{"id":976,"date":"2013-01-11T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=976"},"modified":"2014-05-16T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:04:43","slug":"improvising-consciousness-impcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Improvising Consciousness (IMPCON)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Improvising Consciousness is a <strong>critique<\/strong> of existing evolutionary accounts of the mind; a <strong>thought experiment<\/strong> that forefronts visual cognition; an <strong>imaginative exercise<\/strong>: can we get away from our quotidian sense of self,\u00a0 dramatically, imaginatively performatively?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1076\" title=\"ImpConJan13Stills\" src=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ImpConJan13Stills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ImpConJan13Stills.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ImpConJan13Stills-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Lecture Video\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/%7Ejranstey\/Movies\/LectureDocJan2013_1.mov\" target=\"_blank\">Lecture Excerpts<\/a> ~100MB<\/p>\n<p>IMPCON is an experimental intermedia performance that explores the notion that consciousness and cognition are historically contingent and radically transformable. The IMPCON project has evolved as a series of \u201chappenings\u201d: including a performance lecture that purports to be a scholarly account of human cognition from 2.5M BCE &#8211; 3,000 CE and participatory activities which play at the borders of improvisation, performance and game. For more information see links below.<\/p>\n<p>**\u00a0 <a title=\"Lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=392\">Performance Lecture with Professor Jennifer \u00c5rnstay<\/a><br \/>\n** Interactive Activity Pages\u00a0 <a title=\"The Davian Bead Game\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=1025\">The Davian Bead Game<\/a> and <a title=\"Bicameral Emulation Exercise\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=1125\">The Bicameral Emulation Exercise<\/a><br \/>\n** Edition 2: July 2012 <a title=\"Improvising Consciousness Medicine Show\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=791\">Improvising Consciousness Medicine Show<\/a><br \/>\n** Edition 1: January 2011 <a title=\"IMPCON: Event 1\" href=\"http:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/?p=255\">Improvising Consciousness Lecture and Workshops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For information about booking IMPCON contact Josephine Anstey jransteyATbuffalo.edu<\/em><br \/>\nThe modular nature of Improvising Consciousness makes it very flexible. The lecture can be performed alone or, depending on time, logistics and money, we can deploy a varying suite of participatory activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvising Consciousness is a critique of existing evolutionary accounts of the mind; a thought experiment that forefronts visual cognition; an imaginative exercise: can we get away from our quotidian sense [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ips.buffalo.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}