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Art or Not? - An Analysis of Sport Using Automata TheoryAuthor: SRAVYA GURRAM Date: 2022-03-12 Report no: IIIT/TH/2022/16 Advisor:Aniket Alam AbstractThis thesis revolves around a rather simple question - Is Sport Art or Not? We discuss some of the scholarly works that debate around this question before we charter our own course of answering this question. We engage with this discourse by keeping Sport at the centre of our analysis. We discuss the Idea of Sport and the concepts that are central to it before analysing the structure of Sport.To analyse the Idea of Sport, we study the historical transformation of Play and how it degraded to be something else. We also analyse social structures that replicate the structure of a Game to further understand the position of Sport relative to Play and Game. For analysing the structure, we selected the following sports - Track, Hurdles, Shot Put, Long Jump, Bowling, Weightlifting, Pacman, Badminton. These sports were selected as they display a serial logic in how their events are arranged. We construct the graphical representation of these sports by listing out the events and the rules that render the events their serial causality.We propose a method of construction grammars for serializable sports and provide a prototype of a classification of sports based on the grammar generated. Based on our observations of the above mentioned exercise, we arrive at a conclusion that Play leads to Art and that Sport is not Art. Full thesis: pdf Centre for Exact Humanities |
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