Experiential Anatomy Workshop presented by Catherine Truman “…after another Awareness Through Movement lesson, …I blindfolded them and asked them to make their own body in …
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The Distinct Body Part 2
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Mike Legget Interviews, July 2009
Mike Leggett interviewed each of us for the Bundanon Trust, in the lead up to the Sensorium Gymnasium event at Peformance Space, in July-August 2009. …
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Workshop 2: Imagining the ‘Sensorium Gymnasium’
Excerpts from Saturday’s discussion at Bundanon, on aims and possible outcomes for the Performance Space workshop and public showing: Jonathan: I think for me the …
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Why we use ‘Technology’
In this discussion on Day 3 of our Bundanon workshop each member of the group was invited to reflect on how they came to be …
The Distinct Body Part 1
“Engaging with attention to sensation is something we value with this project. As practitioners and participants, we’re being asked to feel something, and articulate it. …
‘The Situated Body’ Workshop
This workshop presented by Jonathan Duckworth, was pivotal in developing a link between our attention to interior and exterior experience – exploring how attention to …
Discussion: The Situated Body
This discussion took place at Bundanon after Jonathan Duckworth’s ‘Situated Body’ workshop, where we all went out into the surrounding country to create some response …
Discussion: Desires & Offerings
In this meeting facilitator Lizzie Muller invited each member of the group to respond to the idea of 'desires' and 'offerings' - to identify shared interests in relation to our work with the body and opportunities for skill-exchange and collaboration across disciplines.
Work in progress… Surging Verticality
Coming together for the third time, now at Performance Space, we have begun to develop small experiments around the conversation between somatic bodywork and the …
Care
As an artist what motivates me is a desire to create systems and situations that support us to become more alive to the worlds around …
Sensorium Gymnasium Living Room
Following from Maggie, Catherine and Lian, here are a couple of points about my plans for the Sensorium Gymnasium at Pspace. I’ve been thinking alot …
Designing the aesthetic experience v0.1
In thinking through what I may be offering at the PSpace residency, I made a rough sketch of the elements to consider in designing the …
In Transit: Sensorium Gymnasium
Here’s a summary of developments so far by Catherine and me for our explorations at Sydney Performance Space, July/August 2009 Research Question: How do we …
Post-Bundanon Reflections: Some threads
Here are some threads that I’ve pulled out from my Bundanon experience, that Ive been turning around in my head over the past week since …
Cultural influences and the senses
…the idea that consciousness is a culturally shaped phenomenon and gives some interesting examples of how different senses are emphasised in different cultures and therefore give rise to different understandings of the world.
Openings (Thursday)
Our heat weary bodies gathered slowly, quietly in the day’s cooler opening to travel again to Bundenon. I hadn’t been looking forward to this second …
The Situated Body: Listening in and out
Jonathan’s workshop ‘The Situated Body’ invited to develop a response to our experience in the land around us, based on the sensitivities we’ve been developing …
The Situated Body – invitation, play and attention
We rose early in the morning to avoid the heat of the midday sun and travelled back to Bundanon to continue the Situated Body workshop. …
The world in my brain and my brain in the world
Maggie led a workshop today about attention and the brain. She described the way we create new neural pathways by actively bringing attention to something …
ASTRONOMIC TECHNICS (Wednesday)
Our afternoon, in my experience, was about MAKING REAL OF SENSING TECHNOLOGY. I was aware of the extent of preparation undertaken by each maker. Each …
Situated Body 2
This morning we had an unusually early start, rising with the sun and heading over to Bundanon to resume Jonathan’s workshop. I started off where …
The plasticity of the brain and learning
PALM TO PALM A seemingly simple exercise in pairs. Sitting opposite each other within arm’s reach, pressing palm to palm. Maggie’s only instruction. We wait …
Temporary intervention
The Situated Body workshop was lead by Jonathan…. and so we headed off in the direction of the Bundanon homestead to choose a site with …
Touch, making contact: fingers, palms, arms and pelvis…
Maggie introduced her Awareness Through Movement class this morning, with a presentation on neuro plasticity: the structuring of experience within the brain, and the influence …
Body state
For the first time in weeks, no, months… I’ve had a day of being body-focused. although, its taking some time to switch out of previous …
meeting other bodies
Today the iron wood ensemble who are in residence over at Bundanon’s other site came to visit. They are a group of classical musicians who …
Con-Straining (Wednesday)
We enter a process led by Catherine, in which we are invited to work with clay to create a body. The sensation of drying wet …
Self Portraits
Bundanon is a great place to think about (and through) the body. Fresh air, horizon, river swimming, good food – all condusive to feeling pleasure …
are you feeling yourself today?
Catherine blindfolded us today and asked us to make ourselves in clay. I thought of myself lying in bed. I always lie on my side. …
Machine sense and felt sense … playtime!
An opportunity to play with a range of sensor-based prototypes/tools and costume. The session was structured so that each person had 3 minutes to try …
Distinct Body 2
Working with clay – what a treat! I absolutely loved it. I felt like Auguste Rodin, shaping human form out of a lump of clay, …
RIVERSDALE, BUNDANON, TUESDAY, BLISS
RIVERSDALE, BUNDANON, TUESDAY, BLISS Can aspects of Awareness through Movement® be applied in the creation of interactive artworks to broaden the scope of the artwork …
Distinct and Situated Bodies
The first full day of the second TTTB comprised of the ‘The Distinct Body’ lessons with Catherine Truman and my own experimental approach, ‘The Situated …
Listening to the wind in the leaves…
…and thinking about observing my breathing. Attending to the sounds in the landscape, and realising I could bring the same quaity of openended attentivness to …
experiential anatomy and the situated body
EXPERIENTIAL ANATOMY In the act of drawing my own body outline and skeleton, i found myself ocscillating between drawing from the felt sense (how my …
Drawing from the felt experience of my bones
This morning’s workshop with Catherine: Drawing a life-size outline of my body, then filling it in with bones as they felt to me. We were …
2 self portraits
Bundanon is a great place to think about (and through) the body. Fresh air, horizon, river swimming, good food – all condusive to feeling pleasure …
Riversdale & Bundanon
Monday We converge at Riversdale, a place of retreat, generous offering, unbelievably beautiful.
The hipDisk wearable interface
Danielle Wilde has devised this simple, yet fabulous wearable interface, the hipDisk. I met Danielle at OZCHI2008 in Cairns. The hipDisk consists of two disks …
Some more work with Wii’s
I’ve been doing some homework with Somaya on working with Nintendo Wii controllers – lots of great inspiration on the web. This video from Tom …
Wii Fit – examples
Was thinking about how I could use accelerometers and gyroscopes to track and respond to rhythmic body movements, which got me thinking about Feldenkrais pelvic …
The journal of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The journal of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Volume 4, number 4 has a very interesting collection of papers of relevance to this project
Biological Psychiatry
I thought this article by Edward S. Katkin of the Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, is an interesting review of …
Electronic Art, Altered States, Catharsis and Care
Chanced on this clip after following up on some links about binaural beat frequencies and the use in the entrainment of brain wave rhythms. I …
anxious
for the past four years i’ve been moving towards developing creative work (slowly heading towards research) around anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). basically …
pads
george, lian and i met up about 2 weekends ago to continue discussion on what we’d be doing at the next workshop (and beyond) as …
doco photos
just to let you know that a selection of the photographs i’ve taken as part of this project, i’ve uploaded to a set on my …
sensored up
Finally i make an appearance on the blog again, a number of things have been whirling thru my head, but mostly going in circles without …
Sketch book notes – little circles, big brush strokes
This is an idea I’ve had for some time now – a basic image in physio and bodywork: imagine your (insert body part here) as …
Rubber hand illusion – remapping body sensation
Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at the same time. Link from New Scientist …
Ramachandran Phantom Limb Mirror Box demonstrations
Video demonstrations and discussions by Andrew T. Austin I would like to explore some of these principals at the next workhop, coming up in January. …
Ethnography in interaction design research
Have just read a great paper by Paul Dourish, titled “Implications for Design”, thought you all might be interested as it relates well to the …
The Meaning of The Body
A couple of weeks ago I obtained a copy of a new book by Mark Johnson, called The Meaning of The Body. Its a great …
A day in (the) life of…..
Hi all Long time between drinks The trip away was fabulous- a clearing of the air inside and out. There’s one particular day of my …
Quotes from Ellen Dissanayake
Just visited human ethologist Ellen Dissanayake’s website, and came across these brilliant quotes. Her book “What is Art For?” was a powerful inspiration during my …
Embodied-Emotion mapping project by Orlagh O’Brien
Here’s a link to a great visualisation project by graphic designer Orlagh O’Brien – exploring emotions and their felt location within the body: Emotionally}Vague “Emotions …
New Book – ‘Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction’
Thought this might be of interest to the group ‘Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction’, a book edited by Christian Peter and Russell Beale is …
Response to Garth’s Question re definition
My response to Garth’s suggestion is two-fold. 1. On the one hand, I am cautious about finding a description at this point, and I am …
Thinking Through The Body
Hi everyone, I was thinking that it would be very useful if everyone were to write a definition of what Thinking Through The Body means to …
One thing leading to another
New experiences. Yoga beginning the day. A much richer experience than my only other class 25 years ago! Leading into our journey through techniques for …
From here
From questions to elicit: 1. One thing that resonates 2. One thing I desire/want/need 3. One thing I can offer 1. So far, it’s immersion …
The derire to connect
The shared desire to connect and express from the body and communicate this to each other…to attempt to strip our habitual individual language back may …
Getting to experience – building models, shaping contact
Garth asked a great question today, in relation to the question of our respective desires for the project: not sure exactly what he said – …
offer
i’m still wondering what kind of skills i bring to the group. i’m very much a jack of all trades… i can do a tiny …
experience — cybernetics
a diagramatic representation of some of the discussion on video cued recall. Cheers, Garth
Fabulous
Main Entry: fabulous Part of Speech: adjective Definition: So remarkable as to elicit disbelief. Synonyms: amazing, astonishing, astounding, fantastic, fantastical, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, prodigious, stupendous, …
critique
I enjoyed working with Lizzie’s methodology today – seeking to better understand the process of audience engagement. It was interesting to think about why interactive …
Fragile Ballances and snowdomes
After watching Jonathan’s video-cued retrospective report – he later described the quality of holding those cubes as being like holding a snow dome. This immediately …
other desires
i need more body work. i need to understand more about how a physical presence in a space changes a person (user’s) perception of a …
desire
i’m almost too exhausted to communicate my desires – and so what comes out now are the very basics… so for starters, i desire: an …
Resonances, Desires, Offerings
Notes from a discussion facilitated by Lizzie 2008 08 16 1) RESONANCE - something that has been raised that resonated especially with me was the …
Shaping and Planning…..
Another packed day at the TTTB workshop. In the morning we started with an energizing yoga workout with Lian. This was followed by an introduction …
thermographic of a tarantula
thermographic image of a cold blooded tarantula on a warm human arm! enjoy…. garth
thermographic photography
I would be quite interested to explore the use of thermal imaging as one way of gathering somatic responses in a public installation. Possible sources …
Desires and gifts
In the closing session today I asked everyone to identify one thing that they desired, either for someone in the group or from the group, …
Words stuck in the throat
Today we all worked on the methods I have developed for capturing verbal descriptions of experience. Once again I notice that the techniques I use …
Fleshing out experience
Yesterday in her workshop on Laban notation Lian mentioned that the movement exercises we were doing were “fleshing out” our understanding of Laban’s descriptions. The …
Experience and the future
Three foci: Resonances: Experience Desires: how do we get at physical experience? How is experience represented in physiology? Offerings: An experience of Sonic Gesture; knowledge …
Pulling out 3 things
One thing that resonates from this first workshop is the refreshing openness and intimacy of everyone here. An openness to listen, a willingness to share. …
Bio-Feedback Apparel
Thought this report on BioFeedback apparel might be of interest. Interfaces for biological sensing in art. The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded …
Links to some MoCAP technologies
I thought this links might be of interest: Here is a new MoCAP system that does not use markers on the body – this seems to …
words … communication ………..
One of the challenges we face (often a factor in communicating experience ) is the imprecision of language. It seem then that one of the …
somewhere between mind and body
i feel like there is something bubbling in my brain – somewhere in the unconscious, not too close to the surface, but not too far …
Upon reflection
Gee, where to start . Everyone here knows that what we are seeking is not absolute. Perhaps it’s impossible to even achieve an approximation. How …
Feeling my way
I’m journeying to a mystery destination with 9 other travellers. None of us speak the same language. What we share is elusive. What’s palpable is …
How we think we think through the body?
Day2 has concluded at the TTTB workshop. So much has been covered that it’s difficult to know where to start. Day 1 began with an …
experiencing and learning to analyse movement
It is such a pleasure to be working from the body again. Paying attention to it, slowing down, extending my range of movement, moving into …
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 …
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