Roy Ascott (ed.): Reframing Consciousness: Art, Mind and Technology (1999)

We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves? This book covers a wide-ranging discussion on the interaction between Art, Science and Technology, and goes on to challenge assumptions about ‘reality’.

Loosely themed around four key elements of Mind, Body, Art and Values, the editor leads the investigation through the familiar territories of interactive media and artificial life, combining them with new and ancient ideas about creativity and personal identity.The contributing authors number over sixty highly respected practitioners and theorists in art and science, bringing to the subject a stimulating diversity of approach and a rich background of knowledge.

Art has long been preoccupied with questions involving the mind and consciousness. But it is fast finding that new technology, creatively applied, brings new possibilities to bear. This volume provides a strong foundation for the debates that are sure to follow in this field.

Publisher Intellect Books, 1999
ISBN 1841500135, 9781841500133
314 pages

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Nadia Michoustina (ed.): Art, Technology and Modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe (2000)

Contents:
* Nadia Michoustina, Introduction
* Cynthia Simmons, Fly Me to the Moon: Modernism and the Soviet Space Program in Viktor Pelevin’s Omon Ra
* Julia Vaingurt, Base Superstructures and Technical Difficulties in Maiakovskii’s America
* Andrei Khrenov, Power and Technology as the Political-Aesthetic Project: Towards the Similarity of the Russian Avant-garde of the Twenties and Stalinist Cinema
* Kimberly Elman, Garden Cities and Company Towns: Tomas Baťa and the Formation of Zlin, Czechoslovakia

Selected Papers from the Conference held at Columbia University on March 31-April 1, 2000
The Harriman Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, November 2000
35 pages

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Trans/Formation: Arts, Communication, Environment, 1 (1950)

A multi-disciplinary journal which affirmed that “art, science, technology are interacting components of the total human enterprise…” This publication, which existed for only three issues, treated the arts and sciences “as a continuum.”

Edited by Harry Holtzman
Publisher Wittenborn Schultz, New York, 1950
64 pages
via PublicCollectors.org

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