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• Politics of collective movements in post-socialisms (2024) author(s): olia sosnovskaya connected to: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna published in: Research Catalogue
  The research addresses collective movements and their exhaustion (bodily and political) in post-socialisms, focusing on choreographies of protest actions, socialist mass celebrations and raves, and the relation between festive and the political. The project departs from archival materials on the socialist mass celebrations and the experience of the 2020-21 anti-governmental uprising in Belarus, re-addressing it in the context of the current Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, which involves Belarusian territories and infrastructures, and of the anti-war resistance. It analyses specific collective choreographies (state parades, protest marches and gatherings, raves, various acts of disruptions and sabotage) and traces the transformations of “the political” and political movement in post-socialisms, while approaching the notion of post-socialism critically (in its equating different historical experiences and being always bound to the past on one hand, or seen as non-linear and non-unified on the other). The project tackles those issues through the concept of a movement score (movement notation), used in dance studies to graphically record, analyze, preserve (archive) and transmit (further perform) dance and movement. In this research, a movement score is seen as any kind of graphic transcript of movement (including text) that intersects multiple temporalities of its enactment, and is used as a tool to critically approach the temporality of political action and to question the linear time of revolutionary event.
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• 28208 (2024) author(s): Nuria Díaz-Tejeiro published in: Research Catalogue
  El día 16 de Marzo de 2024, 20 personas se reunieron a contar los narcisos vivos y muertos que hay en el prado de narcisos de Santa Maria de la Alameda. Contaron 28208 narcisos. 20793 vivos y 7415 muertos.
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• the gaze as a protest (2024) author(s): ujjwal utkarsh connected to: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna published in: Research Catalogue
  My PhD project lies in the intersection of observational filmmaking and the act of protests. For me, the observational form is not really geared towards the goal of objectivity but rather with a sensorial experiential approach an intent to make the invisible, visible. The position of the auteur becomes critically important here. In this position it is important for me that I do NOT claim or seem to be claiming ‘their position’ or voice. And while being an outsider, it is an attempt to not just look ‘at them’. But rather an attempt to ‘be with’. Through this presentation, I would like to explore this position further and also explore as to if through such an approach can then various realities be acknowledged as realities without being reduced to singular notions of truth? My PhD project lies in the intersection of observational filmmaking and the act of protests. For me, the observational form is not really geared towards the goal of objectivity but rather with a sensorial experiential approach an intent to make the invisible, visible. Through this presentation I would like to further eXplore the position of the observer or the auteur. The position of the observer becomes critical as it defines and is interconnected with what to look at, and how to look. While ‘observing’, for me it is important that I do NOT claim or seem to be claiming ‘their position’ or voice. And while being an outsider, it is an attempt to not just look ‘at them’. But rather an attempt to ‘be with’. Can such a position then help us acknowledge various realities as realities and not reduce them to singular notions of truth? My PhD project lies in the intersection of observational filmmaking and the act of protest. For me, the observational form is not geared towards objectivity but rather as a sensorial experiential approach with an intent to make the invisible, visible. In this case, the position of the auteur or the observer becomes critical. For instance, it is important for me that I do NOT claim ‘their position’ or voice. And, while being an outsider, to not just look ‘at them’ but rather attempt to ‘be with’. In this presentation, I will further explore this position and see if in trying to be with and be adjacent to an ‘other’ while observing, can we evoke the possibility of a multiplicity of narratives? Can then various realities be acknowledged without being reduced to singular notions of truth?
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• I AM THE CAMERA: Designing a site-specific screen work (2024) author(s): Nathalie S. Fari published in: Research Catalogue
  The site-specific screen work I AM THE CAMERA proposes how a specific place, in this case, the Hasselblad Memorial at Götaplatsen (Gothenburg, Sweden) can serve as a basis for generating a performance and/or documentary material. Drawing from site-specific performance, performance documentation and filmmaking, it uses the framework of a performance laboratory to explore the relationship between embodiment and audio-visuality; especially by experimenting with how the interplay between three characters and their technological devices can contribute to develop a performative and cinematic language.
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• Hegel.Therapy (2024) author(s): Evi Jägle published in: Research Catalogue, mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  Die sinnliche Gewissheit, Hegel als Therapiesituation.
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  Human-AI Design Version 0.9.2, 2024-09-24 (2024) author(s): Udo Maria Fon published in: Research Catalogue
  This paper introduces the Human-AI Design approach, a novel framework for addressing complex sustainability challenges through the integration of human expertise and artificial intelligence. The approach leverages social and global entropy concepts to quantify and visualize resource distribution and irreversible processes within social and ecological systems. By combining entropy modeling, participatory processes, and advanced AI techniques, Human-AI Design offers a comprehensive methodology for tackling multifaceted global issues. The paper presents a theoretical framework, outlines the methodology, and demonstrates its application through a case study on global water resource management. The approach's potential is further explored in extended applications across various domains, including education, urban planning, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. Future scenarios of human-AI coevolution are discussed, highlighting both the immense potential and significant challenges ahead. The Human-AI Design approach represents a promising step towards more effective and integrated solutions to global sustainability challenges, offering new possibilities for understanding and managing complex systems while emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations and adaptive implementation.
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