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Art, Technology and Consciousness

It is timely to put together a bibliography which might helpfully delineate the field of practice and theory emerging from the confluence of art, science and technology within the context of mind and consciousness. It is a field in which I have been involved, with relatively small groups of colleagues, for over thirty years but which only relatively recently has become visible as an international phenomenon. Thus, in convening the First International CAiiA Research Conference ’Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post biological era’ at the University of Wales College, Newport in 1997,1 1 was delighted but not surprised to welcome delegates from nearly 30 countries. The same scope is evidenced in the Conference of 1998. Not only personal practices are represented but groups and institutions involved directly in researching aspects art, science and technology in a ’technoetic’ context. CAiiA itself is devoted to research in this field, its doctoral programme based on advanced interactive media and a networked community of theorists and practitioners in Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Its recent union with the Science, Technology and Art Research Centre (STAR) in the School of Computing, University of Plymouth, with its expertise in interactive media, artificial life, robotics and cognitive science, is a further indication of both the needs and the scope of the field.2 Whilst we have drawn our bibliography from these many sources, it is of course by no means definitive. There are gaps, particularly since this is a fast moving field with new publications, new software, new strategies emerging almost daily.