Interdisciplinary collaborations in the creation of digital dance and performance: A critical examination

This chapter explores the convergence between performance-based cultural heritage and new technologies, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaborations in creation and making processes. These interdisciplinary work spaces present a tremendous potential for innovative art making, as they bring together deep knowledge of the arts and artistic sensibility with a sound understanding of technology languages and possibilities. At the same time, being situated at the confluence of different fields of practice and research dwelling on diverse epistemologies and approaches, interdisciplinary collaborations do more than configuring new ways of making art: they contribute to synergies between arts and technology fields, marking places of cross-fertilisation, blurring boundaries and influencing their evolution. Through a close analysis of interdisciplinary undertakings in making digital performance, we show how creative work in mixed teams of performance artists, researchers and practitioners on the one hand, and researchers from technology and design-focused disciplines on the other, is instrumental to the development of interdisciplinary artscapes and interdisciplinary knowledgescapes: spaces that offer a fertile ground for creative initiatives and knowledge advancement drawing on integrated perspectives, theories, methodologies and approaches from arts and technology fields. Together, interdisciplinary artscapes and interdisciplinary knowledgescapes contribute to opening up and pushing the boundaries of thinking and art making, reconsidering taken for granted assumptions and coming up with radically new artforms. Publisher statement: This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 2.5 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credite

AMBULANSSISSA TYÖSKENTELEVÄN TYÖTURVALLISUUS, VÄKIVALTAINEN ASIAKAS / ITSEPUOLUSTUS OC-KAASULLA. KOULUTUSMALLIN SUUNNITTELU, TOTEUTUS SEKÄ ARVIOINTI KYMENLAAKSON PELAS-TUSLAITOKSELLE

Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli järjestää Kymenlaakson Pelastuslaitoksen ensihoitohenki-löstölle koulutuspäivä, jossa käsiteltiin väkivaltaisen potilaan kohtaamista ensihoitotehtävissä sekä OC -kaasun käyttöä itsepuolustuksena. Ensihoitohenkilöstö joutuu nykypäivänä kohtaamaan työteh-tävissään erilaisia uhka- ja väkivaltatilanteita, joissa väkivallan merkkien tunteminen ja oikeanlai-nen toiminta uhkaavassa tilanteessa voivat ehkäistä tilanteen eskaloitumista. OC -kaasua voidaan käyttää itsepuolustustarkoituksessa, mutta sen käyttö vaatii lain mukaan asianmukaisen koulutuk-sen. Opinnäytetyön tavoitteena oli laatia Kymenlaakson Pelastuslaitoksen ensihoitohenkilöstölle yhte-näinen toimintamalli väkivaltaisen potilaan kohtaamiseen ja tilanteessa toimimiseen. Koulutuspäi-vän tavoitteena oli myös kouluttaa ensihoitajille OC -kaasun turvallinen käyttö viimeisenä keinona hätävarjelutilanteessa. Tavoitteen saavuttamiseen käytettiin OC -kaasun koulutuksessa vaadittavaa koulutuskorttia, jonka pohjalta koulutus pidettiin. Tämä työ toteutettiin toiminnallisena opinnäytetyönä. Opinnäytetyöhön liittyvät koulutukset toteu-tettiin Kymenlaakson Pelastuslaitoksen tiloissa Haminassa, Kotkassa ja Kouvolassa. Koulutuksesta saadun palautteen perusteella 96 % koulutettavista (n=78) oli sitä mieltä, että koulutus oli onnistu-nut ja tarpeellinen. 69 % oli sitä mieltä, että koulutus antoi heille riittävät tiedot väkivaltaisuuteen johtavista ennakoivista merkeistä. 42 % koulutettavista koki, että koulutus opetti heille selkeän toi-mintamallin vaaratilanteisiin.The purpose of this thesis was to arrange an education and training day for the personnel who are working as paramedics in Kymenlaakso Rescue Department. Education and training consisted of confronting a violent patient in emergency medical care tasks and using OC-gas for the purpose of self-defense. Paramedics have to confront different kind of threatening and violent situations at their work. Then, recognizing signs of violence in a patient and the right kind of action in a threatening situation can prevent the situation from escalating to violence. OC- gas can be used as a self-defense, but law requires that a person who uses or operates an OC-sprayer must have proper training to use it. The aim of this thesis was to establish a uniform operation model to confront a violent patient and to operate in violent situations for paramedics who work in Kymenlaakso Rescue Department. The aim of the education and training day was also to teach the safe use of OC- gas in act of self-defense as a last resort. For the proper use of OC-sprayer training, we used a training-card as a basis to a achieve of the objective. This work was implemented as a functional thesis. The education and training part related to this thesis were conducted in Kymenlaakso Rescue Department´s premises in Kotka, Hamina and Kou-vola. Based on feedback from the training 96% of trainees (n = 78) were of the opinion that the training was successful and necessary. 69% were of the opinion that the training gave them suffi-cient information of proactive signs that could lead to violence. 42% of trainees felt that the training taught them an explicit approach to hazard situation

Hacking choreography: dance and live coding

This article aims to explore the intersections of live coding and choreography and discusses the practice-as-research project Hacking Choreography. It reflects on the compositional process as a live event as well as examines the use of computer programming languages within dance scores, the creation of scores in real-time and the transparency of these scores to the audience during a performance. Four pieces created by the author are discussed in terms of these elements and compared to live coding practices for computer music. Through this live coding emerges as not only a performance practice related to sound or visuals but continues its trajectory as a transdisciplinary approach to live performance events