Anti-bodies: beyond the body ideal explores different attitudes to the
body. It contrasts the particularity of the artist's body-concept against
the ideal body-machine of the Olympic athlete, so revealing underlying
idealisations of the body as they are reproduced within different everyday
social contexts.
The programme takes the form of a series of contemporary art projects. These
are developed for different cultural contexts and produced by organisations
based in the south west of England, in collaboration with national and
international partners. The Interaction programme includes a website, an
online open submission and presentation platform *Open Anti-Bodies*, a youth
initiative *Young Anti-Bodies*, events, discussion, and resources.
Anti-Bodies seeks to encourage critical engagement with international art
and extend notions of context-led working and participation in the wider
social realm. The programme is scheduled to run until 2012.
More INFO: http://www.anti-bodies.net/
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(PDF) Encouraging Witting Participation and Performance in Digital Live Art | © Jennifer G. Sheridan, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Alice Bayliss, 2007 Published by the British Computer Society People and Computers XXI – HCI… but not as we know it: Proceedings of HCI 2007 Linden J. Ball, M. Angela Sasse, Corina Sas, Thomas C. Ormerod, Alan Dix, Peter Bagnall, and Tom McEwan (Editors) | "We describe a framework for characterizing people’s behavior with Digital Live Art. Our framework considers people’s wittingness, technical skill, and interpretive abilities in relation to the performance frame. Three key categories of behavior with respect to the performance frame are proposed: performing, participating, and spectating. We exemplify the use of our framework by characterizing people’s interaction with a DLA - iPoi. This DLA is based on the ancient Maori art form of poi and employs a wireless, peer-to-peer exertion interface. The design goal of iPoi is to draw people into the performance frame and support transitions from audience to participant and on to performer. We reflect on iPoi in a public performance and outline its key design features."
