The book is a record of the research processes and practices carried out at the intersection of art, science and technology, and of the artistic and design activities of the last few years, which have been described and analysed in a few dozen original texts. Considered as whole, this book demonstrates the great potential of conducting inter- and transdisciplinary research. This is the methodological and contextual basis for many of the texts presented here, which address issues associated with post-technological experiences. The texts gathered together in this volume present post-technology as a new category of culture connected with the spread of laboratory procedures, scientific knowledge systems and research practices at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Post-technological culture has made the latest art an experimental and speculative research practice. And it is this art – with its undetermined procedures – that becomes in this reality a tool for prototyping new forms of society, and for generating discussions about important ethical, ontological, scientific and technological layers of the contemporary world.

Michał Krawczak
Post-technological Experiences: Introduction

Roy Ascott
The Academy: Receding or Re-seeding? Notes Towards an Electronic-nanonic Discourse

PART I: LABORATORY AS CULTURAL PROCEDURE

Agnieszka Jelewska
Spaceship Earth and the Beginnings of New Environmentalism

Elizabeth McTernan
The Coastline Paradox: Measuring a Nameless Island

Jill Scott
Creative Incubators for a Common Culture: Art and Science

Joanna Jeśman
What Can We Learn from Art and Science Collaborations? On the Multidimensional Educational Implications of Bioart

Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich
The Molecular Approach: Metamorphosis of Image / Metamorphosis of Imagination / Metamorphosis of Gaze

Przemysław Jasielski
Nonsense Technologies

Michał Krawczak
Transforming the Whole World into a Laboratory. Cultural and Artistic Practices in the Post-technological Times

PART II: NEW MEDIA ART AND AFTER

Piotr Zawojski
Hybrid Art – A New Category of Cyberart

Paweł Janicki
Will Art be the Next Theology?

Jakub Alejski
Illusory Inteligence in Video Games

Jan Słyk
From Transdisciplinary Communication to Digital Education. Music - Architecture Interactions and the Substance of Design

PART III: POST-PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERCEPTION

Bronka Nowicka

The Exchange of a Body for an Image. An Attempt to Capture the Way of a Thing from Matter to Memory

Rafał Syska
SnorriCam – A New Look at the Face

Natalia Juchniewicz
A Postphenomenological Approach in the Studies on Human-Technology Relations. The Philosophy of Don Ihde

Jacek Wachowski
The Post-technological Experience or the Doppler Effect

PART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT

Gaja Karolczak
Virtual Corporeality and the Phantomic Understanding of the Body

Magdalena Zamorska
Is the Spectator Supposed to Spectate? Triggering the Dance Audience

Małgorzata Dancewicz
A New Concept of the Performer in the Context of Current Developments in Science and Technology

PART V: SOUND AND MATERIALITY

Justyna Stasiowska
Soft Machine – Somaintrument

Tomasz Misiak
Viral Inflammation of Sound Art. Based on MP3 Deviation by Yasunao Tone

Jeff Gburek
Beyond the Now: Reframing Listenership in the Pre-Recorded Universe

Rafał Zapała
Integral Artistic, Technological and Social Strategies in the Sound Installation Sensorium

List of Contributors

Index