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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Computing the corporeal</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Edited by Nicolas Salazar Sutil, Sita Popat and Scott deLahunta</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Outline</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Intersections between human movement, computer science and motion-tracking/sensing technologies have led to novel ways of transferring body data from physical to digital contexts. From a practical perspective, this integration
requires engagement across key disciplines, including movement studies, kinesiology, kinematics, biomechanics, biomedical science and health studies, dance science, sports science, and computer science. This development has also provoked theoretical and critical
discourse that has tried to preserve, based on its grounding on bodily and kinetic practice, the differentiation of lived-in and body-specific knowledge. Here is a mode of datarization perhaps closer to what Deleuze (1988) called “immediate datum”: i.e. information
stemming not from an abstract and re-moved conceptualization, but from real-world experience of movement, and the <i>immediate </i>perception or capture of kinetic information through physical or sensorial means. Within the field of software studies, advancing
a sense of digital materialism has raised concerns for the materiality of technological media, for instance by focusing on the physical constraints of data storage, or the material dimension of computing. But what about “immediation”, i.e. immediate computation
of bodily movement by machines for immediate expression, representation or enactment in digital contexts? And what of the representability of such immediation? How can we describe movement and preserve its datum of difference within a scriptable or graphicable
computer language without falling into a universal sameness, a movement without bodies?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Whilst the idea that immediate data may demand a “bodying forth” (Thrift 2008), a traffic of bodiliness from biological to technological contexts, it is necessary to de-homogenise the ‘body’ category. Perhaps what is
needed is an understanding of “corporeality” that assumes multidimensional and relativistic realities of bodies instead, opening up nuanced discourses based on specific body-related ontologies (corpuscles, builds, anatomies, skeletons, muscle systems) all
making up a non-singular sense of the bodily real. As such, this collection poses the problem of criteria. Our question is this: how and to what effect does the research community adopt arbitrary criteria in order to compute the body and bodily movement? Can
we define narratives emerging from this body-computing arbitration to provoke a critique? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">There is a possible tension between “bodying forth”— the idea of a single body operative across both biological and computational contexts—and corporeal relations. We would like to focus this critical edition on the relations
between differentiated anatomical or bodily systems (skeletal, muscular, nerve, etc.), and different modes of computation, as well as different theoretical discourses stemming from this experiential basis. If we recognize the problem of relationality we must
assume that more than one complex set of co-relations meet when the machine computes the moving human body. How do we start the process of computer-generated learning in terms of selecting body parts, functions, organs, processes, on the one hand, and key
languages, code, or indeed technological tools for capture on the other? To what extent does corporeal computing contribute to certain bodily systems (or perhaps even body types) becoming the key agents of action, and indeed learning, in such contexts? How
do we respond critically to privileged systems (the skeletal, the muscular), and body types (so called ‘normal bodies’)? To what extent are computational paradigms still dominated by spatial, extensive and quantitative determinations (i.e. the tracking of
skeleton, body geometry, kinematic shapes, etc.) that hide other, more intensive, modes of corporeality? And finally, how do we reintegrate the multiplicity of the corporeal in a computational synthesis? For instance, how can we understand the quantitative
and qualitative (dynamics, effort, tone, intensity, etc.) as overlapping data priorities?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Topics or projects might include:</span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Computable relations between bodies and digital avatars, digital dance representations,
digital sports representations, digital health representations, digital animation— digital bodies in general.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Computable relations between biological bodies and robotic systems.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Computing relations between physical movement and abstract thought, automated
thought (AI) or machine learning.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Computing mobility studies (i.e. relations between body and automobile, body
and assisted mobility machines, body and prosthetics).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Computing sociokinetic material (i.e. computing the movement of groups of
bodies).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Affective corporeal computing— the capacity to process psychophysical and
cognitive processes within corporeal movement (e.g. computing effort, dynamics, tonicity, emotion).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Integration of quantitative and qualitative body datasets.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Metabody theory and notions of meta-anatomy, meta-strata in the ontological
literature (i.e. movement of digital ghosts, sprites, techno-animism, etc.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><b>750 word abstracts should be emailed to n.salazar(at)leeds.ac.uk <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">April 17th</span></span>. </b><br>
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Any queries can be addressed to Nicolas Salazar Sutil at n.salazar(at)leeds.ac.uk, or Sita Popat at s.popat(at)leeds.ac.uk, or Scott deLahunta at scott(at)motionbank.org.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Abstracts will be reviewed by the <i>Computational Culture</i> Editorial Board and the special issue editors. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by April 24<sup>th</sup> and invited to submit full manuscripts
by <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">September 26th</span></span>. These manuscripts are subject to full blind peer review according to Computational Culture’s policies. The issue will be published in January 2017.</span></p>
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