Stephen Jones – Selected Bibliography (Publications, Papers, Chapters, and Presentations)
2018–2024+ Aspects of the history of Electronic Art in Australia (ongoing online series/chapters). Publisher: Stephen Jones and Associates / ARI Remix / EXTRA ZINE #66 (Sydney). Description: Multi-part history covering early computing, telegraphy, facsimile, cathode ray tubes, television, SILLIAC computer, beginnings of computer graphics in Australia, data visualization, PDP-8 systems, and more. Available at the-synthetic-image.com (e.g., chapters like “An Incunabula of Computing and Computer Graphics,” “The Electric Telegraph,” “Facsimile and the Transmission of Images,” “The Cathode Ray Tube,” “Electronic Imaging begins,” “Australia’s first Computers – SILLIAC,” “The beginnings of Computer Graphics in Australia,” “Data Visualisation and Computer Graphics,” “Computer art and the PDP-8”).
2023 Contribution to Philippa Cullen: Dancing the Music (exhibition catalog/essay). Publisher: McClelland Gallery (Langwarrin, Vic., May–July 2023). Description: Updated/expanded text on Philippa Cullen’s interactive electronic dance work (building on his 2004 Leonardo Music Journal article).
2021 “Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 5: Contexts.” In: Spectra 2018 symposium proceedings (art, science, technology contexts in Australia).
2020 “Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Contexts.” In: Spectra 2018 symposium proceedings.
2020 “The First Electronic Digital Computers in Australia.” Article/paper on early computing history in Australian art/tech contexts.
2015 “Frank Eidlitz: Design and the Origins of Computer Graphics in Australia.” Article on pioneering computer graphics in Australian design/art.
2015 “The Theremin as an Interface: Early Interactive Art in Australia.” Paper presented at AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) conference.
2013 “Video Art at the National Gallery of Victoria: 1973–1978.” In: Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, vol. 52.
2012 “Relational Processes in the Production of Art.” Paper presented at AAANZ 2012 conference, Sydney.
2012 “Bush Video: Towards a New Secular Electronic Notion of the Divine.” In: Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas (eds.), Relive: Media Art Histories. Leonardo Books, MIT Press.
2011 Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956–1975. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (Leonardo Book Series). xii, 395 p. ISBN: 9780262014960. Description: Seminal history of electronic arts, computer graphics, and video emergence in Australia.
2011 “Early Interactive Art in Australia.” Paper presented at Re-Wire conference, Liverpool, UK.
2011 “Towards a Taxonomy of Interactivity.” Paper presented at ISEA 2011, Istanbul.
2011 “A Systems Basis for New Media Pedagogy.” In: Leonardo, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 88–89.
2009 “A Systems Structure for Understanding New Media Practice.” Paper at Media Art Scoping Symposium: Media Art Education at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Culture, Melbourne.
2009 “Bush Video.” Paper at Re:Live Media Art History 09 conference, Melbourne.
2008 “The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney 1968–1975.” In: Andreas Broeckmann and Gunalan Nadarajan (eds.), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge. VDG-Weimar, Germany.
2008 “Frank Eidlitz: Design and the Origins of Computer Graphics in Australia.” Paper at AAANZ annual conference, Brisbane.
2007 “The Confluence of Computing and Fine Art at the University of Sydney, 1968–1975.” Paper at Re:Place 2007 – On the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany.
2007 “Emergence and Organization: Towards a Taxonomy of Organizing Relations.” In: NeuroQuantology, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (September 2007). Available at http://www.neuroquantology.com/.
2006 “Synthetics: An Archaeology of the Electronic Image in Australia, 1956-1975.” PhD thesis, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
2005 “A Cultural Systems Approach to Collaboration in Art & Technology” in Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition 2005 Conference held at Goldsmith’s College, London, April 2005.
2004 “Interaction Theory and the Artwork” in Edmonds, E. and Gibson, R. (eds), Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory, proceedings of a Creativity and Cognition Symposium, University of Technology Sydney, 16-19 November 2004. “The Incunabula of Computing and Computer Graphics” in Yu Wei-cheng and George, Phillip (eds) Art and New Media, Digital Art Center, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan. “Just what is it that makes today’s Digital Art so different, so appealing?” – talk on the aesthetics of the digital print (Victorian College of the Arts, August 25, 2004; International Forum for New Media and Digital Art, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan, October 29, 2004). “Emergence and Organization: Towards a Taxonomy of Organizing Relations”, NeuroQuantology, Vol.2, Issue 3. “Philippa Cullen: dancing the music”, Leonardo Music Journal, vol.14, 2004. “On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness.” Technoetic Arts, vol.2, no.1.
2003 “The History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia”, Leonardo, vol.36, no.3, 2003.
2002 “On Resolving Classical Experience with the Quantum World” – paper presented at Consciousness Reframed IV, Perth, WA, August 2002. Pachepsky, L., Taylor, T. and Jones, S. “Mutualism promotes diversity and stability in a simple artificial ecosystem”, Artificial Life, vol.8, no.1, pp.5-24. “What is (the) Meaning in/of all of This?” in Tofts, D., Johnson, A-M. and Cavallaro, A. (eds.) Prefiguring Cyberspace, Power Publications. “The HyperMuseum” – paper presented at the 3rd Science Centre World Congress, Canberra, February 2002.
2001 “On Resolving Classical Experience with the Quantum World” – paper presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Skovde, Sweden, August 2001. “On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness.” in Keleman, J. and Sosik, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference, ECAL ’01, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2001, pp.427-431. “Intelligent Environments: Organisms or Objects?” Convergence vol.7, no.2 (Summer) 2001, pp.25-33.
2000 “Synthetics: A History of the Electronic Image in Australia” – presentation at ISEA 2000, Paris, December 10, 2000. “On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness.” – presentation at Future Screen 2000, dLux Media Arts, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, October 29, 2000. “Bootstrapping the World into Being” – paper presented at Consciousness Reframed III, CaiiA, University of Wales, 2000. “Evolvability in the Context of the Biosphere.” – presentation at ALife 7, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, August 2000. “Sensing, Communication and Intentionality in Artificial Life.” In Sugisaka, M. and Tanaka, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 2000. “Some comments on a philosophy of Virtual Reality: Issues implicit in ‘Consciousness Reframed’.” Leonardo vol.33, no.2, 2000. “Relations, Information and Emergence.” Poster presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, April 2000.
1999 “Towards a Physics of Subjectivity.” – paper presented at Invencao, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1999 (in Ascott, Roy (ed.) Art, Technology, Consciousness, Intellect, Exeter, UK, 2000). “On Qualia and Information.” – paper presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tokyo, May 1999. “Can there be Non-embodied Information?” in Ascott, Roy (ed.) Reframing Consciousness, Intellect, Exeter, UK.
1998 “On Bubbles and Seamlessness” – commentary on John G. Taylor’s “Cortical Activity and the Explanatory Gap” in Consciousness and Cognition, vol.7, no.2, June 1998, pp.180-184. “Some suggestions for a neurobiological theory of consciousness.” Poster presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, April 1998.
1997 “A note on a possible physiology of subjectivity, and some comments on what a conscious machine might want to do for itself” in Ascott, Roy (ed.) Consciousness Reframed Conference Proceedings, Centre for Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts (CaiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, UK.
