Matt Gough Blog [closed]: brain gym [working the mind as a muscle]
Thursday, May 6 2004, 01:20
been in the studio to get ready for my writing
working hard for change, new perspectives. recently completed a paper about xdsn and submitted it to a journal for review with a view to publication, 4000 words on xdsn, and i still have 3 more papers in my head. by they will have to wait as i have some applications to fill out.
the end of july brings the first weekend course for xdsn and will teach a basic working knowledge of the written version
i managed to destroy a large chunk of my work when a backup program decided to shred instead of backup, the result is that my machine readable version is no more just as it was about to be. and so i start over ...
this is a not a small quote, but it reflects my position well
Perhaps the advent of movement improvisation as an artistic practice in the sixties is closely related with the popularity and explanatory success of the communicational and information theory paradigms in science and technology, particularly in psychology of perception and biological studies. Perhaps information and systems theory as the main representatives of the communicational paradigm, became a model for human embodiment and its actions that allowed dance artists to de construct and dynamically re-conceive the dance making practices as a non fixed, flexible and mutable therefore apparently improvisational.In the other hand, I have also witnessed and experienced how some movement improvisation artists and theorists, (eg: Steve Paxton, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Simone Forti) as specialists of the phenomenology and aesthetics of human movement have reached theoretical and practical insights about human interaction and embodiment that are closely related to the ones that are found recently in the fields of artificial intelligence (embodied robotics), cognitive science (embodied cognition) and new biology (self-organization and emergence). Improvisers and robotics scientists, apparently placed in two poles, are experts in cognitive interaction. Both have to study, with different methodologies and goals, the interaction between bodies and their environment. Perhaps some contemporary practices in dance, such as improvisational performance are closer, epistemologically to digital technologies and robotics than modern and contemporary dance practices.
Marlon Barrios Solano 2004
not that i put myself in the league of paxton et al but i consider my dance technology insights have been driven by my improv practice.
- well i'm working hard to document what's in my head in relation to:
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