All Videos Tagged philosophy (dance-tech) - dance-tech

Examined Life | a documentary by Astra Taylor

2013-05-18T16:43:01.053Z

Examined Life is a 2008 documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. The film features eight influential contemporary philosophers walking around New York and other metropolises and discussing the practical application of their ideas in modern culture.
The philosophers featured are Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Žižek, and Judith Butler, who is accompanied by Taylor's sister Sunny, a disability activist.
The film appeared in the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2009 Kingston Canadian Film Festival. It is co-produced by Sphinx Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Ontario Media Development Corporation, TVOntario and Knowledge Network.
Despite favorable reception (Rotten Tomatoes gives it 76%),[1] Martha Nussbaum subsequently complained in The Point that although Examined Life displays "a keen visual imagination and a vivid sense of atmosphere and place" it nonetheless "presents a portrait of philosophy that is ... a betrayal of the tradition of philosophizing that began, in Europe, with the life of Socrates".[2]

William Forsythe & Alva Noë—LIVE from the NYPL, October 9, 2009

2009-12-17T13:45:14.476Z

William Forsythe & Alva Noë—LIVE from the NYPL, October 9, 2009

Authors@Google: Alva Noe: A Philosopher of Embodiment

2009-09-17T01:12:16.683Z

Alva Noe visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness." This event took place on April 16, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

The notion that consciousness is confined to the brain, like software in a computer, has dominated science and philosophy for close to two centuries. Yet, according to this incisive review of contemporary neuroscience from Berkeley philosopher Nöe, the analogy is deeply flawed. In eight illuminating, mercifully jargon-free chapters, he defines what scientists really know about consciousness and makes a strong case that mind and awareness are processes that arise during a dynamic dance with the observers surroundings. Nöe begins with a sharp critique of scientists, such as DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick, who insist that nothing but neurons determines our daily perceptions and sense of self. He then examines studies of human and animal behavior that demonstrate an inextricable link between identity and environment. Nöe regrettably limits his treatise by ignoring considerable research from transpersonal psychology suggesting that consciousness transcends physicality altogether. Still, the resulting book is an invaluable contribution to cognitive science and the branch of self-reflective philosophy extending back to Descartes famous maxim, I think, therefore I am.

Across Bodies and Systems: Interview with Susan Kozel

2009-08-20T12:29:41.536Z

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Interview with dance/media artist, philosopher and author Susan Kozel during a visit to NYC.
She talked about her phenomenological approach to research and projects intersecting embodied explorations of movement and technological systems. She also talks about her book CLOSER: performance, technologies, philosophy.

BIO:
Susan Kozel works across dance and philosophy in the context of digital technologies. Working in England, Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, she collaborates with digital artists, software engineers, architects, and composers to create performances and installations. She is the director of Mesh Performance Practices http://www.meshperformance.org and is Principal Researcher with the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute at the University of East London (UK). She has a PhD in Continental philosophy specializing in Merleau-Pontys phenomenological writing and is the author of Closer: performance, technologies, philosophy (2007) published by The MIT Press.

Current projects include Intuition in Creative Processes with the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (for which she is a Senior Researcher); the Designing Difference initiative which applies methodologies from performance and philosophy to the design of expressive mobile platforms for bodies of mixed abilities, and The hidden redness of eggs (working title) a collaborative site specific performance for the Ukrainian Institute in New York. This is the third in a series of performances exploring Technologies of Inner Spaces (previous performances in this series include immanence 2005 and other stories 2007) She is working on a new book called Social Choreographies: Corporeal Narratives with Mobile Media.

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Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?

2008-12-16T22:01:39.310Z

Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.