collective behaviour; communication through movement; Dance improvisation; explore–exploit decision-making; pitchfork bifurcation; replicator-mutator and co-evolutionary dynamics; Co-evolutionary; Collective behaviour; Communication through movement; Pitch-fork bifurcations; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); History and Philosophy of Science; Physics - Physics and Society; cs.SY; Mathematics - Dynamical Systems
Abstract :
[en] We studied social decision-making in the rule-based improvisational dance There Might Be Others, where dancers make in-the-moment compositional choices. Rehearsals provided a natural test-bed with communication restricted to non-verbal cues. We observed a key artistic explore–exploit tension in which the dancers switched between exploitation of existing artistic opportunities and riskier exploration of new ones. We investigated how the rules influenced the dynamics using rehearsals together with a model generalized from evolutionary dynamics. We tuned the rules to heighten the tension and modelled nonlinear fitness and feedback dynamics for mutation rate to capture the observed temporal phasing of the dancers' exploration-versus-exploitation. Using bifurcation analysis, we identified key controls of the tension and showed how they could shape the decision-making dynamics of the model much like turning a ‘dial’ in the instructions to the dancers could shape the dance. The investigation became an integral part of the development of the dance.
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Özcimder, Kayhan; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Dey, Biswadip; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Franci, Alessio ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'électricité, électronique et informatique (Institut Montefiore) > Brain-Inspired Computing ; Department of Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Lazier, Rebecca; Program in Dance, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Trueman, Daniel; Department of Music, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Leonard, Naomi Ehrich ; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Language :
English
Title :
Social decision-making driven by artistic explore–exploit tension
Office of the Dean for Research at Princeton University UNAM - National Autonomous University of Mexico
Funding text :
This research was supported in part by a grant for Artists and Scientists or Engineers from the Office of the Dean for Research at Princeton University.Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddler, and electronic musician. Dan’s collaborators include: So Percussion, fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, guitarist Monica Mugan, the JACK Quartet, singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, bitKlavierist Adam Sliwinski, choreographer Rebecca Lazier, scientist Naomi Leonard, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, and others. His work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the Bessies, the Fulbright Commission, the American Composers Forum, the American Council of Learned Societies, Meet the Composer, among others. He is Professor of Music and Director of the Princeton Sound Kitchen at Princeton University, where he teaches counterpoint, electronic music, and composition.
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