Poster session
Asynchronous session
Thistory : Theatre History through Video Stories View Digital Media
Poster Session Victor Ioan Mihailescu
Thistory is a research project that aims to develop multimedia edutainment material, intended to stimulate and attract students into reading and working with various theatre plays (from classical/ancient dramaturgy, to modern drama) and optimisable for use in a wide array of applications, such as digital learning platforms or video courses. The project involves students, researchers and graphic artists, working together in collaborative tasks in order to produce and optimise the multimedia content. The study describes the collaborative process and various instructional design and mentions various use-case scenarios, both technically (embedding clips in various learning management systems) and pedagocically.
Art, Honor, and Service View Digital Media
Poster Session Julie Taylor
In an online, multi-media poster presentation, action-research findings from two studies in Detroit are presented. Students at a public high school created drawings and sculptures to honor veterans. Their artwork was publicly displayed. Through the projects, the students learned about the social role of art. They gained appreciation of how art can be used to honor and to commemorate.
Rhythmic Dynamics: Using Sound to Influence Animation View Digital Media
Poster Session Lauren Carr
My work examines simulation techniques by incorporating animation clips guided by sound frequencies. In this poster presentation, I demonstrate how math equations such as signal, noise, and sound frequencies affect animation and layer the animation clip with manual keyframes. Furthermore, I use maps that control the dynamic strength, time, velocity, distribution, influence, collision, spring motion, color change, shape deformation, and lighting.
Community Dance as a Social Prescription Program Utilizing Traditional Japanese Folk Arts: A Case Study of the Elderly in Japan View Digital Media
Poster Session Kaoru Yamada, Kanako Sasaki
In recent years, an increasing number of people are living with chronic diseases and disorders, and it is said that their health and self-management abilities are affected by social factors, environment, economic conditions, etc. Determinants: Social Determinants of Health (SDH). In the UK, social prescriptions for SDH are practiced, and these are built on a uniquely British foundation, such as the NHS, GPs and a community-based voluntary sector. In Japan, a model project for social prescription has being carried out. However, in order to introduce social prescriptions in Japan, it is important to be actively involved in a community-based manner. Therefore, we conducted a community dance workshop incorporating traditional Japanese folk arts with the elderly. Analyze the recorded video of the workshop by the method of video ethnography, and search for a community dance program as a social prescription that the elderly can enjoy and participate in. The workshop was held in a large traditional tatami room. The elderly people tried dancing using furoshiki (large cloth with traditional Japanese patterns) and fans. They performed various facial expressions and movements freely to the folk music of the local festival. The familiar tatami room, folk tools and folk music allowed them to relax and performed with joy. This community dance is not a typical health promotion exercise for the elderly. By sharing traditional folklore aspect, such as dialects, music, dance, and by respecting local folk arts by dance artists who are facilitators of the workshops. The elderly were able to express actively.
Struggles and Recovering Process in Cancer Survivorship: Generating Self-transcendence through Photo Collage View Digital Media
Poster Session Kanako Sasaki, Kaoru Yamada
We have been interviewing women of working age who are undergoing cancer treatment or living as survivors. These women have some roles to play in their workplaces and communities, as well as in their life events such as marriage, childbirth, and child rearing. These women were facing various problems such as difficulty living and speaking out due to the changes in appearance caused by treatment, and worries about employment, and they lived their daily lives feeling alienated, isolated, and with a sense of self-loss. In response to the current situation, we introduce the photo collage workshop as a place where gaining self-transcendence (one of the abilities to find the meaning and purpose of life acquired in the face of loss and difficult life experiences) is possible. In this report, we will discuss how one's expression has brought one a self-discovery through the creation of artworks. Participants have no previous collage experiences. While making small talk, the participants work silently, and concentrate on their work. At the end, each made a small presentation by giving the title of the piece. Self-expression triggered by stimulating each intuition and creativity, participants experience a sense of accomplishment. Also, photography can act as a triggering old memory, a way to collect ‘self’ from the past, and a clue for the new discoveries. Furthermore, presenting own work could also empower self.
A Wider Perspective on Intertextuality in Theater View Digital Media
Poster Session Yukihide Endo
The Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016), who devoted the last 30 years of his life to directing Shakespearean plays, demonstrates that the essence of theater is not only cognitive but also social interconnectedness, inside the theater. How does this interconnection -- as a variant of intertextuality -- develop? Thus, it is necessary to investigate why in his experimental direction, theatrical intertextuality necessitates a wider perspective on the interaction among those involved in the production and appreciation of a play. His ambitious direction strongly suggests that he genuinely wanted the audience to finalize the process of his theatrical production by giving fresh meaning not just to Shakespeare’s plays, but to theater in general. By examining his outrageous but thought-provoking directing style, this presentation intends to provide a new insight into theater studies. Its main focus lies on how and why Ninagawa made successive directorial attempts at these European classics in order to motivate contemporary audiences at home and abroad to look afresh at Shakespeare. Instead of appraising his specific directorial works, this presentation intends to reconceptualize his individualistic directing style that contributes to contemporary theater. Ninagawa perceives that among other participants, the audience, who is most eligible to finally evaluate his artistic output, is the deciding factor. His experimental directing style strongly encouraged the audience to seek a new and unexplored perspective on Shakespeare’s plays.
