CAA/Leonardo Mentorship Roundtable

Leonardo/CAA Special Session, 2005 College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 16-19, 2005

Roundtable Liaison: Steve Oscherwitz sjosch@u.washington.edu

Panel: Roger Malina, Steve Oscherwitz, Andrea Polli, Ioannis Yessios, Kit Hughes, Brad Smith, Gabriel Harp, Lorraine Walsh


Description: In collaboration with College Art Association, Leonardo is developing a mentoring roundtable and mentoring sessions at this year's annual CAA conference in Atlanta. The purpose of this mentoring program is to provide students and young researchers entering the art/science/technology field with the most up-to-date academic and scholarly guidance. Experienced academic specialists in this field will introduce students and young researchers to state-of-the-art MFA and PhD programs specializing in teaching and researching art, science, and technology. As part of this initial roundtable and mentoring forum, PhD reading lists and bibliographies concentrating on the histories and philosophies of art/science/technology will be developed and posted online. The focus, however, will be on art/science/technology mentors presenting and engaging students with scholarly and spirited discussion that introduces them to some of the major teaching and research themes in this field.

Resource Lists:
(compiled by Steve Oscherwitz)


Contemporary M.F.A. and Ph.D. Bibliographies

Scholarly reading lists for the art/science/technology interface: ideas, both historical and philosophical, that are relevant for the scholarly study of this interface.

In these reading lists, I have tried to provide an array of philosophical and poetic readings that give depth to learning, studying and practicing in the art/science/technology interface. Instead of strictly classifying specific areas and specific historical periods of art, science and technology, general themes in a history and philosophy of ideas and their associated complexes are focused on, as opposed to strict linear historical progressions. I feel using open associative bibliographical complexes of historical, philosophical ideas and themes provide an artist with a vital and coherent resource for both theoretical and practical integration of art/science/technology in contemporary issues, particularly bibliographies of contemporary continental philosophy and the histories of science and technology.


Contemporary Readings

Ascott, Roy. Art, Technology, Consciousness.Mind@Large. (Intellect Books, 2000).

Coyne, Richard. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor.
(MIT Press 1995).

Coyne, Richard. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and The Romance of the Real. (MIT Press 1999).

Delanda, Manuel. Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. (Continuum Press, 2002).

Doyle, Richard. Wetwares.Experiments in Positivital Living. Theory Out of Bounds, Volume 24. (University of Minnesota Press 2003).

Dyens, Ollivier. Metal and Flesh The Evolution of Man. Translated by Evan J. Bibbee. (MIT Press 2001).

Hansen, Mark B.N. Embodying Technesis: Technology beyond Writing. (University of Michigan Press, 2000).

Hansen, Mark B.N. New Philosophy for New Media. (MIT Press, 2004).

Hayles, N. Katherine Ed. Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience. (Intellect, 2004).

Hillis, Ken. Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality. (University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

Labinger, Jay A. and Collins, Harry. Eds.The One Culture: A Conversation about Science. (The University of Chicago Press, 2001).

Levy, Pierre. Translated by Robert Bononno. Cyberculture. Electronic Mediations, Volume 4. (The University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A Users Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures. (MIT Press, 2000).

Markley, Robert Ed. Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1996).

Massumi, Brian. Parables for The Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. (Duke, 2002).

Rutsky, R.L. High Tech Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Post-human. Electronic Mediations, Volume 2.(University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

Shanken, Edward A. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. (University of California Press, 2003).

Thacker, Eugene. Biomedia. Electronic Mediations, Volume II.(Universityof Minnesota Press 2004).

Thurtle, Phillip and Mitchell, Robert, Eds. Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body. (University of Washington, 2004).

Tofts, Darren, Jonson, Annemarie and Cavallaro, Alessio, Eds. Prefiguring Cyberculture, an Intellectual History. (MIT Press, 2002).

Whitelaw, Mitchell. Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life. (MIT Press, 2004).


Philosophy, Phenomenology, Technology, Materiality’s of Communication and Histories of Science and Visualization

Bogue, Ronald. Deleuze’s Wake: Tributes and Tributaries. (State University of New York Press, 2004).

Clarke, Bruce and Dalrymple Henderson, Linda, Eds. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature. (Stanford Univ. Press, 2000).

Colebrook, Claire. Gilles Deleuze. (Routledge, 2002).

Deleuze, Gilles. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Bergsonism. (Zone Books, 1991).

Deleuze, Gilles. Kant's Critical Philosophy. (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations. (Columbia Univ. Press, 1995).

Deleuze, Gilles and Conley, Tom. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix. What is Philosophy? (Columbia Univ. Press, 1994).

Doyle, Richard. On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformation of the Life Sciences. (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997).

Ihde, Don. Philosophy of Technology. An Introduction. (Paragon House, 1993).

Ihde, Don. Technology and the Lifeword: From Garden to Earth. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1993).

Ihde, Don. Postphenomenology: Essays in the Postmodern Context. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1993).

Ihde, Don. Instrumental Realism: The Interface between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1991).

Ihde, Don. Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science. (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1998).

Ihde, Don. Bodies in Technology. (The University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Ihde, Don, and Selinger, Evan, Eds. Chasing Techno science: Matrix For Materiality. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1993). A state-of-the-art view of techno science studies, featuring the work of Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Andrew Pickering.

Ihde, Don. Holding On To Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Kay, Lily E. Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code. (Stanford Univ. Press, 2000).

Kittler, Friedrich A. Discourse Networks 1800/1900. (Stanford Univ. Press, 1990).

Lenoir, Timothy. Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. (Stanford Univ. Press, 1998).

Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997).

Sussekind, Flora. Cinematograph of Words: Literature, Technique, and Modernization in Brazil. Translated by Paula Henriques Britto. (Stanford Univ. Press 1997).


Contemporary Readings about Text in Cyberspace

Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997).

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 1991).

Gaggi, Silvio. From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic media. (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977).

Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. (MIT Press. 2002).

Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. (MIT Press, 1999).

Ulmer, Gregory L. Heuretics: The Logic of Invention. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994).

Ulmer, Gregory L. Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy. (Longman Press, 2003).


History of Science and Technology

With contemporary science and art/technoscience studies, the intellectual face and body of knowledge is enlightening and developing what can be called new regimes of intellectual and working identities. However, it is important to realize that before recent science studies, historians of science such as Allen G. Debus and Betty Jo Dobbs brilliantly exemplified how science's etiology clearly embraces in the mystical, unusual, irrational, para-rational, experiential, poetic structures of experience and ontology. The history of science brings a rich and powerful assembly of associations and metaphors to contemporary sciences studies and the art/techno science interface.

Historians of science Allen G. Debus's landmark work Science and History: A Chemists Appraisal (Coimbra, 1984), and Man and Nature in The Renaissance, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978), has shown that the mystic corpus, such as in the cases of Agrippa and Paracelsus, played a major role in the development of medicine and western science. Also Betty Jo Dobbs's The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy, (Cambridge Univ. Press 1975) and The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), has shown that most of Newton’s intellectual energies were involved with ancient alchemical schemata that played a major role in Newton’s thinking on his mathematics, physics and cosmology.

It is important that young artists and art/science studies scholars realize that they can draw their research from the whole corpus of Western science, and its deeply-rooted history in experiential phenomena.

My presentation is how I incorporate science's intellectual and experiential history into my own research with my own contemporary art/techno science studies. I feel it is important that the young artist/scholar realize that they can use the history of science to express their own creative and comprehensive research in science and art/techno science studies.


Primary Bibliographies

Dodwell, C.R Ed. Theophilus: The Various Arts. De Diversis Artibus. (Clarendon Press, 1987).

Grosseteste, Robert. On Light (DE LUCE) Translated by Clare Riedl. (Marquette Univ. Press, 1942).

Oersted, Hans Christian. The Soul in Nature. Translated by Lenora and Joanna B. Horner. (Reprinted for Dawson’s of Pall Mall, 1966).

Smith, Cyril Stanley. Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques., MIT and John G. Hawthorne, the University of Chicago. The American Philosophical Society, Independence Suare, Philidelphia, July, 1974.Volume 64, Part 4.


Secondary Bibliographies

Basalla, George and and Coleman, William, Eds. The Cambridge History of Science Series. Each of the 9 Volumes below is a separate book in paperback.

Grant, Edward. Physical Sciences in the Middle Ages.

Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance.

Westfall, Richard S. The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanism and Mechanics.

Hankins, Thomas L. Science and the Enlightenment.

Coleman, William. Biology in the 19th Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation.

Harman, P.M. Energy, Force, and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteen Century Physics.

Allen, Garland E. Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century.

Basalla, George. The Evolution of Technology.

Brooke, John Hedley. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives.

Clagett, Marshall. Greek Science in Antiquity. (Macmillan Publishers, 1955).

Cassirer, Ernst. The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963).

Crombie, A.C. Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science, A.D. 400-1650 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1953).

Debus, Allen G. The English Paracelsians. (Franklin Watts, 1965).

Debus, Allen G. The French Paracelsians:The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France. (University of Cambridge Press, 1991).

Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978).

Debus, Allen G. Science and History: A Chemist’s Appraisal (Coimbra, 1984).

Debus, Allen G. Walton, Michael T., Eds. Reading the Book of Nature; the Other Side of the Scientific Revolution. (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998).

Dijksterhuis, E.J.The Mechanization of the World Picture. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986).

Dobbs, B.J.T. The Foundation of Newton’s Alchemy or “The Hunting of The Greene Lyon”.(Cambridge Univ. Press 1975).

Dobbs, B.J.T. The Janus Faces of Genius. The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991).

Eaman, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1994).

Koyre, Alexander. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1957).

Lloyd, Geoffrey Ernest Richard. Greek Science after Aristotle. (Norton, 1973).

Shapin, Steven and Schaffer, Simon. Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1985).

Wilson, Catherine. The Invisible World. Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995).

Yates, Francis A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. (University of Chicago Press, 1964).


Additional resource list
(compiled by Andrea Polli)

Organizations:

http://www.Rhizome.org
http://www.asci.org
http://www.TheKitchen.org
http://www.Whitney.org
http://www.Harvestworks.org
http://www.CTheory.com
http://www.IntelligentAgent.com
http://www.aec.at (Ars Electronica)
http://www.noemalab.com
http://www.m-cult.org
http://www.isea-web.org
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/ (ZKM)
http://www.steim.nl
http://www.ircam.fr
http://irational.org
http://www.thing.net
http://www.siggraph.org
http://www.eyebeam.org
http://www.FranklinFurnace.org
http://www.neural.it

Academic programs

http://www.hexagram.org/spip/index.html
http://www.media.mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.archi.media.shtml
http://mediastudy.buffalo.edu/
http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/study-options/postgraduate/MPhil-PhD-Fine-Art.php
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/Study%20at%20RMIT%2FPostgraduate%2FF%2F;ID=DR041;STATUS=A
http://www.egs.edu/main/phdplanofstudies.html
http://idt.lcc.gatech.edu/phd/


Bibliography

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Reflections. (Schocken, 1969).

Debord, Guy-Ernest. The Society of the Spectacle. (Zone Books, 1995).

Goldberg, Ken. The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet. (MIT Press, 2000).

Gray, Chris Hables, Ed. The Cyborg Handbook. (Routledge, 1996).

Haraway, Donna J. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. (Free Association Books, 1991).

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Turoff, Murray. The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer. (MIT Press, 1993).

Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. (Scribner, 2002).

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. (University of Chicago Press, 1970).

Kurzweil, Raymond, Ed. The Age of Intelligent Machines. (MIT Press, 1992).

Kurzweil, Raymond. The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. (Viking, 1999).

Landow, George P, Ed. Hyper/Text/Theory. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).

Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theater. (Addison-Wesley, 1993).

Manovich, Lev. "The Archeology of a Computer Screen," Kunstforum International, 1995.

Marilouise, Arthur and Kroker, Eds. Digital Delirium. Kroker. (St. Martin's Press, 1997).

McLuhan,Marshall. Understanding Media (MIT Press, 1994).

Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. (Simon & Shuster, 1986).

Negreponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).

Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. (Basic Books, 2002).

Plant, Sadie. Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture. (Doubleday, 1997).

Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. (Basic Books, 2003).

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. ( MIT Press, 1996).

Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. (Graphics Press 1990).

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen. (Touchstone Books, 1997)

Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.
Cambridge (MIT Press, 1948).

Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. (MIT Press, 2001).


See also the ongoing Leonardo Bilbliography Project

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