bio-engineering research:

• Apligraf - a living bi-layered skin substitute
• Artificial Skin, description + functions by Jan Cepek
• Artificial Skin Developed at MIT - Now Ready for Treatment with Burn Patients, 1996 (article)
• Engineering Human Tissue, by Steve Alan Edwards article
• Ioannis V. Yannas, MIT professor - developped the first artificial skin
• Printable Skin: "Inkjet" Breakthrough Makes Human Tissue, Feb. 2005
• TransCyte: Temporary Skin Substitute - is indicated for use as a temporary wound covering. It is transparent and allows direct visual monitoring of the wound bed

artists:

• Alba D'Urbano: Hautnah
• Ann Hamilton
• Azziz + Cucher (A+C)
• Bill Viola: Science of the Heart (1983)
• Charlie White | Joshua by Charlie White
• Christophe Luxereau: Avatars
• Daniel Lee: Manimals
• Elinor Carucci
• Ernesto Neto at the 49th Vennice Biennial | Ernesto Neto at the Fabric Workshop & Museum
• Eva Hesse
• Fakir Musafar
• Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-Portrait
• Jake and Dinos Chapman
• Jill Scott: Taped, e-Skin
• John Coplans
• Joe Davis
• Kevin Marwick: body embedded chips - Project Cyborg 1.0, Project Cyborg 2.0
• Lee Mingwei: The First Human Male Pregnancy
• Leora Farber - ARTTHROB: Four Minor Renovations: Revamp, Refurbish, Retouch, Refine, 2000 Video | Leora Farber - Jibby Beane Contemporary London
• Margi Geerlinks
• Marina Abramovic: Cleaning the House Performance, Thomas Lips, Breathing In/Out
• Micheal Rees
• Mongrel | Tate Collection: Uncomfortable Proximity project | Mongrel site
• Orlan
• Patricia Piccinini
• Stelarc
• Sylvia Rigon: Venus Villosa
• Thecla Shiphorst: Bodymaps: Artifacts of Touch
• Wendy Jacob: Squeeze Chair Lounge - Creative Capital Grants website, Columns
• Ulay: Tatto Trasplant, Retouching Bruises

design/architecture:

• Carla Murray & Peter Allen: TechnoLust - core 77 design competition 2000
• Chris Slutter:
• Greg Lynn Form: Skin, Fold, Blob Architecture, Embryonic House (fluid architecture)
• Jurgen Bay: Kokon/Covered series
• Marcel Wanders: Sneeze, Egg, Sponge Vase
• Matthieu Manche - Fresh series of garments
• Tonita Abeyta: Sensate, 2000-2001 - Latex garments with and without built-in male or female condoms (Manufacturer: California Medical Innovations)

exhibits/groups:

• Anatomical Travelogue - visualization artistry on medical images
• Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics

projects:

• Khronos Projector - Alvaro Cassinelli: a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen
• Multi-Touch Interaction Research - Jeff Han: Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface.
• Magic Coloring Wall - Setpixel: An interactive magic coloring book with camera tracking
• Skins of Intimate Distance: A collaborative research project involving architects, designers and installation artists - Melbourne, November 2003 (more of setup installation info)

books/readings/essays:

• A Body, by John Coplans (powerHouse Books) 2002
• Artist Body: Performances 1969-1998, by Marina Abramovic (Charta) 1998
• Digital Art, by Christiane Paul (Thames & Hudson) 2003
• Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman (Vintage Contemporaries) 2004
• Herzog on Herzog, by Paul Cronin (Faber & Faber) 2003
• Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, by Stephen Wilson (The MIT Press) 2003 and book site
• Lighting for Digital Video & Television (second edition), by John Jackmam (CMP Books) 2004
• Media Art Net site - Interview with Jill Scott - Extensive Bodies
• New Media in the Late 20th-Century Art, by Michael Rush (Thames & Hudson) 1999
• Performance: Live art since 1960, by Rosalee Goldberg (Harry N Abrams) 1998
• Skin: Surface Substance + Design, by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press) 2002
• Skin: New Design Organics, by Ellen Lupton
• The Artist's Body - Themes and Movements, by Tracey Warr (Phaidon Press) 2000
• Towards a Poor Theatre, by Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook (Routledge) 2002
• Video Shooter: Story Telling with DV, HD and HDV Camera, by Barry Braverman (CMP Books) 2006
• Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, by Oliver Grau (The MIT Press) 2004
• Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century, Edited by Uta Grosenick (Taschen) 2003

movies:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), by Stanley Kubrick
• Alien (1979), by Ridley Scot
• Aliens (1986), by James Cameron
• Alien 3 (1992), by David Fincher
• Alien: Resurrection (1997), by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• eXistenZ (1999), by David Cronenberg
• Fata Morgana (1971), by Werner Herzog
• Sleeper (1973), by Woody Allen
• Star Trek: The first Contact (1996), by Jonathan Frakes
• The Belly of An Architect (1987), by Peter Greenaway
• Videodrome (1983), by David Cronenberg

software:

• Electro
• Max/MSP
• PD
• GEM
• Processing
• Ygdrasil / YG

tech/ hardware:

• A.R.T GmbH: finger tracking prototype
• touch screen
• tablet
• soft tech
• C-WALL (Configurable Wall)

camera tracking:

• CamTrack - Track a user's head using a webcam
• Color-based Tracker - Christopher DeCoro
• EffecTV - by Nathan Harrington - IBM
• Jitter
• Infra Red Webcam - How to make a webcam infra red
• Open Source Computer Vision Library - intel
• Processing - Video Library
• PiDiP
• RoboRealm - Robotic Vision Application
• Tracking an object from a live video input - Paul Yi Tung, Ooi
• TrackThemColors Xtra
• WCCV - Webcam Computer Vision Project

materials:

• Aerogel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory: used to insulate Mars Pathfinder
• Barrisol stretched ceilings
• IDEO fabrications for Eleksen (ElekTex fabric): smart fabric exploration - it is a conductive fabric whose entire surface can sense the location and pressure of human touch
• Smartex, Woven smart system, Electrotextile, fibers and fabrics,..
• latex, rubber
• membrane of polyurethane (easily applicable by spray gun or paintroller)
• soft polyurethane, silicone
• spandex, elastane fabric - Lycra

visuals/imagery:

• NASA Earth Observatory - land scars, fire scars, volcanic erruptions (ex. Fire Scars in Australia's Simpson Desert )

other:

• Digital Video - DV
• DIGIT - the future of Digital Design
• 3d digital scanner
• CNC milling systems
• Media Art Net
• networked-enabled performance blog
• smart mobs
• The 3D Body Scanner - Cornell University