[dance-tech] Re: Fw: Jaime del Val at MIT Medialab - Boston - April 2011

  • From: "Jaime del Val" <jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <sharir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:48:31 +0200

Re: [dance-tech] Fw: Jaime del Val at MIT Medialab - Boston - April 2011Dear 
Yacov, 
I'd love to debate with you on any questions that you may have, please don't 
hesitate to send me a note when you can, I'll send you the paper when I put it 
ready for proceedings after the conference, there the topics will be obviously 
talked more in detail.... since they are many and broad I guess that in the 
abstract they remain too... abstract!
warmest regards
Jaime del Val


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yacov Sharir 
  To: jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx ; dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:50 PM
  Subject: [dance-tech] Re: Fw: Jaime del Val at MIT Medialab - Boston - April 
2011


  Dear Jaime,

  Congratulations on your planed lecture, your abstract is very interesting I 
wish I could attend I have many question to ask that your title and concept 
evoked. I wish you great lack. Yacov Sharir


  On 4/18/11 10:31 AM, "Jaime del Val" <jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



    Dear all,
    I hope to see some of you al MIT this week,
    looking forward to that,
    best
    Jaime

    Jaime del Val - Reverso Institute for Metahuman Technologies  
www.reverso.org <http://www.reverso.org> 
     
    at 


    Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0 

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Boston - Massachussets - USA
    April 22?23, 2011
     
    presents

    Metamedia Metaformance
    Metahuman Technologies: Undoing anatomy in capitalism of affects



    SHORT ABSTRACT:
    I will propose a critique of the accounts of the moving body that pervade 
both classical-modern-contemporary dance traditions and 
information-communication-control society, in order to propose some 
possibilities for a radical redefinition of corporeality, aesthetics and 
politics both in relation to dance, the other arts and nature-culture at large, 
within a Metahumanistic <http://www.metahumanism.eu/>  project of resistance to 
capitalism of affects in which, through subversive reappropriations of control 
technologies, an amorphous, post-anatomical body is produced that exceeds 
cartesian-logocentric-humanistic paradigms, redefining the body as relational 
process and reworking all of its normative categories.
     
    LONGER ABSTRACT:
    I will propose a critique of the paradigms of the moving body that pervade 
both classical-modern-contemporary dance traditions and 
information-communication-control society, which reproduce specific 
cartesian-logocentric-humanistic conceptions that deal with 
framing-distance-exteriority for the production of the spectacular-hiperreal 
and of the dualism object-subject as well as fictional-objective. The 
parallelism between the stage and the ubiquitous camera-screens of media 
culture will aquire new light understood in terms of perceptual anatomies that 
reproduce the cartesian split between subject and object, thus producing both 
as political fictions. This becomes even more problematic in the field of HCI, 
where interfaces tend to assimilate bodies into a regime of affective 
production that we will call the Panchoreographic, where movement becomes a key 
paradigm for understanding its mechanisms. Dance-technology appears thus as a 
realm in which, rather than limitng us to use the given technologies, we may 
subvert them and the regime they perpetuate.
     
    The body, understood as relational process, is subject to endless 
Amorphogenesis through a redefinition of the relational technologies that 
constitute it. This is part of a non-utopian Metahumanistic 
<http://www.metahumanism.eu/> project for resistance to capitalism of affects' 
apparatuses of violence and assimilation. Metamedia Metaformance is the process 
of redefinition of relational technologies, which include perceptual anatomies, 
that redefine the given limits between disciplines and perceptual categories in 
a neverending process of emergence. Proposing the notion of Intrabodies rather 
than Interfaces and a Meta-kinetic art-research instead of dance-choreography, 
we propose to show the crucial role of relational movement for the radical 
redefinition of the entire humanistic-logocentric-cartesian conception, in a 
movement away from the stages (and audiences) of spectacular control society 
and from linear time-space.
     
    Examples will be given of the Microsexes-Microdances projects of Reverso 
and other Metahuman Technologies in which through reappropriation of 
technologies of control society the sensory anatomy is transformed towards a 
Post-anatomical body, and with it the conditions of possibility of regimes that 
operate thorugh identification and form. A devisualisation and a politics of 
the amorphous where bodies move in ways that are irreducible to 
representation-mapping-identification-signification, undoing the constitutive 
limits of gender-sex-race-class-form-identity categories of control. 
     
     
    www.reverso.org <http://www.reverso.org>  
     
     


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