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The “Spectacular” Male Body: A Photo Essay
Get PDFThe ‘Spectacular’ Male Body is a photo essay that considers and interpenetrates the themes of maleness and performance in ‘public’ and ‘private’ spaces. The photographs of this essay contemplate the fantasies and aspirations in the staging
of manliness: as a manifestation of the materiality of the male body, and the production of desire through the observation of this body in performance
Personal clothing style and self-concept: Embracing the true, the ideal and the creative self
No full textResearch shows that clothing style can influence self-perception, cognition and behaviour. However, the concept of personal clothing style and how it is linked to self-concept from an individual and subjective perspective of the wearer has received limited empirical attention. This qualitative study aimed to explore women’s lived experiences and perceptions of personal clothing style. Using a homogeneous sample of seven female participants, data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis revealed that personal clothing style constitutes an embodiment of the true self, representation of the ideal self and expression of the creative self. More specifically, personal clothing style is predicated on self-knowledge, consistency and enduring sense of comfort. It is also perceived to actualize desired self-conceptions and one’s creative potential. Findings not only provide an empirically founded conceptualization of personal clothing style, but also identify its important psychological properties with implications for both psychology and fashion research
Feux d'artifice/Burnout
No full textFeux d'artifice/Burnout at Lafayette Anticipations presents a series of new paintings, films and sound works by artists and musicians. Collaboration is an important aspect of Blightman's practice, as she juxtaposes her work with that of others, creating different perspectives.
The artist sees her new paintings as a 'performance', as well as a set for a real-time film
Explainable AI for the Arts
Get PDFThe Arts offer a complex and demanding domain in which to undertake AI and Explainable AI (XAI) research with substantially lower life-critical risks than domains such as health, mental health, medicine, and automotive contexts. However, despite the growth in XAI research there is very little research on XAI for the Arts (XAIxArts) with most XAI research examining task-oriented explanations of AI decisions. This paper outlines a framework for characterising XAI for the Arts and illustrates its use by reviewing 87 AI music generation systems in terms of their explainability. A demo XAI generative music system is introduced which offers meaningful real-time interaction with latent spaces for music generation. The paper concludes by reflecting on the conundrum of how much explanation we should strive for in XAI for the Arts
Supervising PhDs in the arts in an age of ‘global challenges’: a question of permissions
Get PDFThis short essay raises the issue of how we should supervise PhDs in the arts in the era of ‘global challenges’, suggesting that the question of ‘integration’ and the intersection of environmental and racial justice that ‘Earth and Equity’ offers points to the question of a ‘permission to research’, in which global challenges can be addressed by a focus on who has permission to engage in practice-based research in the arts and under what conditions
Materializing Site
Get PDFThe Serbian uprising in ‘96/’97 was an attempt to overthrow dictatorship of president Milosevic after he annulled elections because of the victory of the opposition party. Ashamed by the unsuccessful outcome of their protest, the people of the capital Belgrade, where protesters reached 200,000 daily, have never produced an archive of photos, banners and graffiti, which emerged during these demonstrations. Scarce information on the Internet and inability of the media to reveal the data gathered during the protest has left the public without full account of the uprising. My project is that archive - a website of images, leaflets, badges, flags, vouchers, cartoons, crochets, poems etc, an online record of elucidated protest available to participants, scholars and the public. It is a pedagogical tool and a scene from which to interrogate archival discipline and question the success of any storage as a platform to capture the past
Designing Robotic Movement with Personality
Get PDFAs robots are starting to inhabit more intimate social spheres, their functionality and acceptance in a fundamentally social environment greatly depend on them being tolerated by humans. One factor contributing to successfully accomplishing tasks in a collaborative manner is how robots’ actions and motions are interpreted by the people around them. Our broader research seeks to explore this gap aiming to design movement that is expressive, culturally dependent and contextually sensitive. A country that is at the forefront of this, in terms of social robots and their acceptance in society, is Japan. Therefore, as the first phases of this broader research, we present a new process, including a design toolkit, an open brief and a participatory structure. We discuss the resulting robot morphologies and participant feedback from a workshop in Japan, and conclude by discussing limitations and further research in designing robots with expressive movement, contextually sensitive within an HRI-for-all paradigm
Writing an Article as if Writing a Piece of Software
Get PDFFollowing a process of open exchanges and a three-day research workshop in London, at London South Bank University and King’s College, London, this publication brings together researchers who address the problems of technological scale, thinking through the potentials of 'the minor'; or what we are referring to as minor (or minority) tech – small tech that operates at human scale (more peer to peer than server-client) and stutters in its expression and application. As Marloes de Valk puts it in the Damaged Earth Catalog: “Small technology, smallnet and smolnet are associated with communities using alternative network infrastructures, delinking from the commercial Internet.” As such, the publication sets out to question the universal ideals of technology and its problems of scale, extending it to follow the three main characteristics identified in Deleuze and Guattari's essay (Toward a Minor Literature), namely deterritorialization, political immediacy, and collective value
Poor poor School
No full textPoor poor school is run by artists and writers Dean Kenning & Owen Parry. It is an inflatable school. A diagram of a possible school. A school within a school. A 3d model of a school hollowed out of cheap polystyrene. Dean is curator of the forthcoming Poor Things exhibition along with Emma Hart – a show at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh exploring sculpture and social class, which asks questions about aesthetic composition, taste and availabilism. Owen runs a ‘PooR Theory’ seminar at Central Saint Martins and makes things up. He says ‘despite its name, PooR theory is not necessarily a “bad theory” or a “low theory”, although it can and often does challenge or undermine hierarchies of value and taste. Instead, PooR theory forms and spreads through experimental, open-ended, idiosyncratic, and sometimes super-natural processes – it is a theory in search of a theory – a language in search of a form and can thus be particularly generative for art practice.
Reality, Reciprocity, Resilience: Scoping a Decolonised Process of Designing for Cultural Sustainability with Refugee Communities
Get PDFWith the mass displacement of people on the rise, it is clear that we need to rethink and address the diverse needs and aspirations of refugee communities and find ways to honour their diverse cultures. Until now, the textile heritage of minorities has often been the object of cultural appropriation practices undertaken by fashion brands or has been systematically undervalued as ‘non-fashion’ produced by ‘the other’. As things stand, designers are often ‘parachuted’ into marginalised communities with the assumption that they can bring their knowledge and expertise to solve their problems. However, there is growing recognition of the need to ‘decolonise’ such dominant approaches. With this in mind, the Reality, Reciprocity, Resilience project aimed to investigate and value the lived experiences of refugees in relation to the themes of cultural sustainability and community resilience, to inform the future development of a framework for decolonised fashion design practice. To meet this objective, participatory practice research was undertaken with London-based refugees and asylum seekers. Following ethnographic research, the project team facilitated storytelling sessions and co-creation workshops that led to understanding the lived reality of refugees, mapping out ways to build resilience within the local community and collectively framing a vision for a sustainable future. As a result, the project contributed to amplifying the refugees’ voice and agency, re-examining research methods and advancing a cultural sustainability agenda within a fashion and textile industry context