By Susan Kozel
In Closer, Susan Kozel attracts on concert perform, electronic applied sciences, and the philosophical method of phenomenology. educated in dance and philosophy, Kozel areas the human physique on the heart of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive structures, and affective computing, asking what might be stumbled on as we turn into in the direction of our desktops -- as they develop into extensions of our methods of pondering, relocating, and touching.
Performance, Kozel argues, can act as a catalyst for knowing wider social and cultural makes use of of electronic know-how. Taking this one step additional, performative acts of sharing the physique via our electronic units foster a collaborative building of latest actual states, degrees of wakeful information, or even ethics. We reencounter ourselves and others via our interactive desktops. What we want now are conceptual and methodological frameworks to mirror this.
Kozel deals a well timed transforming of the phenomenology of French thinker Maurice Merleau-Ponty. this technique, in response to a appreciate for lived adventure, starts off by way of hearing the senses and noting insights that arrive in the middle of dance, or readily in the course of existence. the mix of functionality and phenomenology provided through nearer yields entwinements among adventure and mirrored image that make clear, problematize, or restructure scholarly ways to human our bodies utilizing electronic applied sciences.
After outlining her procedure and method and clarifying the main suggestions of functionality, applied sciences, and virtuality, Kozel applies phenomenological approach to the event of designing and acting in quite a number computational structures: telematics, movement seize, responsive architectures, and wearable computing.
The transformative power of the alchemy among our bodies and applied sciences is the basis of nearer. With cautious layout, destiny generations of responsive platforms and cellular units can extend our social, actual, and emotional exchanges. Susan Kozel is affiliate Professor within the institution of Interactive Arts and expertise at Simon Fraser collage, Vancouver, Canada.
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