Roger F. Malina
This morning, I am readying material provided by Anu Gowda and Yueh-Jung Lee; I serve on their PhD committees. This blog is a result of this weekend work, and I would like to bring to their attention:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374521000108
Creativity studies has focused on creative thinking processes, problem-solving, and innovation, while the embodied dimensions of creativity have remained a tangential thread. In part, this is due to the challenge of running original, quantitative experiments in the embodied and performing arts.
At a more paradigmatic level, it is also due to the valuing of cognition over embodiment that continues to structure academia and creativity studies. Not running counter to cognitive creativity, but interconnected with it, embodied creativity includes creative expressions and processes that emphasize or are generated by the physical body.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.