Task 7a Part 2: Reviewing my Literature and Skype Discussion Group

The task 7a of the Module 3 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University consists of carrying out my professional inquiry.

In this Part 2 of this task I would speak a bit about the resources of the inquiry, concretely about the main Literature (You can see the list below) that I have been reading in the past weeks for my BAPP Inquiry.

The book Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson

- Dixon, Steve (2004) Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation, Cambridge, MIT Press

- Wilson, Stephen (2010) Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics, New York, Thames & Hudson

- Oikonomou, Nefeli-Niki (2012) Dance Research, Choreography and Cognitive Science: The encounter with the Creative Process-Analysis and Proposals for support of the Creative Choreographic Process in Dance, Syros

- Tornero Lorenzo, Paz (2013) Tecnologías de la Creatividad: Conexiones entre Arte y Ciencia en la Contemporaneidad, Madrid

Firstly, during my summer break I studied the book Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson before starting the Module 3 where I learnt a lot about the different aspects of the Art and Science relationship through several examples and professional artefacts from all the scientific fields. A few days ago I finished the Dissertation Dance Research, Choreography and Cognitive Science by Nefeli-Niki Oikonomou. It took me almost 3 weeks to read and process all the data that I found because it shows a wide range of knowlegde of how different technological aspects have been approached by several choreographers and what has been the result of it. It has been an exhaustive process where after reading and analysing them I selected and wrote what I found interesting for my inquiry in my BAPP Resources Quotes Notebook (Photo below).

My BAPP Resources Quotes Notebook

Yesterday also, I attended the Skype Discussion Group with Adesola at 5pm (London Time), where we practiced Critical Thinking discussing and analysing several issues. For me it was especially interesting to listen the opinion of the others about how it feels to be an international artist in other countries as I have experienced it throughout all my career.

Don´t forget to keep following the blog and my Google + Community for the updates about my research!

Gonzalo

Task 7a Part 1: My first Interview

The task 7a of the Module 3 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University consists of carrying out my professional inquiry. There are many ways to approach its development during the module such us updates of the inquiry progress, thoughts and plans about it or the summary of my inquiry tools (Literature and Interviews mainly). In the following weeks I will be writing about all of them and more examples throughout this blog.

Firstly, in the Part 1 of this task I would like to speak about the first interview for my professional inquiry that I did at the end of June in the Laboratorios Cesar (Photo below) in my hometown in Spain after the module 2 was finished and I was on the summer holidays at the LNOB.

Laboratorios Cesar in Zaragoza (Spain)

As I said in my previous post, I attended the International Dance Contemporary Festival Trayectos in Zaragoza that took place at the Center of Art and Technology Etopia (Photo below), concretely I saw the results of the first Dance and Media Lab (http://smartplaces.eu/activities/dance-and-new-media-lab/) that was developed in collaboration with several organizations and institutions mainly related with the University of Zaragoza. Before this performance I was able to interview the director of the Laboratorios Cesar, (An organization that took part in this project) where we discussed several issues related with it such as how they programmed a robot to dance with a human or how to capture your body movement through accelerometers, I will explain more about it in the analysis of my Critical Reflection.

Dance and New Media Lab Performance during the International Dance Contemporary Festival Trayectos in Zaragoza (Spain)

At the moment as we have just started Week 1 at the BAPP in the past days I have been reading the Module 3 handbook as well as the Reader 7 to organise all the tasks and the different parts of my Professional Inquiry that I have to complete in order to complete the course, therefore in the following weeks I will be posting more articles about the first and second stage of it where I am reading and analysis my Literature as well getting ready for more interviews in Riga.

Don´t forget to keep following the blog and my Google + Community for the updates about my research!

Gonzalo