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William Seaman

Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
Smith Whse Bay 11 A289, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By email appointment  

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


Towards A Dynamic Heterarchical Ecology Of Conversations - Heinz von Foerster Lecture · 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Computational Creativity | A Multi-perspective Approach · February 3, 2013 Lecture Copenhagen
Interview with Otto Piene and Elizabeth Goldring on the history of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT · December 18, 2012 Lecture
Neosentience – The Abstraction of Abstraction - European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) · December 18, 2012 Lecture Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna Austria
Artist Talk · December 18, 2012 Lecture University of Illinois
Visiting Artist and Media Researcher · December 18, 2012 Lecture Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Interface/Interaction Design workshop · December 18, 2012 Lecture Jacobs University
Four Transcultural Case Studies: Transmedial Walks, Drives and Observations · December 18, 2012 Lecture
Interview with Arvid Kappas (Jacobs University) · December 18, 2012 Lecture On the History of Emotion Studies (Tentative Title)
A China of Many Senses - The 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition · November 1, 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Beijing, China A China of Many Senses (Generative Version) with Todd Berreth
Neosentience — Toward the development of a network of living analogies through biomimetics and bioabstraction. · March 10, 2012 Lecture
Drawing from Neuroscience to "Chip Away" at the goals of Neosentience — Toward the development of a network of living analogies through biomimetics and bioabstraction · March 10, 2012 Lecture
Artist Talk - HFK Bremen · March 1, 2012 Lecture
A China of Many Senses · January 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nasher Museum, Duke University A China of Many Senses (Generative Version). Large Architectural Projection on the Outside of the Nasher Museum]
The Engine of Engines · 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Hong Kong China
Science<-> Art Relationalities · December 7, 2011 Lecture Istanbul, Turkey
Neosentient Design · November 8, 2011 Lecture Design at the Edges, International Design Alliance, Taipei
From Recombinant Poetics to Recombinant Informatics · July 1, 2011 Lecture CityU. Hong Kong, China
The Insight Engine, presentation for Knowledge Organization · January 7, 2011 Lecture UNC School of Information and Library Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue · 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Bay 11 Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue (Interactive Stand Alone Version)
A China of Many Senses - IEEE · 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Providence, Rhode Island A China Of Many Senses - Generative Version with Todd Berreth
Media Art Conservation Panel, Dortmund, Germany · November 8, 2010 Lecture International Symposium on Electronic Art
A China of Many Senses - Unnamed event · 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance A China of Many Senses / The Action of Breathing As One (Generative Music/Live Performance). Live Musical performance - Seaman Sung/Spoke, generative music, Video
A China of Many Senses · 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nasher Museum, Duke A China of Many Senses / The Action of Breathing As One, Nasher Museum, 2010, Nasher Museum, Duke
Exchange Fields (Digital Remake) - ISEA - International Symposium on Electronic Arts + Linked Symposium · 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Germany
Architecture of Associaiton · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance RENCI - Chapel Hill The Architecture of Association [Version 3.0] Generative Video, 2009. Major Installation with Daniel Howe, AI, Video, Text, Music
Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance The Link, Duke University Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue (Wall of Light Version)
Architecture of Associaiton · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance East Duke Building Architecture of Associaiton.
Artist Talk, Upgrade Boston · January 7, 2008 Lecture Turbulence, Boston, Massachusetts
An Embodied Expansion of Neural Aesthetics — The Aesthetics of Neosentience · January 7, 2008 Lecture Your Brain on Art: Probing Neuroaesthetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Transdisciplinary Research - Building Bridging Languages · January 7, 2008 Lecture Visualization Friday Forum, Visualization Technology Group. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The Contemporary Collaborator in an Interdisciplinary World · January 7, 2008 Lecture CAA Dallas
Neosentience · January 7, 2008 Lecture Presented at Redwood Neuroscience Retreat, Tahoe, Nevada
Generative Art · January 7, 2008 Lecture Art Center Nabi, Seoul Korea
Architecture of Associaiton · 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Sao Paulo, Brazil the Architecture of Association [Version 1.0] Generative Video,
(with Daniel Howe)
The Watch Detail, City Tower · 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manchester, England
Architecture of Associaiton - Dans La Nuit Des Image · 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Paris The Architecture of Association [Version 2.0] Generative Video.
Com<->Space · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Seoul

Service to the Profession


Team Member : Worked on team to Develop CAA Guidelines for Presenting Works in Digital Format · February 2, 2013 Editorial Activities
Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Design · December 7, 2011 Editorial Activities
Assorted Relations · January 7, 2008 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke


Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader, Smart Archaeology · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work Italy Italy

Primary Theme: Information, Society & Culture

Smart technologies involve the use of different collaborative and intelligent tools able to automatize several activities performed in the environment and in everyday objects, such as the case of the Internet of Things. In archaeology, smart technologies can include sensors, close range sensing systems, robots, rovers, drones, laser scanners and specific software able to process data from multiple sources. The impact of smart technologies in the next decades will be revolutionary also for the social sciences, the humanities and the sciences of the past. This multiyear Bass Connections project has developed a robust technological and interdisciplinary workflow, from digital data capturing to virtual simulation, archiving and visualization.

Bass Connections Faculty Team Member, Digital Cities and Cyberarchaeology · August 2017 - May 2018 Projects & Field Work Turkey Turkey
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member, Digital Cities and Polysensing Environments · August 2016 - May 2017 Projects & Field Work Italy Italy
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member , Modeling and Simulation · August 2014 - July 2015 Projects & Field Work United States United States