Jon McCormack: Resources
resources/past.html
-> Current Stimuli:
Text Visual Audio

Built by Animals by Mike Hansell, Oxford U.P., 2007

Shapes, Flow & Branches (Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts) by Philip Ball, Oxford U.P., 2009

The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution by Richard Dawkins, Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers, 2009.

The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla, Cambridge U.P., 1988

The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton, Oxford U.P., 2009

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, Unwin & Allen, 2008.

Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog, Unwin & Allen, 2007

Life Extreme: an illustrated guide to new Life, Eduardo Kac & Avital Ronell. Encounters, Dis Voir, Paris, 2008.

Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), 2008 edition, Cambridge University Press.

Michael Batty: Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals, MIT Press 2005.

Richard McElreath & Robert Boyd: Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: a guide for the perplexed, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Andy Oram & Greg Wilson (eds.) Beautiful Code, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, USA 2007.

Rolf Pfeifer & Josh Bongard: How the body shapes the way we think: a new view of intelligence, MIT Press, Caimbridge, USA, 2007.

John Gray: Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Allen Lane/Penguin, London, UK, 2007

Carroll, Sean B.: Endless forms most beautiful, Phoenix Books, London 2005.

Walwin, Jeni and Henry Krokatsis: You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery, London, 2006.

Drews, Frank: Grammatical Picture Generation:A Tree-Based Approach, Springer, Berlin 2006

interzone image

Tofts, D.: Interzone: media arts in Australia, Craftsman House (Thames & Hudson), Fisherman's Bend, 2005. [features cover image from Universal Zoologies]

Gray, J. 2002, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Granta Books, London. [2nd reading!]

Stevens, P.S. 1980, Handbook of Regular Patterns : An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Tufte, E.: Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Press, Conn., 2006.

de Sausmarez, M.: Basic Design: the dynamics of visual form (2nd. ed. with forward by Gyorgy Kepes), A & C Black, London, 2002 (Original ed. 1964).

Wheeler, M.: Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2005

Kuspit, D.B.: The End of Art, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004.

Glatzer, N.N. (ed): The Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England 1983.

Ian McEwan, Saturday, Jonathan Cape, London, 2005.

Geoffrey Miller: The Mating Mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature, William Heinemann, London, 2000.

Evan Eisenberg: The Ecology of Eden: Humans, Nature and Human Nature, Picador, 1998.

Anthony Dune: Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and Critical Design, Royal College of Art, London 1999.

Trevor Wishart: On Sonic Art, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1996.

Geoff Park: Nga Uruora (The Groves of Life) Ecology & History in a New Zealand Landscape, Victoria University press, 1995.

Daniel Dennett: Brainchildren: Essays of Designing Minds, MIT Press, 1998.

Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature, Prestel, 1998

Wertheim, Margaret: The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: a history of space from Dante to the Internet, Doubleday, 1999.

Rorty, Richard: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1979.

Reichardt, J: 1971, Cybernetics, art and ideas, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.

Burnham, J.: 1968, Beyond modern sculpture : the effects of science and technology on the sculpture of this century, G. Braziller; Allen Lane The Penguin Press, New York, London.

Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts, Edited by Siân Ede, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London 2000.

Demetrios, E: 2001, An Eames Primer, Thames and Hudson, London.

Itten, J. 1970, The Elements of Color, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York

Foster, Hal (1996) The Return of the Real, MIT Press.

Coyne, Richard (1999) Technoromanticism, MIT Press (A Leonardo Book).

Hölldobler, B. & E.O.Wilson (1994), Journey to the ants: a story of scientific exploration, Harvard U.P.

Freedberg, D. (2002), The Eye of the Lynx : Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Ball, P. (2001), The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Paul Bowles, Stories, Penguin, 1999

Emily Brady, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment, Edinburgh University Press 2003

Nicola Barker, The Three Button Trick, Flamingo, 2003. [Guardian Review]

Thomas Eisner, For love of insects, Belkanp Press, 2003.

Michael Crichton, Prey, Avon, 2003.

Dennett, D.C. 1995, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Simon & Schuster, New York.

Philip Ball, Bright Earth: the invention of colour, Penguin, 2001.

Holland, J.H. 1998, Emergence: From Chaos to Order, Helix Books, Perseus Books, Cambridge, Mass.

Laurence, S. & E. Margolis 1999, Concepts: Core Readings, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Magnan, Pierre: Death in the Truffle Wood (Patricia Clancy, Translator), Random House, Sydney 2005 (Originally published in French 1978).

Parker, Andrew: Seven Deadly Colours: the genius of nature's palette and how it eluded Darwin, Simon & Schuster, London 2005.

Clark, A.: Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.

Loom: Weaving in a post-human domain.

iFilm: experimental channel.

Shift

Turux - semi automatic!

Sendai Mediatheque

My Real Baby

The Blue Planet

Objects of Wonder

Atlantis (DVD), Dir. Luc Bresson

PROOF, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne (Thursday 9 December 2004 - Sunday 13 February 2005)

Tatsuo Miyajima

Little Sparta (Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden). [garden visit site].

Victoria Miro Gallery [London].

The other Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.
[here is a picture of me at the other Eden]

Jon at Eden

The Deep – a VROOM exhibition (multi-screen stereoscopic projection) now closed after 5 successful years at the Melbourne Museum.

David Stephenson

Kim Hiorthøy

Nervous System

Theo Jansen

Kangding Ray: stabil, Automne Fold

Milleece: Formations

Lusine ICL: Language Barrier

Hauschka: Room to Expand

Not Drowning, Waving: Through the one last door.

Loscil: First Narrows

Oren Ambarchi: In the pendulum's embrace

Arve Henriksen: Chiaroscuro

Sankt Otten: Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder

Slow Dancing Society: The Slow and Steady Winter

Arve Henriksen: Sakuteiki

Biosphere: Autour de la Lune

Tetsu Inoue: Yolo

Bill Laswell: City of Light

Monolake: Plumbicon Versions

Robert Henke: Layering Budda

Murcof: Remembraanza

Spacemusic podcast

Sigor Rós: Takk

Boards of Canada: the campfire headphase

Harold Budd: Avalon Sutra / As long as I can hold my breath

Depeche Mode: Playing the Angel

Murcof: Martes and Utopia

Monolake: Momentum

Susumu Yokota: Laputa

Sigor Rós: Ágætis Byrjun

Curve: Gift

Monolake: Gravity, Interstate

Mouse On Mars: Instrumentals

Oval: Oval Process

Lume Lume, Ars Electronica 2000

Mouse On Mars: Idiopolis

Ars Electronica 2001 Audio CD

Susumu Yokota: GRINNING CAT, Magic thread & Sakura

Richie Hawtin: DE9 closer to the edit

Ryoji Ikeda::matrix.

New Order: Get Ready.

Monolake: Cinemascope

Björk: Vespertine

Pink Floyd: Set the controls for the heart of the sun (1968)

Naima: Vladislav Delay Live (Ars Electronica 2001 - Klangpark).

Massive Attack:100TH Window

Underworld:100 Days off

Monolake: Cinemascope

David Bridie, Hotel Radio

Kraftwerk



[ home | artworks | research | teaching | resources ]