Index
Table of Contents
Selected Artists
Selected Technologies
Series Foreword
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction, Methodology, Definitions, and Theoretical Overview 1
1.1 Art and Science as Cultural Acts 2
1.2 Elaboration on the Approach of Art as Research 34
2 Biology: Microbiology, Animals and Plants, Ecology, and Medicine and the Body 53
2.1 Biology: Research Agendas and Theoretical Overview 54
2.2 Artists Working with Microbiology 94
2.3 Plants and Animals 110
2.4 Ecological Art 128
2.5 Body and Medicine 148
3 Physics, Nonlinear Systems, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Geology, Astronomy, Space Science, Global Positioning System, and Cosmology 201
3.1 Physical Science Research Agendas and Theoretical Reflections 202
3.2 Atomic Physics, Nanotechnology, and Nuclear Science 222
3.3 Materials and Natural Phenomena: Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Water, Weather, Solar Energy, Geology, and Mechanical Motion 234
3.4 Space 260
3.5 Global Positioning System (GPS) 282
4 Algorithms, Mathematics, Fractals, Genetic Art, and Artificial Life 295
4.1 Research Agendas in Mathematics and Artificial Life 296
4.2 Algorithmic Art, Art and Mathematics and Fractals 312
4.3 Artificial Life and Genetic Art 340
5 Kinetics, Sound Installations, and Robots 367
5.1 Robotics and Kinetics 368
5.2 Conceptual Kinetics and Electronics 386
5.3 Kinetic Instrument, Sound Sculpture, and Industrial Music 406
5.4 Robots 424
6 Telecommunications 457
6.1 Telecommunications Research Agendas and Theoretical Reflections 458
6.2 Telephone, Radio, and Net.Radio 486
6.3 Teleconferencing, Videoconferenecing, Satellites, the Internet, and Telepresence 514
6.4 Web Art 558
7 Digital Information Systems/Computers 603
7.1 Research Agendas and Theoretical Overview 604
7.2 Computer Media 664
7.3 Virtual Reality 692
7.4 Motion, Gesture, Touch, Gaze, Manipulation, and Activated Objects 728
7.5 Speech Synthesis, Voice Recognition, and 3-D Sound 774
7.6 Artificial Intelligence 786
7.7 Information and Surveillance 812
8 Resources 849
8.1 Exhibitions and Festivals; Educational Programs; Art, and Research Collaborations; Organization Resources, Think Tanks, and Web Resources 850
Appendixes 879
A: Methodology 880
B: Books for Further Inquiry 886
Name Index 905
Subject Index 923