2019 Conferences听
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"Bodies of Design: Somaesthetic Perspectives on Technology"
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听February 24-25, 2019
Boca Raton Campus of 大象传媒, the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
There is no denying that recent developments in technology have significantly transformed our modes of communication, behavior, and experience, even to some extent the experience of our own bodies. This conference will explore issues relating to the somaesthetic dimensions of technology with particular attention to human-computer interactive design. These issues include such questions as the following.
- 听To what extent and in what way does our technology-saturated lifeworld require rethinking our conception of the body and the revision of aesthetic theory and practice?
- 听How does the study of somaesthetics inform the conceptualization, design and use of technology and how is the study of somaesthetics informed by concepts and uses of technology?
- 听How should somaesthetic theory and practice inform design in robotics, virtue reality, and mixed realities?
- 听In what ways have the contemporary arts reacted to the new technologies and their creative potential but to also their possible risks?
- 听How can somaesthetics help us to develop an ethical stance towards technology and its various devices and purposes?听听
Press Release听can be found here.
Program听can be found here.
Abstracts of 250 words and a current CV should be sent electronically as attachments听to听bodymindculture@fau.edu听no later than听November 27, 2018.听
Please direct conference inquiries to the same address.听Selected papers may be developed for publication in s听or in an edited book based on the conference听papers and published in Brill鈥檚 series .
Prospective speakers should be notified in December 2018.
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