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

• TeilnehmendeR: Kim, Chin-hyŏn,; Seifert, Uwe,; Moore, Anthony, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344)

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 c...

Table of Contents

• 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