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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Art at the Interface |
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What Is a Digital Interface? |
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4 | (2) |
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A Brief History of Digital Art |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (6) |
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1 The Aesthetic Interface |
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14 | (24) |
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Toward a Digital Aesthetic of the Interface |
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15 | (3) |
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The Aesthetic Interface and the Mediated Experience of Time |
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18 | (2) |
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Aesthetic Distance, Representationalism, and Cartesian Habits of the Mind |
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20 | (4) |
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The Difficulty with Interactivity |
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24 | (3) |
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The Digital Interface Is Obsolete |
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27 | (3) |
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Place and the Aesthetic Interface |
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30 | (8) |
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38 | (20) |
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The Viewer/Participant or the Interface? |
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39 | (4) |
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The Human "Me" and the Technologized "You" |
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43 | (5) |
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The "Real" and the Representational |
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48 | (2) |
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The Re-use of Cultural Forms: Practice, Potentiality, and Instructional Processes |
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50 | (8) |
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58 | (20) |
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The Agency of Human and Non-human Entities, or Why the Relationship between the Body and Technology Matters |
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61 | (2) |
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The Agential Interface in 768 Pieces |
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63 | (3) |
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Enacting the Agential Cut |
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66 | (6) |
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Collective Spaces of Questioning, Reflection, and Reconsideration |
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72 | (6) |
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4 Instruction and the Interface |
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78 | (27) |
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The Ideological Effects of Instruction |
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79 | (2) |
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Instruction, Learning Processes, and the Cybernetic Feedback Loop of Interaction |
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81 | (6) |
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Pre-programmed Actions and Unexpected Experiences: Instruction as a Rhetorical Device |
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87 | (4) |
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Peripheral Actions and Unintended Consequences: Instruction and the Filtering Process |
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91 | (5) |
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Shared Ontological Systems and the Emergence of Different Dialogues |
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96 | (9) |
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5 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part I |
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105 | (20) |
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What is Ubiquitous Computing? |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (6) |
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A Restructuring of Interfaces |
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114 | (3) |
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Re-opening the Question of the Interface: Linear Timelines and Finality |
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117 | (3) |
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120 | (5) |
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6 The Ubiquitous Interface: Part II |
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125 | (21) |
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The Instrumentalization and Commodification of the Ubiquitous Interface |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (4) |
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The Alternative Ubiquitous Interface |
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133 | (3) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (7) |
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7 The Implanted Interface |
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146 | (22) |
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147 | (1) |
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The Limited and Limitless Possibilities of the Implant |
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148 | (2) |
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Support: Agency, Identity, and the Implant |
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150 | (4) |
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Mediate: The Social "Time Capsule" |
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154 | (2) |
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Enhance: Performing the Visible Invisible |
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156 | (4) |
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Remediate: Disembodiment, Transcendence, and the Implant |
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160 | (8) |
Conclusion/Postscript |
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168 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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