Designing Games as 'Hands on Research Tools' for Foro No.2 Nodos Activos: 2023
(2023)
author(s): Yamil Hasbun Chavarría, Pamela Jiménez Jiménez
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition recounts the design process behind the creation of a series of games implemented in the second forum of the Active Nodes project (Foro No.2 Nodos Activos), and the experiences obtained during the days in which the the Nodos Team carried out the activities in which the current research activities where materialized as games throughout the various installations of the Artistic Research, Teaching and Extension Center (CIDEA) and its surroundings where the four schools of art and design of the University Nacional, Costa Rica (UNA) converge:
The School of Art and Visual Communication (EACV), Performing Arts (EAE), School of Dance and Music school.
Since the general theme of this Second Nodos Activos forum was ‘Artistic Research through Play’, the participatory research tools developed here actually took the form of a games. Games created to have fun, create expectations, create curiosity, create empathy and friendships and create new artistic constructions through innovative research hands-on processes.
Aside from the researchers in charge of the Nodos Activos project, the creative team in charge of the development, design and ‘put to practice’ work implicit in all these research tools/games included EACV students Karolay Mendoza Castrillo, Marian Casanova Guzmán, Iván Sibaja Segura, and Nicole Barboza Alvarez; and EAE student Adrian Campos Chaves.
The present exhibition recounts the process of game design, while a second exhibition present in this catalog (Titled FORO NO.2 NODOS ACTIVOS, 2023: Artistic Research Through Playing. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2431060/243106) recounts the experience of the process of playing the game itself.
FORO NO.2 NODOS ACTIVOS (2023): Artistic Research Through Playing (2023)
(2023)
author(s): Yamil Hasbun Chavarría, Pamela Jiménez Jiménez
published in: Research Catalogue
Systematization of the experiences lived in a space for reflection and dialogue between teachers, researchers and students from various artistic and design fields around the theme “artistic research through playing”.
The games implemented in this forum are the culmination of an extensive design and planning process summarized in a second exposition in this catalog titled DESIGN OF GAMES AS ‘HANDS ON RESEARCH TOOLS’ FOR FORUM No.2 NODOS ACTIVOS: 2023’ (
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1920338/1920339)
This exhibition recounts the experience of playing those games during the month of October 2023, in the facilities of the Center for Artistic Research, Teaching and Extension (CIDEA) and their surroundings, where the four schools of arts and design of the University come together: School of Art and Visual Communication (EACV), Performing Arts (EAE), Dance School and Music School.
Aside from the researchers in charge of the Nodos Activos project, the creative team in charge of the development, design and ‘put to practice’ work implicit in all these research tools/games included EACV students Karolay Mendoza Castrillo, Marian Casanova Guzmán, Iván Sibaja Segura, and Nicole Barboza Alvarez; and EAE student Adrian Campos Chaves.
Little Do They Know
(2022)
author(s): Olivia Rowland
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition functions as both a visual and poetic essay, and a manifesto for my methodology of ‘line’. My definition of ‘line’, defined here as:
‘The gestural and abstracting tandem force of drawing-and-writing as a narrative means to express selfhood.’
The exposition posits the methodology of ‘line’ as one alternate artistic means to artistically communicate feminine selfhood. The methodology of line works to resist the internalised assignment of feminine voice to a corporeal body.
Instead, ‘line’ communicates selfhood through poetic means and a sense of fragmented corporeality. Visually, the stark and abstracting nature of the drawn line, and the allegorical, metaphorical nature of writing present an abstracted self that playfully evades full understanding.
The titling phrase ‘Little Do They Know’ intones a kind of secret power on behalf of the speaker, and the presence of secret and intricate worlds to which the gaze of the spectator has limited access. It is on this premise which the exposition operates, articulating the presence (in all its anxiety, instability, rage, joy and frustration) of a playful and evasive selfhood that reclaims agency from the spectator’s gaze.