Readings will be drawn from the conceptual, visual and performing
arts, as well as from digital libraries, human computer interaction
and cognitive psychology research. (The schedule below is tentative,
and will be adjusted periodically. Don't count on the details of
advance readings without asking the professor.)
1/24 Affective Computing
Picard, Rosalind,
Affective Computing,
pp. 21-45, Emotions are Physical and Cognitive;
pp. 47-55, Affective Computers -- Recognize Emotions
electronic reserve.
Cassioppo and Tassinary, Handbook of Psychophysiology,
16-21, Four Categories of Psychophysiological Markers
Burleson, Win, and Picard, Rosalind (2004),
Affective Agents: Sustaining Motivation to Learn Through Failure and a State of Stuck, Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments Workshop, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
1/26 Using Video for Motion Tracking
1/31 The Moving Body
Laban, Rudolf, The language of movement: A Guidebook to Choreutics,
C2 Body and the Kinesphere, 18-26,
C3 Exploration of the Dynamosphere,, 27-36,
C5 The Body and Trace-forms,, 46-54,
C6 Natural Sequences of the Dynamosphere,, 55-67,
C11 Choreutic Shapes Performed by the Body, 111-124.
electronic reserve.
Muybridge, Eadward,
Animal
Locomotion Plate 49
"Walking and turning around rapidly with a
satchel in one hand, a cane in the other," Collotype, 1887.
Animal Locomotion Plate 455,
"Throwing self on heap of hay," Collotype, 1887.
2/2 Transforming Video (an output modality)
2/7 intro to embodiment
Dourish, Paul, Where the Action Is,
C 2 Getting in Touch, 25-54
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman,
Prologue xi - xiv, C2 Virtual Bodies and the Flickering Signifier, 25-49.
2/9 Processing Psychophysiological Signals and Experiences
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C33 Biosignal Processing, 900-92.
on
electronic reserve.
Grotowski, Jerzy, Towards a Poor Theatre,
Theater is an Encounter, 55-60, Statement of Principles, 211-218.
2/16 Galvanic Skin Response
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C8 The Electrodermal System, 200-223.
electronic reserve.
2/21 Embodied Interaction in Environmental Contexts
Schechner, Richard, Environmental Theater,
Six Axioms, xix-xiv.
electronic reserve.
Dourish, Paul, Where the Action Is,
C3 Social Interaction,
C4 Embodied Interaction,
3/2 Respiration / Inspiration
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C10 Respiration, 265-293.
electronic reserve.
3/7 Autonomous Nervous System - Orienting Response
electronic reserve.
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C20, Cognition and the Autonomic Nervous
System: Orienting, Anticipation, and Conditioning, 533-575.
electronic reserve.
3/9 Bodies of Information and Interaction
Hayles, How we became Posthuman,
C3 Contesting for the Body of Information, 50-83.
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C29 Applications of Psychophysiology to
Human Factors, 794-814.
electronic reserve.
3/21 Autonomous Nervous System - Orienting Response
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C20, Cognition and the Autonomic Nervous
System: Orienting, Anticipation, and Conditioning, 533-575.
electronic reserve.
Greeno, James G., Gibson's Affordances,
Psychology Review, 101:2, 1994, 336-342.
3/28 Embodied Cognition
Lakoff, George, Johnson, Mark, Philosophy in the flesh : the
embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought,
Introduction: Who Are We?, 3-8, The Cognitive Unconscious, 9-16,
The Embodied Mind, 16-44, The Anatomy of Complex Metaphor, 60-73.
electronic reserve.
3/30 Group Project Feedback Discussions
4/4 Performative Forms
Barba, Eugenio, The Paper Canoe,
Recurring Principles, 13-35,
Energy or rather the Thought, 50-80.
Schechner, Richard,
Between Theater and Anthropology,
C1 Points of Contact between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought, 3-34,
electronic reserve.
4/6 Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception,
The Sensation as a Unit of Experience, 3-12,
Association and the Projection of Memories, 13-25,
Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology, 73-90,
Sense Experience, 207-243.
electronic reserve.
4/11 Affect and Psychophysiology
Cassioppo and Tassinary, C22, Emotion and Motivation, 602-642.
electronic reserve.
Picard, Rosalind,
Affective Computing,
C5 Affective Signals and Systems,
141-162
4/13 Group Project Presentations
4/18 Intentions in the Body
Dourish, Paul, Where the Action Is,
C5 Foundations: Ontology, Intersubjectivity, Intentionality, 127-154.
in Zarrilli, Phillip, ed, Acting (Re)Considered,
New York: Routledge, 1995.
Suzuki, Tadashi, Culture is the Body, 155-160,
4/20 Group Project Presentations
4/25 Post-Human Embodiment
Hayles, How we became Posthuman,
C10 Semiotics of Virtuality, 247-282,
C11 Conclusion: What does it Mean to be Post-Human?, 283-291.
x/y Performance and Cultural Context
Schechner, Richard,
Between Theater and Anthropology,
C4 Performer Training Interculturally, 213-260.
xx/yy More Physical Theater
Kantor, Tadeusz, Journey through other spaces : essays and manifestos,
1944-1990,
Credo, 33-42, The Autonomous Theater, 42-51, Lessons 1-5, 208-225.
in Zarrilli, Phillip, ed, Acting (Re)Considered,
New York: Routledge, 1995.
Suzuki, Tadashi, Culture is the Body, 155-160,
Bloch, Susana, Otrhous, Pedro, Santibanez,-H,
Effector Patterns of Basic Emotions, 197-218.
Boal, Augusto, Forum Theater, 251-261.
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