Yearbook of the Artificial. Vol. 1

Contents: Massimo Negrotti: On the logic of the artificial - Syed Mustafa Ali: The nature of the artificial: augmenting Negrottian artificiality with neo-Whiteheadian naturality - Danila Bertasio/Giorgio Marchetti: Invisibility revealed by visibility - Monica Bordegoni/Umberto Cugini: Visual-haptic multimodal human-computer interaction - Mariella Combi: The cultural body and artificial technology - Giuseppe Lanzavecchia: Freedom from the limits of the human condition - Giuseppe O. Longo: Natural-artificial: continuity or discontinuity? - Victor Margolin: Human and machine: issues of collaborative action - Kavita Mehra: Biotechnology towards designing of the life: the culture of the artificial - Sabrina Moretti: Social interaction in artificial societies - Giuseppe Padovani/Romano Zanni: For an epistemology of the artificial - Antonino Porrello: Information society and theory of the artificial - Lars Qvortrup: Digital art and design poetics: the poetical potentials of projection and interaction - Martino Rizzotti: Are humans the sole producers of artificial? - Giacomo Romano: Between artificial and artifact - Yoshihiro Sato: Technology in the shape of culture - Design of information technology for life - David Smith: Communicating tacit knowledge across cultures: a multimedia archive of the Bankura Dhokra craft industry of West Bengal as a case of the artificial.

The Editor: Massimo Negrotti is Professor of Methodology of Human Sciences and Director of IMES-LCA at the University of Urbino. He has published several books about the artificial.