Book Release Announcement: Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen

Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen


Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zürich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada, Selected Papers

Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg

Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 7

Edited by Randy Adams, Steve Gison, Stefan Müller Arisona

2008, IX, 501 p. With online files/update., Softcover

ISBN: 978-3-540-79485-1

Springer Online


About this book


This volume collects selected papers from the past two instances of Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland) and Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC, Canada), two parallel festivals of digital media art. The work represented in Transdisciplinary Digital Art is a confirmation of the vitality and breadth of the digital arts. Collecting essays that broadly encompass the digital arts, Transdisciplinary Digital Art gives a clear overview of the on-going strength of scientific, philosophical, aesthetic and artistic research that makes digital art perhaps the defining medium of the 21st Century.


Contents


Introduction: Why Tansdisciplinary Digital Art? – Steve Gibson


I Philosophies of the Digital


The Ethics of Aesthetics – Don Ritter

Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork – David Cecchetto

DIY: The Militant Embrace of Technology – Marcin Ramocki

Tuning in Rorschach Maps – Will Pappenheimer

Body Degree Zero: Anatomy of an Interactive Performance – Alan Dunning, Paul Woodrow

Artificial, Natural, Historical - Acoustic Ambiguities in Documentary Film – Julian Rohrhuber

The Colour of Time (God is a lobster and other forbidden bodies) – Johnny Golding

Behind the Screen: Installations from the Interactive Future – Ted Hiebert


II Digital Literacies


Transliteracy and New Media – Sue Thomas

Digital Archiving and "The New Screen" – John F. Barber

Digital Fiction: From the Page to the Screen – Kate Pullinger

The Present [Future] of Electronic Literature – Dene Grigar

Transient Passages: The Work of Peter Horvath – Celina Jeffery

III Multimedia Composition and Performance

Visceral Mobile Music Systems – Atau Tanaka

Designing a System for Supporting the Process of Making a Video Sequence – Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds

Video Game Audio Prototyping with Half-Life 2 – Leonard J. Paul

Computer-assisted Content Editing Techniques for Live Multimedia Performance – Stefan Muller Arisona, Pascal Muller, Simon Schubiger-Banz, Matthias Specht

Computational Audiovisual Composition Using Lua – Wesley Smith, Graham Wakefield

Interrelation: Sound-Transformation and Re-Mixing in Real-Time – Hannes Raffaseder, Martin Parker

Functors for Music: The Rubato Composer System – Guerino Mazzola, Gerard Milmeister, Karim Morsy, Florian Thalmann

Inventing Malleable Scores: From Paper to Screen Based Scores – Arthur Clay

Glimmer: Creating New Connections – Jason Freeman

Variations on Variations – Daniel Peter Biro


IV Interfaces and Expression


Gestures, Interfaces and Other Secrets of the Stage – Eva Sjuve

Beyond the Threshold: The Dynamic Interface as Permeable Technology – Carolyn Guertin

CoPuppet: Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Puppetry – Paolo Bottoni, Stefano Faralli, Anna Labella, Alessio Malizia, Mario Pierro, Semi Ryu

Experiments in Digital Puppetry: Video Hybrids in Apples Quartz Composer – Ian Grant

Formalized and Non-Formalized Expression in Musical Interfaces – Cornelius Poepel


V Digital Space: Design, Movement, and Robotics


Interactive Spaces – Jeffrey Huang, Muriel Waldvogel

From Electric Devices to Electronic Behaviour – Stijn Ossevoort

Scentsory Design: Scent Whisper and Fashion Fluidics – Jennifer Tillotson

Advances in Expressive Animation in the Interactive Performance of a Butoh Dance – Jurg Gutknecht, Irena Kulka, Paul Lucowicz, Tom Stricker

Anthropocentrism and the Staging of Robots – Louis-Philippe Demers, Jana Horakova


VI Digital Performance in Urban Spaces


Imaging Place: Globalization and Immersive Media – John Craig Freeman

About… Software, Surveillance, Scariness, Subjectivity (and SVEN) – Amy Alexander

The NOVA Display System – Simon Schubiger-Banz, Martina Eberle

Four Wheel Drift – Petra Watson, Julie Andreyev