Table Of ContentAesthetic Computing
LEONARDO
Roger F. Malina, series editor
TheVisualMind,editedbyMicheleEmmer,1993
LeonardoAlmanac,editedbyCraigHarris,1994
DesigningInformationTechnology,RichardCoyne,1995
Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas
MacLeod,1996
Technoromanticism:DigitalNarrative,Holism,andtheRomanceoftheReal,RichardCoyne,1999
ArtandInnovation:TheXeroxPARCArtist-in-ResidenceProgram,editedbyCraigHarris,1999
TheDigitalDialectic:NewEssaysonNewMedia,editedbyPeterLunenfeld,1999
TheRobotintheGarden:TeleroboticsandTelepistemologyintheAgeoftheInternet,editedbyKenGoldberg,
2000
TheLanguageofNewMedia,LevManovich,2001
MetalandFlesh:TheEvolutionofMan:TechnologyTakesOver,OllivierDyens,2001
UncannyNetworks:DialogueswiththeVirtualIntelligentsia,GeertLovink,2002
InformationArts:IntersectionsofArt,Science,andTechnology,StephenWilson,2002
VirtualArt:FromIllusiontoImmersion,OliverGrau,2003
Women,Art,andTechnology,editedbyJudyMalloy,2003
Protocol:HowControlExistsafterDecentralization,AlexanderR.Galloway,2004
At aDistance: Precursors to Art and Activism onthe Internet, editedbyAnnmarie Chandler andNorie
Neumark,2005
TheVisualMindII,editedbyMicheleEmmer,2005
CODE:CollaborativeOwnershipandtheDigitalEconomy,editedbyRishabAiyerGhosh,2005
TheGlobalGenome:Biotechnology,Politics,andCulture,EugeneThacker,2005
MediaEcologies:MaterialistEnergiesinArtandTechnoculture,MatthewFuller,2005
FromTechnologicaltoVirtualArt,FrankPopper,2005
ArtBeyondBiology,editedbyEduardoKac,2006
New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss,
2006
AestheticComputing,editedbyPaulA.Fishwick,2006
Aesthetic Computing
edited by Paul Fishwick
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Contents
seriesforeword xi
preface xiii
I PhilosophyandRepresentation 1
1 anintroductiontoaestheticcomputing 3
PaulFishwick
2 goodman’saestheticsandthelanguagesofcomputing 29
JohnLee
3 aforty-yearperspectiveonaestheticcomputingintheleonardo
journal 43
RogerF.Malina
4 theinterface assignandasaestheticevent 53
FriederNakeandSusanne Grabowski
5 metaphoricaldimensionsofdiagrammaticgraphrepresentations 71
RayPaton
II ArtandDesign 87
6 metaphoricmappings:theartofvisualization 89
DonnaCox
7 publicspaceofknowledge:artisticpracticeinaestheticcomputing 115
MonikaFleischmannandWolfgangStrauss
8 visuallyencodingnumbersutilizingprimefactors 137
KennethA.Huff
9 fromthepoesyofprogrammingtoresearch asartform 169
Laurent MignonneauandChristaSommerer
10 transdisciplinarycollaborationin‘‘cell’’ 185
JaneProphetandMarkd’Inverno
11 processingcode:programmingwithinthecontextofvisualartand
design 197
CaseyReasandBenFry
III MathematicsandComputing 227
12 aestheticsandthevisualizationandqualityofsoftware 229
StephanDiehlandCarstenGo¨rg
13 aestheticsandmathematics:connectionsthroughouthistory 239
MicheleEmmer
14 aestheticcomputingandshape 259
FredericFolLeymarie
15 thefoundationsofaesthetics 289
MichaelLeyton
16 aestheticsoflarge-scalerelationalinformationvisualizationin
practice 315
AaronQuigley
17 thewell-temperedcompiler?theaestheticsofprogramauralization 335
PaulVickersandJamesL.Alty
IV InterfaceandInteraction 355
18 tertiaryartifactsattheinterface 357
OlavW.Bertelsen
19 transparencyandreflectivity:digitalartandtheaestheticsof
interfacedesign 369
JayDavidBolterandDianeGromala
20 articulatingtheusequalitiesofdigitaldesigns 383
JonasLo¨wgren
Contents
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21 exploringattributesofskinsaspotentialantecedentsofemotionin
hci 405
NoamTractinskyandDrorZmiri
abouttheauthors 423
index 435
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