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William Seaman

William Seaman

Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
bill.seaman@duke.edu
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
Smith Whse Bay 11 A289, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By email appointment  
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Selected Presentations & Appearances

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 Arvid Kappas (Jacobs University) · December 18, 2012 Lecture On the History of Emotion Studies (Tentative Title)
Visiting Artist and Media Researcher · December 18, 2012 Lecture Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Artist Talk · December 18, 2012 Lecture University of Illinois
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 Arvid Kappas (Jacobs University) · December 18, 2012 Lecture On the History of Emotion Studies (Tentative Title)
Visiting Artist and Media Researcher · December 18, 2012 Lecture Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Artist Talk · December 18, 2012 Lecture University of Illinois
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 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
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
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
Media Art Conservation Panel, Dortmund, Germany · November 8, 2010 Lecture International Symposium on Electronic Art
Neosentience · January 7, 2008 Lecture Presented at Redwood Neuroscience Retreat, Tahoe, Nevada
The Contemporary Collaborator in an Interdisciplinary World · January 7, 2008 Lecture CAA Dallas
Artist Talk, Upgrade Boston · January 7, 2008 Lecture Turbulence, Boston, Massachusetts
Transdisciplinary Research - Building Bridging Languages · January 7, 2008 Lecture Visualization Friday Forum, Visualization Technology Group. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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
Generative Art · January 7, 2008 Lecture Art Center Nabi, Seoul Korea

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - Smart Archaeology · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work flag 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 flag Turkey
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Digital Cities and Polysensing Environments · August 2016 - May 2017 Projects & Field Work flag Italy
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Modeling and Simulation · August 2014 - July 2015 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

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