Bifröst University

Grund, C. M. (Visiting lecturer)

Faculty of Humanities

Activity: Visiting another research institution

Description

“If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it” (Isadora Duncan): A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality. Course exchange between University of Southern Denmark and Bifröst University. Instructors: Cynthia M. Grund and William Westney

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Words, images, physical gestures, musical sounds, virtual worlds – these modes of human functioning can integrate in various combinations in order to create and communicate understanding. This is multimodality. Always of interest to philosophers and artists, multimodality is becoming more universally relevant in the 21st century. This course will study, and exemplify, multimodality from a philosophical perspective.

Period	25. May 2010 → 28. May 2010
Visiting	Bifröst University

Keywords

Philosophy and multimodality
musical meaning
philosophy of language
virtual reality and metaphysics

Documents & Links

Course materials for "“If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it” (Isadora Duncan): A Philosophical Investigation of Multimodality, Bifröst University, Bifröst, Iceland, May 25-29, 2010.