Publications

Publications, Presentations & Workshops

Castellanos, C. (2020). PlantConnect and Microbial Sonorities: Exploring the Intersection of Plant, Microbial and Machine Agencies. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2020). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020.

Salimi, M., Abukhodair, N., DiPaola, S., Castellanos, C., Pasquier, P. (2020). Liminal Scape, an interactive visual installation with expressive AI. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2020). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020.

DiBlasi, J., Castellanos, C., Kang, E., Poltronieri, F., Smith, L. (2020). Agency & Autonomy: Intersections of Artificial Intelligence and Creative Practice. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2020). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020.

Castellanos, C., Demaray, E., Fox, T., Rinaldo, K., Youngs, A. (2020). Sentience and Trans-Species Collaboration: Considering the Aims, Desires and Perceptual Landscapes of the Non-Human. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2020). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020.

Castellanos, C., Bello, B., Lee H., Lee, M., Lee, Y.S., Chang, I.S. (2020). On Creating Multimedia Interfaces for Hybrid Biological-Digital Art Installations. In Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. Daejeon, South Korea.

2019 Castellanos, C. (2019). Un/Green Agency: Human-Non-Human Relations in New Media Art.  Presented at the 4th Open Fields Conference on Art-Science Research, Riga, Latvia. Retrieved from http://festival2019.rixc.org, October 31, 2019.

Levy, E., Demaray, E., Castellanos, C. & Telhan, O. (2019). Life, Agency & Ecology: Aesthetics of Human-Nonhuman Encounters in Environmental and Biological Art. In CAA 2019, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York.

Castellanos, C. (2019). Microbial Sonorities.  In Proceedings of Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (pp. 164–166). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

2018 Castellanos, C. (2018). Biopoiesis: Electrochemical Media. Leonardo 51 (2), 133-137.

Castellanos, C. & Barnes, S. (2018). Biopoiesis: Cybernetics, Art, and Ambiguity. Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22 (2).

2017 Castellanos, C. & Barnes, S. (2017). Biopoiesis: Cybernetics, Art and Ambiguity. in Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Cybernetics Revisited. MIT Press. Retrieved from https://contemporaryarts.mit.edu/cybernetics, January 2, 2018.

2016 Castellanos, C. (2016). Co-evolution, Neocybernetic Emergence and Phenomenologies of Ambiguity: Towards a Framework for Understanding Interactive Arts Experiences. Technoetic Arts 14 (3), 159-168.

2015 Castellanos, C. (2015). Co-evolution, Neocybernetic Emergence and Phenomenologies of Ambiguity: Towards a Framework for Understanding Interactive Arts Experiences. In Consciousness Reframed 2015, Shanghai.

Castellanos, C. (2015). Mobile Bioenergy Lab: Exploring Ecology, Technology and Community in Urban Space. In AICAD Symposium, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, San Francisco, CA.

Castellanos, C., Fox, T., Duff, T. & Garcia, M. (2015). Human/Non-Human: Biologies, Ecologies and Subjectivities in New Media Art. In ISEA2015, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Vancouver, BC Canada.

Castellanos, C., Barnes, S. & Fox, T. (2015). Constructing Microbial Fuel Cells. In ISEA2015, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Castellanos, C. (2015). Artistic Explorations of Ecology, Technology and Community in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco. In Open Engagement 2015, Pittsburgh, PA.

Castellanos, C. & Garcia, M. (2015). Towards Ecological Equality: Collaborative Practice in Art and Technology. In Balance-Unbalance 2015, Tempe AZ.

Garcia, M., Castellanos, C. & Bojorquez, A. (2015). Reimagining Resilience: Walking Indigenous Waterways. In Balance-Unbalance 2015, Tempe, AZ.

2013 Castellanos, C. (2013). Cybernetics and its Relevance to Contemporary Art. In L. Hunter & R. Lyon (Eds.), Where 1 (pp. 42-47). New York, NY: CreateSpace.

2012 Barnes, S. & Castellanos, C. (2012). (Re)Structuring Innovation: Community-Based Wet Labs for Art-Science Collaborations (White Paper). Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (SEAD). Retrieved from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/NSF_SEAD, October 2, 2015.

Castellanos, C. (2012). Ambiguity and Unknowability in the Emergent Arts. Presented at the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Retrieved from http://litsciarts.org/slsa12/program.php, December 22, 2014.

Castellanos, C. & Barnes, S. (2012). Biopoiesis. Leonardo 45(1), 382-383.

Castellanos, C. & Barnes, S. (2012). Biopoiesis. Presented at Subtle Technologies, Toronto. Retrieved from http://subtletechnologies.wordpress.com/events/festival-2012/symposium/poster-exhibition/, December 22, 2014.

2010 Castellanos, C., Gromala, D. & Pasquier, P. (2010). Heterogenesis: Collectively Emergent Autonomy. In Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art, ICME 2010 (pp. 1606-1611), Singapore.

Castellanos, C. & Gromala, D. (2010). The Symbiogenic Experience: Towards a Framework for Understanding Human-Machine Coupling in the Interactive Arts. Technoetic Arts 8(1), 11-18.

2009 Castellanos, C. & Gromala, D. (2009). Symbiogenic Experiences in the Interactive Arts. In Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference (p. 7). Irvine, CA: UC Urvine. Retrieved from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8807m77k.pdf, December 23, 2014.

Castellanos, C. & Gromala, D. (2009). The Symbiogenic Experience: Towards a Framework for Understanding Human-Machine Coupling in the Interactive Arts. In Consciousness Reframed 2009. Presented at the Consciousness Reframed Conference, Munich (p. 7). Retrieved from http://planetary-collegium.macromedia-project.de/presentations.html, December 23, 2014.

Castellanos, C. & Gromala, D. (2009). The Symbiogenic Art Experience: A Phenomenological and Aesthetic Approach to the Question of Human-Machine Co-evolution. Presented at the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Atlanta. Retrieved from http://www.litsciarts.org/slsa09/program.php, December 23, 2014.

Castellanos, C. & Schiphorst, T. (2009). BodyDaemon. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, CA (pp. 423-424). New York NY: ACM.

2008 Castellanos, C., Pasquier, P., Thie, L., & Che, K. (2008). Biometric Tendency Recognition and Classification System: An Artistic Approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (pp. 166–173). Athens, Greece: ACM.

2007 Castellanos, Carlos. (2007). BodyDaemon. Presented at Subtle Technologies, Toronto. Retrieved from http://www.subtletechnologiesarchive.com/2007/?page_id=78, January 13, 2015