Instytut B61, positioned at the intersection of science and contemporary art, brings together artists, scientists, and designers to create theatre that performs the theatre of astronomy. In 2017 they performed Evolution of Stars, a set of 13 audio-visual and interactive theatre performances that divulged the life of a star. Written and directed by an astrophysicist…

During last year’s seminar series, I wrote a blog post on the increasing attention being paid to “ecological matters” in game studies. The ecological themes in Carl Lavery’s recent TiM lecture and broader work offer a good opportunity to revisit that topic and expand on some of the topics raised in that earlier post. If,…

*Theater ecology* – – not ecology of theater, or theatrical ecology, but theater ecology. The two terms side by side – – not desiring to exceed beyond the “horizon” of either of the terms – – and so, a gap between them appears. Theater ecology calls forth an intermediate bridge. Within theater ecology, the gesture…

Following from the notion that agents do not create the technical essence from which technology evolves, but do create the techniques that steer it, Jason Tuckwell identifies art as the sort of work that deviates. For Tuckwell, art’s activity is located specifically in the creative process in which technē (skillfull action) works upon a general…

During his recent TiM lecture, philosopher Jason Tuckwell argues that Walter Benjamin’s Marxist analysis of material production in “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” ([1936] 2008) is symptomatic of a more general tendency to reduce art solely to its mode of production, and thereby foregoes the question of how art…

Jason Tuckwell’s lecture “Agency and technē in creative practice” drew attention to the role of technical skill in the production of art, questioning whether it is worth revisiting the traditional view of “art as aesthetics” rooted in the Platonic concept of poesis. By juxtaposing the “particular” character of technē to the “universal” essence of nature,…

In the first Transmission in Motion seminar of this year called“Agency and Technē in Creative Practice,” Dr. Jason Tuckwell critiqued contemporary understandings of ‘the work of art’. He started by explaining that there are generally two ways of thinking about art which stem from the Greeks; the first is poiesis, where art is understood as…

In his 2012 TedEd talk, marine biologist David Gallo illustrates the idea of exploration by stating that we, as humans have ‘explored’ only 5% of what is in the oceans. By exploration, he means to “go peek and see what’s there” and uncover, reveal, bring to the front, what was invisible or unknown[1] and that,…

Transmission in Motion is always looking out to expand its network, exchange ideas and explore new perspectives on ongoing research. Master’s students who are interested in our work and would like to engage more closely with our projects have the possibility of undertaking an internship at Transmission in Motion and become part of our research…

Technological developments inform the ways information travels through media, turn archives into ‘dynarchives,’ and set knowledge cultures in motion. Such developments foreground the performativity of practices of sharing knowledge and the materiality of mediation; moreover, they point to the sensory, movement and embodiment as important aspects to take into account. This year’s seminar will investigate…