Steve Mann; Interrogative Art, Performances, Cultural Criticism, etc...

• Decontamination, Surveillance and Ready Made Martial Law in the Anthrax Age ISEA 2002, October 27 to 31.
• DECONference 2002: Freedom from the possibility of carrying contraband or contamination.
• CYBORG: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer published by Randomhouse Doubleday (found by WWW search with word "cyborg" on the chapters.com site).
• Sousveillance, not just surveillance, in response to terrorism
• 35mm motion picture film about wearable computing... "Cyberman, is about a genius computer geek at the U of T who created the world's first wearable computer." -- Globe and Mail See also, other Cyberman reviews.
• Subjectrights: an alternative to the concept of Copyright.
• Seatsale: an exhibition of Seat Licensing in San Francisco.
• Prior Art: Art of Record for Personal Safety
  The exhibit features the world's first true wearable computer, along with other wearable computers from the last twenty years, juxtaposed against an ultra modern mass decontamination facility with Internet connected sensor operated showers and body-scanning machine vision systems. The exhibit highlights the interplay between individuals (wearing computers or other cyborg technology) and the police state that strips its civilians of their clothing and their dignity. There is also a curatorial essay for the exhibit.
• Seatsale: social commentary on software licenses.
• Microseconds and Years: an exhibition of Lightvector Paintings at the Olga Korper Gallery
• Reflectionism and Diffusionism Leonardo 31(2)
• More on art (invited plenary lecture at Ars Electronica, along with a week long performance piece there called "Sicherheitsglaeser"): http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/sicherheitsglaeser/
• Retrospective exhibit of various embodiments of the WearComp/WearCam inventions from over the last 20 years, with an emphasis on embodiments selected to question the role of surveillance in society: http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/lvac/
• Another exhibit of various embodiments of Mann's "wearable computer" (WearComp) invention from over the last 20 years, at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998Nov28-1999Jan10, http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/stedelijk/
• If you would like to show me an advertisement, please press 3, and slide your credit card through the slot on my head to purchase my attention!
• Exhibit at pARTs photographic arts gallery, March 1999
• Reflectionist issues in Humanistic Intelligence
• Empowerment: Fundamental Issues in Wearable Computing (Prof. Mann's ICWC-98 Keynote Address)
• BlindVision... wearable radar with vibrotactile output, etc. http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/isea_abstract.html/
• Eudaemonic Eye
• Wearable Wireless Webcam.
• A manifesto on privacy issues of wearable cameras, etc.
• Smart clothing: Turning the tables (how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive)
• Periodicity in Perspective
• Beyond digital photography: The new imaging renaissance.
• Mathematical theory behind "Personal Imaging", as published in Sep.'97 issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• Inivited talk for Immedia98, U. Michigan, Feb. 7, 1998
• Invited submission to INFOWAR (adapted from USENIX98 speech)
• WearComp/WearCam, etc..
• WearComp: A first step toward "Personal Imaging"
• An historical account of the WearComp project. (This paper may also be viewed as one single html file, or a PostScript version may be downloaded).
• `Smart Clothing'
• Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled)
• Picture of Steve, wearing various embodiments of his "wearcomp" invention (WARNING: moderately large file, may TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD AND DISPLAY)
• A light overview in the popular press (e.g. how the "WearComp" project was brought to MIT in 1991, etc..). http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/judith_gaines.jpg if that file's too big, a smaller on is also available: http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/judith_gaines_und.gif
• Origins of Cyberfashion (Toronto in the 1980s) retrospective fashion show, was grand finale gala closing event at Technology Entertainment and Design (TEDCity), and was described in various publications such as Flair.

Prof. Steve Mann
University of Toronto
Department of Electrical Engineering, Room S.F. 2001,
10 King's College Road; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; M5S 3G4
Tel. 416.946-3387
Fax. 416.971-2326
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann