Exploring Covid through the Toronto performance hub The Tranzac, as a Zine.

International aid has influenced and, in part, shaped the artistic sector Africa's Great Lakes region (DRC, Rwanda, Burundi) since 1990s, a period marked by numerous conflicts and mass violence. Due to NGOs’ programmatic foci, artists performing for social change are increasingly compelled focus on reconciliation conflict resolution, generating political awareness bringing about change, healing...

Fitness applications with social network services (SNS) have emerged for physical activity management. However, there is little understanding of the effects of these applications on users’ physical activity. Motivated thus, we develop a theoretical model based on social cognitive theory of self-regulation to explain the effects of goal setting, self-tracking, and SNS (through social comparison ...

In the Esalen Institute Transformation Project we are developing an archive of scientific studies concerned with exceptional psychophysical capacities that appear in sport, contemplative practice, the performing arts and other disciplines. In a related and recent study of sport participants, a colleague, Rhea White, and I (Murphy & White, 1978) collected several thousand incidents of altered me...

This paper explores the tensions and incongruities between conventional thesis presentation and the principles of action research. Through the experiences of the authors alternative approaches to thesis structure are proposed which are argued to be more congruent with the epistemological, methodological and ethical aspects of action research. Consistent with our arguments, the paper is presente...

A multidisciplinary dance and theatre arts program geared for high school-aged youth can result in both short-term and the long-term outcomes for its students if it seeks to offer a life-changing peak experience as part of the arts training and performance process. By integrating a combination of dance, movement, theater, music, creative and reflective writing, as well as identity exploration a...

Visual Agents are software entities which assist people in performing graphical tasks. One useful and interesting graphical task is to make a textand-graphic record of a group meeting. When the recording is done live ill view of the group on a large display, such as on a whiteboard, it is a performing art which can be called "Group Graphics." During group graphics, collaboration is enhanced bec...