Engineering Nature

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