Publications: Anthologies, Juried Journals and proceedings

2006

“Systems Aesthetics and Cyborg Art: the legacy of Jack Burnham” in Slovenia, in V toku pohyblivych obrasov (The flow of moving images, an anthology of Electronic and Digital Art in the context of Visual Culture), Ed, Kararina Rusankova, Bratislava.

2004

Adequate pedagogy: the missing piece in Digital Culture, in: A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation (by and for artists and the cultural sector) eds. Lizbeth Goodman and Katherine Milton (fall, 2003) AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service)

2003

Representation, Enaction and the Ethics of Simulation. in First Person, MIT, eds Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

 

Ethics of Simulation (in Portugese) Ligações/Links/Liaisons anthology

 

Prefiguring Cyberculture, an intellectual history. (chapter: Traces) Tofts, Jonson, Cavallaro, editors. MIT

2001

Traces: Embodied Immersive interaction with Semi-Autonomous Avatars. Convergence, Luton UK

1999

Traces: Wireless full body tracking in the CAVE. ICAT 9th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence Conference Proceedings(Tokyo: Virtual Reality Society, 1999)

 

Agents as artworks and agent design as artistic practice” in "Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology" Ed: Kerstin Dautenhahn, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

1997

The Virtualisation of Artistic Practice: Body Knowledge and the Engineering World View. CAA Art Journal Fall97 Special Issue on Electronic Art, Ed: Johanna Drucker

 

“Embodied Cultural Agents...” Socially Intelligent Agents. AAAI Press 1997

 

The Darwin Machine: Artificial Life and Interactive Art, New Formations UK,#29 “Technoscience”

1996

Memesis: The Future of Evolution, Ars Electronica / Springer 96

 

The Colonisation of Cyberspace. Media Art Perspectives, Editions ZKM, Cantz Verlag, Germany. Bilingual, Eng/German

1995

Living Machines, in Scientific American, USA 150th anniversary issue. sept 95

 

Twenty Centuries of Virtual Reality (in Finnish) in Virtuaalisuuen Arkeologia, Ed: E. Huhtamo. Pub Lapin Yliopisto

 

Paradigms in collision, a tentative taxonomy of interactive art in Schöne Neue Welten, Ed F Rötzer, pub Boer Germany

 

Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative: The Artist in Dataspace. in Critical Issues in Electronic Media Ed SPenny, Pub SUNY Press

1994

Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project.. in Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology anthology. Eds Bender and Druckrey. Dia Foundation / Bay Press .

-Also published in Virtual Reality Casebook, Eds Anderson, Loeffler. Van Nostrand.

1992 

Virtual Bodybuilding ( in Finnish) in Virtual Zone anthology, Eds Makela, Vaisanen

1991

Training computer artists for the 21st century. Computer Graphics V25#3 ACM SIGGRAPH

 

Publications: Journals and Catalogs

2001

Traces: Embodied Immersive Interaction with Semi Autonomous Avatars (Penny, Smith,Sengers, Bernhardt Schulte) Convergence: the journal of research into New Media Technologies, University of Luton press, Summer 2001.

2000

Modern Machine Art. Artlink 20th Anniversary edition. V20#3

1999

“Systems Aesthetics and Cyborg Art: the legacy of Jack Burnham” Sculpture Magazine, Jan99

1998

Jeffrey Shaw, A Users manual (review, with MFernandez) Sculpture Magazine, Nov98

 

Full length version of “Shaw...” published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac July98

 

Moores Law, Systems Theory and the Aesthetics of Interactive Art. Astrolabe online journal + CD

1997

Johdatus Uuteen Mediaan. Eds Tarkka, Hintikka And Mäkelä, Helsinki

 

TechnoUtopian Rhetorics and the Ossification of Interfaces, ArtLink V16#2+3 Australia

 

Twenty Centuries of Virtual Reality (in polish) Magasyn Sztuki #9 (1/96) Gdansk Poland

 

From A to D and back again: the emerging aesthetics of interactive art. Catalog essay, Next Wave Festival/Perception and Perspective, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
(also published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac 4.4, april 1996)

 

Petit Mal and the Aesthetics of Autonomous Art. Telepolis Web Journal

 

Body Knowledge... AdaWeb/MOMA Videoviewpoints website

1995

Twenty Centuries of Virtual Reality (in Japanese), Intercommunications, Japan.

 

Body Knowledge, Digital Prostheses and Cognitive Diversity (in German) Kunstforum, Germany

 

Electronic Arts practice: experiences in Australia and the USA. in Continuum V8#1, 1994

 

Embodied Mind. Leonardo Electronic Reviews

1993

Utopian Recipes, Distopian dining: Eating Bad Donuts in dataspace in On the Air, Transit Austria

 

Virtual Bodybuilding Media Information Australia 1993

 

Disentangling Utopian Dreams Catalog essay for The computer is not sorry The Space, Boston

 

2000 years of Virtual Reality (catalog essay) for Through the looking glass. Jack Tilton Gallery NY

 

Fred Truck: ArtEngine II (review/essay) in Art Papers v16#2 march-april 92.

 

Smart Bombs, Foolish Strategies (review/essay) Afterimage, april V19#9

1991

Computer Art: critical issues in pedagogy. in Artlink (Australia) Sept 1991

 

Machine Culture SISEA 1990 proceedings Groningen, Netherlands

 

The Intelligent Machine as Anti-Christ in SISEA 1990 proceedings Groningen, Netherlands

1990

Fred Truck's ArtEngine, a case study in the problematics of software art Mediamatic Holland V5#3
(Also published in Artlink (Australia) December 1990)

 

Guest Editor Artcom Online Art Journal. May and June.

1989

Art practice in the age of the thinking machine. Performance 56/7.UK.

 

Charlie Chaplin, Stelarc and the future of humanity. Artlink S.A. V9#1 1989

 

Meta combat, an analysis of Randellis War Story Praxis M magazine, #22 1989 Perth.

 

New Territory: art practice in the digital environment. Artlink, March

 

Video Installations by Bill Viola. Artlink, March.

1987

Simulation Digitization, Interaction: The impact of computing on the arts. Artlink Art+ Tech special issue.

1986

"Performance Art, What the..." Performance Magazine, London.

1985

"Pittura Culta; Current Italian Neoclassicism" Art Network, Sydney, N.S.W

 

"Video Art", radio documentary "Surface Tension" ABC National.

1984

Critique-New York, The Terminal" Art Network.

 

"Death of the New" (Venice Biennale 1984) Artlink S.A.

1983

"Terminal New York" Artviews Magazine, Toronto,Canada.

1980

"La Trobe, an overview" Artlink.

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