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Record Nr.

UNISA996308821203316

Autore

Seifert Uwe

Titolo

Paradoxes of interactivity : perspectives for media theory, human-computer interaction, and artistic investigations / / edited by Uwe Seifert, Jin Hyun Kim, and Anthony Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2008

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-8394-0842-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344)

Collana

Kultur- und Medientheorie

Classificazione

AP 11800

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Interactive multimedia

Human-computer interaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    6  The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines: A Paradox of Interactivity    8  Does the Body Disappear? A Comment on Computer Generated Spaces    26  Transparency and Opacity: Interface Technology of Mediation in New Media Art    44  Where the Action is: Distributed Agency between Humans, Machines, and Programs    62  Surface, Interface, Subface: Three Cases of Interaction and One Concept    92  Double Cross Playing Diamonds: Understanding Interactivity in/between Bigraphs and Diamonds    110  Where Art and Science Meet (or Where They Work at Cross-Purposes    142  Time, Magma, Continuity: Some Remarks on In-Formation and the Fabrication of "Poiesis"    160  Implications of Unfolding    174  UNORTKATASTER: An Urban Experiment Towards Participatory Media Development    192  Modelling and Analysing Expressive Gesture in Multimodal Systems    218  Interaction Computer Dance: The Resonance Paradigm 1900/2000    250  Staging of the Thinking Space: From Immersion to Performative Presence    266  From Interactive Live Electronic Music to New Media Art    282  Extending the Musical Experience: From the Physical to the Digital and Back    298  Virtual Musical Instruments and Robot Music Performances    326  Authors' Biographies    336



Sommario/riassunto

Current findings from anthropology, genetics, prehistory, cognitive and neuroscience indicate that human nature is grounded in a co-evolution of tool use, symbolic communication, social interaction and cultural transmission. Digital information technology has recently entered as a new tool in this co-evolution, and will probably have the strongest impact on shaping the human mind in the near future. A common effort from the humanities, the sciences, art and technology is necessary to understand this ongoing co- evolutionary process.  Interactivity is a key for understanding the new relationships formed by humans with social robots as well as interactive environments and wearables underlying this process. Of special importance for understanding interactivity are human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as media theory and New Media Art. »Paradoxes of Interactivity« brings together reflections on »interactivity« from different theoretical perspectives, the interplay of science and art, and recent technological developments for artistic applications, especially in the realm of sound.