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  • Performance Generating Systems in Dance

    Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity

    by Pil Hansen ...
    Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefined and limited sources while working on specific tasks within constraining rules. ... Read more

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  • Performing the Remembered Present

    The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and ... Read more

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  • Dance Dramaturgy

    Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement

    Edited by Pil Hansen, Darcey Callison ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through audience engagement, and the dramaturg becomes a facilitator of dramaturgical awareness. ... Read more

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Design

    by Glenn Parsons ...
    The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging across key philosophical areas such as aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics.The first part of the book explores central ... Read more

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  • Making Design Theory

    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

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  • Reading the Visual

    An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it.  This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of ... Read more

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  • Art, Artists and Pedagogy

    Philosophy and the Arts in Education

    This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

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  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

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  • Writing on Drawing

    Essays on Drawing Practice and Research

    Edited by Steve Garner ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers that reveal a provocative agenda for the field, analysing the latest work on creativity, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD