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MetabodyMetabody metabody@metabody.eu Agenda PARTNERS CONTACT Español METABODY INTRODUCTION KEY ASPECTS RESULTS WHO Network & Partners Institute Director: Jaime del Val SUBPROJECTS SUBPROJECTS INDEX New methodologies Tools for Diversity Tools for Embodied Communication An interactive mobile architecture BODYNET-KHOROS Algoricene Big Data Brother Amorphogenesis Ambiguous Topologies Interperforming Environments Metakinesphere Neural Narratives 1: Phantom Limb Metabody Box Disalignments Microsexes Monster UAM – Department of Modern History Strata-Urban Fluxus FORUM FORUM METAMEDIALAB METAFORMANCE STUDIES METATOPIA IMF 2013 IMF 2014 IMF 2015 IMF 2016 IMF 2017 IMF 2018 IMF 2019 IMF 2020 IMF 2021 IMF 2022 IMF 2023 MEDIA JOURNAL PRESS VIDEOS IMF 2013 Picture galleries IMF 2013 Madrid IMF 2013 Dresden IMF 2014 Picture galleries IMF 2014 Genoa IMF 2014 Madrid IMF 2014 Amsterdam Istanbul IMF 2015 Picture galleries IMF 2015 Weimar IMF 2015 USA/Canada IMF 2015 Madrid IMF 2015 Paris IMF 2015 Colombia / Chile Seoul Toulouse IMF 2016 Picture galleries IMF 2017 Picture Galleries IMF 2018 Picture Galleries IMF 2019 Picture Galleries IMF 2020 Media IMF 2021 Media IMF 2022 Media BLOG METABODY INTRODUCTION KEY ASPECTS RESULTS WHO Network & Partners Institute Director: Jaime del Val SUBPROJECTS SUBPROJECTS INDEX New methodologies Tools for Diversity Tools for Embodied Communication An interactive mobile architecture BODYNET-KHOROS Algoricene Big Data Brother Amorphogenesis Ambiguous Topologies Interperforming Environments Metakinesphere Neural Narratives 1: Phantom Limb Metabody Box Disalignments Microsexes Monster UAM – Department of Modern History Strata-Urban Fluxus FORUM FORUM METAMEDIALAB METAFORMANCE STUDIES METATOPIA IMF 2013 IMF 2014 IMF 2015 IMF 2016 IMF 2017 IMF 2018 IMF 2019 IMF 2020 IMF 2021 IMF 2022 IMF 2023 MEDIA JOURNAL PRESS VIDEOS IMF 2013 Picture galleries IMF 2013 Madrid IMF 2013 Dresden IMF 2014 Picture galleries IMF 2014 Genoa IMF 2014 Madrid IMF 2014 Amsterdam Istanbul IMF 2015 Picture galleries IMF 2015 Weimar IMF 2015 USA/Canada IMF 2015 Madrid IMF 2015 Paris IMF 2015 Colombia / Chile Seoul Toulouse IMF 2016 Picture galleries IMF 2017 Picture Galleries IMF 2018 Picture Galleries IMF 2019 Picture Galleries IMF 2020 Media IMF 2021 Media IMF 2022 Media BLOG METABODY metabody 2014-10-30T16:59:07+00:00 METABODY is a European project, Forum and Institute coordinated by Jaime del Val the non-profit organization Reverso, that since 2013 questions the homogenisation of expressions induced by current information and control technologies, which place unprecedented threats to plurality and to fundamental rights and freedoms by reducing our actions to predictable behaviours, and proposes to reinvent them highlighting the role and diversity of embodied expression through a new concept of interactive architecture that transforms in all its physical and digital aspects, constituting dynamic, participatory and performative environments for outdoors and indoors, an emergent and indeterminate space, a METATOPIA.[Read +] Download dossier The project undertakes a critical study of contemporary aesthetics of control, in which quantification of all activities via reduction to information patterns permeates all areas of life, subduing it increasingly to a regime of control while being presented as a desirable condition.At the same time Metabody develops new technological paradigms that take into account the changing differences of bodies, contexts and movements in their irreducibility, valuing and highlighting the importance of unpredictability for a livable life and generating the conditions for a sustainable social ecology. METABODY addresses the importance of non verbal communication and embodied expressions for cultural diversity as a fundamental form of cultural heritage that is not adecuately taken into consideration, and which is being undermined by current information technologies, which induce unprecedented forms of homogenisation of non verbal expressions while subjecting people to an increasing control, thus undermining fundamental freedoms. 93% of our expressions are in the form of non verbal communication, yet current media reduce non verbal interactions to a highly reduced set of standardized and traceable gestures of interaction through interfaces. This is inducing an unprecedented empoverishment of cultural expressions at global scale and undermining diversity and civil rights while expanding the possibilities for ubiquitous and invisible surveillance worldwide. The project seeks to address this problem, elaborate a critique and propose alternatives through the production of new kind of media that highlight the diversity of embodied expressions, bodies and contexts, foregrounding cultural diversity. New multidisciplinary or transdiciplinary communication platforms are developed in the convergence of the arts (dance, music, architecture and visual arts), and social minorities with the mediation of technosciences and humanities. METABODY develops radically embodied technologies that take into account irreducible and changing differences of embodiments, bodies and contexts, for new expressive, kinetic, relational, comunicational and socio-cultural paradigms, while addressing the problems inherent to contemporary disembodiment culture of prediction and control. METABODY counterposes the technologies of control and quantification (quantified self/smart self technologies) by claiming a qualitatively changing, unquantifiable body whose potentials cannot be predicted, pointing to an ecology of indeterminacy where creativity opens up a differential field of plurality. METABODY is an unprecedented convergence of architecture and spatial arts, performance, dance and body arts, sound arts, visual and media arts, kinetics, philosophy, cognitive sciences, theories and histories of affects and emotions, alternative mathematics, (post-)queer, postcolonial and disability theories, embodiment theories and social activism; generating a new metadiscisciplinary field and network of nomadic modules of practice-theory: MetamediaLab & Metahuman Metaformance Studies. What:Metabody -a european project coordinated by Reverso with 35 institutions from 16 countries- develops new forms of interactive architecture and communication systems that involve all spectrums of embodied expressions and incorporate the differences of each body and context while foregrounding the indeterminate and openended aspects of our interactions, favouring the plurality of abled/disabled bodies, cultural, sexual and other minorities, as opposed to the standardisation induced by current information systems of control. Meta-: in-between / through / accross / becoming / with / emerging / incipient / embracing / exceeding… Body: relation/movement/affection… Metabody: field of affective and kinetic relations in any mode or scale Media – mediations, inbetweens, intra-actions, intra-faces Embodiment – the world as bodily process of movent relations – bodily, procedural character of all reality Tékhne – inseparable bond of art and technology And – conjuntion, togetherness, multiplicty Bridges – inbetweens, crossovers, tranvsersalitiees, relationalities Of – situatedness, situation, context Diversity – difference, plurality, multiplicity Y – “ípsilon”, undefined openness, indeterminacy, movement, becoming, emergence, (…) How:Through academic research and creative experimentation new systems of embodied interaction are developed and incorporated in the first fully interactive architecture, that physically transforms with the movement of bodies and environment. Who:The new approach of Metabody points to a new direction of research in many ways diametrically opposed to the direction in which most research projects in the world are taking at the moment, which is towards an increasing standardisation and control in the reduction of reality, particularly emotions, to traceable information patterns. Metabody instead proposes to challenge this reductive approach, instrinsic to a culture of control, and points to investigating the fundamental role of indeterminacy and its relation to embodiment, for a livable life and a sustainable culture and society. Metabody investigates ways in which to highlight, rather than erase or reduce, indeterminacy of expressions and movements. What makes the difference?The new approach of Metabody points to a new direction of research in many ways diametrically opposed to the direction in which most research projects in the world are taking at the moment, which is towards an increasing standardisation and control in the reduction of reality, particularly emotions, to traceable information patterns. Metabody instead proposes to challenge this reductive approach, instrinsic to a culture of control, and points to investigating the fundamental role of indeterminacy and its relation to embodiment, for a livable life and a sustainable culture and society. Metabody investigates ways in which to highlight, rather than erase or reduce, indeterminacy of expressions and movements. What new technologies will the project produce?Metabody proposes to create “open source” technologies (in a broad sense understood as devices, movements, discourses, preactices of different kinds) that allow the critical and creative reconfiguration of affects and desires, perceptions and cognitions, movements and behaviours, spatial and temporal experiences, embodiments and relations. Why is the project important?Bacause it affords unprecedented alternatives and reserach possibilities to an unsustainable culture of global control that implies a threat to personal freedoms and planetary ecology. Metabody will build: the first fully autonomous, mobile, fully intra-active architecture the first fully selftsustained, ecological and selfconstructed intra-active architecture the first kinetic architecture thought from/as movement the first indeterminate architecture, conceived as machine for social ecology, that intervenes in bodies-contexts to disalign them from homogenising trajectories the first mobile laboratory of perception the first mobile observatory of diversity the first network of indeterminate embodied communication METABODY has a multiplier effect The project works in network not only among organizations but also among professionals and their communities in different countries. It promotes the production of synergies for future projects in those fields. The project itself hosts a highly unusually broad network of connections between disciplines, including all the arts, social actors as well as technosciences and humanities. This implies an equally unsual multiplication effect whereby the creative work developed in the Forum, which focuses on the culture sector, has an implicit, potential and foreseeable multiplication factor both in culture and in many other fields. METABODY aims to promote forms of expression that are underrepresented and therefore deserve to be promoted The project addresses as its core issue all the forms of embodied communication that are underrepresented, and are being erased by the impact of new technologies, in all the countries and regions involved, as a novel concept of cultural heritage, which is not generally taken into account and which however constitutes the very substrate of cultural expressions and of the social. This includes the minoritarian expressions of disabled people, of sexual minorities and other cultural minorities that are highlighted in the project, as well as other less minoritarian expressions which are also being affected by the homogenisation of communications at a global scale. The project promotes peace, social stability and cultural diversity The project specifically targets how information technologies can induce a drastic reduction of cultural diversity through the worlwide homogenisation of expressions. This homogenisation process is eventually the greatest threat to cultural diversity that is raising at the moment at a global scale, while it is strikingly ignored and not properly dealt with, constituting a phenomenal problem that demands urgent responses. The onset of homogenising technologies is often seen as a necessary and inevitable evil. This is however wrong since many other technological paradigms have existed and are possible and fundamental research needs to be undertaken in this direction. The project promotes the idea that cultural diversity is the necessary ground for social stability and peace: a plural society, that is able to hold together its own multiplicities is unlikely to enter into wars and instability, while a culture that is unable to hold together diversity is highly likely not going to have stability and peace, since the very nature of humanity and the world is plural, not homogeneous. Researching creatively into new accounts of diversity in culture is thus an essential constitutive component of a stable and peaceful society: one that can account of its multiplicities, one that can embrace its diversities. Understanding the role of embodiment, embodied expressions and non verbal communication as diversity factor is thus to be understood as fundamental research for peace. METABODY promotes the importance of cultures as sources of knowledge, meanings, values and ecology The project poses the urgent questions about embodied expressions and embodied experiences as fundamental forms of knowledge that are often undermined and underestimated by a rationalistic culture that favoures the knowledge of the “mind” while despising bodies and specific contexts. New accounts have to be made of the contextual and embodied charachter of all knowledge, meaning, value and identity, as processes that have to do with a cultural heritage that is both material and immaterial: non verbal expressions and their irreducible relation to bodies and territories. This however demands a novel approach that is not about preservation of solidified patterns of expression, but rather about taking into account the dynamic and fragile charachter of non verbal expressions, allowing them to emerge and change from instrisic dynamics of the bodies and territories and not through economic criteria imposed from above. METABODY promotes the role of culture for sustainable development The project proposes a new role for culture as fundamental constituent of sustainable development. The understanding of diversity of expressions, bodies, and contexts of interaction is now undermined by a dominant paradigm that favours rationalistic, and disembodied criteria in which Culture often becomes a means of colonisation, or in the best of cases an ornament and accessory of other kinds of politics. This project however places culture and creativity at the very forefront of any form development, since it is that which allows to generate an embodied, creative and contextualised understanding of diversity, that will be the substrate of a peaceful and sustainable development. METABODY promotes artistic creativity in all its forms, while respecting freedom of expresión The project not only covers all artistic disciplines intertwined in new musltidisciplinary frameworks (dance, music, architecture, visual arts, performance art, etc.) but expands these creative domains into creative dialogues with the sciences, technologies and humanities. Furthermore the broad spectrum of disciplines involved appears inseperable from social groups and minorities, thus ensuring a lively connection with subjects whose freedom of expression is implicitly or explicitly undermined, from disabled people who often don’t have proper means to express themselves, to gender or sexual minorities whoce voices are censored or who don’t have a vocabulary at hand that is adecuate to the diversity of their stories and emotions, because mainstream culture has avoided such a richness of vocabulary, and because homogenisation is increasing in the current hype of emoticon culture. METABODY promotes international and regional cultural cooperation The project counts with some of the world’s leading artists, researchers and specialists in dance/performance and technology; interaction design; motion and emotion analysis; electroinstrumental music; experimental architecture; studies on embodiment, emotion, affects and perception; history of cybernetics and media ethics; disabilities and queer theories. METABODY FORUM 2025     KEY ASPECTS New radically embodied social networks involving multisensory non verbal communication.read+ New technologies of non verbal Communication. Exceeding word and image, including gesture…read+ Disabilities and inclusion – Culture without Frontiers New expressive technologies for people with disabilities…read+ Beyond video Games. How to bring back to gaming the full spectrum of corporeality that has been…read+ New transdisciplinary platform for the arts, creativity, education, leisure and culture. read+ Architecture of the future – intelligent architecture – New forms of physically and digitally interactive space.read+ Observatory of social sustainability and cultural diversity. Observatory of…read+ The project outlines our non verbal interactions as fundamental heritage, one that doesn’t have to be…read+ RESULTS A SUSTAINED PLATFORM AND NETWORK A sustained platform and network and…read + IMF INTERNATIONAL METABODY FORUM MetaMedialab – Research workshops, Artistic…read + METASPACE METABODY PAVILLION Mobile metamedia laboratory-installation… read + Bodynet The building of an experimental, radically…read + ACADEMIC RESEARCH Including Publications and documentation in books…read + Metafaces Devices, techniques and tools, Technology … read + WEBSITES, NETWORKS, ONLINE Facebook English Twitter English Youtube Youtube Facebook English Twitter English Youtube Youtube DESIGNED BY LARANA GRÁFICA This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPTPrivacy & Cookies Policy Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. 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