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| Publications of William Seaman :chronological alphabetical by type listing:%% @article{fds332188, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Continuum Computing}, Booktitle = {50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years}, Publisher = {Fast Future Publishing}, Editor = {Talwar, R}, Year = {2018}, Key = {fds332188} } @article{fds332189, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Roy Ascott – Early Interactive Work and Some Cybernetic Relationalities (forthcoming)}, Journal = {Cybernetics and Human Knowing: a journal of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics}, Publisher = {Imprint Academic}, Year = {2018}, Key = {fds332189} } @article{fds332190, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Towards A Dynamic Heterarchical Ecology Of Conversations (forthcoming)}, Journal = {Cybernetics and Human Knowing: a journal of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics}, Publisher = {Imprint Academic}, Year = {2018}, Key = {fds332190} } @article{fds332191, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Emergent Relationality System / The Insight Engine}, Booktitle = {Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing}, Editor = {Forte, M and Campana, S}, Year = {2016}, Key = {fds332191} } @article{fds317946, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Neosentient Architecture Generator – n_Arch.gen}, Year = {2015}, Month = {October}, Key = {fds317946} } @article{fds293606, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {A multi-perspective approach to knowledge production}, Journal = {Kybernetes}, Volume = {43}, Number = {9/10}, Pages = {1412-1424}, Booktitle = {TBA}, Publisher = {Emerald}, Editor = {Glanville, R and Griffiths, D and Baron, P}, Year = {2014}, Month = {October}, url = {http://asc-cybernetics.org/2013}, Keywords = {Knowledge Production, Computational Approach, Memory Theatre, The Art of Memory, Human • as Computer, Computing a reality, 2nd Order Cybernetics}, Abstract = {Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss a Multi-perspective approach to knowledge production in terms of a set of cybernetic concepts relevant to the approach; to describe a software system that computationally embodies the approach; and to articulate a research project that pragmatically employs the approach.}, Doi = {10.1108/K-07-2014-0145}, Key = {fds293606} } @article{fds303143, Author = {Seaman, W and Rössler, O}, Title = {Neosentience - A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence}, Journal = {Technoetic Arts, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2008}, Year = {2014}, Month = {February}, ISSN = {1477-965X}, Key = {fds303143} } @article{fds317947, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {From Recombinant Poetics to Recombinant Informatics}, Journal = {2014 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW)}, Year = {2014}, Key = {fds317947} } @unpublished{fds293624, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Computational Creativity | A Multi-perspective Approach}, Journal = {TBA}, Year = {2013}, Month = {November}, url = {http://re-new.org/}, Keywords = {computational creativity, Cybernetics, Gordon Pask, Recombinant Poetics, Recombinant Informatics, learning systems, multi-perspective approach. Biological Computer Laboratory, Heinz von Foerester}, Abstract = {In this talk I will discuss Computational Creativity | A multi-perspective Approach. Building on historical references to cybernetics and artificial intelligence, I will also introduce my more recent collaborative research with Otto Rössler on Neosentience, which holds great potential for the future of creativity involving robotics and learning systems. These ideas will be further elaborated and amplified with concrete examples from my artistic practice, including The Many Senses Engine (with Todd Berreth), on display at the festival exhibition.}, Key = {fds293624} } @article{fds376621, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Computational Creativity | A Multi-perspective Approach}, Year = {2013}, Month = {November}, Key = {fds376621} } @article{fds293625, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {From Neosentience to Recombinant Informatics, A Research Overview}, Journal = {Computer Science, Technology, and Application}, Year = {2013}, Keywords = {Biomimetics • Bio-abstraction • Biocomputation • Learning Systems • Robotics • Electrochemical Computer • Neosentience • Recombinant Informatics}, Abstract = {An overview of Seaman’s research relevant to new forms of Computer Science, Technology and Application covers a number of different theoretical research areas and approaches including the examination of new (and historical) studies that seek to look holistically at particular relations at operation in the mind/brain/body/environment, functioning across different scales. Seaman is interested in what he calls a multi-perspective approach to knowledge production. He is deeply interested in the trajectory of research started in Cybernetics at the Biological Research Lab headed by Heinz von Foerster [1][2][3][4][5][6], yet points to work by Rashevsky [7] as an important precursor, along with McCulloch and Pitts[8]. Cyberneticist Gordon Pask is of particular interest because he also explored a range of pursuits form the sciences[9][10][11][12] to the arts [13] to architecture [14] and learning systems/conversation theory, and ‘teaching machines’[15]. Pask, like von Foerster was also interested in new forms of computation and dynamic interactivity. We can trace a lineage from studies in Cybernetics to the study of contemporary complex systems. From this broad research agenda Seaman seeks to work toward the creation of new computational systems and in particular, new approaches to transdisciplinary research that point at forms of computation in the body, and explore these through biomimetics and bio-abstraction. As a media researcher, Seaman seeks to bring his knowledge of computational media, and broad historical research drawn from multiple disciplinary fields, into dynamic relationality. Central to this broad set of studies has been the articulation with scientist Otto Rössler, of a series of disparate research areas that might be enfolded in the creation of a new form of robotic leaning system, that again draws from biomimetics and bio-abstraction, discussed in their book – Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine.[16] This book provides a series of micro-chapters that let researchers explore a set of disparate foci in a non-linear manner. Seaman describes this approach as “Recombinant Informatics”[17] — the juxtaposition, combination and recombination of differing informational contexts in the service of insight production. Seaman’s broad theoretical research agenda focuses in part on entailment structures [18] and the deep study of multiple physical processes as they contribute to “computation” in the body[19]; the long-term expansion of computational forms relevant to Neuroscience—exploring the notion of creating an electrochemical computer inspired by biomimetics and bio-abstraction[20][21]; the development of a network of computers inspired by computation in the body— The Engine of Engines; the bringing to light of relevant biologically related historical research that to some degree has been left out of the central discourses in multiple scientific disciplines and in computer science— in particular work done at the Biological Computer Lab headed by Heintz von Foerster [22]. In order to deal with the complexity of these issues in a pragmatic manner Seaman along with Todd Berreth and Olivier Perriquet are working on the creation of a computational system to help facilitate this research and other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research relevant to Computer Science, Technology and Application, entitled the Insight Engine.[23] [24]}, Key = {fds293625} } @article{fds293626, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Neosentience and the Abstraction of Abstraction}, Journal = {Systems Connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology}, Volume = {1}, Number = {1}, Year = {2013}, ISSN = {2305-6991}, url = {http://www.systems-journal.eu/}, Keywords = {Neosentience; bisociation; neosentient design; artificial Intelligence; robotics; multi-perspective approach; 2nd order Cybernetics; insight engine}, Abstract = {This paper employs a survey methodology to point at notions surrounding “the reflexive” and “reciprocity” drawn from the history of Cybernetics as it falls in relation to current “Neosentient” research. Seaman and O. E. Rössler have been involved in a decade long discussion exploring the future of artificial intelligence and its relation to robotics. Seaman coined the term Neosentience arising out of this ongoing “conversation” with Rössler which is articulated in their book – Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine (Seaman & Rössler, 2011). The book is a non-linear compendium of observations. When we abstract thought potentials in the human and seek to re-embody them within a robotic system in a functional manner that reflects the original bio-functionality of the human, we are thus elucidating the abstraction of abstraction.}, Key = {fds293626} } @article{fds293634, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Four Transcultural Case Studies: Transmedial Walks, Drives and Observations,}, Journal = {Technoetic Arts}, Volume = {10}, Series = {2-3}, Number = {Spring}, Pages = {2-3}, Editor = {Ascott, R and YUAN, XJ}, Year = {2013}, ISSN = {1477-965X}, Keywords = {language,culture,technological creation,generative systems,interactive art,installation art}, Abstract = {This article discusses four different case studies related to complex technological works that were created through international collaborations. The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers/Ex.Mech Red Dice/Des Chiffré Com↔Space A China of Many Senses The article discusses elements of language, culture, technological creation and process.}, Key = {fds293634} } @article{fds293623, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {The Engine of Engines - Toward A Computational Ecology}, Booktitle = {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.}, Editor = {Simeonov, EBPL and Smith, LS and Winter, ACEE}, Year = {2012}, Month = {July}, ISBN = {3642281109}, Abstract = {Our knowledge related to the entailments of functionalities of different biological processes as they enable sentience to arise in the human is still limited due to the biological complexity of the body. There are two interrelated research paradigms that can be developed to approach this problem– one paradigm seeks to study the body and articulate its entailments (intra-functionalities) at multiple scales over time; the second paradigm seeks to glean knowledge from this study of biological processes and create new forms of computation to enable us to transcend the limitations of current computational modes. The nature and scope of the question necessitates an interdisciplinary approach to research through the development of a multi-perspective approach to knowledge production. Here, key solutions can in part arise at the interstices between disciplines, and potentially enable us to define and ‘chip away’ at the problem set. Central is observing the body as a distributed network of computational processes that function at different physical scales as well as across time-dependent, process-oriented accretive frames. We can articulate the study of the body by calling it an electrochemical computer— a computer whose deep functionality is not yet fully entailed. Historically the nature of the problem has been to isolate a biological system and study its entailments to ascertain its functionality. Yet, the nature of sentience asks us as researchers to take a more holistic approach, despite the complexity at play. These two paradigms then become a long-term problem set that a network of high-end researchers can collaborate on, by bringing different areas of expertise to the table. The notion of developing a biomimetic/bio-relational Engine of Engines— A Computational Ecology (Stengers 2005) derives from observing computational systems at work in the body and approaching them through observation— through technological, mathematical and/or computational abstraction. Where the body has been described as functioning as a computational system that transcends the Turing limit (Siegelmann 1999)(Maclennan 2003)(Penrose 1989) new approaches to computation need to be undertaken to reflect this deep complexity. The}, Key = {fds293623} } @article{fds293622, Author = {W. Seaman and Seaman, W and Simeonov, PL and Brezina, EH and Cottam, R and Ehresmann, AC and Gare, A and Goranson, T and Gomez-Ramirez, J and Josephson, BD and Marchal, B and Matsuno, K and Root-Bernstein, RS and Rössler, OE and Salthe, SN and Schroeder, M and Seaman, B and Siregar, P and Smith, LS}, Title = {White Paper}, Booktitle = {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}, Publisher = {Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg}, Editor = {Simeonov, PL and Smith, LS and Ehresmann, AC}, Year = {2012}, Month = {July}, Abstract = {This is the final outcome of the INBIOSA project which ends by the end of December 2011. A slighly different version including some appendices will be delivered to the EC later. We believe that this White Paper is a defining document that can be used to direct future research in Integral Biomathics. It can be the base for cooperation projects in this field.}, Key = {fds293622} } @article{fds303142, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {The Engine of Engines - Toward A Computational Ecology}, Booktitle = {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}, Publisher = {Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg}, Editor = {Simeonov, PL and Smith, LS and Eds, ACE}, Year = {2012}, Abstract = {Our knowledge related to the entailments of functionalities of different biological processes as they enable sentience to arise in the human is still limited due to the biological complexity of the body. There are two interrelated research paradigms that can be developed to approach this problem– one paradigm seeks to study the body and articulate its entailments (intra-functionalities) at multiple scales over time; the second paradigm seeks to glean knowledge from this study of biological processes and create new forms of computation to enable us to transcend the limitations of current computational modes. The nature and scope of the question necessitates an interdisciplinary approach to research through the development of a multi-perspective approach to knowledge production. Here, key solutions can in part arise at the interstices between disciplines, and potentially enable us to define and ‘chip away’ at the problem set. Central is observing the body as a distributed network of computational processes that function at different physical scales as well as across time-dependent, process-oriented accretive frames. We can articulate the study of the body by calling it an electrochemical computer— a computer whose deep functionality is not yet fully entailed. Historically the nature of the problem has been to isolate a biological system and study its entailments to ascertain its functionality. Yet, the nature of sentience asks us as researchers to take a more holistic approach, despite the complexity at play. These two paradigms then become a long-term problem set that a network of high-end researchers can collaborate on, by bringing different areas of expertise to the table. The notion of developing a biomimetic/bio-relational Engine of Engines— A Computational Ecology (Stengers 2005) derives from observing computational systems at work in the body and approaching them through observation— through technological, mathematical and/or computational abstraction. Where the body has been described as functioning as a computational system that transcends the Turing limit (Siegelmann 1999)(Maclennan 2003)(Penrose 1989) new approaches to computation need to be undertaken to reflect this deep complexity.}, Key = {fds303142} } @article{fds293620, Author = {Seaman, W and Rössler, OE}, Title = {Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine}, Booktitle = {Neosentience | The Benevolence Engine}, Publisher = {Intellect Press}, Year = {2011}, ISBN = {9781841504049}, Abstract = {Coined by artist and media researcher Bill Seaman, “neosentience” describes a new branch of scientific inquiry related to artificial intelligence. This volume explores the groundbreaking work of Seaman and theoretical physicist Otto E. Rossler in exploring the potential of an intelligent robotic entity possessed of a form of sentience that ever more closely resembles that of a human being. Individual chapters approach the concept from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and the arts. Neosentience is a burgeoning area of interest, and this book encourages readers to reflect on how we experience and interpret the world, how memory works, and what it is to be human.}, Key = {fds293620} } @article{fds293633, Author = {Perriquet, O and Seaman, W}, Title = {Art <-> Science Relationalities}, Journal = {International Symposium on Electronic Art Proceedings (forthcoming)}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds293633} } @article{fds293632, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics / Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored Within a Specific Generative Virtual Environment}, Publisher = {VDM}, Year = {2010}, ISBN = {isbn-10 3639236513, isbn-13 978-3639236514}, Key = {fds293632} } @article{fds293641, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {(Re)Thinking — The Body, Generative Tools and Computational Articulation}, Journal = {Technoetic Arts,}, Year = {2010}, Key = {fds293641} } @article{fds293618, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Combinatoric Micro-strategies for Emergent Transdisciplinary Education}, Booktitle = {Rethinking the Contemporary Art School (NSCAD)}, Publisher = {NSCAD}, Year = {2009}, Abstract = {The potential is to develop a series of both human and computational processes (see glossary) to augment transdisciplinary education, in part employing specific technologically mediated linguistic framing mechanisms. One also seeks to employ generative systems enabling creative output, specific forms of search capability, and intelligent associated juxtaposition, as another set of potential overarching strategies. The collaboration of artists in transdisciplinary research becomes one of many intersecting ‘perspective’ vectors forming a complex intellectual topology. The outcome of the research arising from such classes may have impact on many different fields depending on how the work is parsed, framed and ultimately contextualized. Artworks produced in conjunction with such research can potentially be articulated as conceptual art and/or inform poetic artistic production as a secondary manifestation where the artist is ‘inspired’ by the research to make ‘related’ works of art. Alternately questions central to the sciences and the humanities can potentially be addressed, and later specific knowledge can be folded back into the individual disciplines, expanding the ongoing definition of each of many differing fields. Micro-strategies There are many micro-strategies (see glossary) that can be drawn upon in the service of enabling new forms of Transdisciplinary research. A micro-strategy is a focused algorithmic process that is being employed to facilitate a chosen goal directed activity.}, Key = {fds293618} } @article{fds293619, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {OULIPO|vs|Recombinant Poetics}, Booktitle = {Art & Electronic Media}, Publisher = {Phaidon Press}, Editor = {Shanken, E}, Year = {2009}, Key = {fds293619} } @article{fds293616, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {A Generative Emergent Approach to Graduate Education}, Booktitle = {Educating Artists for the Future, Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture}, Editor = {Alexenberg, M}, Year = {2008}, Key = {fds293616} } @article{fds293617, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Unpacking Simultaneity for Differing Observer Perspectives and Qualities of Environment}, Booktitle = {Simultaneity}, Publisher = {World Scientific}, Editor = {Vrobel, S and Rossler, OE and Marks-Tarlow, T}, Year = {2008}, Key = {fds293617} } @article{fds293631, Author = {Seaman, W and Rössler, OE}, Title = {Neosentience – A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence}, Journal = {Technotic Arts}, Volume = {6}, Number = {1}, Year = {2008}, Key = {fds293631} } @article{fds293613, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Unpacking Neosentience / Dystopian Techno-Evolution}, Journal = {Mutomorphosis}, Year = {2007}, Key = {fds293613} } @article{fds293614, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics}, Booktitle = {Database Aesthetics}, Publisher = {University of Minnesota Press}, Editor = {Vesna, V}, Year = {2007}, Key = {fds293614} } @article{fds293615, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics}, Booktitle = {New Media Poetry, an International Anthology}, Editor = {Kac, E}, Year = {2007}, Key = {fds293615} } @article{fds293612, Author = {Seaman, W and Rössler, OE}, Title = {Toward the Creation of an Intelligent Situated Computer and Related Robotic System: An Intra-functional Network of Living Analogies}, Booktitle = {Emoçào Art.ficial 3.0, Itau Cultural Center Publication}, Year = {2006}, Key = {fds293612} } @article{fds293629, Author = {Seaman, W and Hiwaki, K and Ratjen, W and Seaman, B and Locker, M and Lasker, GE and Aydin, A}, Title = {Intelligent Computerized Dolls as Companions in Old Age}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds293629} } @article{fds293630, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics: The Thoughtbody Environment}, Journal = {a Minima Magazine}, Volume = {13}, Number = {New Media Actual Art}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds293630} } @article{fds293636, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Pattern Flows | Hybrid Accretive Processes Informing Identity Construction}, Journal = {Convergence Magazine}, Volume = {7}, Number = {2}, Year = {2005}, Key = {fds293636} } @article{fds293628, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {The Illusive Nature of Context: The Negotiation of the Thoughtbody}, Booktitle = {P0Es1S: The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry}, Publisher = {Hatje Cantz Publishers}, Editor = {Heibach, C and Wentz, K and Seaman, W}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds293628} } @article{fds293635, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Endophysics and the Thoughtbody Environment, an Outline for a Neo-computational Paradigm}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds293635} } @article{fds293639, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Toward the Production of Nano-computers and in turn Nano-related Emotive Virtual/Physical Environments}, Journal = {Intelligent Agent}, Volume = {4}, Number = {2}, Year = {2004}, Abstract = {Paper presented at the conference "Emotional Architectures/Cognitive Armatures", The Banff Center, Canada, Sept. 2001.}, Key = {fds293639} } @article{fds293640, Author = {Seaman, W and Gaugusch, A}, Title = {(RE)Sensing the Observer — Offering an Open Order Cybernetics}, Journal = {Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research}, Volume = {2}, Number = {1}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds293640} } @article{fds317948, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Notions of the Hybrid : A Particular Hybrid Educational Methodology / RISD Digital Media}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds317948} } @article{fds293611, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics — Media-Element Field Explorations}, Series = {MIT Press}, Booktitle = {First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game}, Editor = {Wardrip-Fruin, N and Harrigan, P}, Year = {2003}, Key = {fds293611} } @article{fds293638, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {The Hybrid Invention Generator — Assorted Relations}, Journal = {Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research}, Volume = {1}, Number = {2}, Publisher = {Intellect Press}, Year = {2003}, Key = {fds293638} } @article{fds293610, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Explorations of Digital Video in Virtual Space}, Booktitle = {Transluminations: New Screen Mediia Narratives}, Publisher = {BFI Publishers}, Editor = {Zapp, and Reiser}, Year = {2002}, Key = {fds293610} } @article{fds293637, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Exchange Fields: Embodied Positioning as Interface Strategy}, Journal = {Convergence Magazine}, Volume = {7}, Number = {2}, Year = {2001}, Key = {fds293637} } @article{fds317949, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Motioning Toward the Emergent Definition of E-phany Physics}, Journal = {Consciousness Reframed 3: Conference Proceedings}, Publisher = {University of Wales College}, Editor = {Ascott, R and Punt, M}, Year = {2000}, Key = {fds317949} } @article{fds293609, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Nonsense Logic}, Booktitle = {Reframing Consciousness}, Publisher = {Intellect Press}, Editor = {Ascott, R}, Year = {1999}, Key = {fds293609} } @article{fds293627, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Emergent Constructions: Re-embodied Intelligence within Recombinant Poetic Networks,}, Journal = {Digital Creativity 9. 3, pp 153–160}, Year = {1998}, Key = {fds293627} } @article{fds293608, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {1997}, Booktitle = {Intelligent Environments–Spatial Aspect of the Information Revolution}, Editor = {Droege, P}, Year = {1997}, ISBN = {0444823328/6434 2433211-744357}, Key = {fds293608} } @article{fds317950, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Hybrid Architectures/Media Information Environments}, Booktitle = {Intelligent Environments–Spatial Aspect of the Information Revolution}, Publisher = {North Holland}, Editor = {Droege, P}, Year = {1997}, Key = {fds317950} } @article{fds317951, Author = {Seaman, W}, Title = {Notes and Observations on Artificial Games}, Booktitle = {Artificial Games Catalogue}, Year = {1993}, Key = {fds317951} } | |
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