Index

Table of Contents

Foreword by Roy Ascott   ii
Introduction by the editors   iv

PO(I)ETIC

Sonic and Visual Structures:   4
Theory and Experiment
Nicolas Schöffer

Causalities   28
Alberto de Campo

An Essay on Worldmaking in Plumbutter   56
Peter Blasser

Art, Surveillance, and Metadata   68
James Coupe

Perceptual Ecologies: Mine   90
Dan Overholt and Esben Bala Skouboe

Towards Probabilistic Worldmaking: Xenakis,   114
n-Polytope and the Cybernetic Path to Chaos
Chris Salter and Sofian Audry

MACHINIC

Machinic Heterogenesis   144
 Felix Guattari

Worldmaking as a Conceptual   164
Framework for Computational Art
 Mark-David Hosale

Technê and Dispositif of Architecture   196
Sang Lee

Experiencing the World:   220
Wearable Technology and the Umwelt
Laura Beloff

Open Worlds: Bergson And   242
Computational Ontology
Graham Wakefield

CYBERNETIC

Beyond Design: Cybernetics,   266
Biological Computers and Hylozoism
Andrew Pickering

Estranged Space Appropriated   296
Sana Murrani

Sentient Canopy: Prototype for resilient,   320
curious architecture
Philip Beesley

On the Dynamic Relation Between Thought   340
Ontologies and Materialised Ontologies
Kathrine Elizabeth L. Johansson

Towards a Genealogy and Futurology of   360
Art and Technology: New Media, Contemporary
Art, Collaboration
Edward Shanken

The Perception of the Future   384
and the Future of Perception
Heinz von Foerster

Contributors   400
Index   408
Image Listing   430