit pour l'édition 2003 d'étendre la réflexion initiée en 2002 sur les nouveaux instruments de contrôle et de synthèse, aux nouveaux dispositifs musicaux qui renouvellent notre appréhension personnelle, quotidienne ou savante, du phénomène musical, notamment dans le cadre d'une rencontre internationale sur l'écoute et l'analyse musicale selon deux perspectives (les musiques électroacoustiques et la Set Theory). D'autre part, le public pourra découvrir l'extraordinaire diversité des « instruments » d'expression artistique utilisés aujourd'hui dans le spectacle vivant. La place accordée au positionnement des instruments dans l'espace et particulièrement à la spatialisation des sons, les techniques de suivi de l'interprète en temps réel, les dispositifs de captation du mouvement pour les installations ou pour la danse, le traitement de la vidéo en temps réel, les perspectives ouvertes par le traitement de la voix des acteurs ou des chanteurs font parti des enjeux musicaux qui seront abordés cette année, « en résonance » avec les spectacles présentés en juin durant le festival Agora.

 

 

 


Comité d'organisation
Copyright Ircam-Centre Pompidou 2003

 

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Society for Literature and Science

 

17 ème réunion annuelle

 

Austin. Texas

 

23 – 26 Octobre 2003

 

Repenser l’espace et le temps

A travers la science, la litérature et les arts.

 

[ http://english.ttu.edu/SLS/ConferenceHome.html ]

 

La plus grande Foire Art et Science au monde. Une vitrine sans pareil.

 

 

 

 

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Austin TX, October 23-26, 2003

Literature

Literature and Media

Art History

Art and Media

Theory Across Disciplines

Science, Technology, Medicine, Mathematics

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A. Literature

 

1A. Space and Time I: 19th Century

·                     The Electric Whitman
      
Lewis Klatt, Department of English, University of Georgia

·                     Cultural Landscape and Network Topology in Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la terre
      
Paul Fyfe, Department of English, University of Virginia

·                     Limning the Impossible: Time Travel, the Uncanny, and Destructive Futurity in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
      
Katrina Harack, Department of English, University of California, Irvine

·                     Voiding History: The Anecdotal Break and the LIterature of Modernity
      
Kate Marshall, University of California, Los Angeles

2A. Space and Time II: 20th Century

Chair: Jill Clark

·                     Signs of the Times: Bergsonian Tropes of Duration in The Secret Agent
      
Jill Clark, Department of English, Fisk University

·                     Seductive Reasoning: Evolution, Physics, and Historical Time in The Education of Henry Adams
      
John Bruni, Department of English, University of Kansas

·                     Reverse Chronologies in Harold Pinter's Betrayal and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive
      
Amy Cummins, Department of English, University of Kansas

·                     Intercapillary Space, Interdiscursive Space: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Endocrinology
      
Greg Kinser, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

3A. Time and Flow: Woolf, Lem, Calvino, Serres

Chair: Eric White

·                     'A Steamsbecoming': Images of Turbulent Flow in Virginia Woolf, Stanislaw Lem, and Michel Serres
      
Eric White,

·                     Geopoetry and Spatial Literacy
      
David Goodney, Chemistry, Willamette University and Carol Long, Willamette Unviersity

4A. Philip K. Dick and the Informatic Interdimensions of Valis

Organizer/Chair: Richard Doyle

·                     I Understand Philip K. Dick: DMT Experience and the Interdimensions of Valis
      
Richard Doyle, Department of English, Penn State University

·                     'Doing Time,' or The Consolation of Technosophy: The Prison Writings of Philip K. Dick
      
Jeffrey Fisher, Bethany College

·                     Horselover Fat Beside Himself: Valis and the Parallel/Serial Distinction
      
Brian Rotman, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University

5A. Astronomy and Cosmology I: Victorian and Modern Literature

Michaela Giesenkirchen

·                     Cinders of Starts, Solar Catastrophes: The Terror of Victorian Astronomy
      
Anna Henchman, English Department, Harvard University

·                     Modernity at the Speed of Light
      
Holly Henry, Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino

·                     The Fabric of Ultimate Reality and Teilhard's Evolutionary Tapestry
      
Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Chestnut Hill College

6A-1. Technoscience in European Literary Modernism

Chair: Katherine Arens

·                     Writing the Continuum in Saint-John Perse
      
May Chehab, Departement des Langues et Littératures Étrangères, University of Cyprus

·                     Proust and the Automobile
      
Shawn Gorman, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University

·                     A High Pressure Dome over Austria: Mach, Musil, Mauthe, and the Cultural Time of Science
      
Katherine Arens, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin

6A-2. Postmodern Narratives

Chair: Sharon Stockton

·                     Waste Trading and the Re-emergence of the Father in Postmodern Literature
      
Sharon Stockton, Department of English, Dickinson College

·                     Heterotopias in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
      
Joyce Lee, University of California, Los Angeles

·                     The E-Mail Novel: A Contemporary Epistolary Movement
      
Albert Guerrero, Geo-Political Affairs, United States Air Force

7A. Darwinian Ecologies I: 19th Century

Chair: Mary Rosner

·                     An Unhealthy Mind in an Unhealthy Body: The Uneasy Positionings of Mr. Dexter
      
Mary Rosner, Department of English, University of Louisville

·                     Born Killers? Marcus Clarke and the Evolutionary Theory of Criminality
      
Beth Boehm, Department of English, University of Louisville

·                     Ecologies of Time and Space: Late Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics of Habit and Identity
      
Jodie Nicotra, Department of English, Penn State University

8A. Darwinian Ecologies II: 20th Century

Chair: Victoria Alexander

·                     Shaping the Alien: Darwinism and Early Science Fiction
      
Elmar Schenkel, Institut für Anglistik, University of Leipzig

·                     Building the 'Blue' Race: Micegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer's The Blue Meridian
      
Stephanie Hawkins, Depratment of English, Wake Forest University

·                     Nabokov and Evolutionary Theory
      
Victoria Alexander, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities

9A. History and Time in the Novel: Race, Caves, and Eels

Organizer/Chair: Benjamin Robertson

·                     Haptic History in Octavia Butler's Kindred
      
Benjamin Robertson, English Department, SUNY/Buffalo

·                     The White Death for Brown Bodies: Time Measurement and Racial Transformation in H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
      
Leslie Graff, English Department, SUNY/Buffalo

·                     Human History and Marine Biology: Graham Swift's Waterland
      
Benjamin Joplin, English Department, SUNY/Buffalo

10A. Romanticism, Science, and Lyric Space

Chair: Sharon Lattig

·                     Mind Forg'd Manacles: The Fleshy Materialism of the Mind at the Interface of the Word
      
Dane Barca, Department of English, University of California, Riverside

·                     Bare Life in Early British Romanticism
      
Robert Mitchell, Department of English

·                     Daffodil VR
      
RIchard Menke, Department of English, University of Georgia

·                     The Sense of Lyric Space
      
Sharon Lattig, University of New York Graduate Center

11A. Urbanization and Extinction

Chair: Dirk Vanderbeke

·                     The Living Cities: Visionary Technologies and Literary Nightmares
      
Dirk Vanderbeke, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Greifswald

·                     Urban Spaces, Highway Spaces: Narrating the Superhighway
      
Helen Burgess, Digital Technology and Culture, Washington State University at Vancouver

·                     Beyond Depletion? Complexity Theory and the Question of Growth
      
Melinda Cooper, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University

·                     Revising the Extinction Narrative through Non-Human Reproductive and DNA Science
      
Stephanie S. Turner, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University

B. Literature and Media

 

1B. Hypertext and Cybertext

Chair: Sandy Baldwin

·                     The Concept of Hypertext in Medieval Byzantium
      
Tatiana Nikolova-Houston, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

·                     From Montage Theory and Hypertextuality: Conceptions of Narrativity, Materiality and Gender
      
Barbara Hui, Center for Digital Humanities, University of California at Los Angeles

·                     Links as Adposition Particles in Cybertext Strings
      
Patrick Conner, Department of English, West Virginia University

·                     The Linking Prohibition: Hypertext, DMCA, and Intermediality
      
Charles Baldwin, Department of English, West Virginia University

2B. Virtual Agents

Chair: Sean Zdenek

·                     Gnosis, Virtual Beings, and Embodied Flesh
      
Greg Garvey, Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design, Quinnipiac University

·                     The Evolution of Artifactual Artisans from within the Cultural Space of the Face
      
Sheryl Brahnam, Computer Information Systems, Sourthern Missouri State University

·                     The Future is Inevitable: The Rhetorical Engines of Prophecy in Artificial Intelligence
      
Sean Zdenek, Department of English, Texas Tech University

3B. New Media: New Time, New Space

Organizer/Chair: Marjorie Coverly Luesebrink

·                     Time After Time: Electronic Literature and Timeline Authoring
      
Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, Electronic Literature Organization, University of California, Los Angeles

·                     Re-Tuning Time and Space in Digital Media
      
Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia University

4B. Narrative Time and Machine Writing

Organizer/Chair: Judd Morrissey

·                           Judd Morrissey, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

·                           Lori Talley, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

·                           Lutz Hamel, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island

5B. Vitalism and Aesthetics: A Roundtable

Organizer: W. J. T. Mitchell

·                           James J. Bono, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                           Bruce Clarke, Department of English, Texas Tech University

·                           Ellen Esrock, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

·                           John Johnston, Department of English, Emory University

·                           W. J. T. Mitchell, Departments of English and Art History, University of Chicago

·                           Richard Shiff, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

6B. Flat Space, Hyperspace, and Visual Space:
    Dimensionality in Literature, Science, and New Media

Organizer/Chair: Dene Grigar

·                     Flat Space and the Notion of Dimensionality in Literature
      
John F. Barber, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas

·                     Hyperspace and the Notion of Dimensionality in Science
      
Dene Grigar, Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages, Texas Woman's Unviersity

·                     Visual Space and the Notion of Dimensionality in New Media
      
Diana Slattery, Academcy of Electronic Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

7B. (Virtually) There: Radical Space and Time in Film and the Visual Arts

Organizer/Chair: Dawn Dietrich

·                     The End of Time in the Virtual Now: Trinh T. Minh-ha's The Fourth Dimensio
      
Dawn Dietrich, Department of English, Western Washington University

·                     Caught at the Peephole: The Horror of Virtual Space in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
      
Barbara Miller, Department of Art, Western Washington University

·                     What Lies Behind (The Screen)?
      
Douglas Park, Department of English, Western Washington University

·                     Takashi Murakami's Special Mission Project Ko²: Posthuman Bodies and the Super Flat
      
Tony Prichard, Western Washington University

8B-1. Literature, New Media, Nanotechnology

Chair: Charles Baldwin

·                     Framing New Media
      
Angela Forster, electronic Media Arts Design, University of Denver

·                     Spawning the Biological Narrative
      
Timothy Weaver, electronic Media Arts Design, University of Denver

·                     Electronic Literature: The Intersection of Nanotechnology and Digital Literature
      
Jessica Pressman, Department of English, UCLA

8B-2. Temporal Typographies in 20th Century Poetry

Organizer/Chair: Gordon Hadfield

·                     Chronophotographic Typography: From Etienne-Jules Marey to Tristan Tzara and F. T. Marinetti
      
Gordon Hadfield, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     Things Re-done, Things Pre-done: Charles Olson, Alfred North Whitehead and the Eternal Event
      
Sasha Steensen, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     Actual Telepathy: Sound and Time in the Poetry of Susan Howe
      
Kristen Gallagher, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

9B. Anime Adventures: Interdisciplinary Meets Cross-Cultural

Organizer/Chair: Pamela Gossin

·                     Seducing Geeks into the Humanities with Anime
      
Marc Hairston, Hanson Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dalas, and Pamela Gossin, History of Science and Literary Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

·                     Teaching Writing to Different Discourse Communities
      
Angela Matthews, Department of English, University of North Texas

·                     The Pleasures and Problems of Teaching Japanese Animation
      
Susan Napier, Department of Japanese Culture, University of Texas at Austin

10B. Mediated Subjects in Film, Gaming, and Design

Chair: Phoebe Sengers

·                     The Happiness Game in West Egg and Simburbia: An Inquiry into the Fitness Landscapes of The Great Gatsby and The Sims
      
Shawn Thomson, Department of English, University of Kansas

·                     The Pusher, the Pope, and the Party Girl: The Problematics of Identity in Technology Design
      
Phoebe Sengers, Information Science, Cornell University

·                     Tears in the Rain: Star Wars, Cybernetics, and the Evolution of Post-Human Film
      
Martin Rogers, Department of English, University of Georgia

11B. Reading Digital Culture | Poetics of the In-Between

Organizer/Chair: Lori Emerson

·                     Identity to Adentity: Network Phenomenology and the Poetics of'Being' Online
      
Talan Memmott, Writing, Brown University

·                     The Digital is the Real: Manipulating State Changes and Transaction Pattern
      
Fabian Forrest Jesse, Jesse Company and Ming Xian-Ma, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     Exposing the Seams of Sense-Making: Digital Poetry as Both
      
Lori Emerson, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

C. Art History

 

1C. Modernism Takes Flight: The Airplane's Impact on Art and Design

Organizer/Chair: Anne Goodyear

·                     'Spirit of St. Louis': Alexander Calder's Portrait of Flight
      
Barbara Zabel, Art History, Connecticut College

·                     The Aviator's Revision of the World: An Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
      
Adnan Morshed, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art

·                     The Construction of an Aerial Vision in Modern Art of the 1930s and 1940s
      
Anne Goodyear, Prints and Drawings, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

2C. Marcel Duchamp

Chair: Michael Taylor

·                     Marcel Duchamp's Pseudospherical Space
      
Craig Adcock, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa

·                     Spatial Uncertainty and Military Avoidance: Duchamp and the Jura-Paris Road
      
Kieran Lyons, School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales College, Newport

·                     'Remembered eunuchs lip to lip': Duchamp's Space, Time, and Eros Stribed Bare by Susan Howe
      
Douglas Basford, The Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University

3C. Times and Tempos of Early Modern Art: Cubism, Futurism, and Kandinsky

Chair: Jan Schall

·                     Keeping Time: Taylor's Schmidt, Picasso's Portuguese, and Amr's Art of Work
      
Fae Brauer, The University of New South Wales

·                     The Absolute Omnipresence of Speed
      
Irina Costache, Department of Art History, California State University, Channel Islands

·                     At the Piano: Kandinsky and the Keyboard Metaphor in Text and Image
      
Lynn Boland , University of Texas at Austin

4C. Vision and Visions of the Present and Future

Chair: James McManus

·                     Crooked Vision and Strabismic Seeing: Metaphors of Visual Dysfunction in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art Criticism
      
Rachael DeLue, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

·                     The Future of the Present: Albert Robida, Henri Desmarest, and the Women's Rights Movement
      
Elizabeth Menon, Purdue University

·                     Changing Images of Women and Machines
      
Julie Wosk, Art History, and Studio Painting, State University of New York, Maritime College

5C. Psychology, Occult Science, Evolutionary Theory, and the Scientization of Religion during the fin de siècle

Organizer/Chair: Serena Keshavjee, Department of Art History, University of Winnipeg

·                     Joséphin Péladan's 'L'Occulte Catholique': The Union of Science and Religion in the Service of Anti-Republican Politics
      
Maria Di Pasquale, Department of Fine Arts and Art History, George Washington University

·                     An Unholy Alliance: Experimental Psychology, Spiritualism and Mediumistic Creativity
      
Allison Morehead, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

·                     Into the Primeval Slime: Body and Self in Redon's Evolutionary Universe
      
Martha Lucy, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

·                     Gauguin, Anthropology, and the Developmentalist Approach in Religion
      
Barbara Larson, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University

6C. Astronomy and Cosmology II: Maya and Renaissance Art

Chair: Jim Swan, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     The Encounter of Maya Mythical and Terrestrial Space and Time: The 819-Cardinal Count 'Errors' in the Group of the Cross at Palenque
      
María Elena Bernal-Garcia, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos

·                     In Time and Beyond: Ottheinrich, Science, and Art
      
Lisa Kirch, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

·                     The Role of Early Biographies and Portraits in the Reception of Copernicus
      
Andreas Kühne, Lehrstuhl f¸r Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit”t M¸nchen

7C-1. Space and Time in Art since 1950

Chair: James Housefield

·                     Pollock and the Labyrinth
      
Elizabeth Langhorne, Art Department, Central Connecticut State University

·                     Robert Smithson's Entropic Materiality
      
Kim Paice, Department of Art HIstory, University of Cincinnati

·                     Machines for the Manufacture of Geologic Time: Roxy Paine's Playful Science
      
James Housefield, Department of Art and Design, Texas State University, San Marcos

·                     The Neutral Ground as Common Ground
      
Rachel Teagle, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

7C-2. Perceiving Space in Antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Baroque

Chair: Troy Thomas

·                     Mimesis and Optics: on the Nature of the Representation of Space in 5th & 4th C BCE Greece
      
Beth Stewart, Department of Art, Mercer University

·                     Caravaggio: Space, Light, and Natural Philosophy
      
Troy Thomas, Humanities and Art History, Penn State University, Harrisburg

8C. Art and the Fourth Dimension I: Early Twentieth Century

Chair: Jonathan Massey

·                     When Time Stands Still: Ancient Eastern Spiritual Influences on Early 20th Century Imaginings of Space, Time and Scientific Relativity
      
Eugenia Ellis, Design Arts, Drexel University

·                     'Dimensions of the Pure Imagination': Pavel Florenskii's The Analysis of Space and Time in the Fine Arts
      
Elizabeth English, Schoolf of Architecture, Tulane University

9C. Art and the Fourth Dimension II: Later Twentieth Century

Organizer/Chair: Linda Henderson

·                     The Nature of Space: A Reappraisal of I. Rice Pereira's Concept of Space-Time
      
Karen Bearor, Department of Art History, Florida State University

·                     The Spatial Fourth Dimension Comes Back
      
Linda Henderson, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

·                     Architecture and Geodesy: 'The Fourth Dimension' from Bragdon to Fuller
      
Jonathan Massey, School of Architecture, Syracuse University

10C. Art + Science = Surrealism

Organizer/Chair: Gavin Parkinson

·                     Sodomized by Her Own Chastity: Science, Catholicism and Eroticism in Dali's RhinocEROS Horn
      
Elliott King, Art History and Theory, University of Essex

·                     Max Ernst's 'Argument' with Nature
      
Simone Perks, Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester

·                     A Randomness: André Masson, Analogy, and Natural Science
      
Gavin Parkinson, Birkbeck College, University of London

11C. Session Cancelled

D. Art and Media

 

1D. Sound, Music, and Spacetime

Chair: Trace Reddell

·                     Time-Space of Music
      
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn, Program in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas

·                     Choreographing Reiterative Soundspace
      
Jeff Talman, Artist in Residence, Emerson College

·                     Laptopia: The Spatial Poetics of Networked Laptop Performance
      
Trace Reddell, Digital Media Studies, University of Denver

2D. Questioning Media: Photography and Holography

Chair: Ann Reynolds, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

·                     The Relationship Between Performance Art and Photography
      
Nan Curtis, Curator of Art, Neville Public Museum

·                     Eye Object: Bodies on Display in Early Medical Photography and the Postmodern Photography of Joel-Peter Witkin
      
Ann Millett, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

·                     Holography: A Perfect Miror with a Memory
      
Mark Holzbach, Zebra Imaging

3D. Networks and Responsive Media: Theory and Practice

·                     The Network Paradigm
      
Don Foresta, Interactive Multimedia Art, École Nationale Superieure d'Arts

·                     Resistance is Fertile: Gesture and Agency in the Field of Responsive Media
      
Sha Xin Wei, Topological Media Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology

4D. Guest Artist Session

·                     Four Dimensional Projection: Art and Reality

with Tony Robbin,
moderated by
Linda Henderson

5D. Enlarging Conceptions of Space and Time

Chair: Craig Adcock

·                     The Conflated Image
      
Richard Difford, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster

·                     Transvergent Space: Nano~, Neuro~, Bio~, Quanto~: The Enormity of the Very Small
      
Marcos Novak, University of California at Santa Barbara

·                     'Balsamic Vinegar of Modena' and the Edge of Time
      
Bogdan Perzynski, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

6D. Data Atmospheres

Organizer/Chair: Frances Dyson

·                     Atmospheric Signals as Cosmos
      
Douglas Kahn, Techno-Cultural Studies, University of California at Davis

·                     Weather and Heterogeneity in the Eventspace
      
Patrick Clancy, Photography and New Media, Kansas City Art Institute

·                     Knowing and the Data-sphere
      
Frances Dyson, Techno-Cultural Studies, University of California at Davis

7D. Guest Artist Session

Chair: Sidney Perkowitz

·                     From Space-time to Quantum Cosmology: A Sculptor's Search for Intangible Reality

Athena Tacha in dialog with Sidney Perkowitz, Physics Department, Emory University, and
Craig Wheeler, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

8D. Alchemy in Art and Technology

Chair: M. E. Warlick

·                     The Body and the Vessel: Sexual Images in Alchemy
      
M. E. Warlick, European Modern Art, University of Denver

·                     Alchemy's Androids and the Posthuman Cyborg: Exploring Points of Contact
      
Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology

·                     The Alchemy Series
      
Samantha Krukowski, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin

9D. Body, Noise, Digital Media

Chair: Bernadette Wegenstein

·                     Making Room for the Body: Fragments of a History of Body Criticiism
      
Bernadette Wegenstein, Media Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     Noise and the Uncanny
      
Charles Kriel, Media artist/theorist, London

·                     Strategies of Resistance: Language, Power and Ethics in New Media
      
Timothy A. Jones, artist/professor, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio

10D. Session Cancelled

11D. Science and Expanded Dimensions of Consciousness

Chair: Kieran Lyons

·                     New Media, New Science, New Art: The Works of Mariko Mori
      
Jonathan Wallis, Moore College of Art and Design

·                     Another View form the Blender: Reversing Time in the Laboratory
      
Michael Punt, Art, Media and Design, University of Wales College, Newport

·                     Metatechnology Research
      
Michael Punt and Kieran Lyons, Art, Media and Design, University of Wales Colege, Newport

E. Theory Across Disciplines

 

1E. Body and Mind from the Premodern to the Posthuman

Chair: Eve Keller

·                     The Fleshing Out of Vico's Probabilities
      
Michelle Gibbons, University of Notre Dame

·                     Patient, Interrupted: The Creation of the Anti-Psychiatric Psychiatric Consumer
      
Elizabeth Donaldson, Department of English, New York Institute of Technology

·                     Posting a History for the Posthuman: Embedded, Embodied, and Distributed Subjectivity in Ancient Physiology
      
Eve Keller, Department of English, Fordham University

2E. Landscape and Gardens

Organizer/Chair: Yves Abrioux

·                     Patriot 1810. Cattle as Technological Instruments in British Nationalism
      
Ron Broglio, Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology

·                     Geology and Two Victorian Gardens
      
Michael Charlesworth, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin

·                     Statistics in the Landscape
      Yves Abrioux, Département de Médiation culturelle, Université Paris 3

3E. Space and Time Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, Art, and Literature

Organizer/Chair: Craig McConnell

·                     Cross the Spatial Borders; Close the Temporal Gaps
      
John Marvin, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     From Space and Time to Space-Time: Continuity, Revolution, and the Popularization of General Relativity
      
Craig McConnell, School of Liberal Arts, California State University, Fullerton

·                     The Heritage of the Russian Avant-Garde: Vladimir Sterligov's Spatial System of the Cup-Cupola
      
Isabel Wünsche, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen, Germany

·                     Gertrude Stein's Radical Empiricist Philosophy of Space and Time
      
Michaela Giesenkirchen, Writing Program, Boston University

4E. Recoding Cognition

Chair: Katherine Hayles

·                     Performative Code and Figurative Langauge: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
      
Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

·                     Application of Knowledge on Consciousness to Industrial and Cultural Realms
      
Michio Okuma, Independent Scholar and Isao Todo Yokohama National University

5E. Outer Space: Primate, Human, Alien

Chair: Arther Fricke

·                     Retiring the Space Chimps
      
Marie Lathers, Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University

·                     Homo Sapiens Extra-Terrestrialis: Imagining 'Man in Space'
      
Stephen Petersen, Department of Art History, University of Delaware

·                     Talking About Alien Intercourse
      
Arthur Fricke, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

6E. Whitehead Now I: Historical Perspectives

Organizer/Chair: Steven Meyer

·                     Reexamining Seventeenth-Century 'Vital Materialism': Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism and a Possible Future for Science Studies
      
James J. Bono, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo

·                     Recombinant ANW: Appetites of Words
      
Joan Richardson, City University of New York Graduate Center

·                     Whitehead and the Notion of Cosmology
      
Don Byrd, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany

7E. Whitehead Now II: Contemporary Perspectives

Organizer/Chair: Steven Meyer

·                     Diagrammatological Surgery on Whitehead's Time
      
Sha Xin Wei, Topological Media Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology

·                     Whitehead on the Temporal Object
      
Mark Hansen, Department of English, Princeton University

·                     Digital Philosophy and the Whitehead's Prehension
      
John Johnston, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Emory University

8E. Feminist Science Studies: Past, Present, and Future I

Organizers: Bernice Hausman, Muriel Lederman, Carol Colatrella
Chair: Bernice Hauseman

·                     Rethinking Feminist Science Studies
      
Lynda Birke, Affiliation

·                     Feminist Pedagogies for the Sciences: Key to the Future of Feminist Science Studies?
      
Muriel Lederman, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnical Institute

·                     Gut Feminism
      
Elizabeth A. Wilson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

9E. Feminist Science Studies: Past, Present, and Future II

Chair: Carol Colatrella
Respondent: Bernice Hausman

·                     Feminism and Fiction: The Gendered Production of Knowledge or Agnotology in Feminist Science Studies
      
Susan Squier, Women's Studies and English, Penn State University

·                     Immigrant Mothers, Biogenetics, and the Idea of the Person
      
Priscilla Wald, Department of English, Duke University

10E. Migration, Communication, and Globalization

Chair: Ursula Heise

·                     From the Poetics of Wandering to the Poetics of Processing: The Space and Time of Classical Genetics
      
Phillip Thurtle, Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University

·                     The Trans-Siberian Railway and Russia's Asian Identity
      
Anindita Banerjee, Comparative Literature Program, University of Oregon

·                     Globalization, Deterritorialization and Ecology
      
Ursula Heise, Department of English, Columbia University

11E. Narrative, Media, Systems

Organizer/Chair: Bruce Clarke

·                     The System-Subject in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
      
Mark Hansen, Department of English, Princeton University

·                     Blur: Architecture, Time, and Dematerialization in the Diller+Scofidio Project
      
Cary Wolfe, Department of English, Rice University

·                     Epic and System: William Gaddis, American Literature, and Empire
      
Joseph Tabbi, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

·                     Narrative, Systems, and Time
      
Bruce Clarke, Department of English, Texas Tech University

F. Science, Technology, Medicine, Mathematics

 

1F. Science and Medicine in 19th Century Literature

Chair: Katherine Arens, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin

·                     Poe's Ethereal Dialogues
      
Joe Milutis, Department of Art, University of South Carolina

·                     Serialization, Sensation, and the Sphygmograph
      
Meegan Kennedy, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University

·                     Public Bodies and Textual Hysteria: Dissecting the Angel of the House in Late Victorian Urban Discourse
      
Jane Rago, Department of English, West Virginia University

·                     Rethinking Oneness and Multiplicity with Poe, Deleuze, and Serres: Space, Duration and Matter in Eureka and Contemporary Critical Theory
      
Leyla Ercan, University of Erlangen

2F. The Status of Emergence: A Roundtable--I: Science and Representation

Organizer/Chair: Victoria Alexander

·                           Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

·                           John Johnston, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Emory University

·                           Eve Keller, Department of English, Fordham University

·                           Susan Oyama, Department of Psychology, John Jay College

3F. The Status of Emergence II: Scholarship and Popularization

Organizer/Chair: Victoria Alexander

·                           Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

·                           John Johnston, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Emory University

·                           Eve Keller, Department of English, Fordham University

·                           Susan Oyama, Department of Psychology, John Jay College

4F. Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

·                     Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Practice: The Challenges of Collaboration
      
Stephen Kellert, Philosophy Department, and Michael Reynolds, English Department, Hamline University

·                     Teaching Science for Gender Equity
      
Muriel Lederman, Biology and Women's Studies, Virginia Polytechnical Institute

·                     Teaching LIterature and Science: The Clashng Points
      
Ian Roberts, English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism, Missouri Western State College

·                     Jack and Jill in teh Moon: Rethinking Jack and Jill as Keepers of Time and Space
      
Sallie Teames, Fort Wroth Astronomical Society

5F. Mathematics, Physics, and Cosmology

Chair: Jay Labinger

·                     What is the Universe Made Of?
      
Jack Sarfatti, Internet Science Education Project

·                     Probabilistic Geometry: From Physics to Perception
      
Sisir Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India and Menas Kafatos, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University

6F. Communing Bodies: On Birding, Breathing, Secreting

Organizer/Chair: Debra Hawhee

·                     Birding with Nietzsche: Appreciation, Classification, Cognition, and Anthropomorphism
      
Jeff Karnicky, Department of English, Millersville University

·                     Oxygen Use on Everest: Managing Inspiration
      
Elizabeth Mazzolini, Department of English, Penn State University

·                     Rhetoric and Internal Secretions: Kenneth Burke's Engagements with Endocrinology
      
Debra Hawhee, Department of English, University of Illinois

·                     Bird Art, Bird-Lore, and the Conservation Agenda of the Nascent Audubon Societies
      
Mike Dooley, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa

7F. Registering the Invisible: Chladni Figures, Automatism, and Clairvoyant Chemistry

Chair: Mark Morrisson

·                     When Nature Begins to Write Itself: German Romanticists Read the Electrophore
      
Antje Pfannkuchen, Department of German, New York University

·                     Automatism: Ghost in the Machine
      
Alan Clinton, Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology

·                     Theosophy, Alchemy, and Atomic Physics: the Occult Chemistry of Annie Besant and C. W. Leadheater
      
Mark Morrisson, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University

8F. Relativity, Quantum Theory, Topology, Philosophy

Chair: Arkady Plotnitsky

·                     The End(s) of Space-Time: From Relativity to Quantum Theory and Beyond
      
Arkady Plotnitsky, Program in Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University

·                     The Philosophy of Topology and the Topology of Philosophy
      
Uziel Awret, Independent Scholar

9F. Image and Narrative in Medicine

Chair: Ronald Schleifer

·                     Anatomy Lessons and Artificial Intelligence: Dionysus and Apollo in Film and Medicine
      
Rhona Justice-Malloy, Department of Theatre, Central Michigan University

·                     The Tri-dimensional World of Carlo Levi: Medicine, Art and Narrative
      
Maria Wells, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

·                     'Doctor, Can't You Do Something?' Educating the General Public about Limitation, Failure, and Mistake in Medicine
      
Cheryl Koski, Journalism and Media Studies, University of South Florida

·                     Autobiographical Medicine: Physician Life Stories, the Memoir, and the Nature of Empathy
      
Ronald Schleifer, Department of English, University of Oklahoma

10F Faraday, Forces, and Patterns in Nature

Chair: Dennis Summers

·                     The Life of Faraday: A (kind of) Performance with Sets by Richard Long
      
Dennis Summers, Quantum Dance Works

·                     Faraday, Nanotechnology
      
Steven Oscherwitz, Artist

·                     Bridges Between Human Knowledge and Patterns in Nature
      
Zachary Jones, Independent Scholar

11F. Technoscience and the Sublime

Chair: Elizabeth Kessler

·                     Reprising the Infinite and Sublime: Contemporary Astronomical Images
      
Elizabeth Kessler, History of Culture, University of Chicago

·                     Quantum Spacetime and the Aesthetics of the Sublime
      
Ian Greig, Art History and Theory, University of South Australia

G. Guest Scholar Plenary Session

 

1G. Histories and Pre-Histories of the Twentieth Century: From Early Modernism to Cyberspace

Moderator: William Everdell, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY

·                     Rethinking The Culture of Time and Space
      
Stephen Kern, Department of History, Ohio State University

·                     The Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism in the Pre-history of Cyberculture
      
Donald Theall, Department of English, Trent University