Think audacious
The Talking Dead: Anthropologist Edward T. Hall (1914–2009)
Edward, pantomime’s often waved aside. What it is makes the mimic, gestures, moves — in a word bodylanguage — that important?
The desire to explore the unconscious of creatures. The human race is eager for!
Genuinely interviews are a quest. The claim: Think audacious — as much as possible.
It’s same old challenge of self-esteem: Fortune favours fools. In the end it’s always the dumbest pawn assumable, on to lift the plumpest, even in the such a severe thick of the fray.
A denyer?
An engrammatic command. It makes a patient believe that the engram, simplified a stimulus incepting body and mind, itself does not exist.
A natural farmer …
Proxemics is the study of human use of space, movements of density, stirred by their behavior, personal and social interaction.
No guts — no glory! Your reactions offer sentiments that one’s assumed to hide, regularly.
We study the nonverbal. Vocalics, the paralanguage that lies within. Chronemics, the structure of time qualifying space. Haptics, the sense of touch. Kinesics, the science of body moves and movements — and bodylanguage.
Pantomimes are rare. I know only one in the end …
Rowan Atkinson?!
That right you are.
Don’t think twice, Mr. Bean —even me doesn’t know someone else.
Let’s talk about him for a minute! What is it making him that depictive?
So it is! (chuckles) Rowan is the probably most famous representative of our craft. He doesn’t need one single word at all — and says everything. According to some quote of him everyman’s tied to 16, some might say broken, brides: 4 richer, 4 poorer, 4 better, and 4 worse.
The impact of the nonverbal. Tell me, what exactly do the vocalics dig into!
Vocalics — in the most normal of contexts — is the study of the voice’s nonverbal use. It indicates emotion, provides cues — as to what is meant.
Moody feedback messages …
… of receiving an impulse of information. The vocalics dig into the cues, the breakaway ties, or mild-and-weak spots. It’s a discipline including the examination of things like pitch, tone, rate, or volume. These patterns of accent influence how a message is received and interpreted.
Like interpunctuation or notation?!
Indeed, to a hair’s breadth. It’s about all of these things of lingual interaction no one really cares of.
And a part of mimics, gestures and moves …
That’s the vocalics interface to kinesics, another science. It reflects upon movements of node-wired shapes of strong-and-weak ties, but to bodily moves as well. It enables things like an annotator for all of these things you do — narrated by smart voices in your mind.
It’s got Greek origin: Kinein — to move. Kinēsis — the motion.
The ‘ics’ is an English’s quirk. Taking a look at the progress of our times it even ties eMotion.
Haptics, the sense of touch — how to integrate it to a homo-phobe pantomine like Rowan?!
I second that: Pantomimes are homo-phobe, indeed. But it’s more literally told, about facing the human race by itself, not about a queer or gay movement. You even don’t need haptics on the stage. Most pantomime-acts mean solo performances.
More a matter of the cloudy node-wires?
Haptic technology — haptics or kinesthetic communication — is tactile feedback technology. It recreates and reproduces the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations — or motions, all the way down synced to clients, and users, latter’s nodes and peers.
Kind of taptics!
A morph of ‘tap’ and ‘haptic feedback’. Taptic Engine is a name Apple created for its technology that provides tactile sensations. Lay your finger down onto devices like the Apple Watch, iPhones, iPads, iPods, and MacBooks. You really feel the energy , the vibrations floating ‘cross, occupying all of these areas of mind and tide.
Last but not least: Chronemics, the science of time and perspective — relativizing the borders of space.
Probably one of the most important qualities of a pantomime. Surfing across surreal, interactive, virtually augmented, extended realities — to depict snaps of time and space on stage as well as in front of camera.
In a nutshell!
Chronemics mean the way one perceives and values time, reacts to time frames — and communicates about. Across cultures, time perception plays some important role to the process of nonverbal communication. In a word it’s lifesurfing, or time-travel.
What are the different types of the ‘quiet as the new loud’, the communication silent lucidity’s kind about?
Shaking hands, patting the back — hugging or pushing. There are lot of gestures a pantomine can use to express feelings, to illustrate echoes brought to him, her or it — and to sign demands. The challenge are facial expressions, gestures — and eye contact. A pantomime notices all of these small emotions and changes, to respond accordingly, in some ultrasphere of automated undergrounds.
What is this challenge about?
Simplified I divide 3 different spaces: The stage, the screen, the virtual room. On the stage and screen to pantomime, it means clowning, more or less. Even in the news — when a deaf-mute talks in mimicry. But even a speaker can use pantomime to expressly underline his communication. In virtual technology auditing it’s more about disposing and defusing.
A golden rule — as a last point?
Think audacious! Amuse the audience, love to entertain.
LEAFLET: EDWARD T. HALL
Edward Twitchell Hall, Junior (1914–2009) is an American cross-cultural scientist, researcher and anthropologist. He establishes the concept of proxemics — the discipline exploring the (human) creature in its space. It issues the cultural and social cohesion, the node-wired colonialism of our times. He describes how people behave, react in different types of culturally defined spaces — and its virtually augmentation.
Essentially influenced Hall is by Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), an architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor. Famous Fuller is for his terms, such as ‘Spaceship Earth’, ‘Synergetic’ — or ‘Ephemeralization’, the art of achieving ‘more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing’. A second companion of his is the showcase of a metropolitan thinker, Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980). Probably he’s the only scientist a persuader and advance man knows about. Famous he is first of all for thinking big whatever it takes — making technology a penis enlargement of global purview.
Hall is considered a pathbreaker of intercultural communication as an academic area and era of study. He introduces a number of new concepts: proxemics, polychronic and monochronic time (varieties of chromatics) — and high and low context culture. Latter refers to a culture’s tendency to use high-context messages over low-context messages in routine communication, the suspense of voiceover acting (expressing sequences of utterance) and undertake directives (interrogation bytes). Broken down, it means: Overload the flows of bods, mind, news, and value with a complex manifold, melt the information down to a multitude of comprehensible noshs — divide it to the in-groups emerging. Melt the eyes by summer, spread and share your loss and lots bit by bit out to your fellows.
Aged 95, Hall dies at his home in Santa Fe / New Mexico.
