The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age

Photographic practice, postmodernism and the 'irreal' / Jane Tormey -- Gursky, Ruff, Demand : allegories of the real and the return of history / Neil Matheson -- Between the hyperrepresentational and the real : a sampling sensibility / Susanne [0]stby Saether -- Performing the real / Lennaart van Oldenborgh -- Art, representation and responsibility : towards a systems aesthetic / James Coupe -- Real streams / Kate Robinson -- Centres / Andrew Lee -- The shape of the real : the work of the Einstein's brain project / Alan Dunning and Paul Woodrow -- BIOTEKNICA : organic tissue prototypes / Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey -- Designing for emboided interaction : experiencing artefacts with and through the body / Michael Smyth -- Virtual realities, techno-aesthetics and metafictions of digital culture / Elizabeth K. Menon -- Real photography / Damian Sutton -- Virtual cinematography and the digital real : (dis)placing the moving image between reality and simulacra / Jenna Ng -- Science of appearances, politics of the real / Slavoj 'Zi'zek.