William Seaman, Professor

William Seaman
Contact Info:
Office Location:  112E Duke Building
Office Phone:  (919) 684-2224
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/william.seaman

Teaching (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
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • FVD 120.03, DIGITAL ART - IMAGE & BIT PLAY Synopsis
    Smith 101, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • ARTSVIS 170.03, DIGITAL ART - IMAGE & BIT PLAY
    Smith 101, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • VISUALST 185.01, DIGITAL PERSPECTIVES Synopsis
    East Duke 204A, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • VISUALST 190.01, DIGITAL ART - IMAGE & BIT PLAY Synopsis
    Smith 101, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Specialties:

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

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.

Recent Publications

  1. W. Seaman, (Re)Thinking — The Body, Generative Tools and Computational Articulation, Technoetic Arts, Forthcoming (2009) .
  2. W. Seaman, OULIPO|vs|Recombinant Poetics, in Art & Electronic Media, edited by Ed Shanken (2009), Phaidon Press .
  3. W. Seaman, Combinatoric Micro-strategies for Emergent Transdisciplinary Education, in 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 (March, 2008) .