Roy Ascott challenges social norms and stabilities by prompting a rethinking of the mind and its extreme conditions.  The research into such field is seen as hostile in the light of reductionism - "We should understand also that institutional science has always seen art as a hostile territory where intuition is privileged over rationality, and reality is constructed without license."  As examples he mentions multiple identities through cyberspace and telepresence as ways of violating the isolation of the self, however to reach the more extreme environments of the mind, courage and vision is required, this could involve plant technologies to navigate mind - connecting us with multiple worlds.

Herve-Pierre Lambert presented his paper Neuroesthetics, Neurological Disorders and Creativity that discusses alterations in artistic production as a result of neurological disorder. A few cases have received intensive study, such as the designer and painter Carolus Horn (1921-1992) who had an unusual talent for drawing. Horn was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease at an age of 60 and during stages of the disease his paintings shifted in their use of colour, shapes, perspective, anatomical structure and spatiality.  Collaborations between artists suffering from such diseases and neurologists can help contribute to understanding this altered productivity.

The notion of daydreaming captures a luminal space between consciousnesses and unconsciousness. Dew Harrison and Barbra Rauch’s thinking around way of using new technology to find spaces of stillness in the hurricane of modern life, explores daydreams by producing compositions which mixes photo and small video loops from sporting events to induce this  state.

The closing talk of the Mutamorphosis conference included speakers with pioneering  works in the intersections of art/science/technology.  Herbert W Franke has more than 40 books on the connection of art and science as well as science-fiction, and a pioneer in computer graphics.

Woody Vasulka who developed the Digital Image Articulator in collaboration with Jeffrey Schier from around 1978. Don Foresta a pioneer in hypertext writing and a long standing cultural attaché for both France and the US, as of 2001 he also launched the Marcel network.

The director of Leonardo/Olats, Annick Bureaud, who is an art critique, author of several books on electronic art and more recently part of developing space and arts projects. Nicolas Reeves, the Scientific Director of Hexagram, and an artist (recent work cloud harp) combining his background in both physics and architecture.

The final talk gave an insight into climate during the 1960-1970, tools available and how collaboration processes took place. On a large screen behind the panel swirling metal helix, shortly after discussions ensued.

[Audience(s)] The work that combines these principle and the contemporary arts is becoming more distant from people. How do we deal with both public art and public science? The distance is getting deeper in contemporary art and art is in worse shape than science. It needs to go back into the public. [The panel replies] the discussion is more than 40 years old – artists and mathematicians had them. Every revolution is a technological revolution.  The processes are the same - mental - art - environmental – sciences. Art is about changing the world - its not entertainment - it is something we have to do.

"This exhibition is intended as a homage to Vilem as a token of a profound friendship and a rare intellectual complicity which remains as vivid as ever before my memory."