meta-academy@Bates 2013 presents:
MINDED MOTION
an online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and other moving ideas.
Facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano and Rachel Boggia
Photo by Raisa Kyllikki Karjalainen
How can embodied knowledge be shared and deepened through the internet? What unique forms of collaborative learning and creative activity might the internet offer?
MINDED MOTION, a 3 week pilot program for meta-academy.org, is a collaborative co-learning lab that will address these questions. Lab participants will use free internet-based tools to creatively explore questions about embodiment, training and memory, composition, and politics of the body. They will also explore how to translate embodied practices onto the internet. The lab will be structured around Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, an approach improvisational dance/movement that she has been developing for over 30 years, which she will be teaching at Bates Dance Festival July 22-August 10 2013.
Screenshot from video interview An Emergent Undersore on dance-tech.tv
Lab Details:
- The lab activities include: embodied activities, guest lectures, small creative projects using online tools to explore a pool of written and video resources, threaded discussions, and online synchronous video encounters (video chats).
- The time commitment is 4-8 hours per week for 3 weeks spanning July 22-August 10 2013.
- The lab is offered FREE of charge and uses free internet-based tools aggregated through google+.
- The lab is open to all interested dance, movement and multimedia artists, teachers, scholars researchers, journalists, writers and more.
- Benefits of participation include: increased understanding of on-line collaboration, increased literacy in internet-based creative tools, exposure to core principles of Nancy Stark Smith’s teaching, membership in a strong intellectual and creative community, and much more.
- The language of facilitation and presentation is English.
- If interested in participating, contact marlon@dance-tech.net by July 18, 2013.
How it works:
- EMBODIED ACTIVITY Each week, on-line participants focus on something that Nancy is teaching in her course at the Bates Dance Festival. For example, Nancy Stark Smith or the lab facilitators might share a score for solo movement or a compositional exercise through video or text directions. Lab participants will try the exercise at the beginning of each week.
- ONLINE CREATIVITY Each week, the lab facilitators will suggest online creative activities for the lab participants related to the embodied activity. These might include: blogging, micro-blogging, video mashups, screendances, online editing, collaborative writing and editing, collaborative curation of images and videos, playlist essays, mind and conceptual mapping, collaborative word cloud. All participants will be credited as collaborators.All material produced in this lab is available for remixing and mashup and it is delivered with a Creative Commons Licenses.
- GUEST LECTURES/LIVE CHAT Each week, lab participants will meet in a Google+ hangout to hear a short lecture by a guest expert on a topic such as body politics/theory, composition, or training. All lab participants, Nancy Stark Smith, and the expert will then discuss the topicand debrief about the week’s activities. Guest lectures are listed below. Hangout times will be announced soon. The video from this encounter will be archived and made available and become part of the creative assets of the projects.
- RESOURCE POOL Supplemental resources such as readings, images, and videos will be made
- available to– and editable by– participants.
- ONLINE FORUM A forum moderated by Dr. Hannah Kosstrin will allow lab participants to discuss concepts, activities and resources.
- SUPPORT Lab facilitators will be available every day for conceptual and technical assistance.
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Roles and participation:
Everyone in the lab is considered a co-creator and is valued as an artist and designer of the shared experience. Therefore, we propose the following structure, but are open to shifts and feedback.
Lab co-facilitators suggesting structure for lab experience, available for consultation:
Core expert providing core content and consult on structure:
Guest experts providing specific content through lectures and discussions in Google Hangouts:
- W. P. Seeley (Philosophy and Cognitive Science/ Bates College, USA)
- Corinne Jola, (Dance and Neuroscience, NSERM/CEA in Gif-sur-Yvette/Paris.)
- Bertha Bermudez (Dance Researcher/ICKAmsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Norah Zuniga-Shaw (aance and technology, composition, critical theories of the body | Associate Professor @ The Ohio State University)
- Bojana Kunst (Dance and performance theorist/Giessen University, Germany)
- Susan Kozel (Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body/Malmo University, Sweden)
- Hannah Kosstrin ( Resident Scholar @ Bates Dance Festival 2013 and Visiting Assistant Professor @ Reeds College, USA)
Lab participants: participating in Lab activities, produce creative projects, consulting on structure:
- You!
- LIMITED TO 50 PARTICIPANTS
- INTERESTED/QUESTIONS: marlon@dance-tech.net
meta-academy@Bates 2013 is the first pilot of the project meta-academy.org conceived by Marlon Barrios Solano with the partial yet crucial support of:
- ICKAmsterdam, The Netherlands
- STEIM, The Netherlands
- DanceDigital, UK
- Mount Tremper Arts, USA
- Rachel Boggia, Bates College, USA
- Laura Faure, Bates Dance Festival, USA
- HZT Berlin, Germany
- MaryAnn Sanford, Peaks Island, USA
All material produced in this lab is available for remixing and mashup and it is delivered with a a Creative Common License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
