sport : rhythm : image

(reflections upon my research program)

sport

there are many sports, there are many physical cultures, there are many athletic bodies. each one is engaged in dynamics of competition and cooperation, located in assemblies of hierarchies and meshworks. i seek to articulate sports, physical cultures, and athletic bodies in their variously defined forms.

rhythm

these athletic bodies move through time and space, continually unfolding their virtuality along paths scripted and improvised. their rhythms are felt biologically within self and other, socially within team or crowd, ecologically as hybrids of organic and technic. rhythm is a dancer of sporting outcome.

image

our technologies image each of our senses in a machinic sense. only to archive the sensation, which makes cents. i imagineer the spectacle and simulation of sporting control.

Venn Diagram of Proposed Research Program

Date: May 22, 02008
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sportsBabel

sportsBabel examines the aesthetics, politics and poetics of sport and physical culture, weaving between materiality, information, intuition and intellect. The notes posted here should be understood as emerging from an ongoing program of research-creation.

Threads of inquiry include: the security-entertainment complex and the militarization of sport; mediated sport as a spectrum of interactive possibility; the experiential qualities of postmodern sporting spaces; the cyborg body athletic manifest as mobile social subject; and the potential politics of a sporting multitude.

You are currently browsing the sportsBabel weblog archives for May, 2008. sportsBabel is produced by Sean Smith, a writer and artist from Toronto and a doctoral student at the European Graduate School of Media and Communications in Switzerland. Also a lecturer at various universities in Canada (curriculum vitae), his dissertation is titled "On Performing the University of Disaster."

department of biological flow

The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.

The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.

Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.

www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net

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