Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity
A Multidisciplinary Reader
Published on 1. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 247 pages
978-3-030-39757-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that discipline and exploring their values and applications. Themes include error in choreography, poetry, media art, healthcare, psychology, critical typography and mixed reality performance. The book emerges from a core question of how dance research and HCI can inform each other through consideration of error, ambiguity and 'messiness' as methodological tools. The digital age had heralded the possibility that error could be eradicated by the logic of computers but several chapters focus on glitch in arts practices that exploit errors in computer programmes, or even create programmes specifically to produce errors. Together, the chapters explore how error can take us somewhere different or somewhere new, to develop a new, more interestingway of working.
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Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 farbige Abbildungen, 13 s/w Abbildungen
XVIII, 247 p. 41 illus., 28 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-39757-9 (9783030397579)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-39755-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2020
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Sita Popat is Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research lies at the interface between body and technology, with a particular interest in digital avatars and virtual worlds. She is author of
Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities
(2006) and co-editor with Nicolas Salazar Sutil of
Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance
(2015).
Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests include dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance practices. She is co-editor of Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage (2018) and is editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices .
Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests include dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance practices. She is co-editor of Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage (2018) and is editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices .
Content
1. Chapter 1: Introduction; Sarah Whatley.- 2. Chapter 2: Creative Thought-Spaces Nested in Ambiguity; Efva Lilja.- 3. Chapter 3: Tactical Ambiguity: Materiality, Representation and Interaction in Evan Meaney's Glitched Portraits; Vendela Grundell.- 4. Chapter 4: Ambiguity in psychology; Jon May.- 5. Chapter 5: Art of the Accident; Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli.- 6. Chapter 6: Beyond Error: Philosophy of Indeterminacy in the Age of Algorithms; Jaime del Val.- 7. Chapter 7: 'queer, wonderful misunderstandings': Catachresis as Aesthetic in Contemporary Poetry; Callie Gardner.- 8. Chapter 8: Medical Error: a Misnomer?; Rory O'Connor.- 9. Chapter 9: On Counter-Mapping and Media-Flânerie: Artistic Strategies in the Age of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Street View; Emilio Vavarella.- 10. Chapter 10: Perhaps this can not be anything (on exercises in text production and critical typography, which make use of machine-made errors in processes of visual and semantic translation); Paul Wilson.- 11. Chapter 11: Error as music composition: human and material agencies; Scott McLaughlin.- 12. Chapter 12: Crashing Creatively: Trial and Error in the Hip Hop Battle; Sherril Dodds.- 13. Chapter 13: Written in Error: Definitions and Methods for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research; Sarah Whatley.