This book continues to explore the question of how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can learn from art. It considers how the HCI research agenda can be advanced by looking at art research and how HCI practitioners can improve creativity support and the amplification of that important human capability within their work. This book answers these questions from the perspective that interactive art has become a common part of life as a result of the many ways in which the computer and the Inter...

What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art? How can the HCI research agenda be advanced by looking at art research? How can we improve creativity support and the amplification of that important human capability? This book aims to answer these questions. Interactive art has become a common part of life as a result of the many ways in which the computer and the Internet have facilitated it. HCI is as important to interactive art as mixing the colours of paint are to painting. T...

Explorations in Art and Technology is about the creative process in action through the eyes of practitioners and researchers. The book explores the fascinating relationship between artist and technologist through studies of innovative projects that push the boundaries of digital art. The research sheds new light on the nature of interaction between people and computers and provides insight into the characteristics of environments in which creativity can be enhanced. In doi...

This edition revises the original core chapters and adds 15 contributions from artists who shed new light on the progress made in the early decades of the 21st Century.Explorations in Art and Technology is about the creative process in action, seen through the eyes of practitioners and researchers. It brings together artists, technologists and researchers who have written about emerging correspondences between virtual and physical worlds, between human and machine processe...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists, constructive artists and computer technologists, provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology...

Gabrielle ! Tout le monde l’a vue. Classiques et romantiques, hommes de ménage, hommes de célibat, vous et moi, tout le monde a battu des mains à ce charmant plaidoyer. L’apologiste du mariage a trouvé sa récompense sur la terre ; et les auteurs des Contes d’Hoffmann, qui m’ont l’air de n’avoir guère dormi depuis l’institution des primes de vertu dramatique, viennent de mettre à la comédie d’Émile Augier un gros masque tragique, et cela dans un cadre humoristique....

This issue, we have a pair of original mysteries (by Ron Miller and Shannon Taft, the latter two thanks to our Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), and our mystery novel is a Victorian-era sensation novel by Florence Warden. Of course, there’s a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles, too.Our fantasy and science fiction section is heavier than usual on fantasy, with an Australian tale by Ernest Favenc, a dark fantasy by British master John Glasby, and a supernatural novel by E.F. Be...

Jim Hunter has been making a go of it for three years on his desert-land homestead. Fighting the desert is no place for a woman, and that was what he had told the woman he loved when he left Portland. But Mary thinks otherwise as she, too, comes to homestead in the high desert.

They came from every corner of the State of Oregon and from adjoining states, rough people and refined, all eager to share in a new prospect of comfort and prosperity. Yet, the cause of this boom was a mere rumor, an unsubstantiated report that the government was going to dam a river in distant hills and construct major canals to irrigate the desert. It could be a land rush, as had happened in the past, or something worse if the rumor really proved false.

La Provence. — Les opinions d’une Française sur l’Amérique. — Celles d’un général américain sur la France. — Emigrants et émigration. — Le port de New-York. — La douane. — Fifth Avenue Hotel. — Un reporter.Il est sept heures. Accoudé sur la batayole de la passerelle, je regarde le soleil qui descend lentement vers l’horizon. L’avant du navire, soulevé par la houle que nous amène une petite brise d’ouest, s’élève et s’abaisse d’un mouvement doux et régulier, à pein...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence.In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognized com...