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meta-academy@bates 2013: Minded Motion

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An online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and other moving ideas

This lab took place from July 22nd to August 10th 2013. You may do the activities as a self-directed, self-guided experience. You may also join this group and interact with other members and to follow other meta-academy activities.

Website: http://www.dance-tech.net/profiles/profile/show?id=MetaAcademyLab
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Latest Activity: Oct 23, 2013

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What is Minded Motion Lab?

An online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and other moving ideas.

Lab participants will use free internet-based tools to creatively explore questions about embodiment, training and memory, composition, and politics of the body. They will also explore how to translate embodied practices onto the internet.

The lab will be structured around Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, an approach improvisational dance/movement that she has been developing for over 30 years.

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Lab Orientation

PER WEEK:

Week 1: Arriving In Presence

Week 2: Connections

Week 3: Engagement + Harvest

The content is approached by two kinds of activities:

CORE and INVESTIGATIONS

TO ALL CORE ACTIVITIES

TO ALL INVESTIGATIONS

TO ALL DISCUSSIONS

TO ALL EMBODIED ACTIVITIES

TO ALL GOOGLE+ HANGOUT

SESSIONS

OUR GOOGLE+ PAGE

ALL PARTICIPANTS

Facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano, Rachel Boggia and Josephine Dorado

FLICKR SLIDESHOW with images of participants and lab:
Video mashup done with media produced during the lab

Visualisation of lab contents, structure and samples

Discussion Forum

CORE: Embodied Investigation #2

Started by Rachel Boggia. Last reply by Ellen Maynard Aug 27, 2013. 13 Replies 1 Like

Renowned contact improvisation teacher, writer, and editor Nancy Stark Smith calls this exercise "a Solo Mini Underscore". You will need about 30 minutes of uninterrupted time as well as a notebook and writing device. We would like you to share your SHARING/THANKSGIVING in a video response on youtube (see below). You can choose to do this activity by listening to the mp3 or following the…Continue

Tags: embodied_investigation, week2, core

INVESTIGATION: Thick mash-up video essay | Week 3

Started by Marlon Barrios Solano. Last reply by Jeannette Ginslov Aug 18, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes

Media theorist Andreas Treske introduces the notion of “thickening of the video image” in his book “The Inner Life of Video Spheres” published by the Institute of Networked Cultures. He asserts that there is a 'thickening of the image' when we can place interactive objects on the timeline in the "Z axis" of the…Continue

Tags: week3, investigation, mashup, video, popcornmaker

Minded-motion Lab Wrap-up google+ hangout

Started by Marlon Barrios Solano. Last reply by Jeannette Ginslov Aug 18, 2013. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Thank you Message:We had a google hangout this morning with great conversation and fun remarks!Many of you were not able to make it! We would like to hear from you! Write here or make a video response to this conversation on a YouTube Video.Thank you again!marlon Chat: Hello meta-academy participant, We are very happy to have such diverse and interesting group! The epicenter of all the activities will be a Group created one the dance-tech.net website.This is a full multimedia social networking…Continue

Tags: googlehangout, wrap-up, meta-academy, lab., bates

ATTRACTOR

Started by Marlon Barrios Solano. Last reply by Jessica Muise Aug 14, 2013. 44 Replies 2 Likes

This is the main topical discussion space for the lab. We will use it to establish a dialogical space on ideas, comments, provocations, theoretical questions, inspirations, etc. It is used as a continuous thread during the whole lab and after. It can host photos, video and text.Continue

Tags: week3, week2, week1, main, core

CORE: Embodied Investigation #3: Simultaneous Duet Mini Underscores with Nancy Stark Smith

Started by Rachel Boggia. Last reply by Jessica Muise Aug 14, 2013. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Meta academy Embodied Activity #3 “Simultaneous Duet Mini Extended Underscore”This week we will meet online with a partner to do what Nancy Stark Smith is calling a “Simultaneous Duet Mini Extended Underscore.” You will meet with in a google+ hangout on air (rather than just a hangout) with a fellow improvisor to do a very shortened version of the Underscore, guided by Nancy’s voice. We ask that you record the…Continue

Tags: embodied_investigation, week3, core

CORE: Watch video conversation Emergent Underscore | Real Time Tagging | Week 1,2,3

Started by Marlon Barrios Solano. Last reply by Wanda Gala Aug 14, 2013. 56 Replies 2 Likes

This dance-tech.tv interview is introduced as core material for the Minded Motion Lab.It was realized in June 2012 in London. This interview is part of the dance-tech interviews and views collection.Each week, we will watch 12-15 minutes of this video and posting tags in this…Continue

Tags: word-cloud, week1, week2, week3, visualization

CORE: Week 3 - Collaborative Mind Mapping

Started by Josephine Dorado. Last reply by Felipe Torres Díaz Aug 12, 2013. 10 Replies 0 Likes

Instructions for #MetaAcademy Week 3 CORE AssignmentCollaborative Mind Mapping*Please make sure that you've received your invitation to collaborate on the mind map. If not, fill out the form mentioned in Step 1 below. Please do this by Sunday, August 11. Your contribution to the mind map should be completed by Wednesday, August 14, if possible.Mind map definition: Graphical technique for visualizing connections between several ideas or pieces of information. Each idea or fact is written down…Continue

Tags: embodiment, embodied, week3, mapping, visualization

INVESTIGATION: Context story-snapshots | Week 2

Started by Marlon Barrios Solano. Last reply by Wanda Gala Aug 12, 2013. 19 Replies 1 Like

Context story-snapshots (Instagram , Cowbird, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr )One of the main characteristics of the new internet is its potential for aggregation of related content as “data” streams with the use of hashtags, tags and RSS feeds.We propose for this week to explore the storytelling potential of a stream of still images, texts and hashtags for…Continue

Tags: week2, investigation, metaacademy, 2

WILDCARD

Started by Rachel Boggia. Last reply by Wanda Gala Aug 12, 2013. 9 Replies 0 Likes

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Comment by Daniel Pinheiro on August 21, 2013 at 10:44am: Embodied Experiences Continue after #MetaAcademy

Comment by mariana carranza on August 13, 2013 at 7:29am: Thank you Marlon!
I would love to participate in the experience using the WaterWheel platform but I'm not be able ... enjoy it for me ;)

Comment by Marlon Barrios Solano on August 12, 2013 at 10:23am: Hello Mariam!
Do what you can!
You can also do it later, the material will be there available.
Ok?
Marlon

Comment by mariana carranza on August 12, 2013 at 7:57am: too much work, it takes all my time... I can't be "present" at week 3, sorry.
to participate in the academy was a fantastic experience, thank you!

Comment by Terence Diamond on July 23, 2013 at 2:53pm: What is the activity going on right now. I see an instant chat and a posted youtube video.

Comment by Carolina Natal on July 23, 2013 at 2:34pm: How can i get into?

Comment by Paulina Ruiz Carballido RUCARBA on July 23, 2013 at 7:45am: About times !

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/est-to-gmt-converter

Comment by Marlon Barrios Solano on July 22, 2013 at 4:51pm: Yes, sorry about the lack of clarity with that.

2:00 to 3:30That is Eastern Standard Time.

We are in Lewiston, Maine and Corinne Jola will be from Paris at 8:00 pm.

We will send a group invitation soon for tomorrow.

Comment by Carolina Natal on July 22, 2013 at 12:56pm: Hi, please, I would like to know what is your reference of time, of what country? Because for tomorow I'll have to be online from 2:00 to 3:30 but I don't know which reference I have to take to calculate the timezone. Thanks!!!!

"Our first google hangout/lecture series with William Seeley, Corinne Jola, and Nancy Stark Smith will take place from 2:00 to 3:30 pm EST on Tuesday July 23."

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