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Touch and Go Volume 18 Issue 3

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Touch and Go, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 18 Issue 3

ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5
ISSN: 1071-4391
Number of Pages: 251

Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou
Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden Şahin

The print issue of Touch and Go is available on Amazon.

Vol 18 Issue 3 of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is published on line as a free PDF but will also be rolled out as a printed issue on Amazon and will be available on other e-publishing outlets.

Touch and Go is published in collaboration with Watermans and Goldsmiths College in occasion of the Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, which coincides with the Olympics and Paralympics in London. The issue explores the impact of technology in art as well as the meaning, possibilities and issues around human interaction and engagement. Touch and Go investigates interactivity and participation, as well as light art and new media approaches to the public space as tools that foster engagement and shared forms of participation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Watermans International Festival of Digital Art, 2012
Editorial by Lanfranco Aceti
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Touch and Go: The Magic Touch of Contemporary Art
Introduction by Janis Jefferies
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Suguru Goto, Cymatics, 2011 – An Action Sharing Production
by Simona Lodi and Luca Barbeni
&
Suguru Goto in conversation with Paul Squires
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Interactivity, Play and Audience Engagement
by Tine Bech
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UNITY: In Pursuit of the Humanistic Spirit
by One-Room Shack Collective
&
One-Room Shack Collective in conversation with Evelyn Owen
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Hokus Pokus
by Michele Barker and Anna Munster
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As if by Magic
by Anna Gibbs
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Black Boxes and God-Tricks: an Account of Using Medical Imaging Systems to Photograph Consciousness in the Context of a Digital Arts Practice
by Eleanor Dare
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Co-Authored Narrative Experience: Affective, Embodied Interaction through Combining the Diachronic with the Synchronistic
by Carol MacGillivray and Bruno Mathez
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Untitled
by Phoebe Hui
&
Phoebe Hui in conversation with Jonathan Munro
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Going with the Flow
Gail Pearce in conversation with Jonathan Munro
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The Sweet Spot
by Graeme Crowley in collaboration with The Mustard and Blood Orchestra
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Strata-caster: An Exploration into the Topography of Power, Prestige, and Position
by Joseph Farbrook
&
Joseph Farbrook in conversation with Emilie Giles
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Where is Lourenço Marques?: A Mosaic of Voices in a 3D Virtual World
by Rui Filipe Antunes
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Geometry
Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves in conversation with Claire Le Gouellec
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The Empowering Potential of Re-Staging
by Birgitta Cappelen and Anders-Petter Andersson
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Scenocosme: Body and Clouds
by Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt
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Light, Data, and Public Participation
by Dave Colangelo and Patricio Davila
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Incarnated Sound in Music for Flesh II: Defining Gesture in Biologically Informed Musical Performance
by Marco Donnarumma
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The Story of Parcival: Designing Interaction for an Interdisciplinary Dance Performance
by Gesa Friederichs-Büttner and Benjamin Walther-Franks
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Interaction’s Role as Catalyst of Synthesized Intelligence in Art
by Judson Wright
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In Search of a Digital Masterpiece (or Two): Stanza
by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]
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Telematic Touch and Go
by Ellen Pearlman, Newman Lau & Kenny Lozowski
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Haptic Unconscious: A Prehistory of Affectivity in Moholy-Nagy’s Pedagogy at the New Bauhaus
by Charissa N. Terranova
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The Gestalt of Street Team: Guerilla Tactics, GIFs, and the Museum
by Charissa N. Terranova
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Biographies and Acknowledgements
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Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.