The body beyond movement: (Missed) opportunities to engage with contemporary dance in HCI

This paper argues that a significant paradigm change in contemporary dance can offer further opportunities for HCI researchers interested in embodied interaction and interactive system design. Based on the analysis of 42 HCI papers in our data set, resulting from searches in two computing research libraries, we suggest seven thematic categories that reflect how HCI researchers have been engaging with contemporary dance. Moreover, we propose a standardized usage of contemporary dance terminology in HCI literature, and discuss the current state of engagement with publications from the field of performance theory. We identify three opportunities for HCI, which can arise through further engagement with the knowledge produced in contemporary dance and performance: to engage with the field of embodied interaction from the perspective of performance research and theory; to employ contemporary dance methods and practices in HCI research; and to integrate contemporary dance choreographers and performers as researchers in interdisciplinary projects

Developing and Evaluating Visual Analogies to Support Insight and Creative Problem Solving

The primary aim of this thesis is to gain a richer understanding of visual analogies for insight problem solving, and, in particular, how they can be better developed to ensure their effectiveness as hints. While much work has explored the role of visual analogies in problem solving and their facilitative role, only a few studies have analysed how they could be designed. This thesis employs a mixed method consisting of a practice-led approach for studying how visual analogies can be designed and developed and an experimental research approach for testing their effectiveness as hints for solving visual insight problems

Art-Based Perceptual Ecology: An alternative monitoring method in the assessment of rainfall and vegetation in a ciénaga community

As an artist, educator, researcher, and scholar, with a focus on divergent ways of knowing, I use art-making as a way to connect with the natural world. In the following article, I explore the making of an image with my hands when practicing Art-Based Perceptual Ecology (ABPE) as a way of extending my understanding and ecological knowing of the natural world, or what will also be referred to as the landscape. ABPE methodologies may offer the means by which humans reconnect to a pre-discursive (mimetic) language, a sentient language our ancestors used to communicate with the animate world. In addition to art educators, this article may be of interest to ecologists and others studying environmental global change. Developing an art-based longitudinal study alongside traditional Western science methods, to record historical changes in vegetation in a riparian community, could provide outstanding results and contribute to the further understanding of biospheric changes at similar stream communities around the world

Abstracts 2018: Highlights of Student Research and Creative Endeavors

What follows is a collection of abstracts summarizing the scholarship conducted by undergraduates at Columbus State University during the 2017-2018 academic year. These projects highlight undergraduates research in a variety of disciplines, ranging from literary analysis to laboratory-based sciences. The abstracts represent many ongoing projects on our campus and catalog those that have been published or presented. This volume begins with projects that have been selected for presentations at national, regional and statewide disciplinary conferences. Among them are several that have garnered awards for outstanding undergraduate scholarship. Projects that have received competitive research grants, including our campus Student Research and Creative Endeavor (SRACE) Grants, are also featured. Many undergraduates have presented their work to our local community, either through the dissemination of best practices in nursing to regional hospitals, colloquium presentations of lecture-recitals at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, or at Columbus State University\u27s Tower Day held in April 2018. Together these abstracts demonstrate the commitment of our faculty to engage students in their disciplines and represent outstanding mentorship that occurs on and off our campus throughout the year. Our students have amassed an impressive collection of projects that contributes to both academia and our local community, and these abstracts will hopefully inspire others to delve into scientific and creative inquiry.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/abstracts/1012/thumbnail.jp

2018 Abstract Booklet

Complete Schedule of Events for the 20th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography

The concept of "worldmaking" is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance worlds': through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material. The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal "world of dance", but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day

The Theatre of the Athletic Nude: The teaching and study of anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1873-1940

Physicians Paul Richer, Henry Meige and Mathias Duval were colleagues of French neurologist, J.-M. Charcot. In 1873-1940 they consolidated within their teaching at the École des Beaux-Arts a model of aesthetics based on a dynamic construction of the human body in movement. The theatrical spectatorship of the athletic nude was marshalled in the service of medicine, aesthetics, and social and racial health. Associated with the new sciences of physiology and neurology, Richer, Meige and Duval restored to academic art its modernity by marrying anatomical dissection with those new medical disciplines whose focus was the body in action. This revived the artist’s “maternal language” of the performing body, found at the ancient Greek Olympics or amongst the strongmen of the fairground. This produced a distinctly modern, neo-Classical aesthetic; a progressive, realist iconography of the masculine athletic subject in performance. The modern sports stadium acted as a theatrical locus for the teaching and promulgation of healthy, embodied, Republican aesthetics.The conference was sponsored by A.D.S.A., the Department of Performance Studies, the School of Letters, Arts and Media, and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sydney