Talk by Richard Brown

Richard Brown will present to the lab in our final lab talk of the academic year.

Practice Based Research: The Embodied Performative Turn and its relationship to gaming, interaction and embodiment.

In this talk I will describe my Practice as Research (PaR) methodology, the development of the prototype embodied performance system iMorphia, the emergence of the Embodied Performative Turn and its relationship to theories on gaming, avatar embodiment (Norgard 2011: 4) and Dixon's theories of performative interaction (Dixon 2007: 563).

Research website and PaR blog: http://kinectic.net

References
Dixon, S. 2007. Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. MIT Press.
Nørgård, R T. 2011. The Joy of Doing: The Corporeal Connection in Player-Avatar Identity. Paper, Philosophy of Computer Games Conference 2011, Athens, Greece.