The Digital Pandemic

Cachopo, João Pedro de Bastos Gonçalves

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“…How might a multi-sensory artistic research project exploring mental states have something to offer our evolving incorporeal lifeworlds (Grosz 2017)? With COVID19 we are in unprecedented terrain as it is the first trauma to be experienced simultaneously by all peoples on the planet (Cachopo 2022). For the performing arts this has had profound repercussions that are impossible to ignore.…”

Section: Disrupted Sensementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Mental Dance, we created a network -a heterogeneous system -that was internal as much as external, personal and public within the condition of physically confined imaginations (Cachopo 2022). Its relationality interlaced the dancers interoceptive and exteroceptive capabilities through choreosonic improvisation within spaces that were both private, domestic and public, shared.…”

Section: Braindancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dancing Together Apart

Brown¹,

Lim

2023

Body, Space &Amp; Technology

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At a time when the Choreographic takes on a renewed sense of possibility as we adapt to the rhythms of an epidemiological model of society, dances of remediation, that collapse the distinction between interpersonal and infrastructural modes of sensing the world, offer, we argue, possibilities for perceiving and making sense of our changing lifeworlds (Bratton 2022). In this writing, we reflect upon an artistic research project that composed choreographic relations between corporeal, conceptual and informational modes, bringing attention to the expressive possibilities of attuning to, and regulating each other, even at a distance.  Mental Dance involved multiple agents shaping  states of distributed attention across physical and digital networks. In choreographing the work we drew upon current neuroscientific research into the Bayesian Brain and Predictive Coding.       Mental Dance explored the intersection of dance, interactive sound design and psychiatry through a unique performance system that blended these diverse ‘mental spaces’. Hagendoorn (2019) describes ‘mental spaces’ as ‘temporary thought assemblies that are constructed as one thinks and speaks’ (756).  In our project diverse languages of movement and music were remediated through AI and the flux of somatic attention expressed by two live performers. Realtime data generated by the dancers’ movements and tracked by AI pose recognition software shaped a choreosonic environment for an online audience (Brown 2021b).  Our artistic research method drew upon dancers’ intuitive kinesthetic and haptic sensory awareness and AI’s capacity to learn, together with an appropriation of theories of the Bayesian Brain.  Staging provocations from neuroscientific research and psychiatry, we mimicked the idea of the clinic as a site for soma-sci experimentation.  In generating an empathic performance system that addressed relational intimacy and neural resonance at a distance, we navigated the uncertainty and unpredictability of repeated lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia, countering despair and ennui with the excitement and challenge of connecting through remote co-presence.  In Dancing Together Apart, we probe the wiring of relations and the igniting of ideas that sparked this collaborative performance and propose choreosonic improvisation as a method to bring current neuroscientific research into the virtual studio where it can inform and influence the direction of new work and cultivate an altered state of kinetic intensities held between agencies, human and non-human.  

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Section: Disrupted Sensementioning

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Section: Braindancesmentioning

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Dancing Together Apart

Brown¹,

Lim

2023

Body, Space &Amp; Technology

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“…Consumers' practices revolve around objects, which provide the needed requisites for joint activities (Boström, 2021). Furthermore, photos or souvenirs might induce nostalgic remembering or hopeful imagining of social connectedness (Cachopo, 2022).…”

Section: Materially Mediated Social Connectednessmentioning

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“…Additionally, physical distancing has foregrounded the power of a free mind (Heath and Nixon, 2021) as consumer imaginations exploit fantasies of being connected. Mind-wandering transcends the confines of the status quo in isolation by creating an escape into an alternate reality of fiction where consumers re-enact their proximity (Cachopo, 2022). Thus, virtual and imagined forms of co-presence unfolding during the COVID-19 crisis inform nuanced understandings of social linking across spatiality and temporality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social linking practices across physical distance: The material constitution of sociality

2022

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The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in physical distancing regulations, disrupting traditional practices of establishing and maintaining social relationships. We draw attention to digital nomadism as a mature case of navigating sociality in uncertainty to investigate how the linking value of materiality establishes social proximity without geographic contiguity through physical, virtual, and imagined practices. Using Miller’s (1987) theory of materiality and triangulating data collected from in-depth interviews and netnography, this study details the material constitution of co-presence with others in physical distance. We propose that consumers oscillate between work—instrumental practices of signaling and curating—and play—emotional practices of belonging and indulging—to experience social linking across different spatial and temporal frameworks.

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Global anniversaries and cultural rupture: September 11, COVID-19 and ethical cultural change

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2023

Continuum

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The Digital Pandemic

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Dancing Together Apart

Dancing Together Apart

Social linking practices across physical distance: The material constitution of sociality

Global anniversaries and cultural rupture: September 11, COVID-19 and ethical cultural change

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