Transtechnology Research Reader 2011
Reinstating the Visual
The second Transtechnology Research Reader, draws together the intellectual energies and insights generated by the seminar series in 2010/11 and gathers them up in the form of a boxed collection of ‘pamphlets’. The particular form of the Reader this time around not only responds to a perceived distinction between the needs of the individual author and the virtues of the dynamics of the collective context, but also emerges from the very core of our thinking during the 2010/11 seminar series.
The programme for 2010/11 ran under the title ‘Reinstating the Visual: Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas’ Each monthly seminar, led by individuals represented here, used the shared focus of a single panel of Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as a trigger for a presentation of their own research. The intention was to use the visual to stimulate and open up a transdisciplinary critique of all of our individual research projects: to facilitate multiple perspectives identifying new topics and concerns while retaining the direction and rigour of the primary research question.
Contributors: Flavia Amadeu, Martha Blassnigg, Rita Cacháo, Edith Doove, Hannah Drayson, Amanda Egbe, Joanna Griffin, Theo Humphries & Stephen Thompson, Kieron Lyons, David McConville, Claudy Op den Kamp, Michael Punt, Marcio Rocha, John Vines, Martyn Woodward, Brigitta Zics and Jonathan Zilberg.
Editorial Team: Flavia Amadeu, Rita Cachão, Edith Doove, Amanda Egbe, Joanna Griffin, Claudy Op den Kamp, Marcio Rocha and Martyn Woodward
List of contents (please click to download):
Editorial with Introduction
by Michael Punt
Creativity And Emerging Knowledge: Intuitive Practice In Design And Crafts
by Flavia Amadeu
Ekphrasis And A Dynamic Mysticism In Art: Reflections On Henri Bergson’s Philosophy And Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas
by Martha Blassnigg
Earth-Sky Cosmologies: A Reflection On Cosmology Through Human Practices (Part 1)
by Rita Cachao
Exploring The Curatorial As Creative Act: Part I – Hidden Similarities
by Edith Doove
‘Imagine Being Slapped’ Physiological Instrumentation, Ontology And The Placebo Effect
by Hannah Drayson
Mnemosyne Moving Image
by Amanda Egbe
Moon Vehicle: Reflections From An Artist-Led Childrens Workshop On The Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft’s Mission To The Moon
by Joanna Griffin
A Hippocratic Intuition For Balance In Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas
by Theo Humphries & Stephen Thompson
Visual Arrangements In Duchamp’s Etant Donnes And Warburg’s Mnemosyne
by Kieron Lyons
Cosmopoiesis The Art Of World-Making
by David McConville
Audiovisual Archives and the Public Domain: Economics Of Access, Exclusive Control and the Digital Skew
by Claudy Op den Kamp (please contact author for copy)
Synchrony And The Semi-Material Object
by Michael Punt
Cognitive, Embodied Or Enacted? Contemporary Perspectives For Hci And Interaction
by Marcio Rocha
Mnemosyne, Metaphor And Theory Of Mind An Imaginative Visual Essay Of Computionalism
by Marcio Rocha
Senescence, Enaction And Technology: On The Need For Movement And Questions In Interaction Design
by John Vines
A Monstrous Rhinoceros (As From Life): Toward (And Beyond) The Epistemological Nature Of The Enacted Pictorial Image
by Martyn Woodward
The [Unseen] Modernist Eye: Minimalism, Defamiliarization And The Advertising Film
by Martyn Woodward
Eye Gaze As A Vehicle For Aesthetic Interaction: Affective Visualisation For Immersive User Experience
by Brigitta Zics
A Note On Warburg
by Johnathan Zilberg
Transtechnology Research Reader 2010
Technology, Mind and Contingency: Matter, Models and Metaphors
Transtechnology Research published its first collection of essays as the outcome of two research seminar series in 2008/09 and 2009/2010. The reader reflects an ongoing intellectual process that is both individual and collective.
Contributors: Martha Blassnigg, Rita Cacháo, Amanda Egbe, Hannah Drayson, Joanna Griffin, Robert Jackson, Claudy Op den Kamp, David McConville, Michael Punt, Stephen Thompson, John Vines, Martyn Woodward, Brigitta Zics and Jonathan Zilberg.
Editorial Team: Martha Blassnigg, Hannah Drayson, Michael Punt, John Vines and Brigitta Zics.
List of contents (please click to download):
Introduction
by Michael Punt
Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, Perturbations In Early Dome Theaters
by David McConville
Time, Memory And The Philosophical Dispositif Of Cinema: The Mirrored Metaphor Of Culture And Technology
by Martha Blassnigg
Swing Time: Technology As/&/As Metaphor
by Michael Punt
Constructed Bodies: How Can Physiological Instruments Become Tools Of Self Perception?
by Hannah Drayson
Provisional Connections: Science And Arts – Tales Of Sound And Fury
by Michael Punt
Darwin’s Ghost: The Darwin Exhibit At The American Museum Of Natural History
by Jonathan Zilberg
Joey The Mechanical Boy
by Stephen Thompson
The Failure Of Designers Thinking About How We Think: The Problem Of Human-Computer Interaction
by John Vines
A Brief History And Theory Of Not Looking: Toward A Field Theory Of The Audiovisual
by Martyn Woodward
From Active To Passive Participation: Toward An Affective Aesthetics
by Brigitta Zics (please contact author for copy)
Algorithmic Allure: Heidegger, Harman And Every Icon
by Robert Jackson
Disclosing Space: Order And Mediation From Hand-Drawn Scientific Illustration To Geometry
by Rita Cachão
Where Does Lap Go When You Stand Up? Meaning Making, Expression And Communication Beyond A Linguistic Constraint
by Martyn Woodward
Introduction (Revisting Ideas On Matter And Spirit)
by Martha Blassnigg (please contact author for a copy and information)
The Mind Cupola And Enactive Ecology: Designing Technologically Mediated Experiences For The Ageing Mind
by Brigitta Zics and John Vines
Spaces Of Historical Illusion: Moving Image Document As Panorama
by Amanda Egbe
Finding Meaning
by Joanna Griffin
De overval, the Film and its Dissemination: A Resistance Against a Dominant System
by Claudy Op den Kamp