Themes

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