Wednesday 7 April 2004, Elam Lecture Theatre, 9am-5pm
What happens when people from different disciplines get together to discuss and demonstrate the processing of novelty?

Processing Novelty

Is it possible that the dynamics between their interpretations in visual art, sound art, architecture, engineering, science, and new media practice will spark new perspectives? And what affect might these novelties in turn have on our behaviour and thought processes?
Wednesday 7 April 2004, Elam Lecture Theatre, 9am-5pm
What happens when people from different disciplines get together to discuss and demonstrate the processing of novelty?

Processing Novelty

Is it possible that the dynamics between their interpretations in visual art, sound art, architecture, engineering, science, and new media practice will spark new perspectives? And what affect might these novelties in turn have on our behaviour and thought processes?
With these questions in mind the key terms for the symposium have been selected from contemporary theories on consciousness and its associated autonomic processes:
affect, attention; attraction; current source density map; event-related potential; environment; galvanic skin response; mismatch negativity; novelty; oddball event response; raw voltage map; world

convenor: julainne sumich
manager: sean kerr

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Technoetic Arts, a journal of speculative research is calling for papers. There are no fixed deadlines: articles are received on a rolling basis. There are three issues a year. Volume One has now been published. We are now considering material for the three issues of Volume Two.

 Technoetic Arts is a   peer-reviewed journal that presents the cutting edge of ideas, projects and practices arising from the confluence of art, science, technology and consciousness research. It has a special interest in matters of mind and the extension of the senses through technologies of cognition and perception. It documents accounts of transdisciplinary research, collaboration and innovation in the design, theory and production of new systems and structures for life in the 21st century, while inviting a re-evaluation of older worldviews, esoteric knowledge and arcane cultural practices. Biophysics, the promise of nanotechnology, the ecology of mixed reality environments, the reach of telematic media, and the effect generally of a post-biological culture on human values and identity, are issues central to the journal's focus.

Details and Abstracts of the journal can be seen at
www.intellectbooks.com

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Roy Ascott
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Professor Roy Ascott
Editor
Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research
roy@planetary-collegium.net
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