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.
Contents (please click to download):
by Michael Punt
COSMOLOGICAL CINEMA: PEDAGOGY, PROPAGANDA, PERTURBATIONS IN EARLY DOME THEATERS
by David McConville
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
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
by Martyn Woodward
INTRODUCTION (REVISTING IDEAS ON MATTER AND SPIRIT)
by Martha Blassnigg (please contact author for a copy and information)
by Brigitta Zics and John Vines
SPACES OF HISTORICAL ILLUSION: MOVING IMAGE DOCUMENT AS PANORAMA
by Amanda Egbe
by Joanna Griffin
DE OVERVAL, THE FILM AND ITS DISSEMINATION: A RESISTANCE AGAINST A DOMINANT SYSTEM
by Claudy Op den Kamp