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Cocker, E 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839,
2016.
Performing thinking in action: the meletē of live coding.
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 12 (2), pp. 102-116.
ISSN 1479-4713
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Abstract
Within this article, live coding is conceived as a meletē, an Ancient Greek term used to describe a meditative thought experiment or exercise in thought, especially understood as a preparatory practice supporting other forms of critical — even ethical — action. Underpinned by the principle of performing its thinking through 'showing the screen', live coding involves 'making visible' the process of its own unfolding through the public sharing of live decision-making within improvisatory performance practice. Live coding can also be conceived as the performing of 'thinking-in-action', a live and embodied navigation of various critical thresholds, affordances and restraints, where its thinking-knowing cannot be easily transmitted nor is it strictly a latent knowledge or 'know how' activated through action. Live coding involves the live negotiation between receptivity and spontaneity, between the embodied and intuitive, between an immersive flow experience and split-attention, between human and machine, the known and not yet known. Moreover, in performing 'thinking-in-action', live coding emerges as an experimental site for reflecting on different perceptions and possibilities of temporal experience within live performance: for attending to the threshold between the live and mediated, between present and future-present, proposing even a quality of atemporality or aliveness.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media |
| Creators: | Cocker, E. |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Number: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 1479-4713 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1080/14794713.2016.1227597 DOI |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Art and Design |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 15 Nov 2017 11:22 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2018 03:00 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32025 |
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