This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that discipline and exploring their values and applications. Themes include error in choreography, poetry, media art, healthcare, psychology, critical typography and mixed reality performance. The book emerges from a core question of how dance research and HCI can inform each other through consideration of error, ambiguity and ‘messiness’ as methodological tools. The digital age had heralded the possibility that error could be eradicated by the logic of computers but several chapters focus on glitch in arts practices that exploit errors in computer programmes, or even create programmes specifically to produce errors. Together, the chapters explore how error can take us somewhere different or somewhere new, to develop a new, more interestingway of working.
Draws together essays on arts, humanities, engineering, and medicine to comment upon the creative potential of error and ambiguity
Features scholars and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines
Explores the idea that mistakes are a fundamental route to new knowledge
Draws together essays on arts, humanities, engineering, and medicine to comment upon the creative potential of error and ambiguity Features scholars and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines Explores the idea that mistakes are a fundamental route to new knowledge
Sita Popat
Error as a creative tool Error Network project Ambiguity Creative potential Arts Humanities Social sciences Engineering Medicine Post-digital age Glitch music Operational logic Interdisciplinary reader