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Digital Media, Multimedia Digital Art and Theory;
Installation Art
Expanded Media-Oriented Poetics; Virtual Reality
Contemporary Art (1945 - Present)
Visual Studies/Visual Culture

Generative Poetic Systems, Interactive Art, Experimental Music, Installation Art, Generative Computational Tools, New Forms of Computation

Current projects:

The "Insight Engine" - Transdisciplinary Research Tool;, The "Engine of Engines" Installation with Daniel Howe;, "A China of Many Senses" Generative VR with Todd Berreth;, "The World Generator" Tool and Artwork with Gideon May and Rachel Brady, INBIOSA Research.

Area of Interest: New forms/uses of computation in the arts and sciences.

Bill Seaman, An internationally known media artist, scholar, and media researcher, has had over thirty major installation works and commissions around the world, a dozen solo exhibitions, and numerous performance collaborations, video screenings, as well as articles/essays/reviews in books and catalogues. His work often explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. More recently he has been exploring notions surrounding "Recombinant Informatics" — a multi-perspective approach to inventive knowledge production. He has been commissioned on a number of occasions. He is currently working on a series of art/science collaborations — poetic installations and scientific research papers. The book Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine with Otto Rössler has recently come out on Intellect Press. He is also collaborating with artist/computer scientist Daniel Howe on multiple works exploring AI and creative writing/multi-media, and completing an album of experimental music with Howe entitled Minor Distance. He is developing a new VR work and undertaking interface research with Todd Berreth; is exploring the creation of a transdisciplinary research tool "The Insight Engine"; is collaborating with John Supko on a new generative audio work; and is working 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 appointment - bill.seaman@duke.edu
Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Plamen L. Simeonov, Edwin H. Brezina, Ron Cottam, Andreé C. Ehresmann, Arran Gare, Ted Goranson, Jaime Gomez-Ramirez, Brian D. Josephson, Bruno Marchal, Koichiro Matsuno, Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Otto E. Rössler, Stanley N. Salthe, Marcin Schroeder, Bill Seaman, Pridi Siregar, Leslie S. Smith. "White Paper." Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality Subtitle: Proceedings of ACIB’11 Conference in Stirling, Scotland, August 29-31, 2011 and iBioMath’2011 Workshop at ECAL’11, Paris. Edited by P. L. Simeonov, L. S. Smith, A. C. Ehresmann (Eds.).  (March, 2012).  [abs]
2. W. Seaman. "The Engine of Engines - Toward A Computational Ecology." Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality - Proceedings of ACIB’11 Conference in Stirling, Scotland, August 29-31, 2011 and iBioMath’2011 Workshop at ECAL’11, Paris. Edited by P. L. Simeonov, L. S. Smith, A. C. Ehresmann (Eds.)..  (Winter, Accepted, 2011).  [abs]
3. W. Seaman and O. E. Rössler. "Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine."   (2011).
4. O. Perriquet and W. Seaman. "Art ↔ Science Relationalities." International Symposium on Electronic Art Proceedings (forthcoming)  (2011).
5. W. Seaman. "(Re)Thinking — The Body, Generative Tools and Computational Articulation." Technoetic Arts,  (2010).