RESEARCH GROUP: MOUVEMENT

A research group composed of Katia, Ana and Ugo.

What is Movement? Space, Time, Memory (broader analysis - Philosophy of motion)

How do we experience, understand and manipulate  movement ? 

How do we deal with the extensive amount of definitions and approaches that movement produces ? 

How do we move within this diversity?

How does this diversity fuel and orient artistic practices toward unexplored spaces ?

1- MOVEMENT & SOCIETIES

How does movement affects individuals and societies ?

How individuals and societies produce movement?

Reading list:

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, 2012 (Sociology, Emancipation, Migration, Liquidity) http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Ugo/liquidmodernity

Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, 1907 & Matter & Memory 1896 (Cinematic brain, Duration, Matter, Memory, Universe)

Bateson Gregory, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972 http://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Vr19BkziXhhNBG9jyj__8YnsufjAXq1dRXA31h0cReGZKsQuGPdPf5Kk

Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age, 2014 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/everyone-dies-young/9780231175890

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, 1991 http://www.rybn.org/ANTI/ADMXI/documentation/ALGORITHM_DOCUMENTATION/QUANTUM_V/PARALLELISM/HOLOGRAPHIC_UNIVERSE/1991_Michael_Talbot_-_The_Holographic_Universe.pdf

Non-Lieux de l'Exil, Collective Research on Exil https://nle.hypotheses.org

Alexis Nuselovic, Exiliance: Condition & Consciousness http://www.fmsh.fr/en/node/24595

2- MOVEMENT & ARTISTIC PRACTICES

Does this diversity of perspectives can re-orient our artistic research / practice toward unexplored spaces ?

How can the movement be translated in artistic practices? Can we encourage expression through forms of movement? Does movement encourages expression?

Which tools can human use to perceive the movement in a different way or recognise the invisible?

How can an artist adapt the space and means to affect the (cultural, physical, imaginary) movement?

How can we adjust the speed of movement trough artistic media? 

How can we amplify the sensing of movement? 

How can the movement be controlled?

Reading list:

Douglas Kahn, Noise water meat, 1999 https://monoskop.org/images/9/91/Kahn_Douglas_Noise_Water_Meat_A_History_of_Sound_in_the_Arts_no_OCR.pdf 

Hillel Schwartz, Making Noise, From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond, 2017 http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon-archive-2017/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mattern_MakingNoise.pdf

Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images, 1971 https://monoskop.org/images/c/c2/Wenders_Wim_The_Logic_of_Images_Essays_and_Conversations.pdf 

Etienne Souriau, Time in the plastic arts 1949 http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Ugo/methods/session3

Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

SPACE/TIME  The Chicago School of Media Theory

SESSION 2

20.03.2019

This session is organized in two steps:

1- A collective lecture of Gregory Bateson’s ‘’The Epistemology of Cybernetics”(1972), led by Steve. This will help to unpack key concepts develop by G.Bateson, like those of feedback theory, the transition from the theory of energy to the theory of information, the transformation of differences into messages, the link between behavior and the process of thought, the immanence nature of the mind, and the conception of memory as a time course. Another benefit of this clarification is that it allows us to highlight possible ideological links with other thinkers like Margareth Mead, Vilem Flusser, Claude Levi-Strauss, Henri Bergson for example. The work of Gregory Bateson seems unavoidable for an understanding of contemporary global networks (neural and informational).

Bateson Gregory, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972 http://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Vr19BkziXhhNBG9jyj__8YnsufjAXq1dRXA31h0cReGZKsQuGPdPf5Kk

2- A individual reading session focus on exploring and extracting possible definitions of movement within the frame of The Philosophy of Motion.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-theories/

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/aztec-philosophy-understanding-a-world-in-motion/