Description

The articles in this book are written by artists and scientists presenting papers at the Third
International CAiiA-STAR Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed, at the University
of Wales College, Newport (UWCN) in August 2000.
The work of CAiiA-STAR <caiia-star.net> embodies artistic and theoretical research in
new media and telematics, including aspects of artificial life, telepresence, immersive VR,
robotics, technoetics, non linear narrative, ubiquitous computing, performance, computer
music, and intelligent architecture, involving a wide range of technological systems,
interfaces, and material structures. As such it can be seen as a microcosm of a widely based
and complex field which is developing internationally. While this means that a great
diversity of issues are addressed, it is possible to discern a common thread in the emergent
discourse of this field. This commonality of ideas embraces a radical rethinking of the
nature of consciousness, awareness, cognition and perception, with mind as both the subject and the object of art.