Marlon Barrios Solano/network_producer

Embodied Techne Series
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Marlon Barrios Solano interviewed the philosopher of Alva Noë in his brief visit to NYC. He explains his line of inquiry on perception and action and why dance (and human movement) is relevant for the understanding of cognition. He also talks about his experience with the Lisa Nelson's "Tunning Scores" joint workshop and how certain approaches to dance training and composition can collaborate with science and philosophy in generating knowledge from an embodied perspective.
He is the author of the book "Action

Alva Noe's bio from his website:

I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley

I work principally on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with special interest in the theory of perception. I am also interested in the philosophy of art, the history of analytic philosophy, Phenomenology, and Wittgenstein.

I am member of the UC Berkeley Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and I am on the faculty of Berkeley's Cognitive Science Program. I am also a member of the new UC Berkeley Center for New Media.

During the 2007-2008 academic year I will be a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin).

From 10 August 2007, through mid-July 2008, I can be reached by mail at the following address: Alva Noë; Fellow; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Wallotstrasse 19; 14193 Berlin; Germany.

Produced by Marlon Barrios Solano for dance-tech.net

I visited today, in the south tip of Manhattan an interesting public art project: "Playing The Building: An Installation by David Byrne". From the website: Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure ? to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes ? and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument. http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/art_projects/playing_the_building/index.php Production Team 2008: Production Manager: Mark McNamara; Systems Engineer & Head of Fabrication: Justin Downs; Fabrication: Brett van Aalsburg, Eric Singer; Crew: Nick Emmett, Eric Dyer Cool detail: Within the visitors this afternoon, there were the architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio from Diller Scofidio + Renfro, creators of the Blur Building and the stage design of the piece Moving Target. http://www.dillerscofidio.com/moving-target.html

Marlon Barrios Solano interviwes choreographer Emio Greco and researcher Bertha Bermudez. They takes us across ielevant details of their ongoing interdiciplinary project Capturing Intention: Documentation, analysis and notation research based on the work of Emio Greco | PC.

The porject outputs a book of essays accompanied with a film documentary and a DVD-ROM attempting to detangle the complexities of "movement intentionality" conveiyed in the EG |PC "Double Skin/Double mind" creative approach exploring dualities: brain-movement, sacred and profane.

Bertha about the remarcable opprotunity that the comany has created for her to keep working with the company leading this interdiscipnary reserach on movement transmission, choreographic recreation and notation.

Performance inages provided by the company and are segmets of the film documentary Double Skin/Double Mind by Maite Bermudez

Capturing Intention Project

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