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and then there’s
the De/Re-Constructing Worlds stream:
Hi Yanjun, Vangelis,
It’s useful to see this long Guardian news paper article as a thoughtful portal to extensive research on haptic sense and, more fundamentally, on embodiment (Merleau-Ponty, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, etc.).
“The power of touch: is this the sense we’ve missed most?”
Grotowski p 142
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Exercises in composition
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1) blossoming and withering of the body. Walk rhythmically. As in a plant, the sap rises, starting from the feet and spread- ing upwards through the entire body, reaching the arms which burst into blossom as indeed does the whole body. In the second phase, the limbs-branches wither and die one by one. Finish the exercise on the same rhythmic step with which it began.
2) Animal image. This does not consist in the literal and realistic imitation of a four-legged animal. One does not "act" an animal but attacks one's subconscious, …
3) By means of association with people, situations, memories, metamorphose yourself into a tree. The muscles react, expressing the personal association. To begin with, one concentrates these associations on one particular part of the body. As the reactions increase in intensity, the rest of the body is included. The vitality of this tree, its tensions, relaxations, micro-movements are nourished by the association.
4) The flower. The feet are the roots, the body is the stem and the hands represent the corolla. The whole body lives, trembles, vibrates with the imperious process of bursting into flower, guided by one's associations. Give "the flower" a logical signification, one which is at the same time sad, tragic and dangerous. "The flower" is separated from the process which created it and that part of it expressed through the hands is used as a rhetorical gesture in a dialogue.
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etc.
46. Theatre Laboratory. Here the producer always keeps in mind that he has two "ensembles" to direct: the actors and the spectators. The performance results from an Integration of these two "ensembles".
Professor Sha Xin Wei will give a talk in the Making Sense of Complexity SCAS lectures series:
Infrastructure clinics and navigating indeterminacy
11:00 AM MST, Oct 15
We recap basic limits on complexity models, information, data science and machine learning, and introduce abductive heuristics, continuous topological dynamics, and performative techniques as supplements to those formalisms. As a practical application we describe a clinic for prototyping alternative socio-technical infrastructures.
NOTE:
This responds to some observations by Sander van der Leeuw and Gary Dirks, presented by Sander in the SCAS lecture series September 17”Competence without Comprehension”. Prof. Van der Leeuw considers how societies and organizations have moved from open systems to closed systems, from long-term to short term thinking. Flipping the problem-solving paradigm, he observes how solutions generically create unanticipated problems. Given the growth of competency without comprehension, he calls for turning from modeling the present in terms of the past to making a place in our science and social technology for unexpected and unintended consequences.
Thanks to David Morris,
QUANTAMAGAZINE.ORG
How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. | Quanta Magazine
For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.
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David:
Noah Moss Brender, Peter Hill, Greg Recco, Mark Sentesy (Mark, there is something close to issues of change vs. motion here under the hood, here, I think, e.g. around determination vs. choice. All very strange and reassuring to know that there are still live questions re number….)
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"infinity" is a concept, not an existence, just as zero is not a number….
Sha Xin Wei
Mathematicians treat infinity not as a concept but as (Deleuzian) _problem_
What would be more interesting than the Quanta Magazine's fairly conventional metaphysical subtext is a genealogical and ontogenetic approach to the ever-evolving notion of "the real numbers". (compare this with Bitbol, Petitot et al's project) and even more, to recognize maths as a _speculative_ propositional adventure (cf Roy Wagner, after Whitehead, Stengers)
Today at noon ET I’ll be joining in zoom (id 87983606881, password shaxinwei )
for a session on “play”
See notes:
in our Process Germ Bank
We may want to discuss how the GFM workshop for a conference that’s been reformatted as an in-person event.…
Xin Wei
"Two articles from this month's Harper's, both US-centric, regarding the making of artistic livelihood.
The first article "Stages of Grief" takes a look at the difficulties of making an artistic livelihood pre- and post-pandemic.
The second article, "The Anxiety of Influencers", takes a closer look at the influencer economy, casting it as "a garish accentuation of the economy writ large". This statement is a bit too broad, and I would qualify it by saying that the influencer economy is only a garish accentuation of the arts and cultural sector of the economy writ large.”
The first article "Stages of Grief" takes a look at the difficulties of making an artistic livelihood pre- and post-pandemic.
The second article, "The Anxiety of Influencers", takes a closer look at the influencer economy, casting it as "a garish accentuation of the economy writ large". This statement is a bit too broad, and I would qualify it by saying that the influencer economy is only a garish accentuation of the arts and cultural sector of the economy writ large.”
Forwarded from Muindi.
Hi PSF Team,
I hope this message finds you all as well as can be. We spent some time talking about summer scheduling at today's meeting. For those of you who couldn't make it today, here's what we are planning.
I hope this message finds you all as well as can be. We spent some time talking about summer scheduling at today's meeting. For those of you who couldn't make it today, here's what we are planning.
Next week, Monday, June 28th, we will be reconvening at our usual time (6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT) to think further about a seminar and collective writings on "play". Here's some stuff to check out between now and then:
We will be on hiatus during July, but we will be keeping the regular Monday meetings on the calendar. Anyone who is available can hop on the zoom line for informal, open, unstructured chats.
We will pick up weekly PSF meetings starting the first week of August in preparation for Institute of Media Studies (GfM) conference.
Looking forward to the Fall: the GfM conference runs from September 22-25; following the GfM conference, Satinder has suggested that we consider how we might re-work our workshop at GfM for a L.A.S.E.R. (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendevouz) event.
That's it for now. Remember: you are all welcome and encouraged share updates on works-in-progress and lines-of-flight over the PSF email list and Slack.
Also, if there are any projects that you would like to pitch to the group, please don't hesitate to pitch them via email, Slack, and/or at an upcoming meeting.
Kind regards,
MUINDI FANUEL MUINDI
Here’s a summary of rich suite of research-creation projects that have been germinating this past half year (and more).’
Let’s have our Spring research-creation gathering in the coming week or two:
Proposed Hour 9:00 AZ / 12 noon Montreal / 16:00 Cyprus
Proposed Date: Tuesday May 11 | Thursday May 13 | Tuesday May 18
(0) PhD projects (more details from respective folks!)
Garrett: Diagrammatic
Yanjun: Affective, Enactive Experiential design
Shomit: Sound installation, Living Systems, subjectification, performance and site
Emiddio: Sound, materiality, non-standard computation
(1) Transformation and Ontogenesis (XW)
Recognizing that the world is constantly in a state of change, process, evolution and flux means we have to face the fact that no fixed, finite description can tell the whole story or predict the future. But can we understand how the world changes? What are the motors of change, dynamic and transformation? Life is full of surprises — not only can we not say exactly what’s going to happen, we cannot even say in advance what all the possible futures are. How can we think about transformation and change in ways that are themselves supple and adaptive?
Ontogenetic Process, Emergence, Individuation research stream, with special volumes in Angelaki (2020), and AI & Society (forthcoming).
(2) Eco-Eco: Ecologies and Economies
Ecosystems and economies exceed every special interest and discipline, whether cultural or technoscientific. Blending biological life with social-economic life requires rethinking both economics and ecology. It requires caring for both non-quantifiable value as well as quantified fact. How can we develop fresh approaches to making sense of, navigating, and shaping alternate ecologies and economies, under the proposition that we are one species among many?
Alter-Eco Seminars and Studios, some of which have been prototyped at Synthesis / ASU, Building21 / McGill and the European Graduate School.
Spectral (Muindi)
(3) Prototyping Social Forms (XW)
How can we blend both custom-made and well-established methods of sketching and making from media arts, experimental performance, design, engineering, and conceptual studies to build working models of complex biosocial and sociotechnical systems in plausibly thick social settings? How can we prototype, at lifescale, the lived, whole experience of social forms such as places: home, city, street; events: play, meal, learning; or infrastructures: finance, governance, energy to the degree needed to get a sense of what it would be like to actually live in or live with those social forms? In collaboration with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, and Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Process Germ Bank (Muindi)
CAS 547 Sense-making Complexity: Multimodally Presenting Complex Systems
(proposed, original version: Brandon Mechtley)
(4) Telematic Tangible Embodied Experience (Garrett)
(Superset of Telematic Embodied Learning)
(5) SloMoCo: Experiential Durational Art (Garrett)
See
Dear Alter-Eco folks and friends,
Here’s an article and a special issue about sociological aspects of alternative economies, a useful thickening from the usual computational reductions (blockchain, AI, IT) Mario Campana, Andreas Chatzidakis, Mikko Laamanen, (2017), Special Issue: A Macromarketing Perspective on Alternative Economies, Journal of Macromarketing.
Forrest Watson, and Ahmet Ekici (2020), Understanding the Dark Sides of Alternative Economies to Maximize Societal Benefit.
Xin Wei