Getting started
Thinking Through the Body is an interactive art research network exploring body-focussed interactions in art, design and arts-in-health.
The project brings together practitioners working across the fields of body-focussed art, interactive art, interaction design and somatic body work, to explore new approaches to how we can work with the body in interactive arts and design practice.
Specific areas of interest include the use of touch, movement and proprioception – modalities foregrounded in somatic bodywork practices such as the Feldenkrais Method, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering.
Above all, as the project producer and co-curator (with Lizzie Muller), I’m interested in experience-centered approaches to the use of these modes in interactive art and design – emphasizing the role and affordances of the living (physiologically embodied) subject, and a more detailed examination of experience-in-interaction.
The research concept arose in response to the Australia Council for the Arts, Inter-Arts Office 2008 ‘Art Lab‘ grant. We begin our first workshop at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in August 14th 2008.
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