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Technological Fantasies of Nao
In this paper from Issue 29, Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Oliver Tafdrup discuss humanoid robots and otherness. [...] -
The Uncanny Limits of Scan Technology
In this paper from Issue 26, artist Fiona Fell uses X-ray and CT scans to explore the internal topographies of her ceramic figures. [...] -
An Australian Western?
From Issue 24, "The Other Western": Grayson Cooke explores the Australian Western via the live audio-visual performance "Outback and Beyond". [...] -
Giving form to the fragility of nature.
In Issue 21, Monica Westin explores environmental artists who make public encounter a catalyst of changes in understanding our relationship to nature [...]
Previous Issue
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Issue 29: Social Robots: Human-Machine Configurations
February 2, 2017 0Human-machine relationships are being transformed by robots increasingly performing social roles such as teachers, carers and companions. This arrival of social robots is challenging understandings of human-machine relationships and generating diverse aesthetic, ethical and political debates. Matters of interest include asymmetries in human-robot relationships, the co-constitution of humans and robots, the place of robot labour, the significance of machine embodiment, and accounts of human-robot communication, among other topics. Commonly, the ways in which social and cultural norms shape social robotics do not receive enough critical scrutiny. This special issue of Transformations examines the ways in which human-machine relationships are configured [...]
Current Issue
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Issue 30: Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts
November 8, 2017 0This issue of Transformations aims to establish a toolkit of conceptual resources that can provoke, incite and inform new practices and interventions in the environmental arts. We define the environmental arts broadly for this purpose, with a particular emphasis on modes of thinking, feeling, sensing, designing, making, performing and composing that are attuned to environmental change and are inherently collective in nature. In this respect, artists have often been years and even decades ahead of others in responding to the conceptual and practical challenges of environmental change. Since the 1960s, artists such as Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Helen [...]
About the Journal
Transformations is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. We welcome writing from the perspective of cultural theory, critical philosophy, aesthetics, media studies and other humanities approaches.