Index
Contents
Preface ...........................................................................................................v
1
Epistemological machines and protocomputing
Mitchell Whitelaw and Ralf Baecker ..............................................................1
2
The Crystal World
Jonathan Kemp ............................................................................................19
3
Nigredo: configuring human and technological bodies
Marco Donnarumma ....................................................................................61
4
Sensing spatial experiences. The essential nature of things
Sonia Cillari .................................................................................................87
5
Perfect Paul: on freedom of facial expression
Arthur Elsenaar .........................................................................................101
6
Hacking the universe
Frederik De Wilde ....................................................................................123
7
Mesoscopic ripples in the neural sea
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand ......................................................141
8
Vanitas Machine
Verena Friedrich ........................................................................................149
9
Interview with Verena Friedrich ................................................................163
10
Connections continuum: a life
Saša Spacal ................................................................................................175
11
A new state of the living
Dmitry Bulatov .........................................................................................207
12
That which lives in me
Dmitry Bulatov and Alexey Chebykin ......................................................221
13
Robotics and design: towards a new symbiosis in Gilberto Esparza’s artwork
Reynaldo Thompson and Tirtha P. Mukhopadhyay .................................231
14
Pancreas. All flesh
Candyman .................................................................................................245
15
Demons of art
Interview with Thomas Feuerstein by Hartmut Böhme ..............................257
16
Metabodies – exploring social networks on our body
Sonja Bäumel and Manuel Selg .................................................................273
17
Re-imagining the biological membrane
Juan M. Castro .........................................................................................295
18
Bodymetries. Mapping the human body through amorphous intelligence
Theresa Schubert, Michael Markert, Moritz Dreßler, Andrew Adamatzky..315
19
The engineer’s report: "Swarm Cities” and other synthetic companions
Francisco Gallardo and Álvaro Castro-Castilla ..........................................329
20
Der Zermesser
Leo Peschta .............................................................................................349
21
Interview with Leo Peschta .......................................................................353
