Publications
The Transdiscourse Book Series: collaboration with Springer/Vienna (www.springer.at). New York
The z-node book series provides a publication platform to provide a thematic based intersectional discourse between creative media-arts disciplines and the various disciplines of life science, cognition, and physics, engineering and computing. The series aims to create a critical trans-disciplinary space, where combined artistic, technological and scientific approaches call for embodied practical, as well as theoretical solutions.
Within the educational institutions of art and science, we are still very confined to focused disciplines, which tend to develop separately from each other, a strategy which inhibits holistic problem solving. This book series is therefore dedicated to a thematic approach to the discourses of trans-disciplinary education and its potentials. Our audience are educational facilitators who are engaged in similar projects, or who are interested in the problems and methodologies of teaching across disciplines. The series is also for students who wish to explore current debates and investigate the catalyzing potentials of the arts in relation to science and society.
Each book in this series provides an integrated textual and visual showcase for innovative material projects and related arguments that challenge and provoke trans-disciplinary discourses. We have adopted a format of a theoretical essay section as well as a colour gallery section for invited curators. While the essays are critical reflections, the gallery pages are provided for related audiovisual explorations, or artworks, which represent these potentials in a non-verbal manner.
| Book #1: | Mediated Environments was published in 2010. Keywords: art. science constructed representations,mainstream media, bodies and environments, nature, urban problems. |
| Book #2: | Turbulent Societies will be published in 2011. art, science, borders and boundaries, Migration and reverse migration, Labour and Civil rights Culture and Media. |
| Book #3: | Redefining Progress will be concerned with a critical analysis of modelling, economy, visualization, surveillance, technology and ubiquity. |
| Book #4: | Participation will be about connection to the community, networks, social networks, shapes/shaping (i.e. democracy), constructs that shape territory, enabling technology, collaboration and co-authorship. |
| Book #5: | Sharing will collect research about the sharing of resources, equality / inequality, land-grab, waste disposal, water, species extinction, sustainability, time and energy. |
| More: | Click here for further information about these books as they are being published. |
The Editorial Board of Transdiscourse:
Jill Scott, Juanita Schläpfer-Miller, Vince Dziekan, Susanne N. Hillman, Angelika Hilbeck
Advisors:
Sigrid Schade: University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland ZHdK
Ann Marsh: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Guest Editors:
Mediated Environments - Andrea Gleiniger
(Others to be negotiated)
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