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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  

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Composing Systems for Advancing Advancing

Journal article Enacting Cybernetics · September 5, 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

New Approaches to the Circle of Sense and Nonsense

Journal article Philosophies · April 1, 2024 I will briefly discuss the history of research-related projects that Mark Burgin and I worked on together. I will then discuss our joint research related to the circle of sense and nonsense. One paper was entitled In a search for deeper meanings: navigatin ... Full text Open Access Cite

In the Circle of Sense and Nonsense Through a Mathematical Model of Meaning

Journal article Leonardo · February 23, 2022 In this article, the authors explore the relations and interactions between sense and nonsense with a threefold goal: (1) elaborations of formal definitions of these concepts; (2) investigation of the processes of making sense from nonsense; (3) establishm ... Full text Cite

Roy Ascott – Early Interactive Work and Some Cybernetic Relationalities (forthcoming)

Journal article Cybernetics and Human Knowing: a journal of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics · 2018 Open Access Cite

Towards A Dynamic Heterarchical Ecology Of Conversations (forthcoming)

Journal article Cybernetics and Human Knowing: a journal of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics · 2018 Open Access Cite

A multi-perspective approach to knowledge production

Journal article Kybernetes · October 28, 2014 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss a Multi-perspective approach to knowledge production in terms of a set of cybernetic concepts relevant to the approach; to describe a software system that computationally embodies the approach; and to articu ... Full text Open Access Cite

Four Transcultural Case Studies: Transmedial Walks, Drives and Observations,

Journal article · 2013 Featured Publication This article discusses four different case studies related to complex technological works that were created through international collaborations. The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers/Ex.Mech Red Dice/Des Chiffré Com↔Space A China of Many Senses The article d ... Open Access Cite

Neosentience and the Abstraction of Abstraction

Journal article · 2013 Featured Publication This paper employs a survey methodology to point at notions surrounding “the reflexive” and “reciprocity” drawn from the history of Cybernetics as it falls in relation to current “Neosentient” research. Seaman and O. E. Rössler have been involved in a deca ... Open Access Cite

From Neosentience to Recombinant Informatics, A Research Overview

Journal article · 2013 Featured Publication An overview of Seaman’s research relevant to new forms of Computer Science, Technology and Application covers a number of different theoretical research areas and approaches including the examination of new (and historical) studies that seek to look holist ... Open Access Cite

Four transcultural case studies: Transmedial walks, drives and observations

Journal article Technoetic Arts · January 1, 2012 This article discusses four different case studies related to complex technological works that were created through international collaborations. The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers/Ex.Mech• Red Dice/Des Chiffré• Com Space •A China of Many Senses The articl ... Full text Open Access Cite

Recombinant Poetics: The Thoughtbody Environment

Journal article a Minima Magazine · 2005 Cite

(RE)Sensing the Observer — Offering an Open Order Cybernetics

Journal article Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research · 2004 Cite

Toward the Production of Nano-computers and in turn Nano-related Emotive Virtual/Physical Environments

Journal article Intelligent Agent · 2004 Paper presented at the conference "Emotional Architectures/Cognitive Armatures", The Banff Center, Canada, Sept. 2001. ... Link to item Cite

The Hybrid Invention Generator — Assorted Relations

Journal article Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research · 2003 Cite

Emergent Constructions: Re-embodied Intelligence within Recombinant Poetic Networks,

Journal article Digital Creativity 9. 3, pp 153–160 · 1998 Cite