Body in Performance

Nell'ultimo secolo i progressi della tecnologia applicata alla biologia, alla robotica, alle neuroscienze so- no confluite nel paesaggio algoritmico, “liberando” spazi di ibridazione e contaminazione. Le nuove pratiche artistiche hanno rimesso in discussione alcuni assiomi storici, come il concetto di autorialità e di unicità dell’opera. Si apre un “futuro anteriore" di comunicazione, di connessione, sempre più pronto a consegnarci un immaginario collettivo capace di interpretare cambiamenti epocali. Le sperimentazio- ni tecnologiche hanno “attivato” nello sguardo caleidoscopio dell’arte un’azione performativa connet- tiva dove arte, vita e politica si integrano in una “battaglia” tra processi di democratizzazione della rete e dell’informazione, mediata da corpi “liberati”. Questa è una storia di tante storie possibili, dove la cu- ra assolve la sua funzione nella connessione fra media e vissuto amplificato dalla pratica artistica di un Nuovo Abitare per una cultura ecosistemica. Il corpo-dispositivo con tutte le sue possibilità si dissemina nella rete, reinventando il reale e la malattia e creando spazi “aumentati” per la critica, per l’espressione, per l’azione e per una “salvezza ubiqua”. La grande opportunità dell’esistenza è quella di esprimersi “po(i)eticamente” attraverso i dati per generare un dibattito esistenziale nella cultura.
In the last century the progress of technology applied to biology, robotics, neuroscience have flowed into the algorithmic landscape "freeing" spaces of hybridization and contamination. Multimedia arts and new artistic practices have called into question some historical axioms, such as the concept of authorship and uniqueness of the work. An "earlier future" of communication and connection is opening up, increasingly extended and ready to give us a collective imagination capable of interpreting epochal changes. Techno- logical art and its experiments have "activated" in the kaleidoscopic gaze of art a performative connective action where art, life and politics are integrated in a "battle" between democratization processes of the network and information and mediated by "liberated" bodies. This is a story of many possible stories, where care fulfills its function in the connection between media and experience amplified by the artistic practice of a New Living for an ecosystemic culture. The body-device with all its possibilities is disseminat- ed in the network, reinventing the real and the disease and creating "augmented" spaces for criticism, for expression, for action and for a "ubiquitous salvation". The great opportunity of existence is to express oneself "po(i)etically" through data to generate an existential debate in culture.

Resumen
Con frecuencia, humanizar a las máquinas con las que interactuamos tiene por objetivo facilitar el hecho de empatizar con ellas.  De esta voluntad de empatizar surge, en parte, el interés por producir desarrollos en robótica con simulación de emociones. Los experimentos más actuales en la esfera de la inteligencia artificial, expuesta por los robots sensitivos y por los espacios telemáticos, apuntan a crear nuevas relaciones entre los seres vivos –no indispensablemente humanos– y las máquinas. Esta interacción cuerpo-máquina podría explicarse, por tanto, como la comunicación entre ambas esferas: la inteligencia humana y la inteligencia artificial.

Abstrac
Frequently, humanizing the machines with which we interact aims to facilitate empathy with them.  From this desire to empathize arises, in part, the interest to produce developments in robotics with simulation of emotions. The most current experiments in the field of artificial intelligence, exposed by sensitive robots and by telematics spaces, aim to create new relationships between living beings - not necessarily human beings - and machines. This body-machine interaction could be explained, therefore, as the communication between both spheres: human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Resumo
Frequentemente, humanizar as máquinas com as quais interagimos ter como objetivo facilitar a empatia com elas.  A partir desse desejo de empatia surge, em parte, o interesse em produzir desenvolvimentos em robótica com simulação de emoções. Os experimentos mais atuais no campo da inteligência artificial, expostos por robôs sensíveis e por espaços telemáticos, apontam criar novas relações entre seres vivos - não necessariamente seres humanos - e máquinas. Essa interação corpo-máquina poderia ser explicada, portanto, como a comunicação entre as duas esferas: inteligência humana e inteligência artificial.

The relations between body, space, and time are of interest for many architects and
theorists. Body and space, considered separately, form discrete wholes. However,
bringing the two together reveals their interdependence. This research emerges
from that perspective: that body and space must be considered in relationship.
They are also affiliated with time through performance: specifically for this paper,
art and architecture. Body disturbs the order of the space, and space violates and
ruins the body.1 Both are apt to violate and ruin the expected behaviour of the other
one. This relation is termed ‘manipulation tension’ in this research. Space tends to
manipulate the body using its spatial compulsivity and intangible aura. Body also
has the same tendency on space and positions itself using methods such as
movement, perception, sensation, and events. Body and space come into balance
using their own manipulation methods. This balance is not a mutual reversion to
the neutral state. It is an equilibrium based on stress, which comes from their
natural tendencies. The purposes of this research are to study the aforementioned
subjects (body and space), reveal their methods (perception, sensation, movement,
kinesis, events, and spatial configuration), and highlight the ‘performance
moments’ that can be correlated with time. In this research, space is considered as
a structure in relation with body. It is built through experience and performatives.
Body is acknowledged as a concept - from a perspective of physical and
intellectual integrity - which sustains its contextual relation to the space it exists.
This research explicates an analogy of artistic and architectural examples, which
approach ‘performance’ using body (contemporary art) and space (architecture).