The 7th  Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts:

Music, Environmental Design and the Choreography of Space

Co-Chairs: Professor Jane Lily, West Valley College, United States

Dr. James Rhodes, Jacksonville University, United States

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 2, 2005                          8:30 -17:30                                           Hall A

 

Session 1: Exacting Meaning, Evolving Pattern—Body, Sound and Space

Introduction to the Symposium: Professor Jane Lily and Dr. James Rhodes

 

General Systems Theory: Linking the Humanistic and the Scientific

Dr. James Rhodes, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, United States

 

Waltz House: Dance Space—Life Space

Professor Jane Lily and Ms. Barbara Diamond

West Valley College, Saratoga, California, United States

 

Measuring Melodic Surface

Dr. Kalev Tiits, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

 

Architecting Body, Sound, and Space Through Digitally Mediated Performance

Dr. Barry Moon and Professor Chrissie Harrington,

Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom

 

 

           Lunch Break  12:00 – 13:30

 

 

Session 2: Change, Space-Form and Language

Moderator: Professor Jane Lily, West Valley College, United States

 

Wave-bowered Spaces: Harbingers of Change for the Way We Live

Professor Terry Postero, State University of New York, College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States

 

Choreographing Interpersonal Spaces in a Teaching Context

Dr. Gertina van Schalkwyk, University of Macau, Macau, China

 

Pictorial Narratives: The Intersection of Modernism, Female Identity
and Interior Design Culture in Early Twentieth Century Magazines

Professor Gillian Davies, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, United States

 

Anticommunication in Herbert Brün's Language of Resistance

Dr. Ross Feller, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, United States

 

 


 

 

 

Wednesday, August 3, 2005                          8:30 -17:30                                        Hall A

 

Sessions 3: Sonic Art: an Art Form in Search of a Definition?

Presented by Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

Sonic Arts, the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Art

Moderator: Dr. John Dack

 

Sonic Art: Interactions Between Practice and Theory

Dr. John Dack

 

Doing Stuff with Sound

Dr. Salomé Voegelin

 

Code as Composition

Mr. Chun Lee


UNCAGED and Beyond

Mr. Ralf Nuhn

 

Lunch Break  12:00 – 13:30


Session 4:  Preserving the Temporal Arts, Preserving Performances

Presented by Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

Faculty of Performing Arts

Moderator: Dr. Mine Dogantan Dack

Preserving Dance, Making History

Professor Alexandra Carter

 

The Mirror or the Lamp? A Composer on Recording

Dr. Peter Fribbins


A Narrative Perspective on Doris Humphrey’s ‘With my Red Fires’

Dr. Lesley Main


Deus ex Machina: the Psychodynamics of Identity in Recorded Sound Streams

Dr. François Evans


Models and Metaphors: Exploring Musical Performance

Dr. Mine Dogantan Dack

 

 


 

 

Thursday, August 4, 2005                          8:30 -17:30                                           Hall A

 

Session 5: Music, Form and Process

Moderator: Dr. James Rhodes, Jacksonville University, United States

 

Creativity in Music as a Measure of Distances on Ontologies

Dr. Jacques Calmet, Mr. Anusch Daemi, Mr. Stefan Kink, and Mr. Thomas A. Troge, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

The Utilization of 3-D Computer Generated Visual Stimuli as an Instructional Device
to Enhance Cognitive Understanding of Contemporary Electronic Spacemusic

Dr. Barry Atticks, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

 

Reflective Modeling of the (Sonic) Creative Process

Dr. Dave Lawrence, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

 

Beyond Using Voice as Voice

Ms. Sama'a Al Hashimi, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

 

       

Lunch Break  12:00 – 13:30

 

 

Session 6: Space, Structure, Movement and Expression

Moderators: Professor Shai Yeshayahu and Professor Bridgette Williams, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Systems in Nature: Connecting the Unconnected

Professor Shai Yeshayahu and Professor Bridgette Williams, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Futurist Movement Theory: A Choreographic Oscillation Between Futurist Dance and Architectural Design

Ms. Jennifer Halfacre, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Interactive Structures Facilitated Through Precedent Technology

Mr. Ryan Lawber, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Exchange of Expression: Performance for the Tango

Mr. Zac Stover, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

 

Labanotation: A Methodology for Systematically Mapping Movement in Architectural Form

Mr. Mathew T. Gines and Mr. Craig Anz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois