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Exploration of textured hair characteristics following lipophilic active applications
Get PDFThis project explores leave-on product characteristics and hair tress testing methods of relevance to textured hair
How finance can start the journey to a circular business model
Get PDFA framework and tool offer a practical way to identify the financial and operational challenges and opportunities in moving to a sustainable or circular business model
Character Creation and Promotion in Social Media Era China
Get PDFThis research explores the creation and promotion of cartoon characters in China's social media era, focusing on grassroots creators who leverage digital platforms to participate in cultural production. Through a qualitative, case-study approach, the research examines four social media cartoon characters—Aoda Cat, Fan & Bao, Rumi, and Toby—using interviews with their creators and insights from experts in the field.
The study identifies the characteristics of social media as a context for character creation, highlighting the role of light content formats, iterative production processes, and audience interaction in shaping character image, personality, and engagement strategies. It also reveals the pivotal role of individual creators and their authentic expression in fostering relatable and impactful character designs. These findings are synthesised to generate an empirically grounded conceptual framework that illustrates and analyses the creation and promotion dynamics of cartoon characters in a platformed cultural production environment.
This research makes both theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, it enriches existing character-creation frameworks by incorporating insights from digital entrepreneurship and social media studies. Practically, it offers practical strategies for creators and industry practitioners to navigate the challenges of content creation in an algorithm-driven, fastevolving social media landscape. By situating these findings within the context of China’s digital ecosystem, this research provides a fresh perspective on character production and serves as a resource for creators and researchers seeking to understand and engage with the opportunities and complexities of social media character design
Interactive Movement-to-Audio with Pre-Trained Neural Networks
Get PDFSystems to interactively generate audio from human movement are used by artists including dancers to support their performances and practice. However, current real-time movement-to-sound systems require specialized hardware or expertise, or map only very simple movement-to-audio relationships. We present a new technique and system implementation for interactive sonification of human movement through unsupervised machine learning. Our system maps between latent spaces, linking a pose estimator to a neural audio generator to enable sonification of human bodies. This may lower barriers to entry for artists to generate sound from their embodied movement through complex mappings. Our system requires no specialized hardware or niche AI expertise, minimal data to learn a user’s custom movements, and trains extremely fast. It represents a new method for mapping custom data to a latent space through unsupervised learning, and advances state-of-the-art interactive movement sonification through its increased accessibility and ease of use relative to its complexity
Education Information in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: what can librarians do?
No full textThe incessant commodification of HE is pressuring the academic library’s role into flux. Librarians don’t know if they are to be managers, curators, counsellors, teachers, technicians, AI engineers, or sales assistants. When we were once disseminators of knowledge, librarians must now diversify their offer. Some of us got angry at this situation, and critical of the system. In reaction to the demands of commodification, ‘Critical Librarianship ‘evolved as a practice that strives to destabilize discourses and authoritarian pedagogies. This progressive movement, however, has become an ‘epistemological structure’ of the profession, an expression to drop into meetings. I have recently argued that the tenet of critical theory which critical librarianship adopted has become divorced from the praxis. The concepts of class, commodification, and economics, are no longer in the conversation, replaced by ‘social purpose’, as a more marketable slogan. By reflecting on the commodification of HE, and the origins of critical theory that arose out of the Frankfurt School, this brief presentation hopes to recover the class consciousness of critical theory. This is vital if we want to educate our students to critically reflect on the contradictions that exist within the system in which we all work. Just as the reproduction of an artwork becomes stripped of its essence we should be asking; how critical can we be? And yet we do have a privileged position; by working with our colleagues at all levels and students we can use our voice to highlight these contractions. In the spirit of 68, students', workers and librarians unite, we have only our fees to lose....
Conference by: CALC (Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference) are always looking for new ways to connect people to ideas around critical librarianship
Nam Hwayeon: “Choreography of Thought”
Get PDFWe are pleased to publish Adeena Mey’s contribution to Film Notes, in which he reflects on the moving image practice of the prominent Korean artist Nam Hwayeon through the notion of a “choreography of thought.” The text considers how Nam’s works navigate the complexities of archival memory, embodied knowledge, and the shifting geographies of inter-Korean and inter-Asian histories
The Whiteness of Echo: the always already colonial in archaeoacoustics
No full textIn this talk I will play and talk through sounds collected from my fieldwork observing the field of acoustic archaeology, or archaeoacoustics. I propose understanding the figure of echo as a material-semiotic figuration of sonic knowledge production, which analysis thereof can help us understand contemporary assumptions about sound and sonic matter. I aim to outline how the echo is shaped by coloniality, whiteness and cisheteropatriarchy and on the basis of its limitations, I seek to re-conceptualise echo as a feminist and decolonial sonic figuration.
ÆSR Public Lecture - The lecture is part of the ÆSR Lab – Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory. ÆSR Lab is a cooperation project of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Centre Focus Research) and the Artistic Research Center (ARC), the Institute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister:innen-Ausbildung (IKE) of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. ÆSR Lab is funded by the BMBWF and in co-operation with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the EU
Restorative Retail Experiences in UK Fashion Retail Servicescapes
No full textThe chapter explores restorative retail experiences within the context of fashion servicescapes within the UK, considering the growing opportunities appearing in the wellness and fashion retail’s experience economies. The study considers the effects of a variety of restorative experience forms on consumer well-being, uncovering the successful characteristics of such experiences, and exploring what influences them. It aims to elicit the future potential of implementing restorative customer experiences within physical fashion retail
Strengthening the student experience: Distilling the 3 Es
Get PDFThis case study offers initial evaluative insights on the co-creation of a new employability-led unit of study within a collegiate London-based university. University of the Arts London.A significant outcome has been bringing employability back into the spotlight, enabling a re-addressing of what practical skills students develop through their studies. This has been particularly useful to frame the scaffolding of learning, and where delivery happens (in course, through a central team or externally). As such, it has also helped foster a more collaborative approach between our academic staff and wider support services
