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Fashion’s unhealed wounds: is reparative justice possible?
No full textPaper presented at the launch of the LCF Transnational Fashion Network:
Informed by Achille Mbembe’s reclaiming of decolonisation as a project of “deborderisation” grounded in the “imperative to reconstruct the world in common”, we will explore how fashion, creative practice, and critical pedagogy can contribute to the disenclosure of the planet and the reconstitution of humanity. Our aim is to bridge the gap between studies of decolonisation of fashion, creative practice, and critical pedagogy on the one hand, and critiques of fashion's systemic, transnational inequalities on the other.
Led by Serkan Delice and Anne Reimers, the LCF Transnational Fashion Network is the world’s first research body dedicated to investigating how fashion—as discourse, material object, performance, and visual and cultural economy—is produced, disseminated, and practiced across national borders, both historically and now.
Established in 2017 by the late Djurdja Bartlett, this network provides a platform for researchers and practitioners interested in investigating the movement and intersections of people, ideas, commodities, labour, capital, and culture within the circuits of production, representation, consumption, and subject formation. It welcomes both text- and practice-based researchers across LCF and UAL, as well as collaborators and practitioners working outside the university framework
Polymerized Flow Snag 1 (radio play version)
No full textPolymerized Flow Snag is a dialogue between a meteorite and a fatberg, set in a sewer under Aldgate, East London. The two voices merge to become one voice as the discarded meteorite fragment becomes part of the agglutination of underground waste.
This version is broadcast as a radio play, recorded, then dropped into the drain to become part of the fatberg itself
Hermit
No full textA sensorial journey across the city leads to enchanted encounters with vibrant matter
(Re)imagining Maria, (Re)writing Angola’s Revolutionary (His)tories: Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga as Afro-Feminist Film Adaptation, or ‘Rebellious Rewriting,’ of The Real Life of Domingos Xavier
Get PDFThis article analyses the ways in which Sarah Maldoror’s film Sambizanga (1972) adapts Jose Luandinho Vieira’s novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier (1971), shifting the original text’s emphasis away from a communal painting of political struggle against the Portuguese administration. Vieira choses to marginalise the character Maria, using her as a vehicle by which to mourn and consequently glorify the matyrdom of her dissident husband, whereas Maldoror focuses on Maria’s individuality by making the widow her film’s protagonist. I use Obioma Nnaemeka’s ‘nego-feminism’ theory (2004) to “negotiate” a variety of ideas surrounding feminism and adaptation that characterise Sambizanga’s sophisticated themes and style (Weathers 1969, Bartlett 2004, Dovey 2009, Tcheuyap 2015). Maldoror’s pioneering Afrocentric feminist style of film adaptation is thus articulated as ‘proto-nego-feminist,’ or, in other words, a ‘rebellious rewriting’ of Angola’s revolutionary (his)tories
An advanced diagnostic ColoRectalCADx utilises CNN and unsupervised visual explanations to discover malignancies
Get PDFColorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most lethal kinds of cancer, so early detection is critical. Three datasets, namely CNN transfer learning with discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and support vector machines (SVMs), were used to find CRC. In these instances, a quick and precise visual diagnosis of polyps is needed in the current scenario. The proposed process involves four distinct phases. First and foremost, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are developed to test the efficacy of the model. Further, a transfer learning approach was incorporated using SVM and LSTM. Using the K-means technique, a visual explanation is finally presented. This system works with the balanced Hyper Kvasir and mixed datasets, which are made up of CVC Clinic DB, Kvasir2, and Hyper Kvasir. The system is called "ColoRectalCADx". The convolutional neural network (CNN) models are ResNet-50V2, DenseNet-201, VGG-16, and RDV-22. The system achieved the highest accuracy with CNN DesnseNet-201 in Hyper Kvasir (98.92% training, 98.91% testing, 93.62% SVM training, and 95.87% SVM tests). CNN DenseNet-201 also achieved the highest accuracy with the mixed dataset (98.91% training, 96.13% testing, 95.41% SVM training, and 94.86% SVM testing). The process involved three phases, namely individual CNN, combination of CNN with SVM, and combination of CNN, LSTM, and SVM. After three phases of the system, across both datasets, the CNN + SVM + LSTM combination was proven to be the most effective. Finally, the unsupervised K-means learning algorithm extracts the location of any cancerous polyps and upon classification using SVM classifier resulted with an accuracy of 80%. The K-means algorithm, which uses segmented images as input, accurately predicts the sites of tumours in colorectal cancer patients
Sabotaging Piano Concert
Get PDFIn this concert we explored the edge between composition and improvisation. We invited a pianist to perform a half-improvised, half-composed piece written by Teodoro Dannemann, a piece specifically written for the Sabotaging Piano and premiered at the International Conference of New Musical Expression (NIME) 2023 at Mexico City. The Sabotaging Piano is an electronic prepared piano that challenges performers through the remapping of keys to unexpected pitches. For every new performance, a new remapping pattern is given, so performers face a continuously surprising new element. The performer is provided with an expression pedal (a “sabotaging pedal”) to modulate the amount of keys that will we remapped, going from none to all of them
A Day in the Life: What the Learning Developer Does
No full textHow we enact our identities as Learning Development (LD) practitioners is complex and dynamic, rooted in and developed by our values and daily practices.
In this chapter we present a day in the life of Learning Developers, exploring the diverse nature of LD practice through case studies. Drawing on the student voice offers an authentic appraisal of the LD interventions discussed, facilitating an iterative process between subject lecturers, students, and LDers.
The focus is on how we respond to varying needs utilising a range of research-informed approaches and strategies. We consider assignment support, workshops, the integrating of academic practices (reading/writing) in the curriculum, and contributing to and enacting university-wide initiatives
Dreams and thresholds: The violence of doors that never close in Magritte, Kafka and Buñuel
Get PDFIn this chapter, I examine representations of the threshold in René Magritte’s series of door paintings (1933–62), Franz Kafka’s parable ‘Before the Law’ (1905) and Luis Buñuel’s film The Exterminating Angel (1962). With reference to the Surrealist approach to the dream as a means of subverting ‘normality’, I explore the allegorical engagement of these figures with the notion of the threshold, which signals the violence of normative power in contemporary society. Both Magritte and Kafka’s doors are open, free to pass, yet strangely encapsulate a sense of inaccessibility, which is more blatantly expressed in Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel – a story about people trapped in an unlocked house. I will discuss whether these nightmarish representations of open yet inaccessible doors can be understood as a criticism of normative violence, as articulated in Giorgio Agamben’s (1999) and Jacques Derrida’s (1992) interpretations of Kafka’s ‘Before the Law’. Both Agamben and Derrida argue that the law fundamentally belongs to the literary space of narration, revolving around ambiguous relations between reality and story, anomy and nomos. At the origin of the law, for them, is the fictionality that makes possible the normalisation of life by narrating the universal out of the singular. Surrealist quests for the dream implicate this literary space in which the ‘natural’ sense of reality is generated by ideologically manipulated standards of normality. In their quests, the dream appears as a liminal space where the conscious and the unconscious, fact and fiction, the personal and the social, collide, exposing the insidious hold of various clichés, canons and norms on our imaginaries. I demonstrate how the conceptualisation of the threshold by Magritte, Kafka and Buñuel illuminates the literary space of the law/norm that is fictitious yet actual in legitimising reality, challenging the normalised perception of reality through a subversive use of the dream and dreamlike imagery
The Cybernetisation of the Exhibition. From Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) to lumbung (2022)
Get PDFThis paper will examine what I have called the 'cybernetisation of the exhibition’, namely the process through which the exhibition came to be conceived as an informational and communicational medium. Focusing on the seminal exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity curated by Jasia Reichardt at the ICA in London in 1968, I will reconstruct and situate the event within a critical historical trajectory shaped by institutional and informational infrastructures, characteristic of cybernetisation, which one could see as an agent and symptom of ‘system shifts’ around the 1970s. Firstly, I will retrace how cybernetic formulations – which redefine all entities, living and non-living, as information processing systems according to dynamics of regulation and feedback – informed the artworks and ‘cybernetic artefacts’ on display, paying particular attention to cyberneticist Gordon Pask’s environment the Colloquy of Mobiles. Secondly, the exhibition as a whole will be discussed against the backdrop of its host institution, the ICA, which to some extent offered a case of a cyberneticised gallery and institution characteristic of the new European post-war social, political and technological formation. Finally, I wish to expand and open up this analysis to recent examples of cyberneticised exhibition-making by discussing documenta15 and the concept of lumbung in relation to ‘second order cybernetics’
Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion
Get PDFA digital book that presents the research and resources created from the QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project - Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion with UAL, Glasgow School of Art and Leeds Arts University