Bodily experience and imagination: Designing ritual interactions for participatory live-art contexts

Loke, L; Khut, PG; Kocaballi, AB

Bodily experience and imagination: Designing ritual interactions for participatory live-art contexts

Loke, L Khut, PG Kocaballi, AB

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2012, pp. 779 - 788
Issue Date:: 2012-01

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dc.contributor.author	Loke, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Khut, PG	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kocaballi, AB	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	NA	en_US
dc.date	2012-06-11	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2012, pp. 779 - 788	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4503-1210-3	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	We are exploring new possibilities for bodily-focused aesthetic experiences within participatory live-art contexts. As artist-researchers, we are interested in how we can understand and shape bodily experience and imagination as primary components of an interactive aesthetic experience, sonically mediated by digital biofeedback technologies. Through the making of a participatory live-art installation, we illustrate how we used the Bodyweather performance methodology to inform the design of ritual interactions intended to reframe the audience experience of self, body and the world through imaginative processes of scaling and metaphor. We report on the insights into the varieties of audience experience gathered from audience testing of the prototype artwork, with a particular focus on the relationship between the embodied imagination and felt sensation; the influence of objects and costume; and the sonically mediated experience of physiological processes of breathing and heartbeat. We offer some reflections on the use of ritual and scripted interactions as a strategy for facilitating coherent forms of bodily experience.	en_US
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dc.relation.ispartof	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1145/2317956.2318073	en_US
dc.rights	© ACM 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2012, pp. 779 - 788 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2317956.2318073	en_US
dc.title	Bodily experience and imagination: Designing ritual interactions for participatory live-art contexts	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
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Abstract:

We are exploring new possibilities for bodily-focused aesthetic experiences within participatory live-art contexts. As artist-researchers, we are interested in how we can understand and shape bodily experience and imagination as primary components of an interactive aesthetic experience, sonically mediated by digital biofeedback technologies. Through the making of a participatory live-art installation, we illustrate how we used the Bodyweather performance methodology to inform the design of ritual interactions intended to reframe the audience experience of self, body and the world through imaginative processes of scaling and metaphor. We report on the insights into the varieties of audience experience gathered from audience testing of the prototype artwork, with a particular focus on the relationship between the embodied imagination and felt sensation; the influence of objects and costume; and the sonically mediated experience of physiological processes of breathing and heartbeat. We offer some reflections on the use of ritual and scripted interactions as a strategy for facilitating coherent forms of bodily experience.

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