This sounds like a very promising initiative, Simon. Since we began conversing about this subject here at ReseachGate over a year ago, I prepared and led a graduate seminar called El Arte en la Mente Encarnada ("Art in the Embodied Mind") at the University of Guanajuato, and I'm beginning to get my bearings. This summer I have three undergraduate students with scholarships to work on the same project for six weeks. Two are advanced visual arts students who will apply embodied mind theory to their production, while the third is finishing her degree in psychology and we are in the process of defining her project, perhaps something on face recognition in masks created by a contemporary indigenous artist. Next year I'll repeat the graduate seminar from January to June, so by December I should have some interesting material, perhaps for a presentation about these experiences, with examples of the work produced. I would love to participate; this would surely reinforce my efforts to come to terms with the implications and ramifications of the experience of art in the embodied mind.

David.

>I would love to participate

Your class  sounds very  'on topic.' The 'call' will go out Fall 15. I look forward to your proposal!

thanks

Simon

Dear Simon,

I was re-reading Arheim's Visual Thinking and the clearest evidences that we think we our sense are in the Arts. On my part, since my research was on the sense of vision I had to learn to think less with my intellect and more with my senses, in orther words to do science as we do art.  Very hard for math guys who think too much with their intellect and are afraid of art.  I was one of them.  

Regards,

Dear Simon

Would be very interested! Would you also be interested in thinking that moves in the other, reverse direction: how practices in the Arts can inform (further theory development) in Cognitive Science? (update: Rereading your call I see that the answer is yes). I am not working in an Art School, but in Design (Interaction Design) at the crossroads of human-computer interaction and industrial product design. However in the subfield that I am working in there is a strong recognition of the value of craftmanship and the idea that 'meaning is created in the interaction' is gaining foothold. Furthermore there is the conviction that in order to design for meaningful, embodied interaction with interactive technologies you have to engage, as a designer-researcher, with your subject matter in an embodied way yourself. So, design-researchers in my area work with (or are themselves) dancers, actors (theatre enactment), fast prototyping/making, hands-on, 'experiential' tools and all kinds of collaborative exercises that target the sorts of 'participatory sensemaking' that emerge in the direct, ongoing social interaction between people in a shared action space. These 'embodied methods' are invoked in order to get a grip on the design challenge in a way opposed to (more traditional) individual designing, abstract model constructing, 'scientific' rational analysis of the design problem, and other more Cartesian approaches to design.

PS My suggestion for a key-note speaker would be Tim Ingold

Jelle

"I am not working in an Art School, but in Design (Interaction Design) at the crossroads of human-computer interaction and industrial product design. However in the subfield that I am working in there is a strong recognition of the value of craftmanship and the idea that 'meaning is created in the interaction' is gaining foothold."

This sounds excellent - exactly on topic. Would you be interested in organising a panel?

"My suggestion for a key-note speaker would be Tim Ingold"

He's definitely in my top three or four too, along with Evan Thompson, Vittorio Gallese,

Loius

"Very hard for math guys who think too much with their intellect and are afraid of art. "

I'm afraid of math _and_ art :) I think you ideas on embodied cognition are well thought and relevant. While I'm keen to keep the event 'on focus', there is need to bring philosophically coherent perspectives to the table - this is discourse-building.

"I had to learn to think less with my intellect and more with my senses"

It is exactly that kind of binary I'm keen destabilise!

Do people know Richard Shusterman and his Somaesthetics? And what do you make of it: Good stuff? Or: too obscure and too much disconnected from other research? Or perhaps both?

Simon,

I am interested to participate in a way that is most appropriate and on focus for this conference. I will think about it  then post some paper sudgestion on this thread and if you have any sudgestion for me, they will be welcome. 

Regards,

Louis

"Richard Shusterman and his Somaesthetics?"

I haven't read his books, only papers, but my sense is that he makes all the right points, and has an appropriate set of philosophical references. I approve of what I see as his main goal, which is to get the humanities to recognise its own body hating Cartesianism. But for all that, to me its old news. In what I've seen, it is a rhetorical argument without the kind of new insights based on current research or emerging science which I find interesting.

Louis,

>I will think about it then post some paper sudgestion on this thread

by all means.

we have plenty of time. An official call will go out in Fall.

Keynote suggestion #2 http://www.alvanoe.com/strange-tools/

Alva - yes, a good contender. I'll put him on the list.

A sudgestion:  Jan Koenderink.  

The kink of ideas he has: 

http://www.gestaltrevision.be/pdfs/koenderink/ViewingAids.pdf

A bold and controversial editorial to the magazine Perception

The All-Seeing-Eye

http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p4301ed

Simon,

I just encounter this paper today:

The Thinking-Feeling of What Happens

A Semblance o fa Conversation*

Brian Massumi

http://www.inflexions.org/n1_The-Thinking-Feeling-of-What-Happens-by-Brian-Massumi.pdf

Brian Massumi might be a good contender.  

Hi again, Simon. This afternoon I translated into English and uploaded to ResearchGate a working bibliography on "Art in the embodied mind," with eight thematic divisions. I am sharing it here with the hope that it may stimulate further research in this area, especially among art students:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280949470_Art_in_the_embodied_mind_a_bibliography_%28updated_August_14_2015%29

Data Art in the embodied mind: a bibliography (updated August 14, 2015)

 Hi David,

Thanks for the bibliography. It is usefull given that each entry is readily accessible using the web.

I recently explored the connection between empathy/Einfühlung and early theory of art.

I think that some references on this topic could be part of your bibliography:

The following paper provides many references:

The Complicated History of Einfühlung

Magdalena NOWAK

http://pbc.up.krakow.pl/Content/3226/10_argument-2-08-Nowak.pdf

David, thanks!

Conference website and call should go up in October. I'm hoping you'll all propose papers or panels.

best Simon

You're welcome, Simon. There is a lot of input from colleagues here at ResearchGate in the bibliography, including yourself, Louis, and many others.

Thanks, Louis. I was hoping that posting this file would tease out more references. I'll take a look at Nowak's paper; it looks very interesting.

Hi Simon,

Maybe ‘Portrait as Dialogue’ catches your interest. It is both, a series of art works and a collection of forms of human representation. The projects focus, for example, on the individual's smell, sound- and rythm related expressions, traces, etc. and propose a different view of ‘portrayal’ – strategically by ‘looking’ at myself through the ‘eyes of the other.’

Best,

Angelika

(We've met at the Rhizope Conference in Tallinn)

Very interesting Conference! Please, let me know as soon as the Conference Website is uploaded.

I would also like to be notified when the conference site is up.

Heidi and all

website is up, at

http://sites.uci.edu/bok2016/

call will open any day now :)

I also just posted a blurb on the conference in my profile.

Conference sounds excellent. I doubt I can get there from Australia this year but will keep an eye on it. I am interested in embodied cognition and the experience of encountering sculpture. I am an artist so I do this by making work. You can view some of my work at http://fleursummers.pureandapplied.com.au/ (website still under construction). I have been working with ideas around Ramachandran's Mirror Box therapy and the effect of movement on cognition - which is important when looking at sculpture as you need to move around it to experience it. 

http://fleursummers.pureandapplied.com.au/

Your work looks interesting, Fleur, and fun. I have always thought that if art is fun for children, the artist is on a good path!

Fleur: Do you have a reference for Ramachandran's Mirror Box therapy that you can share with us?

Hi Fleur- good to make contact. Hope you can make it to the conference. Keep an eye on the exhibition call - there may be travell money associtaed.

David,

it in his book "Phantoms in the brain"

Thanks, Simon. I just pulled the book down from the shelf to have another look.

There's so much to read! (That's the main drawback of transdisciplinary research.)

Today I uploaded an expanded and corrected version of the bibliography I've been putting together for the last couple of years:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289251031_Art_in_the_embodied_mind_a_bibliography_updated_4_January_2016

Data Art in the embodied mind: a bibliography (updated 4 January 2016)

Here I discuss both psychological and neuroaesthetical recent approaches to fine arts (from Gardner and Csikszentmihaly to Ramachandran and Kandel), provide art historical knowledge and ask for antiformalist|antireductionist points of view @https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272348100_Interpreting_divergence_Art_cognitive_psychology_and_neuroscience

Chapter Interpreting divergence. Art, cognitive psychology and neuroscience

Dear Simon, 

my last solo show has started from Israel Rosenfield's book "The invention of Memory". There is also a critical text

You can find more on the links attached. 

Very best,

Eva

https://www.academia.edu/12027173/Il_gioco_delle_antitesi_game_of_antithesis

https://www.academia.edu/19785381/Interview_for_Inside_Art_Magazine

Hello All

things are moving along nicely at A Body of Knowledge. Among others, Antonio Damasio, Evan Thompson and Erik Myin will keynote. Around 60 papers have been accepted and more will be. Exhibition, Performance and Demo venue in development. see sites.uci.edu/bok2016 for more info.