Ecologies of Invention

Andy Dong is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney and holds the Warren Centre Chair for Engineering Innovation.John Conomos is an associate professor at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne.Brad Buckley is a professor of contemporary art and culture at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgementsForeword by Marc NewsonIntroduction by Andy Dong, John Conomos and Brad BuckleyPart 1: invention at the local scale [capacities]1. Discourses of intervention: a language of invention by Andy Dong2. Inventing cultural machines by Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob SaundersPart 2: invention at the local scale [sensibilities]3. The ‘character’ and the ‘algorithm’: an essay on technology and art by Dan Lovallo4. Art and robotics: a brief account of 11 years of cross-disciplinary invention by Mari Velonaki and David RyePart 3: invention at the social scale [social configurations]5. Melting into the texture of everyday life by Kit Messham-Muir6. On building a perceptual apparatus: experiments in proximity by John TonkinPart 4: invention at the social scale [cultural and socio-spatial configuration]7. The artist-run initiative: an agent that blurs the studio, laboratory and exhibition space, creating a site for inventiveness by Brad Buckley and John Conomos8. ICAN: reinventing the autonomy of the artist-run initiative by Alex GawronskiPart 5: invention at the city scale [architectural and spacial configurations]9. Fit to burst: bodies, organs and complex corporealities by Chris L. Smith10. Entangled: complex bodies and sensate machines by Dagmar Reinhardt and Lian LokePart 6: invention at the network scale [network configurations]11. Inventions are networks: fostering the liminal play of ideas by Sean Lowry12. Expanding sonic space: an Antipodean approach to telematic music by Ivan ZavadaPart 7: inventions and recombinant poetryby Bill Seaman and Otto E. RösslerAbout the contributorsBibliographyList of figuresIndex