Artificial Nature
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Artificial Nature
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Author : Jeffrey Deitch
language : en
Publisher: Howell Press
Release Date : 1990
Artificial Nature written by Jeffrey Deitch and has been published by Howell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Appropriation (Art) categories.
The Reality Of The Artificial
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Author : Massimo Negrotti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Reality Of The Artificial written by Massimo Negrotti and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Computers categories.
The human ambition to reproduce and improve natural objects and processes has a long history, and ranges from dreams to actual design, from Icarus’s wings to modern robotics and bioengineering. This imperative seems to be linked not only to practical utility but also to our deepest psychology. Nevertheless, reproducing something natural is not an easy enterprise, and the actual replication of a natural object or process by means of some technology is impossible. In this book the author uses the term naturoid to designate any real artifact arising from our attempts to reproduce natural instances. He concentrates on activities that involve the reproduction of something existing in nature, and whose reproduction, through construction strategies which differ from natural ones, we consider to be useful, appealing or interesting. The development of naturoids may be viewed as a distinct class of technological activity, and the concept should be useful for methodological research into establishing the common rules, potentialities and constraints that characterize the human effort to reproduce natural objects. The author shows that a naturoid is always the result of a reduction of the complexity of natural objects, due to an unavoidable multiple selection strategy. Nevertheless, the reproduction process implies that naturoids take on their own new complexity, resulting in a transfiguration of the natural exemplars and their performances, and leading to a true innovation explosion. While the core performances of contemporary naturoids improve, paradoxically the more a naturoid develops the further it moves away from its natural counterpart. Therefore, naturoids will more and more affect our relationships with advanced technologies and with nature, but in ways quite beyond our predictive capabilities. The book will be of interest to design scholars and researchers of technology, cultural studies, anthropology and the sociology of science and technology.
Artificial Nature Architecture
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Author : Luis de Garrido
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Artificial Nature Architecture written by Luis de Garrido and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Architecture categories.
Luis de Garrido is pioneering a new architectural concept: Artificial Nature. An artificial eco-system incorporating manmade artefacts and buildings with its own rules and which evolves alongside the natural eco-system.
The Artificial And The Natural
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Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2007
The Artificial And The Natural written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Naturoids On The Nature Of The Artificial
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Author : Massimo Negrotti
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2002-12-30
Naturoids On The Nature Of The Artificial written by Massimo Negrotti and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-30 with Computers categories.
Since antiquity, technology has tried to either control or imitate nature. Both these traditions take advantage of the progress of science, but their teleology and their typical design problems remain basically different.The technology of the artificial may be defined as the effort to reproduce natural objects or processes by means of current conventional technology and materials. This book reports on the results of a theoretical study of the logic characterizing any attempt to design something artificial.While designers of artificial devices work in their own area facing field-specific problems (e.g. bioengineering, artificial organs, robotics, AI, ALife, remakings, etc.), the present study refers to the artificial in itself, trying to find out what is common to instances very far from each other, in an intrinsically interdisciplinary way. The result may be defined as a proposal of a general theory of the artificial.
Silicon Second Nature
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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-11-16
Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-16 with Science categories.
Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life—primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity—introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.
Artificial Nature
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Author : Fatma Aslıhan Demirtaş
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Artificial Nature written by Fatma Aslıhan Demirtaş and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the concept of ARTIFICIAL NATURE, an expanded definition of 'built activity' to embrace landscape/nature, infrastructure, and technology as well as imaginative and mental space is pursued. The specific sites of investigation range from Thrace to Central and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey from 1920-2000.
Adaptation In Natural And Artificial Systems
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Author : John H. Holland
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1992-04-29
Adaptation In Natural And Artificial Systems written by John H. Holland and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-29 with Psychology categories.
Genetic algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in studies of complex adaptive systems, ranging from adaptive agents in economic theory to the use of machine learning techniques in the design of complex devices such as aircraft turbines and integrated circuits. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems is the book that initiated this field of study, presenting the theoretical foundations and exploring applications. In its most familiar form, adaptation is a biological process, whereby organisms evolve by rearranging genetic material to survive in environments confronting them. In this now classic work, Holland presents a mathematical model that allows for the nonlinearity of such complex interactions. He demonstrates the model's universality by applying it to economics, physiological psychology, game theory, and artificial intelligence and then outlines the way in which this approach modifies the traditional views of mathematical genetics. Initially applying his concepts to simply defined artificial systems with limited numbers of parameters, Holland goes on to explore their use in the study of a wide range of complex, naturally occuring processes, concentrating on systems having multiple factors that interact in nonlinear ways. Along the way he accounts for major effects of coadaptation and coevolution: the emergence of building blocks, or schemata, that are recombined and passed on to succeeding generations to provide, innovations and improvements.
Artificial Natures
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Author : Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Artificial Natures written by Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
In the last two decades, the field of Artificial-Life Art (A-Life Art) has addressed new approaches to creating art based on the synthesis of life-like phenomena. At the same time, there has been increasing interest and experimentation in creating immersive environments as virtual worlds or "worldmaking". As a combination of both, this dissertation proposes the name "artificial natures" to describe a novel form of installation art: computational artworks of complex systems creating worlds with their own physics and biology, within immersive, interactive environments. It constructs nature-like aesthetic experiences using the mechanisms and evolutionary processes of life in order to express generative creativity and emergent beauty. The motivation is to construct an aesthetic unity in which art, science, play, and life integrate into a single fulfilled experience akin to childhood memories of playing in nature; ludic investigation considered as an infinite game. As a contemporary art practice, it is not based on a refutation of past art practice but on free production and expression of our current and future times. Choosing an holistic approach, this research is a reciprocal engagement of concept, theory, and art practice based on a trans-disciplinary implementation, seeking a reconciliation between subjective beauty (artificial) and objective truth (nature). The thesis documents a theoretical approach to artificial natures as a general form of art, and the researching and production of a series of Artificial Nature artworks as a vehicle by which to critically and practically examine its requirements, key concepts, challenges, techniques, and opportunities.
Silicon Second Nature
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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-08-29
Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-29 with Computers categories.
Looks at the emerging field of artificial life - the product of imagination - a mix of biology, mythology and technology.