Conference Reminder: The Interactive Mind
Conference - Final Reminder
NB: Please note that the registration deadline for this event is Friday 3rd June
The Interactive Mind
Abden House
Pollock Halls
University of Edinburgh
Friday June 10th and Saturday June 11th 2005
An Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) event
According to the interactive conception of mind, our minds are shaped by the
details of our gross bodily form, our habits of action and intervention, and
the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which we
are historically, evolutionarily, developmentally, and here-and-now situated.
Intelligent activities such as reasoning, imagination and even creativity are
not (or are not simply) a matter of processing information internally, but of
manipulating and responding to external structures, sometimes in ways that
involve bodily skills as much as mental ones. The interactive view has been
gaining ground recently across a broad range of academic disciplines. The goal
of this AHRC cross-disciplinary conference is to explore the idea in an arts
and humanities arena.
The interactive paradigm is already important in various branches of science.
Influential models in artificial intelligence, psychology, human-computer
interaction and other fields suggest that intelligence and even consciousness
depend in subtle and fundamental ways on interactions with the environment.
More recently, many arts and humanities disciplines have embraced the view. In
archaeology, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary studies, the visual and
performing arts, museum studies, feminist theory, and elsewhere, the interactive
mind is beginning to make itself felt. No one discipline has the intellectual
resources to deal with all the implications of taking the interactive
viewpoint. This genuinely cross-disciplinary idea needs to be explored in a
genuinely cross-disciplinary context. With its emphasis on the development of
the idea within the arts and humanities, this conference will bring together
researchers from the arts and humanities and the sciences to provide just such
a context.
Provisional Programme
Please note that this programme may still be subject to change.
Keep up to date by checking:
http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/edinburgh-interactive-mind.php
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/edinburgh-interactive-mind.php>
Friday 10th June
9.15-9.45 Arrival and Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 Eric Clarke
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/ec/echomepage.html>
(Music, Sheffield) 'Music - Mind - Environment: An Ecological Perspective'
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Evelyn Tribble
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/tribble.html>
(English, Otago) '"To Ease the Burden of the Brain": Distributed Cognition in
Early Modern England'
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Mark Rowlands
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.herts.ac.uk/humanities/philosophy/mr.html>
(Philosophy, Hertfordshire) 'Body Language: Representation in Action'
14.30-15.30 Rachel Jones
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rayoung/philcontent.py?pathname=people/rachel>
(Philosophy, Dundee) 'The Other Within: Questioning the Privacy of Pain'
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Carl Knappett
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ex.ac.uk/archaeology/staff-knappett.html>
(Archaeology, Exeter) 'Scaffolding: between Agents and Artefacts in
Archaeology'
17.00-18.00 Lambros Malafouris (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
Cambridge) 'Hylonoetics: Material Engagement and the Archaeology of Extended
Cognition'
Saturday 11th June
9.00-10.00: Simon Kirby
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/%257Esimon/>
(Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, Linguistics, Edinburgh)
'Learning, Culture and Adaptation: how Language Evolves in Interacting Minds'
10.00-11.00 Andy Clark
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/staff/clark.html>
(Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Edinburgh) 'Material Symbols'
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30 Stephen Cowley
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://psydb.herts.ac.uk/staff_list/FMPro?-db=staff_list_email%26-format=recorddetail.html%26-lay=details%26-sortfield=surname%26-max=2147483647%26-recid=33630%26-findall=>
(Psychology, Hertfordshire) 'Language: a Distributed View'
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Marlon Barrios Solano
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://accad.osu.edu/%257Embsolano/>
(Independent dance and new media artist/scholar, USA) 'Post-Humanist
Performance: Intersecting Dance Improvisation, Real-time Multimedia
Environments and Embodied/embedded Cognition'
14.30-15.30 Irene McAra-McWilliam
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/research/professor_irene_mcaramcwilliam_606.html>
(Royal College of Art) TBA
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Matthew Chalmers
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%257Ematthew/>
(Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Glasgow) 'Interaction with and
through Computers'.
17.00 Close
Conference organisers:
Mike Wheeler (Philosophy, Stirling)
Andy Clark (Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Edinburgh)
Enquiries concerning the conference should be directed to Mike Wheeler
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The full registration fee is £60, with a reduced fee of £35 for students (proof
of status required). This fee includes refreshments and lunches on both days.
To register please go to the conference web page at
http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/edinburgh-interactive-mind.php
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/edinburgh-interactive-mind.php>
and download, fill in, and send off the registration form.
Further Background
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is currently investigating the
possibility of committing funding to a strategic research programme on the
topic of The Interactive Mind. In part to this end, but also as a project of
stand-alone intellectual value, the AHRC has funded a series of 3
cross-disciplinary workshops on The Interactive Mind. The Edinburgh event
described above will be the second of these events. The first took place in
Sheffield on 8th and 9th April 2005. The third will take place at the Sussex
Arts Club, Brighton, on 19th and 20th July 2005. Anyone interested in attending
the Sussex workshop should contact Mike Wheeler, the national co-ordinator for
The Interactive Mind workshop series, as soon as possible. Further information
about the AHRC Interactive Mind initiative is available on The Interactive Mind
homepage at
http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/interactive-mind.php
<https://mail.stir.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m-wheeler/interactive-mind.php>
or from Mike Wheeler
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