http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/body The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/somatic-medium <p class="MsoNormal">In my last post, I discussed gesture in James Cameron’s <i>Avatar</i>.  In a response, Josh Landy asked me to think a bit beyond the terms I’d set up in that piece (which focused on what gesture <i>means</i>) to consider what it is we <i>do</i> when we gesture.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/somatic-medium">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/somatic-medium#comments body Brian Rotman Dan Graham gesture Installation Matthew Arnold Ohad Meromi Relationship Sculpture http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/721 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:12:25 -0700 Claire Jarvis 721 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/boundless-bodies-bio-art-2009-or-man-three-ears <p> A new trend in the arts is to use human and animal organic tissues (mixed or grown together) instead of paint, clay or other traditional media as the primary material for art. The artificiality in art is literal, and yet subverted, the artificial becoming natural, being grown out of the natural world, and - more disturbingling - creating a new &quot;natural&quot; or at least living world. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/boundless-bodies-bio-art-2009-or-man-three-ears">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/boundless-bodies-bio-art-2009-or-man-three-ears#comments art body imagination http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/487 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:45:52 -0800 Cecile Alduy 487 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/sensual-poetics <p> Pornographic literature is dismissed as an oxymoron by many scholars because we expect ‘literature’ to imply form, while the endless repetition of unproblematic sex acts denies us the comforting format of beginning, middle, and end.<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/sensual-poetics">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/sensual-poetics#comments body language narrative poetry sex sontag http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/206 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:04:01 -0700 Cecile Alduy 206 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/biology-of-writing There is the question of the influence of technology (or absence thereof) on the way we think and write. But I recently came across the question of the biology of writing: what are we writing with? Our minds, our hands, our guts, or an immaterial mix of subconscious/reason/emotion peppered with cruise-controlled linguistic automatisms?<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/biology-of-writing">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/biology-of-writing#comments biology body writing http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/24 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:21:55 -0800 Cecile Alduy 24 at http://arcade.stanford.edu