Contents

Preface

1. Epistemological machines and protocomputing
   Mitchell Whitelaw and Ralf Baecker
   Read a part of this article as a sample
2. The Crystal World
   Jonathan Kemp
3. Nigredo: configuring human and technological bodies
   Marco Donnarumma
4. Sensing spatial experiences. The essential nature of things
   Sonia Cillari
5. Perfect Paul: on freedom of facial expression
   Arthur Elsenaar
6. Hacking the universe
   Frederik De Wilde
7. Mesoscopic ripples in the neural sea
   Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
8. Vanitas Machine
   Verena Friedrich
9. Interview with Verena Friedrich
10. Connections continuum: a life
    Saša Spačal
11. A new state of the living
    Dmitry Bulatov
12. That which lives in me
    Dmitry Bulatov and Alexey Chebykin
13. Robotics and design: towards a new symbiosis in Gilberto Esparza’s artwork
    Reynaldo Thompson and Tirtha P. Mukhopadhyay
14. Pancreas. All flesh
    Candyman
15. Demons of art
    Interview with Thomas Feuerstein by Hartmut Böhme
16. Metabodies – exploring social networks on our body
    Sonja Bäumel and Manuel Selg
17. Re-imagining the biological membrane
    Juan M. Castro
18. Bodymetries. Mapping the human body through amorphous intelligence
    Theresa Schubert, Michael Markert, Moritz Dreßler, Andrew Adamatzky
19. The engineer’s report: “Swarm Cities” and other synthetic companions
    Francisco Gallardo and Álvaro Castro-Castilla
20. Der Zermesser
    Leo Peschta
21. Interview with Leo Peschta