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In week one, Glenna used tactile-kinaesthetic imagery as verbal prompts. During week two, Susan emphasized visual prompts. Each mode gave rise to unique movement patterns and reflections on embodiment, bearing on future research questions. The authors aim to situate the study within the conversation on imagery specificity in teaching improvisation. In addition, the study supports the ongoing evolution of an articulate scientific-somatic discourse on tactile-kinaesthetic and visual phenomena within dance. 

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Batson, Glenna and Susan Sentler. "How Visual and Kinaesthetic Imagery Shape Movement Improvisation: A Pilot Study." Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017, pp. 195-212.

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Dixon, Steve. "Cybernetic-Existentialism and Being-Towards-Death in Contemporary Art and Performance." TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 61, no. 3, 2017, pp. 36-55.

Performance collectives Gob Squad and Blast Theory are discussed in detail and argued to exemplify the aesthetics of Cybernetic-Existentialism through their complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Bateson, Maturana and Varela on communication and control, negative entropy and autopoiesis, and Existentialists such as Marcel, de Beauvoir and Sartre on ‘separation with communion’ [Marcel, Gabriel. 1995. The Philosophy of Existentialism, 39. Translated by Manya Harari. New York: Carol], freedom, authenticity, the ‘look’ of the stranger [Sartre, Jean- Paul. (1943) 2003. Being and Nothingness, 364–376. Translated by Hazel Barnes. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Classics], and being-for-others [Sartre (1943) 2003, 245–452]. 

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Dixon, Steve. "Cybernetic-Existentialism in Interactive Performance: Strangers, Being-for- Others and Autopoiesis." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, vol. 13, no. 1, 2017, pp. 55-76, doi: 10.1080/14794713.2017.1301173.

Law's company Magmatic Ltd successfully challenged most imitators, until one succeeded in defending their rights on a product that was ‘inspired by Trunki’: PMS International and their so-called Kiddee case in 2012. This paper discusses lessons that can be learned from the case. Magmatic Ltd successfully defended their unregistered design right, but not their registered design right - Why? How do different forms of IP compare? How does a lengthy court process affect the running of a small design firm? How can IP legislation be enhanced to foster innovation more effectively?

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Hillner, Matthias. "Managing Design IP in the UK - Does the End Justify the Means?" Conference proceedings of the Design Management Academy, vol. X, 2017, pp. 539-562, doi:10.21606/dma.2017.45.

The paper comprises the following points: A discussion of older studies in the area; An outline of the research methodology deployed for the design right infringement survey; A discussion and analysis of key research findings. The conclusions drawn provide insight not only into how design rights are used and enforced in the UK. They also help to establish clarity about the level of robustness of design-related IP options. The paper provides orientation to designers and design IP stakeholders. It culminates in a range of ideas of how the IP system surrounding designs can be enhanced in the UK and in comparable countries.

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Hillner, Matthias. "Design IP Legislation in the UK - an Opportunity to Innovate?" Conference proceedings of the Design Management Academy, vol. X, 2017, pp. 563-593, doi:10.21606/dma.2017.46. 

In the knowledge economy, which produces value from accelerated innovation (also interpretable as the overproduction of the minimally different) value is extracted in two chief ways: via the misplaced rhetoric of excellence, and via netocratic quantification. Both of these processes are further aggravated by the additive nature of the digital media (Han); the irrationality of rationality (Ritzer); and attention deficit. Despite the fact that knowledge in general, and artistic knowledge in particular, is heterogeneous as well as, essentially, undecidable, in this essay I argue for a specific brand of knowledge: idiosyncratic, and, if need be, incomprehensible. Not as a weak ‘I would rather not’ strategy of resistance – to borrow from Herman Melville’s over-exploited, half-dead anti-hero Bartleby – but as an antidote to reductionism, information deluge, and their increasing neurological consequences, such as Information Fatigue Syndrome. 

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Lushetich, Natasha. "Idiosyncrasy as Strategy in the Age of Epistemic Violence." Artnodes Journal of Art, Science and Technology, no. 20, 2017, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i20.3149.

This existential relation is created through movement, sound, language, chronotypes, physical and symbolic objects, all of which weave bio-social matrixes, micro-cultural landscapes, even individual inscapes – internalized terrains of symbolic meaning. This essay offers a socio- phenomenological account of a medium-security forensic service unit River House, part of the Bethlem Royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital located in Bromley, south London. Its aim is to articulate the interdependence of practice, space, and inscape, while simultaneously shedding light on a very particular, emergent form of existential vulnerability caused by the increasing precarization, the reponsibilization of the individual, and the culture of blame. 

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Lushetich, Natasha. "The Art of Being Elsewhere: Neoliberal Institutions of Care." The Journal of Somaesthetics, vol. 3, no. 1&2, 2017, pp. 68-92

By situating alternate reality games (games that transcend the spatio-temporal delimitation of the “magic circle”) within the discourse of positive and negative freedom, Lushetich queries the capacity of existential amplification (found in all forms of performance and play) to reaffirm corporeally the (neoliberal brand of) negative freedom through what may be termed “ludic servitude”.

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Lushetich, Natasha. "Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality Games from Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond." Inter Views in Performance Philosophy, edited by Anna Street et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 107-116.