Oliver Grau on Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:24:55 +0200 (CEST) |
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[rohrpost] The Robot in the Garden |
> Forthcoming from MIT Press, March, 2000: > > The Robot in the Garden: > Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet > > http://mitpress.mit.edu/telepistemology > Can be ordered now online search amazon.com or bn.com under: > "robot garden internet" (list $35.00, $24.50 from bn.com) > >"As the electronic revolution gains momentum, the boundary between >humanity's manufactured and its flesh-and-blood bodily experience is >rapidly shifting. This fascinating book is a help in gauging the >character of the shift. All of the contributors recognize its extent >and its import, but most of them -- and this is the best thing about >the book -- reject the popular delusion that the boundary is about to >be erased." >--Leo Marx, American Cultural History / Program in Science, Technology >and Society, MIT, and author of 1967 classic: The Machine in the Garden > >"Goldberg's compilation documents the inventiveness of artists, scientists, >and critics to set up a work surface for telecommunication body-extension >possibilities. The environmental possibilities of telepresence are >uncovered and discussed brilliantly. Goldberg looks for the bridges between >our space and the next." >--Julia Scher, Department of Architecture, MIT > >"As this engaging and inspiring collection reveals, the uncharted >territory where the real and the simulated intersect is one of today's >more fertile grounds for scientific, artistic, and philosophical >experimentation. Fortunately, we have brilliant pioneers like >Dr. Goldberg and his colleagues to question the very nature of >knowledge in our increasingly networked reality." >--David Pescovitz, Contributing Editor, Wired > >"Telepresence technology has already enabled space and undersea robotics, >endoscopic surgery, micromanipulation and other impressive forms of remote >control by humans. Not yet manifest are the more profound impacts on our >arts and culture, and indeed on the way we think about reality. This volume >offers a plethora of insights and reflections by philosophers, art >historians and critics, and even a few technologists." >--Thomas Sheridan, Engineering and Applied Psychology, MIT > >"The epistemology of robotics on the World Wide Web is the subject of Ken >Goldberg's fine collection of essays. The reader will be pleased to >discover that the essays actually discuss the theme, that the authors >are distinguished scholars who make important contributions to the >question, and that the theme is fundamental to our thinking about new >media. Highly recommended." >--Mark Poster, Film Studies, UC Irvine > >"Taking a cue from the epistemological investigations of Conceptual artists >in the 1960s, Ken Goldberg's networked art projects raise the prickly >question of how we know what we know. At a time when the world seems to be >brimming with information, Goldberg and the authors he has assembled in >this volume point out the messy philosophical and social problems that >linger once the technological problems of global communication have been >solved. As _The Robot in the Garden_ reminds us, there can be no gold >standard for an information economy." >--Jon Ippolito, artist and Assistant Curator of Media Arts, Guggenheim Museum ---------------------------------------------------------- # rohrpost -- deutschsprachige Mailingliste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur # Info: majordomo@mikrolisten.de; msg: info rohrpost # kommerzielle Verwertung nur mit Erlaubnis der AutorInnen # Entsubskribieren: majordomo@mikrolisten.de, msg: unsubscribe rohrpost # Kontakt: owner-rohrpost@mikrolisten.de -- http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost