Many disciplines spend considerable resources studying behavior. Tools range from pen-and-paper observation to biometric sensing. A tool's appropriateness depends on the goal and justification of the study, the observable context and feature set of target behaviors, the observers' resources, and the subjects' tolerance to intrusiveness. We present two systems: Viz-A-Vis and Tableau Machine. Viz-A-Vis is an analytical tool appropriate for onsite, continuous, wide-coverage and long-term capture, and for objective, contextual, and detailed analysis of the physical actions of subjects who consent to overhead video observation. Tableau Machine is a creative artifact for the home. It is a long-lasting, continuous, interactive, and abstract Art installation that captures overhead video and visualizes activity to open opportunities for creative interpretation. We focus on overhead video observation because it affords a near one-to-one correspondence between pixels and floor plan locations, naturally framing the activity in its spatial context. Viz-A-Vis is an information visualization interface that renders and manipulates computer vision abstractions. It visualizes the hidden structure of behavior in its spatiotemporal context. We demonstrate the practicality of this approach through two user studies. In the first user study, we show an important search performance boost when compared against standard video playback and against the video cube. Furthermore, we determine a unanimous user choice for overviewing and searching with Viz-A-Vis. In the second study, a domain expert evaluation, we validate a number of real discoveries of insightful environmental behavior patterns by a group of senior architects using Viz-A-Vis. Furthermore, we determine clear influences of Viz-A-Vis over the resulting architectural designs in the study. Tableau Machine is a sensing, interpreting, and painting artificial intelligence. It is an Art installation with a model of perception and personality that continuously and enduringly engages its co-occupants in the home, creating an aura of presence. It perceives the environment through overhead cameras, interprets its perceptions with computational models of behavior, maps its interpretations to generative abstract visual compositions, and renders its compositions through paintings. We validate the goal of opening a space for creative interpretation through a study that included three long-term deployments in real family homes. / <p>QC 20160405</p>

Orientador(a): Marianna Francisca Martins Monteiro / Banca: Carminda Mendes André / Banca: Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo / Banca: Naira Neide Ciotti / Banca: Cassiano Sydow Quilici / Resumo: Esta tese realiza uma pesquisa bibliográfica acerca de conceitos como teatralidade, performatividade, espaço performático, e o lugar do ritual para pensar processos artístico-pedagógicos na interface com uma metodologia de natureza cartográfica, onde o pesquisador se insere no contexto da pesquisa. Para tanto, utilizo-me de minha experiência na educação, do trabalho de campo realizado com educadores de contextos diversos, bem como da experiência no Laboratório Dramaturgias Contemporâneo em Educação, por mim desenvolvido ao longo da pesquisa. Problematizo assim, a experiência do jogo teatral enquanto repertório e as (re)escrituras da experiência vivida como práticas de arquivo. Proponho pensar práticas corporificadas na educação a partir dos conceitos de arquivo e repertório, de modo a propor uma dramaturgia (roteiro) da sala de aula que revele relações e tensões entre ética, estética e política. Busco demonstrar o potencial de se ler a escola, de projetá-la como entre-lugar, espaço liminar ou performático prenhe de imagens por meio da utilização da ferramenta de análise conceitual "como se fosse performance". Para tanto, apresento e desenvolvo o conceito de microimagens, uma técnica de montagem tecida pelo olhar, que pode ser uma forma de registro a serviço do professor que deseja poetizar a escola, e como uma forma poética de transformação de si. / Resumen: Esta tesis realiza una investigación bibliográfica sobre los conceptos teatralidad, performatividad, espacio performativo y discute también el lugar del ritual con la intención de pensar procesos artístico-pedagógicos en interfaz con una metodología de naturaleza cartográfica en la que el investigador se insertaen el contexto de la investigación. Para la realización del trabajo de campo con educadores de diferentes contextos fue fundamental mi propia experiencia en el ámbitode la educación, sobre todo para la creación del Laboratorio Dramaturgias Contemporáneas en Educación, por mí desarrollado a lo largo de la investigación y donde se dieron las experiencias analizadas. Para repensar la experiencia del juego teatral como repertorio, propongo las (re) escrituras de la experiencia vivida como prácticas de archivo, recurso para pensar prácticas encarnadasen el cotidiano escolara partir de los conceptos de archivo y repertorio. Com ellose proponela construcción deuna dramaturgia (guión) de aula que revele lasrelaciones y tensiones entre ética, estética y política. Busco demostrar el potencial de leer la escuela tomándola como un espacio liminar o performativo, fértil de imágenes que se pueden capturar a travésde la herramienta de análisis conceptual "como si fuera performance".Para ello, presento y desarrollo el concepto de ―microimágenes‖, que consiste en una técnica de montaje tejida por la mirada, una forma de registro que permite al profesor poetizar la escuela, si así lo... (Resumen completo clicar acceso eletrônico abajo) / Doutor

Chelsea Handler is a comedian and host of the TV show Chelsea Lately. She has been successful in the late night comedy talk show genre to a degree that no woman has before. While she represents the most significant advancement for women in the genre, she also plays to patriarchal themes in order to maintain her foothold. In my thesis, I locate Handler within the history of women's stand-up comedy, analyzing her appeal via the figure of "The Unruly Woman" and other image types. I apply a mythic analysis as I look for Handler's manifestation of mythic types, including archetypal Goddess representations. I analyze her treatment of violence against women, exploring how Handler approaches these themes in ways that allow her into the "old boys club." I use textual and audience analysis to assess Handler's ability to be a transformative and empowering figure for women in comedy and beyond. / by Lauren Walleser. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This thesis is intended to disrupt society's social cruise control. The goal is to make people stop and think, even if only for a brief moment, about the social conventions that guide and control their daily lives. People become disconnected from one another and their environments through repetition, apathy, and a general obliviousness toward shared moments. Making people more attuned to these moments - essentially creating an opportunity to take a brief pause - as a step toward reconnection. Social conventions are unique in that they can exist without the consent of the involved parties; the existence of the convention is enough to demand conformity. While it is possible to find graphic design projects that offer some degree of interactivity to draw people into a relationship with a space, projects that encourage social relationships through acknowledgment between people are rare. This thesis will explore ways in which design acts as a catalyst for disruption, while also encouraging interaction and dialogue. / by Adriana Joyce de Alejo. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-05T12:38:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Amanda Marques Pinto.pdf: 12537262 bytes, checksum: 75d32add939375a3e8c512afcbff3d0e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-05T12:38:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amanda Marques Pinto.pdf: 12537262 bytes, checksum: 75d32add939375a3e8c512afcbff3d0e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main theme in this master’s thesis is the way a body communicates in situation of extreme vulnerability. For that purpose, it departs from the analysis of Paula Garcia’s performance “Corpo Ruindo” – “Noise Body”1 – presented at SESC Pompeia during the period of March 10th to May 10th, 2015. Firstly, aspects of this artist’s creation process are presented, aiming at discussing her changes of concept of body in relation to different environments and objects. We depart from the contact of body versus magnet versus iron – body x magnet x iron – proposed throughout the performance and in the studies of noise these objects provoke. To broaden this discussion, concepts on the works of John Cage and Nam Jun Paik are also studied. Garcia’s own research, which represents a testimony of the concept of the body ready to become and transforming itself into ruins, is presented as part of our theoretical foundation. The historical context elaborated by writers such as Amelia Jones (2012) and Roselee Goldberg (2015) is helpful when we think of issues related to performance as an artistic language, which represents the specific circuit where Garcia is. Theories of performativity, vulnerability, collectivity, as well as gender and feminism issues proposed by Judith Butler (1999; 2003; 2006; 2016; 2017) are used both to question the female body during the performance and out of it. Besides that, the discussions on the human figure by Eliane Moraes (2012) and the cyborg theory by Donna Haraway are cited. The bodymedia theory, by Christine Greiner and Helena Katz (2005, 2015) underpins the research base on the vulnerable body that constitutes itself in relationship with the environment. We expect, with his research, to collaborate with a study field in development in Brazil, with contributions by both researchers and artists, proposing singular considerations about the communication of the body in its various states / O tema desta dissertação de mestrado é o modo como um corpo comunica em situação de vulnerabilidade extrema. Para tanto, parte da análise da performance “Corpo Ruindo” de Paula Garcia que aconteceu no SESC Pompéia no período de 10 de março à 10 de maio de 2015. Em um primeiro momento, são apresentados aspectos do processo de criação desta artista tendo como objetivo discutir as suas mudanças de concepção de corpo na relação com diferentes ambientes e objetos. Partiremos do contato entre corpo x imã x ferro proposto ao longo da performance e dos estudos do ruído que esses objetos provocam. Para ampliar o debate serão estudados conceitos da obra de John Cage e Nam June Paik. Como parte da fundamentação teórica, apresenta-se também a pesquisa da própria artista que representa um testemunho da concepção deste corpo prestes e a se transformar em ruínas. O contexto histórico elaborado por autoras como Amelia Jones (2012) e Roselee Goldberg (2015) ajuda a pensar nas questões da performance como linguagem artística, que representa o circuito específico em que Garcia está inserida. As teorias da performatividade, da vulnerabilidade e da coletividade, bem como as questões de gênero e feminismo proposta por Judith Butler (1999; 2003; 2006; 2016; 2017) são utilizadas para problematizar o corpo feminino no ato da performance e também fora dela. Além disso, são citadas pontualmente as discussões sobre a figura humana de Eliane Moraes (2012) e a Teoria Ciborgue de Donna Haraway (2009). A teoria Corpomídia de Christine Greiner e Helena Katz (2005, 2015) fundamenta a pesquisa sobre corpo vulnerável que se constitui na relação com o ambiente. O resultado esperado é colaborar com um campo de estudos que vem sendo trabalhado por pesquisadores e artistas de diversas regiões do Brasil e que propõe reflexões singulares acerca da comunicação do corpo em seus diversos estados

Master's thesis "Body as a Moving Picture" focuses in its theoretical part on the phenomenon of gesture, expression, pose, body language and pathos as we can find it in works for classical authors to contemporary art. The practical part of the thesis describes pedagogically-psychological resources necessary for the realization of art projects in its first chapter. It aims to search different forms of action art and practically test their applicability with students in the lessons of Art Education. The second chapter is dedicated to the realization of art projects. The art projects are focused on a dialog with chosen works of art and the use of artefiletic techniques in practice and their overlap into the students' artistic creations. KEYWORDS gesture, expression, pose, patos, performance art, actionism

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-24T11:53:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Nicolas D. R. Garavello.pdf: 4236315 bytes, checksum: 1e2a745c289df2ef930dafffac11f8fd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-24T11:53:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nicolas D. R. Garavello.pdf: 4236315 bytes, checksum: 1e2a745c289df2ef930dafffac11f8fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research is dedicated to shed light on on the on contemporary artistic practices, with a special interest on performance art, exploring the body as a support for artistic production and seeking to understand the possibilities of building a body, or a body based practice, from a wound. Seeking to find an aesthetic thickness to the pain, and to create a theoretical approximation about death and life processes, outside a dichotomous regime of opposition, but as two potential components of the same creative process. With a special attention to the Latin American context, and in how the colonial enterprise creates a repertoire of hegemonic and marginal bodies, this dissertation focuses on experiences that propose the use of the dissident body as field of work, that operates politicals and aesthetics strategies to transpose the experience Of exclusion and oppression, in affirmative actions to support lives that are not Attached to categories, lives that insists on being differentiated, and that use the art practices as a tool of transformation and celebration of our own misfitness / Este trabalho de pesquisa se dedica a lançar um olhar sobre as práticas artísticas contemporâneas, e em especial sobre a arte da performance, explorando o corpo como suporte da produção artística e abordando as possibilidades do mesmo se constituir a partir da noção de ferida. Buscando assim encontrar uma espessura estética da dor, e criar uma aproximação teórica de processos de morte e de vida fora de um regime dicotômico de oposição, mas como potências compositivas de um processo criativo. Com uma atenção especial ao contexto latino americano, e em como o empreendimento colonial funda um repertório de corporeidades hegemônicas e marginais, Esta dissertação se debruça sobre experiências que propõem o uso do corpo dissidente como obra, que operam estratégias político-estéticas para transpor a experiência de exclusão e opressão, em ações afirmativas de vidas que se não se fixam em categorias, que insistem em se diferenciar, e que usam da arte como ferramenta de transformação e celebração do próprio corpo dissidente

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ludmila de Almeida Castanheira.pdf: 2013898 bytes, checksum: 343dd2707c0c502f2e3e7a40e1ecec00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-06 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The objective of this master&#8223;s dissertation is to analyze the narrower and narrower relation between the so-called performance art and the communicational phenomena. In some examples which are part of the corpus of this study such as the Apartment Festival and the series Estranho, um cara comum , from Flávio Rabelo the classic dichotomies between the artist and the public, object of art and daily fact appear more and more hybridized. Considering the nature often unclassifiable of these manifestations, their presence on the cultural journalism is practically inexistent, as well as in the edicts to stimulate art. In this way, another type of hybridization is identified, different from the classic definition of performance which identified it as an example of miscegenation among different artistic languages. The hypothesis of the study is that the performance crosses the areas of art and communication in such a way as to question the limits between these two areas of knowledge. For the theoretical grid authors such as Boaventura de Souza Santos (2008), Giorgio Agamben (2009), Katz e Greiner (2005; 2010), Schechner (1970), Cohen (2002; 2004) and Thompson (2008) were studied. The methodology is supported on the bibliographical research and on the analysis of the examples mentioned above. The expected result is a modest collaboration to the theoretical discussion which has been maturing since the 70s in countries such as the United States and Germany, but is still incipient among us Brazilians / O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado é analisar a relação cada vez mais estreita entre a chamada performance art e os fenômenos comunicacionais. Em alguns exemplos que fazem parte do corpus da pesquisa como o Festival de Apartamento e a série "Estranho, um cara comum", de Flavio Rabelo , as clássicas dicotomias entre artista e público, obra de arte e fato cotidiano parecem cada vez mais hibridadas. Tendo em vista a natureza muitas vezes inclassificável destas manifestações, a sua presença no jornalismo cultural é praticamente inexistente, assim como nos editais de fomento à arte. Neste sentido, identifica-se um outro tipo de fenômeno, diferente da clássica definição de performance que a identificava como um exemplo de hibridação entre diversas linguagens artísticas. A hipótese desta pesquisa é a de que a performance aproxima os campos da arte e da comunicação, de modo a questionar os limites entre estas duas áreas de conhecimento. Como grade teórica, foram estudados autores como Boaventura de Souza Santos (2008), Giorgio Agamben (2009), Katz e Greiner (2005; 2010), Schechner (1970), Cohen (2002; 2004) e Thompson (2008). A metodologia consiste em uma pesquisa bibliográfica e na análise dos exemplos que constituem o corpus da pesquisa. O resultado esperado é uma modesta colaboração com uma ampla discussão teórica que vem sendo amadurecida desde os anos 1970 em países como os Estados Unidos e a Alemanha, mas ainda se mostra bastante insuficiente no mercado editorial brasileiro

The role of gestures in determining the use of familiar and novel tools was explored. In the first study, participants were shown gestures for tools corresponding either to tool design, or to the physical affordances of a puzzle designed for each tool. In the second study, two additional conditions were added. In the first, gestures were used that did not correspond to tool design or the puzzle affordances. The second was a control condition in which no gestures were shown. Results indicate that the demonstration of gestures appropriate to a novel problem situation facilitate creative use of tools. Additionally, attention to tool and puzzle affordances is effective for creative tool use when no gestural input is present. However, knowledge of tool design may interfere with this creative application. Performance is further hindered by the demonstration of gestures consistent with tool design, which may prime individuals to rely on the design stance. / by Robert R. Freund. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

To what degree is it possible to score an artistic event for which the impetus is a social, rather than aesthetic, effect - and indeed, to what degree are these effects separable? How, in short, can the composer or artist create a blueprint for a relational practice that is fundamentally concerned more with actions within the community than it is with any outcomes or objects presented to the community? This thesis seeks to explore the role of the Other through the composition of a set of participatory scores for social activity. Devised from the perspective of a composer and sound-artist, this practice-led research investigates three strands of social engagement: collaboration, interpretation, and intervention. These strands each revolve around the problems inherent to performing and scoring socially-engaged, site-specific sound works, as well as the reality of their dissemination in the public domain. Each of the methods employed not only feeds back into the score-making process, but also serves to critique existing methods and hierarchies within artistic participation, ultimately arguing for an open-ended and non-linear relationship between the act of sensing, and the (community-influenced) construction of the sensible. Exploring post-structural, ethical, and ontological notions of what it means to share and construct community with Other, this research examines the role of art as a creative movement between self-constructs that are at once individual and indivisible from the community. This work argues that such creativity extends not only to the realisation of artworks, but across the whole gamut of activity within the social event. By undertaking practice-based research into the role of Other within the event of an artwork, this thesis interrogates the socio-political hierarchies inherent to both the specific art-event, and the pre-existing community in which such events unfold. As such, the art-event points not only to the specific creative act of its making, but equally the latent creativity within the community in which the art is disseminated. The spectator, no less than the artist, defines the terms of the community by which such acts are made available to perception as an ontological reading that is not only sensed, but sensible.