Panels and papers will be organized around themes – which may include:
- Material engagement – doing stuff with stuff
- Performance and the performative
- New ontologies – being/doing as opposed to representing
- Architecture, space and landscape
- Sound and the body, embodiment and music
- Virtual embodiment/embodied virtuality. VR, AR, MR avatars and all that
- HCI and embodied interaction
- Cognitive neuroscience and its relevance to art and cultural practices
- Arts and Cultural practices as a challenge for cognitive science.
- Embodiment and Pedagogy
- Embodiment and Arts Pedagogy
- Philosophical precedents – Pragmatism, Phenomenology, Ecological Psychology, etc.
- Cultural and Historical modes of Embodiment. Embodiment in differing cultures and traditions
- Sensorimotor realities and temporal coupling
- Situated, distributed and extended – perception cognition and action in the world
- Tacit knowledge and the arts – how to talk about what you can’t talk about
- Biology, Ethology, autopioesis and enaction – about how we are animals before we are humans
- Tools, prosthetics, telerorobotics. From the blind man’s cane to robotic surgery
- Cognitive anthropology, cognitive archeology
- Dirty bodies – Taboos of embodiment and embodied practices
- Embodiment and ‘mental’ illness
- Other – write in