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*International METABODY <http:\/\/www.metabody.eu<\/a>>Forum – IMF 2015 – Weimar,*<\/p>\n *March 5-6 2015*<\/p>\n *Bauhaus University* \n*Affordances of Symbiosis – **Rethinking interaction and the immeasurable The Mouse has been in use for the last 50 years as the main interaction The teapot has a handle, the mouse has a shape that fits in the palm, books How can we reinvent affordances of the body in its continuous motion while \nSoftware is re-shaping the 21st century’s concept of the body. It is \nWe are asking if a new definition of body — one which removes the \nHow can we facilitate such affordances in our deterministic and *Topics:*<\/p>\n – rethinking digital\/physical affordances in the posthuman\/cybernetic era *KEYNOTE SPEAKER: *<\/p>\n *Petra Kuppers*<\/p>\n is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a \n*SUBMISSIONS: *<\/p>\n Please send an abstract of your submission, along with a short biography, *Submission Deadline: February 10, 2015.*<\/p>\n *www. metabody.eu<\/a>* <http:\/\/www.metabody.eu<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *Metaformance Studies – METABODY project* *International METABODY <http:\/\/www.metabody.eu>Forum – IMF 2015 – Weimar,* *March 5-6 2015* *Bauhaus University* * Weimar, Germany* *Affordances of Symbiosis – **Rethinking interaction and the immeasurable potential of the body in the age of ubiquitous computing.* The Mouse has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transdisciplinarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Weimar, Germany*<\/p>\n
\npotential of the body in the age of ubiquitous computing.*<\/p>\n
\ndevice of the computer. Although HCI has been well-established as a branch
\nof study starting from 80’s, only lately did our relation to computers
\nstart changing with mobile devices’ touch screens. Meanwhile, computing
\nhas become ubiquitous and, while still imprecise, increasingly we are
\ninteracting with them based on bodily control, from public doors to TV
\ncontrol to interactive art works.<\/p>\n
\nhave pages to turn, while computer interaction is becoming increasingly
\nbased not only on physical objects that reduce movement to very discrete
\ntraceable parameters, but on bodily gestures captured by cameras and
\nsensors.<\/p>\n
\nchallenging the reductive approach of ubiquitous computing?<\/p>\n
\nconverting it into an object of measurement and calculation, reducing it to
\nnumbers. At the same time, machine perception of the body may blur the
\nboundary between “normal” and “abnormal”. Reflecting on disability, we
\nquestion the premise of software. From this perspective, what is commonly
\nreferred to as disability, with all of its “negative” implications, becomes
\na positive quality of difference and plurality. It is an appreciation of
\nthe body for its yet unknown qualities; for what it can do, instead of what
\nit is.<\/p>\n
\nboundaries between normal and abnormal, able and disabled, measurable and
\nimmeasurable — can be based on a redefinition of affordances. Affordance
\nas the indeterminate potential of the body to move in yet unthinkable ways.
\nAffordance as an open-ended potential of relation.<\/p>\n
\nprobabilistic world of ubiquitous control? “What can a body do?” becomes,
\n“What can the affordances of the body become”, understood as motion and
\nrelation, as open-ended potential, as relational ecologies, in our
\nsymbiotic life.<\/p>\n
\n – digital affordances, ubiquitous surveillance and control – affordances
\n of capture and prediction
\n – digital affordances and movement capture\/reduction – the interface
\n – digital affordances and affective production – emoticon culture and
\n ubiquitous commercial music
\n – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, AI, robotics, videogaming –
\n affordances of simulation
\n – screens, keyboards, mouses, cameras – expanding the renaissance
\n paradigm & control affordances
\n – visual affordances and the fixation of perception
\n – manual affordances and subjective control
\n – ubiquitous computing and mobile devices – invisible affordances of
\n control
\n – perceptual history of digital affordances, from Greek theatre
\n architecture and Euclidean geometry, to Renaissance perspective, cameras,
\n mechanism and information.
\n – wearables, internet of things, smart homes and the new landscape of
\n digital affordances – the new revolution of control and ubiquitous
\n surveillance
\n – genetics and epigenetics as evolutionary potentials for interaction
\n – nanoaffordances
\n – embodiment in the digital era – software and hardware as embodied
\n affordances
\n – perceptual affordances and sensory hierarchies: vision, hearing,
\n touch, crossmodal and multimodal approaches
\n – enactive cognition and affordance theories
\n – affordances and embodied knowledge
\n – interaction and intra-action in affordance-design
\n – towards a new ecology of affordances – ethics of perception beyond
\n visual domination
\n – diffuse\/indeterminate affordances and openended relational ecologies
\n – towards an architecture of indeterminate affordances
\n – non-functional design, indeterminate architecture and diffuse
\n affordances
\n – interaction, palpability and synaesthesia
\n – affordances of crossmodal sensing
\n – interactive environments and inclusion<\/p>\n
\nwidely recognized author. She is a professor at the University of
\nMichigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches performance studies and disability
\nstudies, and she is on the faculty of Goddard College MFA program in
\nInterdisciplinary Arts. She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an
\nartists’ collective that creates collaborative, research-focused
\nenvironments open to people with physical, emotional, sensory and cognitive
\ndifferences and their allies. Her book about The Olimpias arts-based
\nresearch practices, “Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a
\nStrange and Twisted Shape,” won the biennial Sally Banes Award from the
\nAmerican Association for Theatre Research.<\/p>\n
\nto: conference@metabody.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n