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Posted on 2015/12/09 by

The Media Lab as Space for “Play and Process”: An Interview with TML’s Navid Navab

The point is to build environments that are “not complicated but rich.” At the TML, we live with our designs, within our responsive environment. Interview with Navid Navab Associate Director in Responsive Media, Topological Media Lab Research-Associate, Matralab Multidisciplinary Composer The Topological Media Lab (TML) is a large, open space with polished concrete floors and a Read More

Posted on 2015/10/18 by

Becoming Posthuman: Disappearing Bodies & Dance as Thing-Power

For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about assemblage, objects, infrastructures and articulations. But we’ve also been talking about bodies. It seems impossible to escape perceiving, feeling and thinking about the world from our subjective, human position, even when we employ object oriented ontology to level the playing field between humans and things, as we did this Read More

Posted on 2014/10/23 by

Labanotation: The Topology of the Moving Body

“In its diagrammatic nature, topology is a persistent encounter with the shape of language. In moving from the haptic totality of the book to the visual totality of the diagram, topology allows us to reengage with the notion of the textual corpus–as a body in space whose surfaces and contours have meaning. In place of Read More