A Relational Politics of The Spatial
Making and Contesting time-spaces
Contemporary artists aim to produce specific relations with the technologies they adopt and adapt;
This schematic offers a partial taxonomy.
Caroline A. Jones, Sensorium : Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art 2006
Immersive
the "cave" paradigm, the virtual helmet, the black-box video, the earphone set
Alienated
taking technology and "making it strange," exaggerating attributes to provoke shock, using technologies to switch senses or induce disorientation
Interrogative
work that repurposes or remakes devices to enhance their insidious or wondrous properties; available data translated into sensible systems
Residual
work that holds on to an earlier technology, repurposes or even fetishizes an abandoned one
Resistant
work that refuses to use marketed technologies for their stated purpose; work that pushes viewers to reject technologies or subvert them
Adaptive
work that takes up technologies and extends or applies them for creative purposes, producing new subjects for the technologies in question
Transactive Memory
Systems Virtual Teams
The Body
Minds and Metaphors
Laban-CHOREUTICS
The Mind In The Cave
David Lewis-Williams
The Matter of The World
Minds and metaphors
Cathedrals of Intelligence
The 'Looking mind'
Information Processing and Performance in Traditional and Virtual Teams
The Role of Transactive Memory
Terri Griffith, Margaret A. Neale
Acquisition/Sharing of Implicit and Explicit Information
Organisations increasingly rely on teams to do much of the work traditionally accomplished by individuals.
Successful groups are those who are able to create synergies in the form of information aggregation and innovation that is beyond the ability of any single member.
Nascent Knowledge
Information Diversity
Task Conflict
The knowledge and perspectives of group members from the same social networks may be more redundant than diversified. However a total diversity among work group members is not desirable; some 'redundancy' (agreement in perspective) among group members is necessary to ensure enough common ground to facilitate successful group interaction.
Transactive Memory : Knowing and Accessing What We Know
For teams to have synergy they must be able to access their information, it is important to know who does what.
Wegner 1987; 1995)
RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
TIME
Synchronous/ Asynchronous
COMMUNICATION
Transactive Memory : A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind
Daniel M. Wegner
The study of transactive memory is concerned with the prediction of group (and individual) behaviour through an understanding of the manner in which groups process and structure information.
Individual Memory
Information is entered into memory at the encoding stage, it resides in memory during a storage stage, and is bought back during the retrieval stage.
Organisation : differentiated/ integrated
Label
Location
THE LABAN SOURCEBOOK
Dick McCaw
Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found a extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to drama, education to therapy. Laban believed that you can understand about human beings by observing how they move, and devised two complimentary methods of notating the shape and quality of movements.
Diagram : Three Planes of Movement from Choreography
Inner and Outer Tension : Inner and Outer Form
CHOREUTICS : Principles of Dynamic Space and Movement
Choreutics presents the grammar and syntax of spatial form in movement and the nature of movement's harmonic content.
Effort
Exertion of Power, Physical or/and Mental
Force
Space
Time
Flight
Indulging/Contending
SPACE Flexible/Direct
WEIGHT Light/Strong
TIME Sustained/Quick
FLOW Free/Bound
Shadow Moves
An acute observer of Shadow Movement of a person in different situations and at different times will show the consistency of that individual's basic attitude and personality.
Effort and Recovery
Movement Psychology
Thinking
Intuiting
Sensing
Feeling
AN
ANTHROPOLOGY
OF
LANDSCAPE
Christoper Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum
Materiality
From our perspective in this book representations of landscape, textual or pictorial, are of secondary significance and we should treat them as such; they are selective and partial, and often highly ideological, ways of seeing and knowing.
It forms a material medium in which we dwell and move and think.
Redirecting the study of landscape from representation to the materially grounded messiness of everyday life and the minutiae of material practices that constitute it.
Landscapes are contested, untidy and messy, tensioned, always in the making. Our landscapes of modernity are frequently on the move and peopled by diasporas and migrants of identity, people making homes in new places.
Field Observations
Spatial relations within the landscape are complex.
The manner in which persons and their bodies cannot be understood apart from the landscapes of which they are a part, reciprocally involved in forms of movement, action, awareness and social memory.
Embodied Identities
Art in and from the landscape
Fragile Environments : Nature and Culture
On Ways of Walking and Making Art
A personal reflection
M Collier
Making art is a practical application of phenomenology
Engaging with an embodied experience of space and depth (what Merleau-Ponty called the 'flesh of the world').
WATERLOG
Journeys Around An Exhibition
Landscape and Memory
AFTER SEBALD
Essays and Illuminations
Edited by Jon Cook
The Forum, Norwich : Research Outposts
Alternative Photography
