Simon Penny is Professor of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, teaching mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and interdisciplinary seminars interfacing contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind with the arts. Trained as a sculptor, he has spent much of his career building interactive art environments with custom robotic and sensor-based systems.
"The history of computing, cybernetics and AI are reinterpreted through cognitive perameters, and the difficult relationship between the logic of cognitive science and the ""intelligence"" of art (or ""situated cognition"") is amply debated making the reading of this book a desirable, intense and informed experience. —Neutral.it"