Research led by Lisa Roberts through University of Technology Sydney, will contribute a contributes to Living Data exhibition exhibits for the 2018 Marine Ecosystem Assessment of the Southern Ocean Conference.
Track Changes is an independent 5-year research project I have started this year (2015) that began in 2015 through the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), with supervision from Professor William Gladstone, Head of the School of Life Sciences. My The aim is to record scientists and artists interacting over time, and to identify changes in gestures that may signify changes in understanding. By gesture I mean a form of expression that defies verbal explanation, and that involves physical movement. Gestures are impromptu movements that an impromptu movement that may or may not accompany verbal communications, and may be expressed through dancing, drawing and making.
The research is participatory. This means that my role is both researcher and research participant.
Outcomes will be:
Presentations within the UTS science building
Publications (academic and mainstream)
Exhibits at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), as part of the 2018 Southern Ocean Knowledge and Information (SOKI) conference
and (to be confirmed) at the Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG).
An online archive of research methods and outcomes
Both quantitative and qualitative research methods will be used.
A Chronoven interface will be used to track quantitative changes in gestures over time, and to document subjective explorations by participants that reflect changes they experience.
Read more:
http://www.livingdata.net.au/content/research/researchindex.php
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