Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2016-2017) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjoriikka_Ylisiurua>
Time: Friday May 5, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ Patterns that connect: theatre and cybernetics Orion Maxted Abstract: I am a theatre maker, and since 2017, an affiliate of ECCO. I work with Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam (where I am based), and Beursschouwburg in Brussels, and graduated from DAS Graduate School Amsterdam in 2016. My research crosses over between language-based performance, musicality and cybernetic / systemic and algorithmic theatre. For example - - The ways theatre can be a substrate for cybernetic / computational / biological systems, by connecting people together with rules and language; how these structures may allow participants and observers to think together in novel ways, and gain novel perspectives on existing systems. - How cybernetics and systems theory can provide a lens, poetics, or a set of tool for audiences perceive the patterns that connect language, subjectivity, nature, culture, politics, etc – by being inspired by systems to creating engaging, thought-provoking performances; - The ways theatre is already deeply invested in understanding, modelling and modulating cognition – through the very action of engaging the minds and bodies of the audience; and already systemic / cybernetic / complex, for example, in the sense that a performance needs to find a way to ‘keep going’, to ‘survive’ both onstage, and, in the attention of the audience. And, in reverse, how systems / cybernetics are also intertwined into language, mystery, metaphor and art. In this seminar I will suggest methodologies for creating cybernetic, algorithmic and systemic theatre, by presenting ideas, strands of research, and works in development drawn from examples in my own practice, as well as works I have inspired by, and ideas from cybernetics, systems theory and complexity. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 12th* Mark Bukarev The Genealogy of Becoming: Explicating the Constrained Stochastic Notion of Creativity Under the Auspices of a Teleodynamical Ground of Reference *May 19th* Daniel Schimmelpfennig A transdisciplinary impact assessment of the metasystem transitions *May 26th* Marjorikka Ylisiurua TBA See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Cadell ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: https://cadelllast.com
