The Aesthetics of Change: An Embodied Perspective on Collaborative Creativity

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

Lecture created by Marlon Barrios Solano

TELC, CZECH Republic
Transistor 10

Where do I come from?
Dance improvisation (real-time composition), real-time technology, embodied cognition, co-authorship

https://www.youtube.com/user/unstablelandscape#p/c/8C5E8BF050DA1B39...

WHAT IS DANCE-TECH.NET?

Innovation!

Why the fly?

Gambiarra

Let' me tell you a story:

Tell me how did you die?

Gregory Bateson







Can the computers think like humans?
-That reminds me of a story!

WE FEEL FINE

Storytelling

Context/domain of interactions

Relations

Word Cloud made with all the words of the CIANT website

SEE in wordle

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2192554/poolwords_creativity

Relational definitions

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2192556/diads

Models of mind/body/life/environment

"Is there love in the Telematic Embrace"

Roy Ascott

"Telematic culture means, in short, that we do not think, see, or feel in isolation. Creativity is shared, authorship is distributed,
but not in a way that denies the individual her
authenticity or
power of self creation, as rather crude models of
collectivity might
have done in the past. On the contrary, telematic culture
amplifies
the individual’s capacity for creative thought and action,

for more vivid and intense experience, for more informed
perception,
by enabling her to participate in the production of global
vision
through networked interaction with other minds, other
sensibilities,
other sensing and thinking systems across the
planet—thought
circulating in the medium of data through a multiplicity
of different
cultural, geographical, social, and personal layers.
Networking
supports endless redescription and recontextualization
such that
no language or visual code is final and no reality is
ultimate.
In the telematic culture, pluralism and relativism shape
the configurations
of ideas —of image, music, and text—that circulate in
the system."

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Designed experiences?

Engineered exchanges?

Systems?

GAMES

Plan

Programming

Choreography

Architecture

Design

Narrative

Ritual/Habits/learning

Network

dance-tech.net

visualization

CIANT website

Website as Graphs

EMBODIED COGNITION

Philosophers, cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognitionembodied mind believe
that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. They argue that all aspects of cognition, such as ideas, thoughts, concepts and categories are shaped by aspects of the body.
These aspects include the perceptual system, the intuitions that
underlie the ability to move, activities and interactions with our
environment and the naive understanding of the world that is built into
the body and the brain. and the

Lucy Suchmam: SITUATED ACTIONS:

She challenged common assumptions behind the design of interactive systems with a cogent anthropological argument that human action is constantly constructed and reconstructed from dynamic interactions with
the material and social worlds. The theory of cognition"">situated cognition emphasizes the importance of the
environment as an integral part of the process" class="mw-redirect"">cognitive process. She has made
fundamental contributions to ethnographic analysis, conversational
analysis and Participatory Design techniques for the development of
interactive computer systems.

1 Cognition is situated.

2 Cognition is time-pressured.

3 We off-load cognitive work onto the environment.

4 The environment is part of the cognitive system.

5 Cognition is for action.

6 Off-line cognition is body-based.

Activity...exercise!

CHANGE

BOUNDARY

INTERFACE

STATE/Behaviors

RULES (open relationship) Collaboration

WHAT IS CHANGING??

CHANGE

VARIABLES IN A SYSTEM:

CONTROL

AGENCY

AUTONOMY

EMERGENCE OF PATTERNS:

ACCUMULATION IN TIME = PACE

ACCUMULATION IN SPACE = PLACE

hubs, nodes and relations

INTENSITY/FLOWS/

DOMAINS___CREATED BY THE INTERACTION

DOMAINS:

• memory: recording,storage, assess (media production and date bases) suggestion systems, and search engines, cataloging/user generated, beliefs
• Imagination: simulations and abstractions, all sensoriums/myth
• Environment: other sentient creatures, technology systems, space.

Process and presence

SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS

to systems, to interaction, to creative process

Dynamics

Knowledge

Articulation

KINDS Of Change:

Replication

Reproduction
Recombination

Growth

Metabolic

Movement
metamorphosis
Mutation

Adaptive

Decay

Evolution

-

Re-learned

Re-program

Re-designed

Re-engineered

-

Copy/sampling
Combinatorial/remixing
hacking of infrastructure
re-purposing
Feedback and adjustment in the PROCESS

Continuous beta

Prototype

CONTINUOUS PROTOTYPING

TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSMISSION AND CHANGE (TECHNE)

META and self: story about ness

ECOSYSTEMS...

HYBRID SYSTEMS

AUGMENTED STORYTELLING

distributed...performance

KNOWLEDGE: MEMORY AND IMAGINATION/IS ALWAYS SHARED/ALWAYS EMBODIED

COMMUNITY/COLLECTIVE/crowds (artists, community and institutions)

INNOVATION: ALWAYS COLLABORATIVE AND LINEAGE BASED

SOCIAL AUGMENTATION OF THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES

COGNITIVE AUGMENTATION OF THE SOCIAL

communication Infrastructure that has allowed to mirror the social

INVOLVEMENT:

• Show case/this is me and this is what I do?
  
• Dialogue
• Collaboration: centralized/Distributed.
• Coordination actions/planning
• Real-time

ALL RECORDED/sampled/documented/Publish

Reflexive Living









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