New Realities: Being Syncretic

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-5

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 6-6

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   2. Being syncretic — The answer to increasing complexity

      • Gerald Bast

      Pages 7-7

   3. The Planetary Collegium’s Ninth International Research Conferece, Consciousness Reframed

      • Roy Ascott

      Pages 8-9

3. Round Table

   1. Round Table

      Pages 10-19

4. Contents

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Ambiguity of Self: living in a variable reality

      • Roy Ascott

      Pages 22-25

   3. Syncretia: A Sojourn into the Uncanny Valley

      • Elif Ayiter

      Pages 26-29

   4. Mapping Network Consciousness: syncretising difference to co-create a synergy-of-synergies

      • John Backwell, John Wood

      Pages 30-33

   5. “Realities from the unconscious” or “Reprogramming digital sub(con)texts”

      • René Bauer, Beat Suter

      Pages 34-37

   6. Carnival/Wearable-Art/Presence

      • Laura Beloff

      Pages 38-41

   7. Ekphrasis and a Dynamic Mysticism in Art: Reflections on Henri Bergson’s Philosophy and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas

      • Martha Blassnigg

      Pages 42-45

   8. Presence and Atmosphere: Tools for the Virtual and the Invention of a New Event Structure

      • Ingrid Böck

      Pages 46-50

   9. The A-Historical Act — Design’s contemporary Striving towards Realities of the Physiological

      • Wulf Walter Böttger

      Pages 51-55

   10. From life to life. The multiplicity of the living

       • Pier Luigi Capucci

       Pages 56-59

   11. A Polymorphic Museum

       • Simona Caraceni

       Pages 60-64

   12. Reproducing the past, alienating the body — Digital time and reenactment

       • Antonio Caronia

       Pages 65-68

   13. Perception and its transformation: fine-tuning in-between states

       • Linda Cassens Stoian

       Pages 69-72

   14. Regarding the Orgiastic as a Strategic Means to Reinvest Perceptions of Realities: the influence of syncretic thought acting as a motor of evolution in actual dance

       • Isabelle Choinière

       Pages 73-77

   15. The implication of movement: from Bergson to Bohm

       • David Crawford

       Pages 78-81

7 Gerald Bast 8 Roy Ascott 10 Round Table Contents 22 Roy Ascott 190 David McConville 26 Elif Ayiter 194 Francesco Monico 30 John Backwell/John Wood 199 Max Moswitzer 34 René Bauer/Beat Suter 202 Sana Murrani 38 Laura Beloff 207 Ryohei Nakatsu 42 Martha Blassnigg 211 Martha Patricia Niño Mojica 46 Ingrid Böck 215 Carlos Nóbrega 51 Wulf Walter Böttger 220 Robert Pepperell 56 Pier Luigi Capucci 224 Michael Punt 60 Simona Caraceni 228 Susanne Ramsenthaler 65 Antonio Caronia 232 Barbara Rauch 69 Linda Cassens Stoian 236 Nicolas Reeves 73 Isabelle Choinière 240 Clarissa Ribeiro/Gilbertto Prado 78 David Crawford 245 Ana Rosa Richardson 82 Nina Czegledy 248 Glauce Rocha de Oliveira 86 Margaret Dolinsky 253 Natacha Roussel 90 Hannah Drayson 257 Semi Ryu 94 Alan Dunning/Paul Woodrow 261 Miguel Santos 98 Ernest Edmonds 266 Jinsil Seo/Diane Gromala 102 Jürgen Faust 271 Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau/ 106 Wolfgang Fiel Michael Shamiyeh 110 Andreas Leo Findeisen 276 René Stettler 114 Karmen Franinovic 280 Randall Teal 118 Gonçalo Miguel Furtado 284 Federica Timeto Cardoso Lopes 288 Naoko Tosa/Seigo Matsuoka 123 Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel 292 Sarah Tremlett 127 Gregory P. Garvey 297 Nicholas Tresilian 132 Luis Miguel Girão 301 Suzete Venturelli/Mario Maciel/ 136 Tina Gonsalves Johnny Souza 140 Jochen Hoog/Manfred Wolff-Plottegg 306 Natasha Vita-More 144 Birgit Huemer 310 Monika Weiss 148 Jung A.

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• University of Plymouth, UK

  Roy Ascott

• University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

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• Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  Wolfgang Fiel

• University of the Arts Zürich, Switzerland

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• Institute for Fine and Media Arts, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

  Ruth Schnell

Roy Ascott is the Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, Full Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Plymouth, Visiting Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA, and Honorary Professor of Thames Valley University, London. He created the Consciousness Reframed annual conferences in 1997.

Gerald Bast studied jurisprudence and economics at Kepler University in Linz, Austria where he graduated with a doctorate in law in 1979. Since 2000, he is Rektor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, since 2003 speaker of the Rektors Conference of the Aus­trian Universities of the Arts, and executive board member of the Austrian Rektors Conference.

Wolfgang Fiel studied Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and obtained his Master in Architectural Design at the Bartlett, University College London. He is Ph.D. candidate at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth/UK, and teaches at the Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology.

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