See also the Topological Media Lab's Research References .

Critical Studies of Media Arts and Sciences

• "What's At Stake: the Poetics of Performative Space," AI & Society London, 6 October 2008. (PDF)
• "The Topological Media Lab: studying subjectivation, agency and materiality from phenomenological, social and computational perspectives," Jan 9, 2008, SIAT, SFU.
• "Poetics of Performative Space," in preparation for AI & Society, Springer-Verlag. ( What's at stake? Lays out the ethico-aesthetic and critical motivations for this genre of work in responsive environments.)
• "Poiesis and Enchantment," Deleuze Conference, U. California Berkeley, 3 November 2006. (QT video of slides 120 mb)
• "Whitehead's Poetical Mathematics," Configurations - Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2005, pp. 77-94. (PDF)
• "Towards a Poetics of Performative Space," in preparation for Special Issue of Poetics Today, Winter 2005. (A more sustained description of the phenomenological questions being explored in the responsive media spaces. Making explicit some of the ethico-aesthetic concerns and consequences that informed both the aesthetic concept of the experience in play spaces, and their technical architecture.)
• "Poetics of Performative Space," slides for talk Feb 2006 (PDF 10mb, PDF for Harvestworks 2006, 22 mb)
• "The TGarden Experimental Performance Project," to appear in Modern Drama 2005.
• "Ethico-Aesthetics in T* Performative Spaces," in On Transient Realities and Their Generators, ed. Kuzmanovic and Tim Boykett. Maribor, Slovenia: Kibla, 2005, pp. 22-39. To be recast as prospectus for book: A Genealogy of Topological Media. (Describing some of the technical and ethico-aesthetic aspects of the TGarden family of responsive play spaces: TGarden 2000 through FoAM’s trg 2005.)
• "The TGarden Performance Research Project." Modern Drama, 48.3, Fall, Special Issue: Technology (2005): 585-608. (PDF with color images, Published article )
• "Differential Geometrical Performance and Poiesis," in Configurations, Vol 12, Number 1, Winter 2004, pp. 133-160. (PDF)
• "Does felt dream of electric sheep?" Carbon vs. Silicon, Thinking Small/ Thinking Fast, Banff Canada, 2003. (QT slides)
• "Resistance Is Fertile: Gesture and Agency in the Field of Responsive Media," in Makeover: Writing the Body into the Posthuman Technoscape, Two-Part Special Issue of Configurations, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Part 2: Configurations, Vol 10, Number 3, Summer 2002. (PDF)
• "Melting Pot or Fruit Salad: Experiment in Autonomously Producing Culture,"2003, in preparation for CODE.
• "Ethico-aesthetics of Collaboration," Bridges 2, Banff Center for the Arts, 2002. slides.
• with Timothy Lenoir, "Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon," in Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, ed., From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature, Stanford University Press, 2002. (PDF 3mb)
• "Speechpainting - An Architectural Medium," E-Zine, 15.10, Oct 2001. (PDF, HTML)
• with sponge, "The surface that holds the image is unstable," ec/Arts #2, September 2000. (PDF, HTML)
• Differential Geometric Performance and the Technologies of Writing, lecture at Georgia Tech, School for Literature, Culture and Communication, February 2000.
• "Geometric Measure Theory As Monster Mash," Society for Literature and Science, 4S, October 1999, slides. (How mathematicians construct and re-nromalize pathologies in order to extend concepts in geometric measure theory, departing from Lakatos.)
• with Tim Lenoir, "The Virtual Edge -- Tracing the Postmodern Surgeon," From Energy To Information Conference , Austin Texas, 1997, slides.
• "PostScript? Geometric Writing As Performance," Imaging and Visualization in the Cultures of Science and Medicine, University of Utah, March 1998, slides.
• with Niklas Damiris, "Hyletic Material: Concepts and Mathematics for a Continuous Ontology."

Computational Science

• Sha, Xin Wei, "A Scientific Approach to Gesture Tracking in Performative Environments," Computer Science Concordia University, 13 November 2007 (PDF).
• with * Doug Van Nort, * David Gauthier, Marcelo M. Wanderley ,"Extraction of Gestural Meaning from a Fabric-Based Instrument," ICMC 2007. (PDF)
• with * David Birnbaum, * Freida Abtan, Marcelo M. Wanderley, "Mapping and dimensionality of a cloth-based sound instrument," Sound & Music Computing, 11-13 July 2007, Lefkada Greece. (PDF)
• Sha, Xin Wei, and Satinder Gill, "Gesture and Response in Field-Based Performance," 5th conference on Creativity & Cognition, ed. Ernest Edmonds, London: ACM, 2005, pp. 205-09. (PDF)
• with Chris Salter, "Sponge: A Case Study in Practice-Based Collaborative Art Research," 5th conference on Creativity & Cognition, ed. Ernest Edmonds, London: ACM, 2005, pp. 92-101. (PDF)
• with Y. Serita, J. Fantauzza, S. Dow, G. Iachello, V. Fiano, J. Berzowska, Y. Caravia, D. Nain, W. Reitberger, J. Fistre, "Demonstrations of expressive softwear and ambient media," Ubicomp 2003 (short PDF, video, long PDF).
• with G. Iachello, S. Dow, Y. Serita, T. St. Julien, J. Fistre, "Continuous sensing of gesture for control of audio-visual media," ISWC International Society for Wearable Computing, 2003. (PDF)
• with Y. Visell and B. MacIntyre, "Choreographing Responsive Media Environments Using Continuous State Dynamics on a Simplicial Complex," in preparation, 2004.
• Wearable Instruments / Wearable Sound, talk (Graphics, Visualization and Usability, GaTech), 2002.
• with François Guimbretière, Terry Winograd, "Geometer's Workbench: An experiment in Interacting with a Large, High Resolution Display," Stanford CSD Technical Report, 2001. (PDF)
• James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei, "Content-based Image Indexing and Searching Using Daubechies' Wavelets," in International Journal of Digital Libraries(IJODL), Springer-Verlag, 1997. (http://link.springer.de)
• James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei, "Wavelet-Based Image Indexing Techniques with Partial Sketch Retrieval Capability," Proceedings of the Fourth Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'97), 13-24, Washington D.C., May 1997.
• "MediaWeaver -- A Distributed Media Authoring System for Networked Scholarly Workspaces," Special Issue on Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1996.
• "Situating MMDD with respect to WWW, Portfolio, PREMO, Hyper-G, ScriptX."
• "ACM Multimedia95 Panel on Personal Narrative Spaces," 1995.
• "MMDD and Networked Scholarly Workspaces," DAGS, Boston, 31 May 1995. (7 pp. HTML)
• "MediaWeaver -- A Distributed Media Authoring System," white paper, rev. 28 May 1996.
• "An Open Meta-testbed for Distributed Multimedia Databases." March 1994.

  Mathematical Sciences

• A Laboratory for Geometric Performance, proposal for dissertation: Differential Geometric Performance and Technologies of Writing.
• Works Cited, Bibliography for dissertation, Differential Geometric Performance and Technologies of Writing. Geometer's Workbench, Stanford CS Information Mural group talk, 1998. (Description of a blackboard application for Winograd and Hanrahan's interactive workspace.)
• Functional Programming, for chapter in book on Mathematica Programming, 1997. (Tutorial on functional programming using Mathematica's powerful structure operators, with motivation from multilinear algebra, iterated maps, and ergodic maps.)
• Proposal for a Geometric Reasoning Laboratory, 12 March 1996. (CSLI Interface Lab talk.)
• Intelligent 3D Blackboards for Geometric Research, 1994. (Note about GeomView and proposes research areas in geometry, cosmology and topology suitable for a 3D geometric interface.)
• Overview: Liveboards for Mathematical Research. 1994. (Talk at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.)
• Note on the Willmore Functional and Möbius Strips, 1993.
• Bibliography for Willmore problem.
• Proposal: Quantum Cosmology Simulations (to support A. Linde).
  
  
  Scholarly spaces
• "Inside and Outside the Box," Creating Space for Art, 14-15 Oct 2005. http://spaceforart.concordia.ca/ (video of slides, 75m) ("TML," Technology Summit, New Delhi, 21-23 Sep 2005. temporary link for JB: PDF, PPT)
• "Cathedral, Tool or Framework? MediaWeaver As a Distributed Scholarly Workspace" in Augmenting Comprehension: Digital Tools and the History of Ideas, ed. Dino Buzzetti, Giuliano Pancaldi, and Harold Short, (London: Office for Humanities Communcation, Kings College London), 2004, pp. 101-112
• "Architecture Concerns for SLL-CIV Project" (Review of information systems architecture and project plan for Learning Lab's first web-based class experiment.) "Networked Scholarly Spaces," Humanities Computing: Philosophy and Digital Resources, Bologna, 2000, to appear in Humanities Communication Publications.
• "Performable Writing," Faculty Seminar on Innovation, 10 Aug 1995 (Survey of trends in new media and now genres of writing.)
• "Learning Space or Scholar's Piazza?" (Offering the 13c+ piazza as an alternative architectural metaphor to the information superhighway.)
• "Scholarly Spaces." (Strategic survey of computationally augmented research and instruction environments, with associated academic technology development.)
• "MediaWeaver," 1 May 95. (Talk at CSD Digital Libraries Seminar)
• with Tim Lenoir. "Networked Scholarly Workspaces for History of High Technology." (Slides for talk at MIT)
  

Artist Statements

• Proposal for Membrane DEAF2004 (PDF 5 mb).

Other

• Capsule biography (English)
• Capsule biography (Français)
  
  

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