scholarly journals A Cognitive Approach to Shakespeare Plays in Immersive Theatre: With a Special Focus on Punchdrunk’s "Sleep No More" in New York (2011-) and Shanghai (2016-)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (36) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Emi Hamana
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Experimental Performance ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Theatre Companies ◽  
Immersive Theatre

Although cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field, its central questions are ‘what is humanity?’ and ‘what is emotion?’ Since the field of theatre and performing arts is deeply concerned with humans and emotions, we expect that it will contribute to the understanding of these concepts. Immersive theatre is an experimental performance form that emphasizes site, space and design while immersing spectators in a play. The number of immersive theatre companies or productions has been growing worldwide. This paper discusses Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, directed by Felix Barrett and performed in London (2003), New York (2011-) and Shanghai (2016-). While elucidating the cognitive impact of immersive Shakespeare performances on spectators, this paper aims to uncover new artistic and cultural value in Shakespeare plays performed in an experimental form in order to advance their contemporary relevance.

scholarly journals ВИЗУАЛЬНЫЕ ОБРАЗЫ НА СЛУЖБЕ КОГНИТИВНОЙ НАУКИ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Knyazeva
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Mental Imagery ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Search Tree ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
First Person ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field

Когнитивная наука – та междисциплинарная область знания, где происходят наиболее значимые научные прорывы в XXI веке. Они значимы как для развития конвергентных технологий, так и для распространения транс- и междисциплинарных, интегративных тенденций в исследованиях, соединяющих области, ранее мыслимые как совершенно несовместимые, в том числе естественно-научные и гуманитарные. В статье показывается, что в когнитивной науке, несмотря на высокую теоретизированность и узкоспециальную направленность многих направлений исследований, довольно часто и продуктивно используются визуальные образы. В работе обсуждаются некоторые из них, такие как когнитивная карта, когнитивная ниша, когнитивный ландшафт, когнитивное поле, перекликающееся с понятием динамического поля в гештальтпсихологии, блуждание по полю смыслов, древо поиска. Особую роль играют также мысле-образы (mental imagery), которые составляют основу для работы продуктивного воображения и креативного мышления, изучаемые в когнитивной психологии. Также показывается, что подобные средства визуализации существенны не только как первоначальные «строительные леса» для развития теоретических представлений, но и для прояснения нюансов смысла сложных научных построений. Кроме того, в когнитивной науке сегодня набирает популярность феноменологический подход и так называемая «методология от первого лица» (first-person methodology), с учётом которых смысл теоретических построений начинает жить и работать, будучи распакован в жизненном мире каждого конкретного лица. А значит, неразделимость образно-визуального и абстрактно-вербального получает дополнительное обоснование через понимание неразделимости обыденного и научного знания.Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge where the most significant scientific breakthroughs take place in the 21st century. They are significant both for the development of convergent technologies and for the dissemination of interdisciplinary and integrative trends in research that connect areas previously thought of as completely incompatible, including natural sciences and the humanities. The author shows that in cognitive science, despite the highly theorized and narrowly special focus of many its areas of research, visual images are quite often and productively used. Some of them, such as a cognitive map, cognitive niche, cognitive landscape, cognitive field that echoes the concept of a dynamic field in Gestalt psychology, the wandering around the field of meanings, a search tree are discussed in the article. A special role is also played by mental imagery, which forms a basis for the work of productive imagination and creative thinking, studied in cognitive psychology. It is substantiated in the article that such visualization tools are essential not only as initial “scaffolding” for the development of theoretical concepts, but also for clarifying the nuances of the meaning of complex scientific constructions. In addition, in today’s cognitive science, the phenomenological approach and the so-called “first-person methodology” are gaining popularity, taking into account that the meaning of theoretical constructions begins to live and work, being unpacked in the lifeworld of each particular personality. Thus, the inseparability of figurative visual knowledge and abstract verbal knowledge gets additional justification through the understanding of the inseparability of the ordinary and scientific knowledge.

Postscript

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Stephen Hugh-Jones
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Recurrent Events ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
York Academy ◽  
American Museum ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
American Tropics ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The previous paper was first published in 1982, when ethnoastronomy was still in its infancy. It appeared in Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics, Tony Aveni and Gary Urton’s edited proceedings of an international conference held at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. Aveni and Urton were true pioneers who opened up a new interdisciplinary field of research that brought together astronomers, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and others, all interested in astronomical knowledge amongst contemporary indigenous societies, in how buildings, settlements and archaeological monuments were aligned with recurrent events in the sky, and in how such alignments matched up with astronomical information contained in ancient codices and other historical documents and in contemporary ethnographic accounts.

The Portrayal of Islam and Muslims in Western Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Saman REZAEI ◽  
Kamyar KOBARI ◽  
Ali SALAMI
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Western Media

With the realization of the promised global village, media, particularly online newspapers, play a significant role in delivering news to the world. However, such means of news circulation can propagate different ideologies in line with the dominant power. This, coupled with the emergence of so-called Islamic terrorist groups, has turned the focus largely on Islam and Muslims. This study attempts to shed light on the image of Islam being portrayed in Western societies through a Critical Discourse Analysis approach. To this end, a number of headlines about Islam or Muslims have been randomly culled from three leading newspapers in Western print media namely The Guardian, The Independent and The New York Times (2015). This study utilizes “ideological square” notion of Van Dijk characterized by “positive presentation” of selves and “negative presentation” of others alongside his socio-cognitive approach. Moreover, this study will take the linguistic discourses introduced by Van Leeuwen regarding “representing social actors and social practices” into consideration. The findings can be employed to unravel the mystery behind the concept of “Islamophobia” in Western societies. Besides, it can reveal how specific lexical items, as well as grammatical structures are being employed by Western media to distort the notion of impartiality.

Rewriting the Body: Aida Overton Walker and the Social Formation of Cakewalking

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Krasner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
West African ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anna Julia Cooper ◽  
And Gender

Although Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914) belonged to the same generation of turn-of-the-century African American performers as did Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, Bert Williams, and George Walker, she had a rather different view of how best to represent her race and gender in the performing arts. Walker taught white society in New York City how to do the Cakewalk, a celebratory dance with links to West African festival dance. In Walker's choreography of it, it was reconfigured with some ingenuity to accommodate race, gender, and class identities in an era in which all three were in flux. Her strategy depended on being flexible, on being able to make the transition from one cultural milieu to another, and on adjusting to new patterns of thinking. Walker had to elaborate her choreography as hybrid, merging her interpretation of cakewalking with the preconceptions of a white culture that became captivated by its form. To complicate matters, Walker's choreography developed during a particularly unstable and volatile period. As Anna Julia Cooper remarked in 1892.

Investigating Digital (Re)Mediation in the Performing Arts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan On
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Theatrical Space ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Immersive Theatre ◽  
Video Calling

As digital technology progresses, it increasingly mediates human interaction. Simple discussion has shifted from occurring only in person to being mediated by telephone, texting, video calling, Twitter, Facebook and a myriad of other technologies and services. Likewise, theatre has been undergoing a similar shift from an art form that only occurs 'in person' to one in which technology often mediates presence. In his book Liveness, Philip Auslander traces the roots of digital mediation back to the advent of television and the resulting cycle of reinterpretation, or remediation as it is termed by Bolter and Grusin, of different art mediums within one another. Innovative Canadian artists Robert Lepage and Kim Collier are currently engaging in the remediation of traditional art mediums on the stage by taking a distinctly cinematic approach to theatre. This study intends to evaluate the remediation of these mediums both in the theatre and in live performances such as sporting events. It will then consider current trends in integrating interactive ‘new’ media into live and pre-recorded events, and how these ‘new’ media may already be manifesting themselves elsewhere via remediation. This discussion will give special consideration to immersive theatre, in which audiences are free to navigate theatrical space autonomously and observe as they wish. Key questions to be considered include: What are the tools of mediation, and what are their effects? How might digital (re)mediation be reinventing the way we tell and receive stories in the theatre? In what ways can the theatre further reinterpret ‘new’ interactive media?

Social Equality: Cognitive Modeling Based on Emotional Coherence Explains Attitude Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
Paul Thagard
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Computer Modeling ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Computer Models ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Why do people have conflicting views of equality concerning the distribution of income, wealth, and satisfaction of vital needs? How do people form and sometimes change their views of equality and related issues, such as gender identity? Answers to such questions can benefit from cognitive science—the interdisciplinary field that includes neuroscience and computer modeling as well as psychology. According to principles of emotional coherence, attitudes develop and change because of connections among the values attached to systems of concepts, beliefs, and goals. People attach a positive value to concepts such as equality, if the concept fits with other positive concepts such as human needs, and opposes negative concepts such as poverty. Emotional coherence balances positive and negative values to yield an overall conclusion. Computer models based on emotional coherence explain people’s differing attitudes about equality and issues such as transgender rights. They also model how people sometimes change their minds.

Dieter Hacker's Mask for Timon of Athens

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
GJW
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Stage Design ◽  
York Public Library ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
The One ◽  
Timon Of Athens

For the well-received 1990 Bochum Schauspielhaus production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Dieter Hacker, one of Germany's leading artists and stage designers, created fifty-four masks, including the one on the opposite page for Timon himself (Figure I). This mask, Hacker's designs, and photographs of the production were seen in the recent exhibition “Contemporary Stage Design from German and Austria” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, presented in collaboration with the Goethe House and German Cultural Center in New York.

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