New realities: Being syncretic/ Buch, New realities: being syncretic : IXth consciousness reframed conference Vienna 2008. / Ascott/Bast/Fiel/Jahrmann/Schnell (eds.)

7 Gerald Bast 8 Roy Ascott 10 Round Table Contents 22 Roy Ascott 190 David McConville 26 Elif Ayiter 194 Francesco Monico 30 John Backwell/John Wood 199 Max Moswitzer 34 René Bauer/Beat Suter 202 Sana Murrani 38 Laura Beloff 207 Ryohei Nakatsu 42 Martha Blassnigg 211 Martha Patricia Niño Mojica 46 Ingrid Böck 215 Carlos Nóbrega 51 Wulf Walter Böttger 220 Robert Pepperell 56 Pier Luigi Capucci 224 Michael Punt 60 Simona Caraceni 228 Susanne Ramsenthaler 65 Antonio Caronia 232 Barbara Rauch 69 Linda Cassens Stoian 236 Nicolas Reeves 73 Isabelle Choinière 240 Clarissa Ribeiro/Gilbertto Prado 78 David Crawford 245 Ana Rosa Richardson 82 Nina Czegledy 248 Glauce Rocha de Oliveira 86 Margaret Dolinsky 253 Natacha Roussel 90 Hannah Drayson 257 Semi Ryu 94 Alan Dunning/Paul Woodrow 261 Miguel Santos 98 Ernest Edmonds 266 Jinsil Seo/Diane Gromala 102 Jürgen Faust 271 Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau/ 106 Wolfgang Fiel Michael Shamiyeh 110 Andreas Leo Findeisen 276 René Stettler 114 Karmen Franinovic 280 Randall Teal 118 Gonçalo Miguel Furtado 284 Federica Timeto Cardoso Lopes 288 Naoko Tosa/Seigo Matsuoka 123 Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel 292 Sarah Tremlett 127 Gregory P. Garvey 297 Nicholas Tresilian 132 Luis Miguel Girão 301 Suzete Venturelli/Mario Maciel/ 136 Tina Gonsalves Johnny Souza 140 Jochen Hoog/Manfred Wolff-Plottegg 306 Natasha Vita-More 144 Birgit Huemer 310 Monika Weiss 148 Jung A. Front Matter....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 6-6 Being syncretic — The answer to increasing complexity....Pages 7-7 The Planetary Collegium’s Ninth International Research Conferece, Consciousness Reframed....Pages 8-9 Round Table....Pages 10-19 Front Matter....Pages 20-20 The Ambiguity of Self: living in a variable reality....Pages 22-25 Syncretia: A Sojourn into the Uncanny Valley....Pages 26-29 Mapping Network Consciousness: syncretising difference to co-create a synergy-of-synergies....Pages 30-33 “Realities from the unconscious” or “Reprogramming digital sub(con)texts”....Pages 34-37 Carnival/Wearable-Art/Presence....Pages 38-41 Ekphrasis and a Dynamic Mysticism in Art: Reflections on Henri Bergson’s Philosophy and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas....Pages 42-45 Presence and Atmosphere: Tools for the Virtual and the Invention of a New Event Structure....Pages 46-50 The A-Historical Act — Design’s contemporary Striving towards Realities of the Physiological....Pages 51-55 From life to life. The multiplicity of the living....Pages 56-59 A Polymorphic Museum....Pages 60-64 Reproducing the past, alienating the body — Digital time and reenactment....Pages 65-68 Perception and its transformation: fine-tuning in-between states....Pages 69-72 Regarding the Orgiastic as a Strategic Means to Reinvest Perceptions of Realities: the influence of syncretic thought acting as a motor of evolution in actual dance....Pages 73-77 The implication of movement: from Bergson to Bohm....Pages 78-81 The Syncretic Realm of Nikola Tesla....Pages 82-85 Imaging technological structures for organisation of biological consciousness and aesthetic experience....Pages 86-89 Constructed Bodies; How can physiological instruments become tools of self-perception?....Pages 90-93 Front Matter....Pages 20-20 The word for world is forest — Ghosts in the machine....Pages 94-97 The Art of Programming or Programs as Art....Pages 98-101 Design Discourse and Discourse Design: Reflections on “Conveyence Matter”....Pages 102-105 Recombinant Ecologies of the Social....Pages 106-109 Emergent Social Architectures — Transformed Senses of Belonging in contemporary Development of Programming Languages....Pages 110-113 Amplified Movements: An Enactive Approach to Sound in Interaction Design....Pages 114-117 Envisioning an Evolving Environment: Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer (A Brief Account)....Pages 118-122 Digital Oracles and the Search Dictatorship....Pages 123-126 New Realities: Choices in virtual worlds — Using boundary/borders theories....Pages 127-131 Heteronymia in Dataspace....Pages 132-135 Empathy and Interactivity: Creating Emotionally Empathic Circuits between Audiences and Interactive Arts....Pages 136-139 Real Virtuality — Immersion and Perception of Virtual Architecture in Multi-User Virtual Environments....Pages 140-143 A Semiotic Approach to Visitor Interaction, Participation and Perspective in Digital Arts....Pages 144-147 IT Revolution and New Realities in Korea — Syncretic aspects of Korean digilog-culture....Pages 148-151 Technologically-aware ecosystems in Art and society....Pages 152-155 Futility is Resistance! Toy-object, Schwarzgerät and Dingpolitik as Ludic Research Objectives....Pages 156-160 Roomforthoughts: Creating and using installation art in order to provide a better understanding of the subjective experience of psychosis....Pages 161-164 The Geography of the Unseen....Pages 165-168 This is (not) a syndrome. Outline of a clinico-political approach to a “consciousness-multiple”....Pages 169-173 Passage — A hybrid between interactive installation and performance....Pages 174-177 Front Matter....Pages 20-20 Artificial Life System for the production of cinematographic narration....Pages 178-181 Spatial Uncertainty and Military Avoidance: Duchamp, direct and indirect strategies....Pages 182-185 False remembering, impossible vision: déjà vu and contemporary cinema....Pages 186-189 Being (T)Here: A Syncretic Approach to Understanding Presence....Pages 190-193 Is There Love in the Technoetic Narcissus?....Pages 194-198 The 3rd Life Church or Cybernaut versus Avatar....Pages 199-201 Instability and incompleteness in architecture....Pages 202-206 What Is the Ultimate Form of Communication?....Pages 207-210 Cybernetic Syncretism: An Agent of Reality And Alterity....Pages 211-214 Art as an interactive field. Subtle liaisons....Pages 215-219 Art and the fractured unity of consciousness....Pages 220-223 Synchrony and the Semi-material Object....Pages 224-227 Light Reversal: Photogram — Hybrids of Vision and Touch....Pages 228-231 Virtual Emotions, No Feelings....Pages 232-235 Rom〈evo〉: Evolution of a Dead Memory....Pages 236-239 Trans -actions: To be between, across, and beyond....Pages 240-244 Change in the Energetic Matter of My Human Body Following the New Order of My Energy Body, My Dream Body....Pages 245-247 Literacies of Embodied Vision....Pages 248-252 Mobilis in Mobile....Pages 253-256 Redefining Puppet: paradoxical relationship between human and object....Pages 257-260 Front Matter....Pages 20-20 20 Mistakes Make Me Wonder ... (Take #2)....Pages 261-265 Reducing Pain in Alternative Immersive Environments: A Proposal....Pages 266-270 Solar Display: a selfpowered media facade....Pages 271-275 Is there an ecosemiotic perspective for today’s heterogeneous knowledges in the global culture industry?....Pages 276-279 Building Familiarity: Heidegger in Architectural Design....Pages 280-283 Feminist Technotopias: the Relocation of Technology as Aesth/ethic Project....Pages 284-287 Cultural Computing: The syncretic fusion ZENetic Computer....Pages 288-291 Matternal Philosophy, Female Subjectivity and Text in Art....Pages 292-296 Reductionism Reframed....Pages 297-300 Virtual sensations: metaphors of the forest....Pages 301-305 The Mediated Technological Singularity: Human Use as a Passport to Technological Innovation....Pages 306-309 Krasis (Ennoia)....Pages 310-314 The Architect’s Circle, or the Geometrical Incline of Truth....Pages 315-319 Hybrid Architecture & Hyper Function all inclusive & interrupt....Pages 320-323 Memory — Image — Archive A few remarks on the practice of digital photo archiving....Pages 324-326 Malpractice — A transdisciplinary experimental platform to promote dialogue among Art — Science and Technology in education....Pages 327-331 The Mind Cupola: towards a consciousness altering device — An immaterial model for interactive technology-based art production....Pages 332-336 Co-evolving Affective Wearable Computer #2 — Biocybernetic Relationship Object....Pages 337-340 Front Matter....Pages 341-341 Ambient DVD. A Dispositive Beyond Documentation....Pages 342-343 Back Matter....Pages 344-360

drawn From The Contributions To The 9th International “consciousness Reframed” Research Conference Held At University Of Applied Arts Vienna In 2008, This Publication Aims For A Timely Re-definition Of Contemporary Syncretic Inquiries Into The Fields Of Art, Science, Technology And Society Through Theory And Practice Alike, Reframing The Concept Of Innovation In Its Relationship To Progress And Change Within The Context Of Perception And Its Transformation. It Comprises A Wide Range Of Outstanding Expertise And Insights Of Artists, Architects, Performers, Musicians, Writers, Scientists, And Scholars. Among The Authors From At Least 20 Countries Are Most Prominently Roy Ascott, Gerald Bast, Jim Gimzewski, Pierre Lévy, Ryohei Nakatsu, Michael Punt, Ruth Schnell, Barbara Maria Stafford, Alfred Vendl, Victoria Vesna And Peter Weibel. The Publication Includes Full Papers And A Dvd, Edited By Ruth Schnell, With Short Video Extracts Of The Event And Accompanying Visual Reference.

Drawn from the contributions to the 9th international "Consciousness Reframed" research conference held at University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2008, this publication aims for a timely re-definition of contemporary syncretic inquiries into the fields of art, science, technology and society through theory and practice alike, reframing the concept of innovation in its relationship to progress and change within the context of perception and its transformation. It comprises a wide range of outstanding expertise and insights of artists, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars. Among the authors from at least 20 countries are most prominently Roy Ascott, Gerald Bast, Jim Gimzewski, Pierre Lévy, Ryohei Nakatsu, Michael Punt, Ruth Schnell, Barbara Maria Stafford, Alfred Vendl, Victoria Vesna and Peter Weibel. The publication includes full papers and a DVD, edited by Ruth Schnell, with short video extracts of the event and accompanying visual reference