Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture - Links

Steve Wilson's Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture - Links is a database in which systematically documents which artists have explored each area of science and technology
"These links are part of the research for Wilson'sbook Information Arts (MIT Press,2002) and Art, Science, and Technology Today. See the book for more details about the artists, organizations, and texts listed in these links and for extended analysis of the relationship of art and research. The links are constantly being revised and suggestions are welcomed. Feel free to use these resources but please attribute source".
Copyright, 1999-2009 Stephen Wilson.

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa the creator of 'The 99'

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is the creator of THE 99-the first group of superheroes born of an Islamic archetype. THE 99, has received positive attention from the international media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, Wired, Elle, The Washington Post and The Guardian. Recently, Forbes named THE 99 as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the globe.
http://www.al-mutawa.com/?Biography

The story of 'The 99' the comic
As the leader and mentor of The 99, Dr. Ramzi Razem directs the quest to find the lost Noor Stones of Baghdad, which is the comic book’s main plot line.

As legend has it, when the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258, they razed the largest library in the city, Dar al-Hikma. To erase any record of the civilization, they threw the books into the Tigris River, which ran black with ink. But the caliphate guardians, in a desperate attempt to save the vast knowledge of the library before it was destroyed, concocted an alchemical solution that would absorb the contents of the books. The solution solidified into the 99 Noor Stones, which supposedly contain the lost knowledge of the Library of Baghdad.

Ramzi believes the legend, including the idea that the stones activate superpowers within certain people. He conducts his search through the nonprofit 99 Steps Foundation, and although possessing no superpowers of his own, he helps other characters to use theirs.

Darr-The Afflicter (one of the characters), an American paraplegic who manipulates nerve endings to transmit or prevent pain.
http://www.the99.org/the99/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0619/p04s01-wome.html

"Collision: Interarts Practice and Research" _ Book

Contents from "Collision: Interarts Practice and Research" book

Part V: Performative Collisions and Collisions in Performance
Chapter Eighteen ...................... 261
Feminist Performance, Community, and Violence: Conversations
between Elizabeth Chitty, Margaret Dragu and Julie Lassonde
Julie Lassonde
Chapter Nineteen ...................... 277
Interarts Performativities: Writing-Drawing-Architecture
Leoni Schmidt
Chapter Twenty ........................ 299
The Aesthetics of Disappointment
Andreas Kahre and Heidi Taylor
Chapter Twenty-One ................ 315
Ruptured Flesh, Gaps in Time: Between Performance and Pain
Christine Stoddard

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Collision--Interarts-Practice-and-Research1-4438-0031-7.htm
.pdf sample http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0031-0-sample.pdf

The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal

http://www.toutfait.com
more on Art Science Research Laboratory
http://www.asrlab.org/

"The Puppet" by Ibrahim Al-Koni,

Ibrahim Al-Koni, scion of a Libyan Tuareg family, is regarded as the great writer of the Sahara. In his new novel "The Puppet" Al-Koni perceptively depicts the way in which the modern world intrudes into the Tuaregs' traditional society.
A fundamental examination of the phenomenon of emergent capitalism: Al-Koni's Die Puppe ("The Puppet", not yet available in English translation)
A presentation of the novel by Kersten Knipp

Technologically Expanded Dance

http://tercius.wordpress.com/

A new book accompanied by DVD "TeDance - Perspectives on Technologically Expanded Dance" has been published by Daniel Tércio.

"When preparing this paper, I have started attempting to identify a Portuguese accent. In order to do so, I have chronologically listed dance pieces exhibited in Portugal by Portuguese, or Portugal-based, choreographers, where intersections with new technologies were portrayed. Soon I was to face a curious dilemma: how would one distinguish ‘new technologies’? And above all, how would one identify those artworks where the authors take up technology not only as devices or resources but as dramaturgically purposeful?"
“Dance and Technology with Portuguese accent at the crossroads” excerpt, by Daniel Tércio.

In Tedance. Perspectives on Technologically Expanded Dance. Lisbon, FMH, 2009. 249 pp. Paper plus a DVD. ISBN: 987-972-735-160-2

Pravda , La Survireuse by Gye Peellaert

http://www.guypeellaert.com/guy.html

Guy Peellaert is dead in Paris on November 17 from an infection then a double heart attack following several years of self-dialysis (from a cancer which he had radically stopped since two years)

Belgian advertising illustrator Guy Peellaert was one of the first cartoonists to embrace Pop Art and incorporate Andy Warhol's appropriation of mass market iconography into his work. His first comic, Les aventures de Jodelle, (Jodelle's likeness based after yé-yé chanteuse Sylvie Vartan) appeared in 1966, swiftly followed by 'Pravda la Survireuse' (her visage modelled after Françoise Hardy) for the magazine 'Hara-Kiri' in 1967.
Peellaert recently art directed this animation, based on 'Pravda'.
The animation was made by Gallien Guibert from www.thegenre.com

After contributing a number of photo collage-based style strips to 'Hara-Kiri', Peellaert adopted a photo-realistic airbrush style and made a successful return to advertising and illustration; most notably on David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' LP cover and 'Rock Dreams', his collaboration with rock journalist Nick Cohn.

e-library of philosophy FOR FREE

http://farkyaralari.blogspot.com/

Disability Aeshetics 3

The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability in the Humanities (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by David Mitchell (Editor), Sharon Snyder (Editor)









http://books.google.com/books?id=RvnGW3JConIC&pg=PR2&dq=The+Body+and+Physical+Difference:+Discourses+of+Disability+(The+Body,+In+Theory:+Histories+of+Cultural+Materialism)&hl=el#PPR11,M1


Choreographing Difference: Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance by Ann Cooper Albright










http://books.google.com/books?id=ScYLdumGbvcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Choreographing+Difference:+The+Body+and+Identity+in+Contemporary+Dance&hl=el#PPA64,M1


Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Jane Desmond (Author)






http://books.google.com/books?id=2fDJtHOuAhAC&pg=RA2-PA379&dq=Choreographing+Difference:+The+Body+and+Identity+in+Contemporary+Dance&hl=el#PPA32,M1

Media & Disability Bibliography Project

http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/m&d-biblio.html
and "Topics in Disability Studies" (Real Audio recordings)http://www.umich.edu/~uminds/Rackham%20580/Semesters/rackham580W05.html
Journal of Literary Disability
http://www.journalofliterarydisability.com/issues/vol01no01/0101index.html

Disability Aesthetics 2

Theology and Down Syndrome










http://books.google.com/books?id=T1WFwF53G3cC&pg=PA416&lpg=PA416&dq=Silvers,+A.++(2002).++The+crooked+timber+of+humanity:++Disability,+ideology+and+the+aesthetic&source=bl&ots=6QmfC-9o-t&sig=aD0SeBx3I1dI8SS4QuhZ8fE5S3U&hl=el&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA433,M1













Toward an Aesthetics of Blindness: An Interdisciplinary Response to Synge, Yeats and Friel (New Studies in Aesthetics)

Bodily Perception

Richard Schusterman ‘Body Consciousness, A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics’
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=I-k0wLtuqSoC&dq=Richard+Schusterman+%E2%80%98Body+Consciousness,+A+Philosophy+of+Mindfulness+and+Somaesthetics%E2%80%99&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=1z8CI8Wk5h&sig=-Ics3xP8znEWzeJ2QhDuUFcvwKk&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

Alva Noë's 'Action in Perception'
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kFKvU2hPhxEC&dq=Alva+No%C3%AB

"Charity is a humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation."

a line from Slavoj Zizek's book "Violence".
Read more in a piece entitled "Clash of the Titans" at the Haaretz.com blog, Shlomzion Kenan writes about the recent debate between two "superstar philosophers," Bertrand-Henri Levy and Slavoj Zizek, at the New York Public Library in late September.

Disability Aesthetics 1

Disability/postmodernity - Embodying Disability Theory

by Tom Shakespeare (Author) Mairian Corker (Editor) Tom Shakespeare (Editor)

This text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability.
With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, this text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. Organized into three sections, the volume opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, the body and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design; while the final section explores social practice with papers discussing issues which include disabled children's perspectives (which dominate the US approach). The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability that better represents and reflects the complexity of disabled people's experiences.

http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/disabilitypostmodernity-I9780826450555/

http://books.google.com/books?id=0vCgpTth4W0C&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=Silvers,+A.++(2002).++The+crooked+timber+of+humanity:++Disability,+ideology+and+the+aesthetic&source=web&ots=SmogCeACo_&sig=K20fTxumCjdWFDu5LWr1EPb9WG4&hl=el&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPR8,M1

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation by Brian Massumi

“If you know where you will end up when you begin, nothing has happened in the meantime” (Massumi 18).
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0822328976
http://notdetroit.wordpress.com/category/parables-for-the-virtual/
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2182
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=yXUPCX5axbcC&dq=Parables+for+the+Virtual,+Brian+Massumi&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=I7GSuJGvj3&sig=bmJ8h0aJqOLW2QD9e6kf9zfyH_A&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA46,M1

Albert Memmi

With his "Portrait of the Colonised" Tunisian-French sociologist and writer Albert Memmi laid forth a seminal work of decolonialism in the 1950s. This work was followed recently by "Portrait of the Decolonised", in which he draws a very sobering balance.

more on http://qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-811/i.html

English bibliography

The colonizer and the colonized. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre; afterword by Susan Gilson Miller; [translated by Howard Greenfeld]. Expanded ed. Boston: Beacon Press, c1991. ISBN 0807003018

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kTZDi7ZWoxoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Albert+inauthor:Memmi&hl=el&sig=ACfU3U2SaeaNxIFOy3SucMfJ2Nx_X9DhKw#PPA15,M1

Decolonization and the decolonized. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2006. ISBN 0816647348

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6HxjavtQmq4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Albert+inauthor:Memmi&hl=el&sig=ACfU3U0Hzj1iKbI2kosda0uQ6cSYr0WE1g#PPP7,M1
Dependence : a sketch for a portrait of the dependent. Translated by Philip A. Facey. Boston: Beacon Press, c1984. ISBN 0807043001

Dominated man; notes towards a portrait. New York: Orion Press [1968].
Jews and Arabs. Translated from the French by Eleanor Levieux. Chicago: J. P. O’Hara, c1975. ISBN 0879553278 ISBN 0879553286

The liberation of the Jew. Translated from the French by Judy Hyun. New York: Orion Press [1966].

The pillar of salt. Translated by Edouard Roditi. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. ISBN 0807083275
The pillar of salt. Chicago: J. P. O’Hara, [1975] c1955. ISBN 0879559071

Portrait of a Jew. Translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott. New York: Orion Press [1962]

Racism. Translated and with an introd. by Steve Martinot. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2000. ISBN 0816631646

The scorpion, or, The imaginary confession. Translated from the French by Eleanor Levieux. New York: Grossman, 1971. 0670622710

Strangers. Translated from the French by Brian Rhys. New York: Orion Press [1960]

Floss Manuals

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software. At FLOSS Manuals you can find manuals for free and open source software like office applications, as well as web editing and browsing, and tools for playing, making, streaming and sharing audio and video.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/
There is also a big Pure Data (Pd) tutorial by Johannes Kreidler free for downloading:
http://www.pd-tutorial.com/

Envisioning Dance on Film and Video

You can read it here
see also UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance
http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/index.html

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

Whatever you need to know about Artificial Intelligence in an academic approach.
http://www.aisb.org.uk/

The Institute of Network Cultures

The Institute of Network Cultures is a media research centre that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications and online dialogue. The INC was founded in 2004 by media theorist Geert Lovink, following his appointment as professor within the Institute of Interactive Media at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/