By Professor Paul Rowlands Thomas

Books

Thomas P, 2023, The Unknown Known, Independent, Sydney, https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BVT754L7

Thomas PR, 2018, Quantum Art & Uncertainty, Intellect Books, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Q/bo31274491.html

Thomas PR, 2014, Interference Strategies, Aceti L; Thomas PR, (ed.), Leonardo/ISAST, San Francisco, http://www.leoalmanac.org/volume20-no2-interference-strategies/

Thomas PR, 2013, Relive Media Art Histories, Cubitt S; Thomas PR, (ed.), Mit Press, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/relive

Thomas PR, 2013, Nanoart THE IMMATERIALITY OF ART, Intellect Ltd, Bristol, http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4971/

Thomas P, 2009, Reconfiguring Space, VDM-Verlag-Dr.-Muller-Aktiengesellschaft--Co.-KG, Saarbrucken, http://www.abebooks.com/9783639140880/Reconfiguring-Space-Thomas-Paul-3639140885/plp

Book Chapters

Thomas P; Cubitt S, 2025, 'Volume Introduction', in Thomas P (ed.), The Encyclopedia of New Media Art: Volume 2: Artists & Practice, Bloomsbury, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bloomsbury-digital-resources/products/bloomsbury-visual-arts/bloomsbury-encyclopedia-of-new-media-art/

Mandl S; Gemeinboeck P, 2017, 'The Resonance of the Document: Material Exchange, Assemblage, and the Productive Archive', in Aceti L; Thomas P; Colless E (ed.), Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics, LEA / MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, https://contemporaryarts.mit.edu/pub/resonanceofthedocument

Eastwood D, 2017, 'The Studio As Cloud', in Aceti L; Thomas P; Colless E; Fisher L (ed.), Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics, LEA / MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 64 - 71, https://www.pubpub.org/pub/the-studio-as-cloud

Thomas PR, 2014, 'Interference Strategies', in thomas P; Aceti L (ed.), Interference Strategies, Leonardo/ISAST, San Francisco, pp. 13 - 16, http://www.leoalmanac.org/volume20-no2-interference-strategies/

Thomas PR; Cubitt S, 2013, 'Introduction: The New Materialism in Media Art History', in Thomas PR; Cubitt S (ed.), Relive Media Art Histories, Mit Press, pp. 1 - 25, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/relive

Thomas P, 2011, 'La philosophie du nanoart', in Sauvageot A; Boujeu X; Marie X (ed.), Images & Mirages @ nanoscience:Regards croisès, Hermann, Paris, pp. 121 - 133

Thomas P, 2009, 'Audionano - Vibrating Matter', in Hope C; Marshall JW (ed.), Sound Scripts, Australian Music Centre, Perth, pp. 26 - 32, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/sound-scripts-proceedings-of-the-2007-totally-huge-new-music-festival-conference-vol-2-2009

Thomas P, 2008, 'Midas', in Hauser J (ed.), Sk-Interfaces: Exploding Borders in Art, Science and Technology, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 144 - 147

Thomas P, 2008, 'Nano Vibrational Interfaces', in Sommerer C; Gestrich D; Mignnoneau L (ed.), Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 81 - 91, http://www.ufg.ac.at/Interface-Cultures-Artistic-Aspects-of-I.3606.0.html

Edited Books

Thomas P, (ed.), 2024, The Encyclopedia of New Media Art: Volume 2: Artists & Practice, Bloomsbury, London

Journal articles

Thomas P, 2022, 'Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia, Qona Rankin and Howard Riley (2021)', Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 7, pp. 320 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00099_5

Thomas P, 2022, 'Quantum Reflection', VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES, 3-4, pp. 267 - 283

Thomas P, 2020, 'Weaving quantum chaos', Ubiquity The Journal of Pervasive Media, 7, pp. 37 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ubiq_00014_1

Thomas PR, 2017, 'The shifting power of Clouds and Molecular Aesthetics', Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 22, pp. 1071 - 4391, https://contemporaryarts.mit.edu/pub/shiftingpowerofclouds

Thomas PR; Phillips M, 2016, 'Transdisciplinary imaging', Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 5, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ubiq.5.1.3_1

Thomas PR, 2016, 'Atemporality, art, quantum phenomena and the jester', Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 5, pp. 25 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ubiq.5.1.25_1

Thomas PR, 2015, 'The Transdisciplinary Cloud Curriculum', Leonardo, 48, pp. 466 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01070

Eastwood D; Thomas P, 2015, 'Disruptive agents: Transdisciplinary and posthumous manifestations of the studio', Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 4, pp. 3 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ubiq.4.1-2.3_1

Thomas PR; Gibson P, 2014, 'Nanoart', Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 34, pp. 58 - 59, http://shttp//search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=652256975499156;res=IELAPA

Thomas P; Kahn D; Harley RB; Bennett J, 2012, 'Experimental Arts: Studies in Material Thinking [edited journal]', Studies in Material Thinking, 8, http://www.materialthinking.org/

Thomas P; andruszkiewicz J, 2012, 'Force/Magnitude workshop', Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 1, pp. 23 - 32, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ubiq/2012/00000001/00000001/art00003;jsessionid=uydocw6lca9r.alexandra

Thomas P, 2011, 'ATOMISM: RESIDUAL IMAGES WITHIN SILVER', Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 17, pp. 152 - 156, http://leoalmanac.org/

Thomas PR, 2011, 'Column 7: NEW IMAGING Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media Introduction', Column 7: NEW IMAGING Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media, 7

Thomas P, 2011, 'Infinite Smallness', Artnodes E-Journal on Art Science and Technology, 11, pp. 15 - 16, http://www.visualarts.net.au/

Thomas P; Dziekan V, 2011, 'Suitcase', The World is Everything that is the Case, pp. 14 - 18, http://crash.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/The%20World%20Is%20Everything%20That%20Is%20The%20Case.pdf

Thomas P, 2011, 'Transdisciplinary strategies for fine art and science [Estrategias transdisciplinarias para las bellas artes y la ciencia]', Artnodes E-Journal on Art Science and Technology, pp. 112 - 116, http://artnodes.uoc.edu/

Thomas P, 2011, 'Transdisciplinary strategies in art and science', Artnodes E-Journal on Art Science and Technology, pp. 112 - 115, http://artnodes.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/artnodes/

Thomas P, 2009, 'Midas: A Nanotechnological Exploration of Touch', Leonardo - Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 42, pp. 186 - 192, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/42/3

Thomas P, 2009, 'Nanoessence: God, the first nano assembler', Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research, 6, pp. 217 - 231

Thomas P, 2002, 'Quantum Reflection', Visual Culture Studies, 3/4

Conference Papers

Thomas P; Cubitt S, 2023, 'New Media Arts: Autonomy and Exploitation', Venice, presented at Media Art History Conference, Venice, 20 September 2023 - 23 September 2023, https://www.mediaarthistory.org/

Thomas P, 2021, 'Quantum Flâneur Meandering in the Darkness', in Figshare, Figshare, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.16993390.V1

Thomas PR, 2015, 'The Disruptive Cloud and the Chaos of Uncertainty', Winnipeg, presented at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT, Winnipeg, 15 November 2015 - 15 November 2015, http://ageofcatastrophe.com/symposium/symposium-abstracts/

Thomas PR, 2013, 'The probability of the diagram', in Fisher L; Cleland K; Harley R (eds.), ISEA International, Sydney, presented at International Symposium of Electronic Art, Sydney, 11 June 2013 - 13 June 2013, http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9742

Stevens G, 2012, 'Cutting on action : interference strategies in contemporary art practice', in Baker S; Thomas P; Varano A (eds.), Interference as a Strategy for Art Conference Proceedings, Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2012 Sydney, Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, pp. 261 - 269, presented at The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 22 June 2012 - 23 June 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25638

Thomas P, 2010, 'Art-Science - Curricular Models and Best Practices', in Funke J; Riekeles S; Broeckmann A; MedienKunstVerein H (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, presented at ISEA2010 RUHR Conference., Dortmund, 20 August 2010 - 29 August 2010, http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/files/redaktion/pdf/isea2010_conference_proceedings.pdf

Muller L; Jones C, 2009, 'An indeterminate archive for David Rokeby's Giver of Names', in Thomas P; Cubitt S (ed.), Re: Live 3rd International Conference on Media Arts Histories, Melbourne, pp. 114 - 119, presented at Re: Live 2009, Melbourne, 27 November 2009 - 29 November 2009

Kenderdine S; Shaw J, 2009, 'The relocation of theatre: Making UNMAKEABLELOVE', in Thomas P; Cubitt S (ed.), Proceedings of Re:Live, The University of Melbourne & Victorian College of the Arts and Music, Melbourne, pp. 191 - 196, presented at Re:Live — Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Melbourne, 26 November 2009 - 29 November 2009, http://mass.nomad.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/relive09proceedings-copy.pdf

Thomas P, 2009, 'Nanoessence', in ACUADS Research 08/09, ACUADS, Adelaide, presented at ACUADS 2009 CONFERENCE Interventions in the Public Domain, Queensland College of Art Griffith University, 30 September 2009 - 02 October 2009

Thomas P, 2008, 'The Chemist as Flâneur in Intelligent Architecture', in Proceedings of ISEA2008, ISEA, Signapore, pp. 498 - 499, presented at 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008, Singapore, 25 July 2008 - 03 August 2008

Thomas P, 2007, 'Immateriality and Materiality', in CADE 2007 : Proceedings of computers in art and design education conference: stillness, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, presented at Computers in Art and Design Education 2007, Perth, WA, 12 September 2007 - 14 September 2007

Thomas P, 2007, 'i-500 Intelligent Architecture Project', in ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Research 07/08, ACUADS, Sydney, Australia, pp. 14 - 15, presented at ACUADS 2007, COFA, UNSW

Thomas P, 2006, 'Contemplating contemporary architecture', University of Plymouth, UK, presented at Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference, University of Plymouth, UK, 21 July 2006 - 23 July 2006

Thomas P, 2005, 'The mirror as the primal space for new media', in Altered States: transformations of perception, place, and performance, Plymouth, UK

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