Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment (Leonardo Book Series)
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Rating | : | 4.75 (719 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0262036754 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-05-26 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Trained as a sculptor, he has spent much of his career building interactive art environments with custom robotic and sensor-based systems. About the Author Simon Penny is Professor of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, teaching mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and interdisciplinary seminars interfacing contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind with the arts
Ideas of cognition as embodied and embedded provide a basis for the development of new ways ofspeaking about the embodied and situated intelligences of the arts. He reviews post-cognitivist paradigms including situated, distributed, embodied, and enactive, and relates these to discussions of arts and cultural practices in general. Penny argues this perspective is particularly relevant to media arts practices. Penny takes a radically interdisciplinary approach, drawing on philosophy, biology, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, critical theory, and other fields. In Making Sense, Simon Penny propo
Trained as a sculptor, he has spent much of his career building interactive art environments with custom robotic and sensor-based systems. . Simon Penny is Professor of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, teaching mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and interdisciplinary seminars interfacing