Description du projet
Comprendre les aspects contextuels, expérientiels et neurocognitifs du direct
Le direct est non seulement important aux arts du spectacle, mais également pour de nombreux autres aspects de la vie quotidienne, tels que les rassemblements politiques, les événements sportifs, la réalité virtuelle et l’enseignement à distance. Toutefois, nous ne savons pas précisément ce qui rend les expériences en direct si spéciales. Le projet Neurolive, financé par l’UE, propose d’envisager l’expérience en direct comme une forme de divertissement continu au cours de laquelle les esprits, les cerveaux et les corps des artistes et des spectateurs sont liés. Pour comprendre la manière dont le direct est produit et est vécu, le projet vise à combiner des concepts théoriques du théâtre et des études de performances, de la recherche artistique en matière de création de performances, d’expérimentation psychologique et de neuroimagerie mobile. Cela donnera naissance à quatre expériences de performances en direct pour fournir des informations concernant le caractère spécial du direct.
Objectif
What makes live experiences special? Liveness is not just central to the performing arts, but to political rallies, sporting events, virtual reality and distance learning in higher education. NEUROLIVE is an inherently interdisciplinary research project, that combines theoretical concepts from theatre and performance studies, artistic research in performance making, psychological experimentation and mobile neuroimaging to understand how liveness is generated and experienced. NEUROLIVE proposes that the live experience can be conceptualized and quantified as a form of sustained entrainment, in which the minds, brains and bodies of performers and spectators are linked. Across three research streams we will combine artistic research (I) and cognitive neuroscience (II) to delineate the contextual, experiential and neurocognitive components of liveness, resulting in four live performance experiments (III). These live performances will be co-developed by performing artists and cognitive scientists with a view to establish an empirically testable, ecologically valid, multidimensional measure of liveness. NEUROLIVE combines dynamic experience sampling with psychophysiology, and mobile EEG. Advanced modelling techniques from machine learning will be used to integrate information from the different experiential, physiological and neural signals. This new measure will be grounded in the aesthetic principles of contemporary live performance, yet should be applicable across artistic and non-artistic performance situations, and to digital liveness in augmented and mixed realities. In this way, NEUROLIVE implements a conceptually and methodologically novel approach to understanding what makes live experiences special.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologycognitive neuroscience
- humanitiesartsmusicologypopular music studies
- humanitiesartsperforming artsdramaturgy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
SE14 6NW London
Royaume-Uni