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Digital Media, Multimedia Digital Art and Theory;
Computer Arts
Expanded Media-Oriented Poetics; Virtual Reality

An internationally known media artist and scholar, Seaman has had over thirty major installation works and commissions around the world, a dozen solo exhibitions, and numerous performance collaborations, video screenings, and articles/essays/reviews in books and catalogues. His work explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. A self-taught composer and musician, he also collaborates with dancers and choreographers to create evocative multimedia performance pieces. He has been commissioned on a number of occasions. He is currently working on a series of art/science collaborations -- poetic installations, scientific / conceptual art research papers and a book in collaboration with the scientist Otto Rössler surrounding the concept of Neosentience as well as the production of an Electrochemical Computer. He is also collaborating with artist/computer scientist Daniel Howe on works exploring AI and creative writing/multi-media - "the Bisociation Engine" and "A China of Many Senses"[working title] (both in progress); neural scientist and artist Timothy Senior on the development of a biologically inspired "Thought Module" (a novel approach to neural nets); computer scientist and experimental writer Patrick Harron on a transdisciplinary relational database / search engine project ; Thom LaBean on nano-scale computational/sensing research; and with Gideon May and Rachel Brady on re-articulating "The World Generator / The Engine of Desire" a virtual world building system.
Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 B East Duke Building
Office Phone:	684-2499
Email Address:	bill.seaman@duke.edu
Web Page:	http://www.billseaman.com

Office Hours:

email for appointmentTeaching (Fall 2009):

• Lit 255s.01, Special topics in literature

  Smith 101, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• Visualst 260s.04, Topics in visual studies Synopsis

  Smith 101, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• Visualst 266s.01, Human/ electrochemical compute Synopsis

  Smith 101, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• English 271es.01, Sp top seminar iv Synopsis

  Smith 101, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• isis 291s.01, Special topics in isis Synopsis

  Smith 101, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

1. W. Seaman. "(Re)Thinking — The Body, Generative Tools and Computational Articulation." Technoetic Arts, Forthcoming  (2009).
2. W. Seaman. "OULIPO|vs|Recombinant Poetics." Art & Electronic Media. Edited by Ed Shanken.  (2009).
3. W. Seaman. "Combinatoric Micro-strategies for Emergent Transdisciplinary Education." Rethinking the Contemporary Art School (forthcoming NSCAD)  (2009).  [abs]
4. W. Seaman and O. Rössler. "Neosentience - A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence." Technoetic Arts, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2008  (Spring, 2008).