Transdisciplinary digital art: sound : vision and the new screen : digital art weeks and interactive futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada, selected papers

"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."--BOOK JACKET Table of Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Why Transdisciplinary Digital Art?......Page 9 I. Philosophies of the Digital......Page 11 The Ethics of Aesthetics......Page 12 Ethical and Activist Considerations of the Technological Artwork......Page 22 DIY: The Militant Embrace of Technology......Page 33 Tuning in Rorschach Maps......Page 40 Body Degree Zero: Anatomy of an Interactive Performance......Page 53 Artificial, Natural, Historical: Acoustic Ambiguities in Documentary Film......Page 67 The Colour of Time (God Is a Lobster and Other Forbidden Bodies)......Page 78 Behind the Screen: Installations from the Interactive Future......Page 87 Transliteracy and New Media......Page 105 Digital Archiving and "The New Screen"......Page 114 Digital Fiction: From the Page to the Screen......Page 124 The Present [Future] of Electronic Literature......Page 131 Transient Passages: The Work of Peter Horvath......Page 147 III. Multimedia Composition and Performance......Page 157 Visceral Mobile Music Systems......Page 158 Designing a System for Supporting the Process of Making a Video Sequence......Page 174 Video Game Audio Prototyping with Half-Life 2......Page 190 Computer-Assisted Content Editing Techniques for Live Multimedia Performance......Page 202 Computational Audiovisual Composition Using Lua......Page 216 Interrellation: Sound-Transformation and Remixing in Real-Time......Page 232 Functors for Music: The Rubato Composer System......Page 241 Inventing Malleable Scores: From Paper to Screen Based Scores......Page 258 Glimmer: Creating New Connections......Page 273 Variations on Variations......Page 287 IV. Interfaces and Expression......Page 302 Gestures, Interfaces and Other Secrets of the Stage......Page 303 Beyond the Threshold: The Dynamic Interface as Permeable Technology......Page 315 COPUPPET: Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Puppetry......Page 328 Experiments in Digital Puppetry: Video Hybrids in Apple's Quartz Composer......Page 344 Formalized and Non-formalized Expression in Musical Interfaces......Page 360 Interactive Spaces......Page 376 From Electric Devices to Electronic Behaviour......Page 391 Scentsory Design®: Scent Whisper and Fashion Fluidics......Page 402 Advances in Expressive Animation in the Interactive Performance of a Butoh Dance......Page 417 Anthropocentrism and the Staging of Robots......Page 433 VI. Digital Performance in Urban Spaces......Page 450 Imaging Place: Globalization and Immersive Media......Page 451 About... Software, Surveillance, Scariness, Subjectivity (and SVEN)......Page 465 The NOVA Display System......Page 474 Four Wheel Drift......Page 486 Author Index......Page 499 Digital Artweeks And Interactive Futures 2006/2007 Zurich, Switzerland And Victoria, Bc, Canada Selected Papers