The author provides an ac-count of his everyday experience as a physicist, which allows him to witness research on chaos as a science of convergence: the elite with the masses, the scientific dis-ciplines with each other, modern physics with Giordano Bruno's phi-losophy, and science with mysti-cism and art. He also outlines how chaos theory displays postmodern features and dissolves the bound-aries between the “two cultures.”.

This paper reviews the first “Consciousness Reframed” conference. A number of artists' works in media such as virtual reality and interactive installations are discussed, and various issues relating to “technoetic” artworks are raised. These issues include questions such as the potentially dehumanizing nature of technology, the transcendent states claimed for cyberspace, the nature of immersion, and aspects of the problem of consciousness. The author offers some suggestions regarding how technoetic art might tackle such issues.

The essay focuses on the processes of intermedia in visual media. The author's analysis of the merging of still, moving and computed images reveals that, in intermedia, images tend to-ward a spatial, rather than temporal, organizing prin-ciple. This shift becomes evident in particular in the moving images in such elec-tronic films as Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. The limits of intermedia in the electronic medium are unfolded in the concept of the coherent im-age by Zbigniew Rybczynski. Another concept of com-pression and convergence is demonstrated by Clea T.