User:Karina/thesis outline

5 OCT

What you want the thesis to be about?

What
I'm investigating the tension between documentation and experience. As technology advances, we are trying harder and harder to capture experiences. No matter how much we try to explain or document the action, we are only communicating a fragment of it. Whether sharing holiday photos on social media, or culinary shows, the viewer will not receive the 'full picture' unless the viewer experiences it themselves. Even then, it is a personal / subjective version of that experience. We can try to fill in those missing gaps by backing it up with more media: showing more photos; playing certain music (summer soundtrack); or explaining how something smells. The more we add to this 'archive' / collection of documentation, the closer we are to sharing the experience, yet are we getting any closer? What tools could help us do that? Will we ever manage? What may happen once we achieve that? (Will that be a simulation? - possibly too far? maybe final thought for thesis?)

How
Instead of looking at experiences as a whole, I will mainly focus on social dancing. The research is a fluid connection between psychological theory regarding topics such as: memory; falling into flow; spacial awareness; (graphical) notation; and unspoken-communication / interaction between the dancers, as well as practical experiments related to these topics. There is no strict rule whether I take a theory and create an experiment out of it, or create an experiment and find appropriate theory to back it up. One experiment leads to another as topics are related. (The experiments are the methodology / correlation between thesis and graduation project.)

These experiments are based on psychological theory regarding topics such as: memory; falling into flow; spacial awareness; (graphical) notation; and unspoken-communication / interaction between the dancers in dance There is no strict rule whether I take a theory and create an experiment out of it, or create an experiment and find appropriate theory to back it up. One experiment leads to another as topics are related

the feeling of flow, the non-verbal communication / interaction between the dancers

Why

I'd like to c

publishing the unpublishable
capturing an experience
how to capture an experience?
to what extent can we capture an experience?

capturing an experience or relationship
Sean's connection
notation
archive
dance as language (conversation between people)

how can I best communicate an experience?

How it relates to your research at the Piet Zwart so far?
Special Issue 02: Pushing the Score

notes from Karina/self-directed/Capturing Memories In Time

previous written piece: Time Perception in Dance

Bibliography
Goodman, N. (1976). Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. 2nd ed. Hackett Publishing Comp.

Laurel, B. (2000). Computers as Theatre. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley.

Slater, L. (2005). Opening Skinner's Box. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury, pp.205 - 223.

Ted Talk, (2009). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness. [video] Available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en [Accessed 3 Mar. 2017].

Wiener, N. (1965). Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr.