Selected publications:
BOOKS:
2009. Time, Memory, Consciousness and the Cinema Experience: Revisiting Ideas on Matter and Spirit. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
EDITED BOOKS:
2012. Light, Image,Imagination: The Spectrum Beyond Reality and Illusion. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (forthcoming)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
2012. The Delightful(l) Mind: A Case for Aesthetic Intuition. In: Light, Image, Imagination: The Spectrum Beyond Reality and Illusion. Blassnigg (ed.), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Forthcoming)
2012. “Blending Technologies: Liebig Trade-Cards, Memory Practices and the Popular Imagination”. Proceedings Conference “Blending Media: Defining Film in the Modernist Period”. (forthcoming)
2009. Time, Memory and the Philosophical Dispositif of Cinema: The Mirrored Metaphor of Culture and Technology. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Vol. 25, eds. H. Grabes, A. Nuenning and S. Baumbach. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 299-314.
2006. Cinema, Clairvoyance, and Consciousness. In: Pepperell, Punt (eds.) Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World. Rodopi Press: Amsterdam, pp. 105-122.
ARTICLES:
2011. “Intuition and Imagination at the Convergence of Arts, Science, Popular Culture and Commercial Application: Clues from the Past.” In: W stronę trzeciej kultury. Koegzystencja sztuki, nauki i technologii. Towards the Third Culture. The Co-existence of Art, Science and Technology, edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Gdansk: Laznia CCA.
2011. “A convergência da Arte e Ciência: Pistas do Passado”, transl. by Cleomar Rocha and Júlio César dos Santos. Z Cultural, Revista Virtual do Programa Avançado de Cultural Contemporânea. Ano VII (02). ISSN 1980-9921.
2010. Revisiting Marey’s Applications of Scientific Moving Image Technologies in the Context of Bergson’s Philosophy: Audio-Visual Mediation and the Experience of Time. Medicine Studies. Volume 2 (3) Issue: “Medical Imaging: Philosophy and History”. Springer, pp. 175-184. DOI: 10.1007/s12376-010-0049-x. Available online at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/e0601u8425715h15/
2009. Ekphrasis and a Dynamic Mysticism in Art: Reflections on Henri Bergson’s Philosophy and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. In: New Realities: Being Syncretic. (Series: Edition Angewandte) Eds. Ascott, Bast, Fiel, Jahrmann, Schnell. Wien, New York: Springer, pp. 42-46. ISBN 978-3-21178890-5.
2007. Imag(en)ing the Extreme — Spacetime Continuum and Duration: The Cinema as Meta-Universe. Conference MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, 8–10 Nov, Prague, Czech Republic. Online at http://mutamorphosis.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/imagening-the-extreme-spacetime-continuum-and-duration-the-cinema-as-metauniverse/
2006. With Punt, M., Surman, D. From Meliese to Galaxy Quest: The Dark Matter of the Popular Imagination. Leonardo 39 (1), pp. 13-18 + p. 30. ISSN 0024-094X.
2006. Transformative Aspects of the Angelic Imaginary. Technoetic Arts. A Journal for Speculative Research. In Ascott, Roy (ed.), Intellect, 4 ( 1), pp. 15-25, doi: 10.1386/tear.4.1.15/1.
2006. Light/Image/Illusion – The Aegina Academy, a Forum for Art and Science. 14-22 May 2005, Aegina, Greece. Leonardo 39 (3). ISSN 0024-094X.
2005. Timeshift: Towards an Anthropological Perspective. The World in Twenty-Five Years. A Review on ARS Electronica and EASA Conference. Leonardo 38 (2). ISSN 0024-094X.
2005. Documentary Film at the Junction between Art and Digital Video Technologies. Feature article in Convergence: 11 (3), pp. 104-110.
2005. Towards an Anthropology of Space. Online at http://www.olats.org/space/13avril/2005/te_mBlassnigg.html
2000. Seeing Angels and the Spiritual in Film: An Interdisciplinary Study of a Sensuous Experience. MA-Thesis at the University of Amsterdam, for Media and Culture, and Cultural Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology. Unpublished thesis.
INVITED PARTICIPATION:
2011. Plenary lecture ‘Light and Imagination at the Convergence of Art, Science, Popular Culture and Commercial Application: Clues from the Past’. At the international scientific conference entitled “Toward a third culture. The coexistence of art, science and technology”, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Gdańsk History Museum in the context of the Art Line project. Gdańsk, 23-25 May 2011.
2011. Re-constructing Metropolis. An introduction to the screening of the 2010 restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Jill Craigie Cinema, Peninsula Arts, as part of “Future Visions”, Pensinsula Arts, University of Plymouth, 12 May.
2010. Plenary lecture “Delightful(l) Mind: Toward an Anthropology of Light”. At “The Pleasure of Light” conference, a collaboration between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, The French Institute Budapest and the Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Sept. 3
2010. Keynote lecture. “The ‘Observing Participant’: Time, Memory, and Consciousness in Early Scientific and Ethnographic Film”. Kolloquium: “Visual Encounters: Filmische Wissensproduktion in der Ethnologie.” Institut f. Europaeische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Feb 2.
2010. Keynote lecture. “Time, Memory in Action and Shared Consciousness: The Participatory Experience of Audio-Visual Mediation”. Ringvorlesung Sonderforschungsbereich “Repraesentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel”, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Jan 14.
2009. Keynote lecture, with M. Punt. Early Cinema and the Liebig-Bilder: Science, Technology and Popular Culture. Justus-Liebig-University, 26. Jan.
2008. Plenary lecture, with M. Punt. The Impossible Journey: Technology and the Popular Imagination. Super Saturation, a Celebration of the Centenary of Modern Diving, University of Plymouth, 1. Nov.
2008. Keynote lecture. Twentyfour Times a Second: From the Immanence of Motion to Memory in Action. At the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, 23. Oct.
2008. Plenary lecture, with M. Punt. Insects and Cinema: In Defense of Train-Spotting. Ento08 Royal Entomological Society Annual National Meeting, University of Plymouth, 3-5 Sept.
2006. Keynote, Science in the Dock – Art in the Stocks, Exeter. A forum for sharing of practice and critique between individuals engaged in the Arts and Sciences communities of the South West.
2006. Digital Arts Symposium at the University of Arizona, College of Fine Arts, Tucson, 7th April. Presentation: Angelic presence: Agents, Mind and Flight.
2006. Co-convenor of Aurora Feast Public Art Project, Heureka the Finnish Science Centre, Helsinki, 5th of February.
2006. Invited speaker at “Acknowledging the Extraordinary”. The Port Eliot Conversations. Port Eliot at St Germans in Cornwall, 27 – 29 January.
Invited reviewer at the Biennale Filmmuseum Amsterdam (www.filmmuseum.nl), the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (www.idfa.nl), Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone/Sacile (http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/index2.html), the Symposium Light/Image/Illusion at the Aegina Academy (www.light-image.net).
For a fuller list of selected publications (including reviews and conference papers) see the pdf-file for download on the main and curriculum page.
For REVIEWS also see www.leonardo.info