Simon Penny (Books)

Simon Penny Books

Simon Penny is a professor of art whose work bridges the realms of technology and artistic expression. Trained as a sculptor, his career has largely involved creating interactive art environments, employing custom robotic and sensor-based systems. He teaches mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and interdisciplinary seminars that interface contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind with the arts.

Making Sense

540 pages
19 hours of reading

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In Making Sense, Simon Penny proposes that internalist conceptions of cognition have minimal purchase on embodied cognitive practices. Much of the cognition involved in arts practices remains invisible under such a paradigm. Penny argues that the mind-body dualism of Western humanist philosophy is inadequate for addressing performative practices. Ideas of cognition as embodied and embedded provide a basis for the development of new ways ofspeaking about the embodied and situated intelligences of the arts. Penny argues this perspective is particularly relevant to media artspractices.