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Browsing Faculty of Information and Communication Studies by Subject "Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Art"
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    Biomodd: Exploring Relationships Between Biological, Electronic, And Social Systems Through New Media Art
    ( 2014-11-17) Maranan, Diego S. ; Librero, Al Francis D.
    Biomodd is a collaborative new media art project that explores the symbiosis between biological, electronic, and social systems. The project started in 2007 in the United States, and has since spawned multiple versions globally. The Philippine team was led by educators from the UP Open University, who organized a course on new media art practice as a springboard for exploring and developing the project. We discuss the imaginative and abstract relationships between biological, eletronic, and social systems that learners articulated over the course of the project. We describe how local, culturally-specific narrative elements were imaginatively integrated into the physical and interactive design of the installation, resulting in a technically complex, visually poetic expression of the relationship between nature, technology, and humans.
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    Courtship in Pixels: Examining Romantic Expressions in Digital Photography Through a Mixed-Method Approach
    ( 2024) Maningo, Joshua
    This exploratory research sought to address gaps in understanding the role of digital photography in modern courtship. The study was motivated by the evolving landscape of romantic expression in the digital era and aimed to investigate how digital photography influences romantic interactions. This research employed a mixed-method approach which encompassed quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. The analysis of observed romantic photographs revealed the prevalent use of techniques such as selfies, candid shots, and symbolic elements to convey romantic emotions. Findings indicated that 75.4% of participants used digital photography for romantic expression during the courtship process, leveraging platforms like Facebook and Instagram for "flexing" relationships and preserving memories. It was reported that emotional engagement with these photos was significant, evoking feelings of “kilig” and nostalgia among viewers. Digital photography's role in the courtship process was emphasized as an enhancement to modern courtship dynamics, blending traditional sentiment with contemporary visual storytelling on social media.
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    Expressing technological metaphors in dance using structural illusion from embodied motion
    (ACM, 2013-06) Maranan, Diego S. ; Schiphorst, Thecla ; Hwang, Albert ; Hwang, Albert
    We illustrate how technology has influenced creative, embodied practices in urban dance styles by analyzing how technological metaphors underlie conceptual representations of the body, space, and movement in three related styles of urban dance: liquid, digitz, and finger tutting. The creative and technical embodied practices of urban dancers are not well understood in either the ethnographic or creative movement scholarly literature. Following an exploratory netnography of movement practitioners, we claim that unlike most dancers of traditional genres or other urban dance styles, dancers of these three styles frequently employ representations of the body and of space that are geometrical, mathematical, mechanical, or digital. To explain how viewers perceive and understand these metaphors, we extend the perceptual theory of structure from motion in order to apply dance performance reception theory to a model we call 'Structural Illusion from Embodied Motion' (SIEM). Our analysis of performance techniques of these styles suggests that during performance, dancers leverage SIEM to represent two types of 'illusions' to viewers: a) the dancer's body has a reconfigurable structure; and b) the dancer is immersed in a virtual environment that contains invisible, mutable objects and structures that are revealed only through the dancer's movement. The three dance styles exemplify a trend in popular dance in which body, space, and time are understood in the language of technology.
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    Futures Literacy Through Arts-Based Processes
    ( 2021-11-17) Maranan, Diego S.
    Presentation given at Ecological Justice Research Group Inaugural Symposium, York St John University, UK.
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    Imagining and Prototyping the Future from the Margins
    ( 2023-11-22) Maranan, Diego S.
    Exploring past visions of the future reveals two key insights: First, we are not always great at predicting the future, but we are good (and unavoidably so) at shaping it. How the future unfolds is shaped by our present imaginings. Second, what the future looks like depends on where you’re looking at it from. Mainstream media, particularly Hollywood, often hands us meticulously crafted visions of the future. Rarely does the wider public get a chance to participate in crafting these images. In this talk, I share some of the creative projects—spanning dance, installation art, AI-generated imagery, and wearable technology design—that my colleagues and I have undertaken. These projects point towards anticipatory approaches to the future that ask, what happens when our images of the future emerge from the fringes rather than conventional centers of power, influence, and imagination?
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    The Design Of Clinical Trials And Its Associated Support Systems In Interplanetary Missions – A Thought Experiment And Creative Workshop
    (International Astronautical Federation, 2018-10) Nasser, M ; Perez, N ; Knight, J ; Haines, A ; Young, C ; Griffin, J ; Maranan, Diego S. ; Wright, J ; Halkes, M
    On Earth, the best available evidence to inform decisions on the effectiveness of treatments are randomised controlled trials. Depending on relevance of the question, availability of resources and willingness of individuals, these trials range from a few people to thousands. These trials are usually repeated across the world on different populations which provides further information on the generalisability of the effectiveness of interventions. Only a fraction of individuals on Earth participate in clinical trials to provide the evidence basis for the larger population. In aerospace medicine, the number of astronauts is quite limited so doing large clinical trials is difficult: the evidence in aerospace medicine primarily relies on simulated studies on Earth which may be randomised controlled trials or small case series with astronauts in space. The current discussions on long term missions to Mars and other planetary exploration, raise the question of what is the ideal approach for building an infrastructure to conduct clinical trials for long term interplanetary missions. Long term missions require the continuous commitment and motivation of participants in the clinical trial, therefore patient involvement in the research process is more important. This paper uses a combination of a thought experiment with a creative, simulated and interdisciplinary workshop to build a conceptual framework on how clinical trial research infrastructure can be innovated in an inter-planetary mission. Some key aspects of the framework includes: a) Designing and prioritising interventions to manage the problem (democratic versus management approach) b) Overall design of the research project (applicability of prospective meta-analysis, patient preference trials, N-of-1 trials) c) Allocating participants to groups (stratification not only based on characteristics but also by roles and job specification, using Bayesian randomisation to allocate individuals into groups and patient preferred trials) d) Outcome selection and data collection (identifying biomedical, clinical, patient-related, performance-related outcome, data collection over time and monitoring need for adaptation and change) e) Ethics and Partnerships (ethics and consent issues and how they relate to partnerships and relationships). We will suggest using the same methodology to facilitate more in-depth discussions on certain aspects of a clinical trial or managing a diverse range of health problems e.g. contagions.
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    The Value of the Arts and Humanities to Science in the Philippines
    ( 2022-06-01) Maranan, Diego S.
    This report discusses interim findings from the Creative Turn in the Sciences project, in which we explore and describe the state of art and science activities and collaborations—what has been variously referred to as “sciart” or “artscience”—in the Philippines. We argue that creative, transformative science can be supported along multiple fronts by engagement with the arts and humanities. As such, our view of creative industries need not be limited to currently identified ranges of cultural products and services. Artists can access new sources of not only funding and support, but also knowledge and inspiration, through engaging artscience in their work. If one of the value propositions of the arts is that it can provide a service, we propose that the arts and humanities could productively offer their services to the science R&D community in novel and underexplored ways. Our main contribution is the SHARES framework for enabling arts and humanities contribution to science research and translation (section 4). Based on our interviews, the arts only minimally influences science and tech R&D in the Philippines, but only because it is usually not usually afforded the opportunity to do it more regularly or more deeply, if at all. However, the arts and humanities can lead to transformative and creative science processes and outcomes, and there is a nascent artscience community of practice in the Philippines that could benefit from support. To this end, funders, professional research organizations, and educational institutions can contribute to enabling shares through a number of ways: # Keep (or include) the Arts in the ST(R)EAM acronym # Retrofit existing programs to include discussion on and practice in artscience # Create opportunities for internships and real-world alternative learning activities # Ringfence funding for artscience collaborations # Provide mechanisms for long-term monitoring and evaluation # Consider new forms of cultural work and new models for patronage # Take the lead as coordinators and mentors # Provide opportunities for both formal disciplinal dialogue and serendipitous interactions # Strike while the iron is hot