ThInking Practices

2AMP7H1 Theory Module in the MA/ Art and Media Practice/ University of Westminster/ School of Media, Arts and Design/ Department of Art and Design

LABS : Leonardo ABstracts Service

LABS -Leonardo ABstracts Service- is a comprehensive database of abstracts of Ph.d, Masters and MFA theses in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology.

Persons who have received advanced degrees in arts (visual, sound, performing, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology which in some way investigate philosophical, historical, critical or applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit an abstract of their thesis for publication consideration in this database.

The list of English abstracts is available on-line at Pomona College, Claremont, California web site,  so that interested persons can access them at no cost.

An international Peer Review Panel (PRP) made up of academics and artists reviews the abstracts; the PRP is chaired by Professor Sheila Pinkel of Pomona College. In addition to being published in the database, a selection of Abstracts selected by this panel for their special relevance is published quarterly in Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Leonardo’s monthly peer reviewed e-journal, and authors of abstracts most highly ranked by the panel will also be invited to submit an article for publication consideration in Leonardo Journal .

To submit your thesis abstract  for publication fill out the Thesis Abstract Submittal form.

A relevant selection:

Title: New Media Art management Author: Danijela Mandušic

Title: Ubiquity and Fluidity Author: Rob La Frenais

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new book on PhDs in art

Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art edited by James Elkins. An interesting book published by New Academia, a print on demand peer reviewed academic platform. Two chapters from the book, and the conclusion, are  posted on this page.

Filed under: bibliography

virtual image culture

bibliography on the virtual:  image,  culture
Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
By Oliver Grau, Gloria Custance
[available at harrow lrc 751.7401 GRA]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QmFQK7y6r_8C&dq=Coming+of+Age+in+Second+Life:+An+Anthropologist+Explores+the+Virtually+Human+Tom+Boellstorff&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
By Tom Boellstorff
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008

The Subject and Scope of This Inquiry: Arrivals and departures—Everyday Second Life—Terms of discussion—The emergence of virtual worlds—The posthuman and the human—What this, a book, does.

Prehistories of the virtual–Histories of virtual technology–A personal virtual history–Histories of virtual worlds–Histories of cybersociality research–Techne.

How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1999

Excerpts from pages xi-xiv

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