Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity
A Multidisciplinary Reader
Editors: Popat, Sita, Whatley, Sarah (Eds.)
Free Preview- Draws together essays on arts, humanities, engineering, and medicine to comment upon the creative potential of error and ambiguity
- Features scholars and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines
- Explores the idea that mistakes are a fundamental route to new knowledge
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- About this book
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This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that discipline and exploring their values and applications. Themes include error in choreography, poetry, media art, healthcare, psychology, critical typography and mixed reality performance. The book emerges from a core question of how dance research and HCI can inform each other through consideration of error, ambiguity and ‘messiness’ as methodological tools. The digital age had heralded the possibility that error could be eradicated by the logic of computers but several chapters focus on glitch in arts practices that exploit errors in computer programmes, or even create programmes specifically to produce errors. Together, the chapters explore how error can take us somewhere different or somewhere new, to develop a new, more interesting way of working.
- About the authors
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Sita Popat is Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research lies at the interface between body and technology, with a particular interest in digital avatars and virtual worlds. She is author of Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities (2006) and co-editor with Nicolas Salazar Sutil of Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance (2015).
Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests include dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance practices. She is co-editor of Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage (2018) and is editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Creative Thought-Spaces Nested in Ambiguity
Pages 9-20
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Tactical Ambiguity: Materiality, Representation and Interaction in Evan Meaney’s Glitched Portraits
Pages 21-41
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Ambiguity in Psychology
Pages 43-62
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Art of the Accident
Pages 63-84
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity
- Book Subtitle
- A Multidisciplinary Reader
- Editors
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- Sita Popat
- Sarah Whatley
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-39755-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-39755-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-39754-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-39757-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 247
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
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