Embodied Creativity Workshop
at Aarhus University, Center for Interacting Minds, April 2018
Day 1 – Speaking (Slides)
- on anthropology and improvisation – Critical Ethnographic Scores (came out recently in Between Matter and Method)
- Improvisation in Cultural Anthropology (with Kevin O’Connor, Duskin Drum and Sarah McCullough)
- Plastic Neuroscience: Studying what the brain cares about (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
- Plastic Diagrams: Circuits in the brain and how they got there (Plasticity and Pathology)
- “Artificial Participation” interview with Warren Sack, on the emergent temporality of speaking with each other, and speaking with computers
Day 2 – Moving (no slides)
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Sensing Oneself Balanced video-talk (on the notion and practice of balancing, using contact improvisation, tightwire walking, notions of being off balance) presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science meetings in Boston, Sep 2017
- Viscous Self Moving: attending to the senses and science of fascia video talk (given at workshop)
- “The Senses and Sciences of Fascia video, a Practice as Research Investigation” (paper with Kevin O’Connor)
- Jean-Claude Guimberteau‘s
video is great introduction to fascia: Strolling Under the Skin. I think his new book is truly transformative: Architecture of Human Living Fascia - Gil Hedley‘s Integral Anatomy videos. He is an empirical fascia genius, meaning that he didn’t take anatomy classes: everything he learned came from doing dissections from scratch (not trained as a doctor or rolfer, just had back problems and a friend who gave him access to bodies) – you can find his dissection courses at http://gilhedley.com/.
- “Sitting, academic style” (STS as Equipment for Literature: Sitzfleisch Material Semiosis)
Day 3 – Designing (Slides)
- Asaf Bachrach paper (Himberg et al. “Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness” Behavioral Sciences 2018) includes Ten Design Features of Joint Improvisation Lab (ICI): Design through experiencek Open-endedness, Poly-solution, Interactive generativity,Always more than two, Measurability, Experience-independence, Identifying and eliciting phase shifts, Primacy of kinaesthetic experience, Fun/Pleasure
- Jenny Gräf Sheppard – shared sonic meditations from Pauline Oliveros (On Sonic Meditation, Sonic Meditation 2, and Quantum Listening)
Scaling and Storytelling with the KeckCAVES
- Haptic Creativity (paper Natasha Myers and I wrote on scientists moving and being moved by visualizations that the talk drew upon)
Ethnographic Methods in the Digital Age (Slides)
- “Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain emergent illnesses” 2006 Social Science & Medicine, on early patient movements and ways of studying them
- “Responding to Facts” (ch 1 in Drugs for Life, about online research strategies and strategic ubiquity – corporate construction of reality)
Data Anthropology and Data Studies (Slides)
- “The Other 90%: Thinking with Data Science, Creating Data Studies” interview with Dawn Nafus for Ethnography for a Data Saturated World, eds. Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus
Capitalism and Games
- topics in previous visit to Aarhus relating to my work at ModLab, UC Davis
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Here is my talk on fracking and pharmaceutical companies: http://www.uib.no/svt/101520/s
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- “Infernal Alternatives to Corporate Pharmaceutical Research: Abandoning Psychiatry” followup to book
- “Game Design as STS Research” in Engaging Science, Technology and Society, special issue Making and Doing Politics Through Grassroots Scientific Research on the Energy and Petrochemical Industries (Sara Wylie, Nick Shapiro, Max Liboiron)
FuturePast Events
- Week in Cuenca, Ecuador in July, helping Jorge Nuñez and Maka Suarez launch a new STS center Kaleidos
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Europe during August for a month of improvisation research — creating a “Bestiary of Living Scores” at the Freiburg Contact Festival, and running a nomadic School for Interior Techniques at Italy Contact Camp (documentation and results from research coming soon!)
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Nowtopia – artistic intervention in Cristiania into the DEGROWTH conference
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The International Fascia Research Congress in November 2018 i will be attending