Senses of Embodiment research workshop
May 17-18 2012, Aalto/ARTS, Helsinki
This two-day workshop brings together researchers and artists form different areas in order to catalyze the dialogue between philosophy, artistic research and research into arts and media. The event is open to all. WELCOME!
The discussions and presentations will emerge from the ongoing research of the five projects (see below) presenting their work in the workshop. The aim is to map the different ‘senses’ of embodiment. Here the word ‘sense’ refers both to rationale for research on embodiment and to faculties of sensory experience. More specific focus is set on those aspects of embodiment that constitute a challenge for scientific reasoning: excessive and abysmal areas of experience and as well as artistic practices that find their motivation from beyond the conscious thinking, even from the inhuman modes of being.
The following questions will be discussed from various perspectives:
• How do various conceptions of embodiment inform artistic work?
• How do artistic work and art research inform the conceptions of embodiment?
• Are the arts necessarily anthropocentric?
• What kind of role the interplay of vision and touch plays in the conceptions of embodiment?
The seminar consists of four workshop sessions that are built thematically around specific bodies of artistic work and discourses linked to them. In addition there will be 3 key-note lectures:
• Sabine Flach (SVA, New York): “Systemes Synergique – On Aesthetics, Aisthesis and Media of Embodiment”
• Esa Kirkkopelto: (Teak, Helsinki): “Body, Institution and Invention”
• Sami Santanen (Aalto-ARTS Pori / Helsinki University): “Dimensions of Touch”
• Laura Beloff (Helsinki / Plymouth): “Between Wearable Technology and Wearable World”
Participating projects:
Media Aesthetics research group (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Contact person: Mika Elo
“From movement out of reflection in becoming: The dancer and the creative
process” research project (University College of Dance, Stockholm)
Contact person: Cecilia Roos
“Figures of Touch” research project (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Contact person: Harri Laakso
Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Contact persons: Alex Arteaga
Sound and Physical Interaction Research Group (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Contact person: Koray Tahiroglu
The workshop is organized by the Media Aesthetics Research Group, Aalto/ARTS, Department of Media
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