Presentations, Publications:

Currently writing a text on 'reflection' and a longer one about methods, working title 'manifesto for other ways of knowing' for publication in 2012.

Michael Hohl, (2011)"From abstract to actual: art and designer-like enquiries into data visualisation", Kybernetes, Vol. 40 Iss: 7/8, pp.1038 - 1044

Wiltschnig, S. and Hohl, M. (2011), “A world brought forth with others?”, Kybernetes, Vol. 40 Nos 1/2, pp. 332–3

"Sensual Technologies: Embodied experience and visualisation of scientific data" (2011) in "BST, "Body, Space and Technology Journal", Volume 10 / Number 01, Brunel University - 2011 ISSN 1470-9120

Hohl, M (2010) ‘The phenomenology of getting used to the new: Some thoughts on memory, perception, numbing and the Zen-view’. In: Design and semantics of form and movement. Lucerne: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. pp. 39-47. ISBN 978-3-906413-80-8

Design Research Network Forum (2009) “Steering Courses and Discourses” presented a speculative research paper titled, “The Phenomenology of Getting Used to the New: Some thoughts on memory, forgetting, numbing and the Zen view”;

Hohl, M (2009) ‘Designing the art experience: using Grounded Theory to develop a model of participants' perception of an immersive telematic artwork’ Digital Creativity , 20 (3), pp. 187-196. ISSN 1462-6268

Hohl, M (2009) ‘Beyond the screen: visualizing visits to a website as an experience in physical space’ Visual Communication , 8 (3), pp. 273-284. ISSN 1470-3572

Hohl, M (2009) ‘Calm Technologies 2.0: Visualising Social Data as an Experience in Physical Space ’ Parsons journal for information mapping , 1 (3), pp. 1-7.

Hohl, Michael (2009) Beyond the screen: visualizing visits to a website as an experience in physical space. Visual Communication, 8 (3). pp. 273-284. ISSN 1470-3572. This was part of the New Views 2 "Conversations and dialogues in Graphic Design" conference.

In July 2008 I presented at EVA, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts sponsored by the British Computer Society BCS and CAS the Computer Arts Society. My presentation titled "Sensual Displays: From verbose visualisation on the screen to sensual displays in physical space" had slightly progressed from my position-paper "Beyond graphs or charts: Visualising web statistics with natural displays in physical space." in that it presented a range of "emotional presence indicators." (Peer review)

In 2007 Media-N, the Journal for the New Media Caucus, published in its edition "Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements 2007" Fall 2007 v.03 n.01, a statement of mine which emphasised the relationship between telematics and visualisation technologies in relation to my own research.

Schuricht, S., Hohl, M. and Struppek, M. (2007) ‘Freequent Traveller’. In: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction - TEI '07. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 247-250. ISBN 978-1-59593-619-6

Hohl, M., Schuricht, S. and Struppek, M. (2006) ‘Double Room: An exploration of public space with the Zen View’. In: Proceedings of the ninth conference on Participatory design: Expanding boundaries in design . New York: Association for Computing Machinery. .

Schuricht, S., Hohl, M. and Struppek, M. (2006) ‘Freequent Traveller: Interaction versus Contemplation’ Static (4), pp. 1-5. ISSN 1754-5374

In May 2006 I presented the results of my Main Study doctoral study at “Reframing Consciousness 8” conference taking place in Plymouth, UK. ISBN 1-84102-158-X

In April 2005 I presented a paper on my PhD pilot study at the Leonardo/OLATS conference “Planetary Consciousness and the Arts” in Yverdon, Switzerland.

In December 2004 I presented a paper at the doctoral consortium of the “Space and Spatiality” conference at Napier University, Edinburgh.

In November 2004 I presented a paper about my research methodology at the “No one opens attachments any more” symposium at Lancaster University, UK.

In October 2004 I exhibited the screen-based version of my research application Radiomap at the arts track of the ACM SIG Multimedia conference at Columbia University, NY.

In August 2004 I presented my PhD research project at the doctoral consortium of the ACM SIG “Designing Interactive Systems” (DIS) conference in Cambridge, MA.

In April 2004 I presented my research on “Transforming data from one sensorial modality to another” at the Pixelraiders 2 conference in Sheffield, UK.

In February 2001 and February 2003 I presented my work “bits’n people,” created in collaboration with Björn Barnekow, at the “Sound Practice” conference in Dartington, Devon and at the “Learntec” educational conference in Karlsruhe, Germany.

In 2001 our project “world_cam” was presented at the Browser-Day in Amsterdam, created in collaboration with Jörg Müller. A server-side cgi script creates VRML on the fly, rendering webcam images in 3D space above a current map of the world. You can see this principle now in Google earth.

In June 02009 a modified version of my paper “Designing The Art Experience: Understanding And Improving Immersive Telematic Art With Social Science Methods” was accepted by the journal Digital Creativity for its August 02009 issue, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 189-198. This special issue was edited by Stephen Boyd-Davis. (Peer review)

In June 02009 a special issue of the journal “Visual Communication” has accepted my paper “Beyond The Screen: Visualising Visits To A Website As An Experience In Physical Space” for publication in August 2009. (Peer review)

In March 02009 I presented at the conference “Performing Presence: From the live to the simulated” in Exeter, UK. Paper: “Some thoughts on presence, immersion and calm technologies.”

In January 02009 I presented at “LEA09: Completing the Circle: Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work.” Paper: “Designing The Art Experience: Understanding And Improving Immersive Telematic Art With Social Science Methods” Interdisciplinary conference organised by the British Computer Society BCS, Design Research Society and the Computer Art Society. (Peer review)

PhD Thesis:

The research was conducted at the Art & Design Research Centre of Sheffield Hallam University and funded by a DTRC studentship. It was practice-based and interdisciplinary encompassing Human Computer Interaction and Fine Art practice. My supervisors were media artist/researcher Professor Simon Biggs and Dr. Chris Roast, Reader in HCI. I was examined by Professor Paul Sermon (University of Salford) and Professor Peter Wright (Sheffield Hallam University).

"This is not here: Connectedness, remote experience and immersive telematic art." (compressed pdf, 5 Mb)
Or first read the abstract of the thesis here: Abstract (pdf, 55 kb)

Video Documentation:

Peer-review and related activities in 2011

2011 Peer-review for DRS Precision 2012 conference, Bangkok
2011 Peer-review for ASC Cybernetics & Human Knowing publication 2012
2011 Peer-review for DESform 2012, New Zealand
2011 Peer-review for ADS-VIS 2011, "Making visible the invisible", Art, Design and Science in Data Visualisation conference, Huddersfield, UK
2011 Peer-review for IADIS (IHCI) 2011, Sense & Sensibility, Lisbon
2011/06-09 Editing proceedings of ADS-VIS2011 conference.
2011/01 Pre-juror for an ideas competition of the American Society of Cybernetics.
2011/05 Peer-review for “Design promoviert”, Design Research student colloquium at UdK Berlin.
2011/04 Peer-review for “IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2011”, Rome.
2011/03 Jury member for the distinguished SIGgraph 2011 arts track in Vancouver, Canada.