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Technoetic Arts - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2007
Volume 5, Issue 1, 2007
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Touching light: A new framework for immersion in artistic environments
Authors: Jinsil Seo and Diane GromalaThe idea of immersion research has been explored in various disciplines: Virtual Reality, Interactive Storytelling, Art, etc. However, most researchers focus on constraints of the hardware and software, and are less focused on the conceptual and philosophical implications of immersion and presence.
This paper aims to define a certain quality of immersion that has emerged from artisticresearch experiences. Overall, immersion is an integrated conscious state where mind, body and environment are well interrelated and interweaved.
Within the concept of immersion, we explore four categories: ambient immersive natural space, body interaction, new consciousness and flow of energy. Finally, the paper presents examples of our artresearch work and offers detailed explorations on the quality of immersion.
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The boat/helmsman
By Stephen GageThe founding metaphor of cybernetics is re-examined. The helmsman is part of a body- object hybrid that is terrain-dependent. The available palette of behaviours can only be understood in this way. The boat/helmsman hybrid demonstrates moment-to-moment feedback characteristics that include a form of damping which is based on the hybrid's previous history. The moment-to-moment goal is a direction over water, not a destination. End goal navigation is based on prediction and depends on a map and a plan. The boat/helmsman metaphor places the physical characteristics of an entity on an equal footing with the flow of information within and without it.
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Res-qualia: Could consciousness evolve?
More LessThe article is an approach to the possibilities of the evolution of consciousness. The research will be presented from the point of view of the Art and Mystic experiences and also compared with the biological point of view.The differences between the perception space and the representation space will be described, since it is considered that the later represents the location where the conscience processes take place. An example in the contemporary architecture on the representation space (the Jean Nouvel's Agbar Tower) will be analysed. The contemporary artistic practices on living tissue manipulation will also be reviewed: artists inspired by the evolutionary laws are working nowadays with the manipulation of living tissues as artistic objects. This could be a controversial phenomenon that may drive the art-science to a materialistic position. It is for this reason that the work with consciousness could prove that the immaterial or energy is a real element that humans can manipulate as they do with living tissues. To know how to do it would be the research in art for this century and could change the direction in art-science, could change the direction of the global consciousness through a planetary culture.
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The drama of digital communication with a human touch
More LessWith the emergence of new communication technologies our bodies find themselves in constant reconstruction, giving birth to novel social interactive behaviours mediated or originated by these technologies. These unique manifestations describe the way in which our body lives out a kind of new drama through its interaction with the world. Perhaps touch can be extended in new unexpected ways, and the body will embark into a new exciting experience of itself and of the world.
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A merging of mindsets through collision and collusion
Authors: Dew Harrison and Barbara RauchThis paper is presented as a performance between the two authors who are discussing the notion of daydreaming as a transitional space between their research interests in dreams and the semantic associations of conscious thought. The first half concerns the logical, rational awake mind when applied to an understanding of daydreaming as a bridge between one state and another. It investigates the idea of the interactive interface as a parallel with the daydream where both enable a middle ground, or safe space for crossing-over. The difficulty highlighted through the performative reading of the paper is to keep focus without slipping into the interstitial state of a daydream. The paper gently drifts towards the second half, which explores understanding of dreamstates and the neuroscientific models of the unconscious brain.
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007)
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Volume 4 (2006)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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Volume 1 (2003)