Index

Preface                                                              iv
Introduction                                                         1
Part I - Mind
1 Models                                                             6
Can there be Non-Embodied Information? - Stephen Jones
Acts Between and Between Acts - Ranulph Glanville
Between Reality and Virtuality: Toward a New
Consciousness? - Julio Bermudez
The Actualisation of the Virtual - Mark Palmer
We are the Consciousness Musicians - Electronic Art,
Consciousness and the Western Intellectual Tradition - Mike King
Immersive Computer Art and the Making
of Consciousness - Laurie McRobert
2 Memory                                                             38
Casablanca and Men in Black: Consciousness, Remembering,
and Forgetting - Michael Punt
Virtual Space and the Construction of Memory - Andrea Polli
Memory Maps and the Nazca - Bruce Brown
3 Transcendence                                                      52
Parallel Worlds: Representing Consciousness at the Intersection 
of Art,Dissociation, and Multidimensional Awareness - Kristine Stiles
Sacred Art in a Digital Era:
Or the Internet and the Immanent Place in the Heart -
Niranjan Rajah and Raman Srinivasan
Negotiating New Systems of Perception: Darshan, Diegesis and Beyond -
Margot Lovejoy and Preminda Jacob
Seeing Double: Art and the Technology of Transcendence -
Roy Ascott
Jumping Over the Edge: Consciousness and Culture, the Self
and Cyberspace - Lily Dìaz
Space-time Boundaries in the Xmantic Web - Maria Luiza Fragoso
Part II - Body
4 Post-biological Body                                                81
Recreating Ourselves: Romeo and Juliet in Hades by Future Movie -
Naoko Tosa and Ryohei Nakatsu
The Body as Interface - Jill Scott
Art at the Biological Frontier - Eduardo Kac
Images and Imaging - Amy Ione
The Power of Seduction in Biomedicine -
Nina Czegledy
Stasis: The Creation & Exploration of Subjective Experiential Realities
through Hypnosis, Psychosynthesis & Digital Technology -
Richard Brown
Emotion, Interactivity and Human Measurement -
Christopher Csikszentmihalyi
Writing the Post-Biological Body - Steve Tomasula
5 Space and Time                                                      119
For a Spatiotemporal Sensitivity - Ginette Daigneault
Virtual Geographies, Borders and Territories:
GPS Drawings and Visual Spaces - Andrea Wollensak
An Exploration of Spatial/ Temporal Slippage -
Chris Speed
Thinking Through Asynchronous Space - Mike Phillips
The Space Between the Assumed Real and the Digital Virtual -
Dan Livingstone
Part III - Art
6 Strategies                                                         145
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Historiography - Brett Terry
Mind Memory Mapping Metaphor: Is Hypermedia Cognitive Art? -
Dew Harrison
The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham‚ Concept of Software
as a Metaphor for Art - Edward Shanken
Streams of Consciousness: Info-Narratives in Networked Art-
Christiane Paul
Consciousness and Music - Mladen Milicevic
The Irreducibility of Literary Consciousness - Philipp Wolf
Nonsense Logic and Re-embodied Intelligence - Bill Seaman
Conscious Isomorphisms and Young Farmers: Consciousness
as a Subject of Artistic Research - Stefaan Van Ryssen
Modeling Interpretation - Sharon Daniel
Performing Presence - Barry Edwards
7 Projects                                                          196
Éphémère: Landscape, Earth, Body and Time in 
Immersive Virtual Space -
Char Davies
Virtual Environment as Rebus - Margaret Dolinsky
Dynamic Behavioural Spaces with Single and Multi-User Group Interaction -
Miroslaw Rogala
Reality Virtuality and Visuality in the Xmantic Web - Tania Fraga
Xmantic Webdesign - Fatima Bueno
Assigning Handlers to a Shadow - Kieran Lyons
8 Architecture                                                      223
Human Spatial Orientation in Virtual Worlds - Dimitrios Charitos
An Interactive Architecture - Gillian Hunt
Heterotic Architecture - Ted Krueger
The Cybrid Condition: Implementing Hybrids of Electronic
and Physical Space - Peter Anders
Virtual Architecture as Hybrid: Conditions of Virtuality
vs. Expectations from Reality - Dace Campbell
9 Creative Process                                                  248
Acquiring an Artistic Skill: A Multidimensional Network -
Christine Hardy
Enlarging the Place for Creative Insight in the Theatre Model
of Consciousness - Thomas Draper
An Approach to Creativity as Process -
Ernest Edmonds and Michael Quantrill
We are having an idea: Creativity within Distributed Systems -
Fred McVittie
To be or not to be .... Conscious - Eva Lindh and John Waterworth
Part IV - Values
10 Values                                                           273
CyberArt & CyberEthics - Colin Beardon
The Metaphoric Environment of Art and Technology - Carol Gigliotti
The Four Seas: Conquest Colonisation, Consciousness in Cyberspace -
Joseph Lewis
Future Present: Reaestheticizing Life through a New Technology
of Consciousness - Anna Bonshek and Gurdon Leete
Conspiracies, Computers and Consensus Reality - Paul O'Brien
The Failure and Success of Multimedia - Sean Cubitt
Abstract Virtual Realism - Nik Williams
Beyond Film & Television-whose Consciousness is it Anyway? -
Clive Myer
Chimera for the 21st Century: Mis-Construction as Feminist Strategy -
Terry Gips