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Review of: The pursuit of pleasurable work: craftwork in twenty-first century England by Trevor H. J. Marchand (2021)
Get PDFBook review of: The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England, Trevor H. J. Marchand (2021)
Diagramming: the space of a painting, the space of a room
Get PDF‘Diagramming: the space of a painting, the space of a room’ at The Foundry Gallery, London was a research lead solo show.
Working with an expanded model of painting that is active within its spatial setting while still pictorially conditioned, the works installed at The Foundry Gallery adapted and responded to the room dimensions and architectural details of the gallery space.
The use of the term diagram can evoke a demonstration of possibilities, functions, and relations but it can also indicate a reductive or limiting schema. Here it is imagined as both a substrate and an overlay for painting and room, imaginatively depictive and at the same time conceptually abstracted, prompting a set of actions or interactions, while also picturing them. The room is imagined as a framework for inhabited space and for interior reflection, capturing painting’s associative and visualising capacities. Transactions between the visual and the tactile, interplays between the imagined and the actualised, and the moving components of works and visitors are put in play. A provisional and discursive state for painting is proposed through loops of potential interactions. Preoccupations with paint application, building colour and catching surface incident and the layered residues of processing participate in this invitation to the gallery visitor
The Office for Field Forensics: Folkestone
Get PDFLed by academic and creative practitioner Daniel Tollady, The Office for Field Forensics (O.F.F.) is a fictional investigative agency dedicated to the study of the urban, social and environmental conditions that define a particular place. An agency dedicated to gathering and sharing community narratives and site-specific data, working collaboratively with local representatives to understand and share the present- day experience of the place that they live.
Working with students from East Kent College, St Peter’s C of E Primary School and the University for the Creative Arts, O.F.F. has formed a new investigative team to identify and study some of the things that make Folkestone, Folkestone - the buildings, the streets, the parks, the people, the fisherman, the art, the gulls... Together, they built a body of creative research that was archived and presented in the form of models, drawings and a publication, representing just a glimpse into the make-up of a town in development.
Collaborating with the team was local organisation Urban Room Folkestone. Since 2017, the Urban Room has become a space for people to explore and debate the past, present and future of the town where they live, work and play, fostering meaningful connections between people and place using creative methods of engagement.
Through a number of planned activities, O.F.F. has aimed to introduce a set of design methodologies and techniques that empower participants to feel more engaged with the town that they live, to encourage them to develop informed ideas and opinions and share them with others
Banking research in the GCC region and agenda for future research - a bibliometric examination
Get PDFPurpose - This paper provides a comprehensive review of the influential and intellectual aspects of the literature on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region's banking activities.
Design/methodology/approach – This study undertakes a bibliometric meta-analysis review of the GCC region banking literature, covering 199 articles published between 2004 and 2022, extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database, followed by a content analysis of highly cited papers.
Findings - This paper identifies the influential aspects of GCC region banking literature in terms of journals, articles, authors, universities, and countries. The paper also identifies and discusses five major research clusters: i) bank efficiency, ii) corporate governance and disclosure, iii) performance and risk-taking, iv) systemic risk, bank stability and risk spillovers, and v) intellectual capital. Finally, it identifies gaps in the literature and highlights some important research issues that provide directions for future research.
Originality - To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review paper on GCC region banking literature. This study provides the regulators, practitioners and academics with valuable insight and an in-depth understanding of the banking system of the GCC region
Communities
No full textA review of six exhibitions celebrating different approaches to documenting communities at the Centre of British Photography. Oct-Dec 23
The Routledge handbook of contemporary art in global Asia
No full textAn extensive, comprehensive edited anthology, with main and section introductions, along with an essay written by Jonathan Harris, the author of all these introductions and main editor of the book as a whole.
This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past 20 years of the epoch of globalization.
The term 'global Asia' signals the genesis and evolution of contemporary art within the context of global economic, social, political, and intellectual change related to the end of the Cold War, decolonization, the emergence of postcolonial societies and cultures, and the rise of a global contemporary art world. In the handbook its editors establish, in an extended introductory section and in four section introductions, the theoretical, geographical, and historical parameters within which the contemporary visual arts of ‘global Asia’ may be described, analyzed, and evaluated. The collected chapters provide a diverse, multiauthored, heterogeneous, and genuinely plural account of art and its contexts. The democratic and inclusive character of globalization is reflected and produced within this anthology, which includes different styles of writing as well as varieties of analytic and thematic focus.
The anthology will appeal to both scholars and students in art history, art practice, curation, contemporary art, fine art, cultural studies, and globalization studies
Sitting for Susanne
Get PDFEssay in book by Susanne du Toit: Painting Women Writers, 2023.
Contributors: Jeanette Winterson; Sacha Llewellyn; Alice Strickland; Ami Bouhassane; Ayisha Malik; Clover Stroud; Dolly Alderton; Diana Evans; Dreda Say Mitchell; Juliet Jacques; Lara Fiegel; Lucy Howarth; Pascale Petit; Susie Hodge
A non-regularization self-supervised Retinex approach to low-light image enhancement with parameterized illumination estimation
No full textIn current Retinex-based low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods, fine-tuning regularization parameters for Retinex decomposition and illumination estimation can be cumbersome. To address this, we present a novel non-regularization self-supervised Retinex approach for illumination estimation. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce a self-supervised method that incorporates edge-aware smoothness properties in bilateral learning, eliminating the need for regularization terms and simplifying parameter adjustments. Second, to enforce smoothness constraints on the estimated bilateral grid, we propose a bilateral grid parameterization network. This network employs a generative encoder to parameterize the bilateral grid of illumination and a trainable slicing layer guided by a map, reconstructing the grid into an illumination map. Despite the absence of regularization terms, our model excels in generating piece-wise smooth illumination, resulting in enhanced naturalness and improved contrast in images. Our model offers exceptional flexibility by eliminating the need for additional regularization terms and parameter fine-tuning. Moreover, it does not depend on external datasets for training, overcoming dataset collection challenges. Extensive experiments, comparing our model with eight state-of-the-art methods across five public available datasets, unequivocally demonstrate our model’s state-of-the-art performance based on key metrics such as NIQE, NIQMC, and CPCQI. These results reaffirm the effectiveness of our approach in low-light image enhancement. Code will be available at:
https://github.com/zhaozunjin/NeurB
A review of cricket gear manufacturers & suppliers
Get PDFThe report provides a review of leather alternatives and initial results of materials testing. Vegan Leather Cricket Gear (VLCG) project is funded by UKRI via University for the Creative Arts, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Picturing national history: Turkey’s popular nationalism on the rise through the 1950s new print culture
Get PDFThis article interrogates the role of print culture and visual communication design in the permeation of Turkish national consciousness into everyday practices. It seeks to understand the phenomenon of “banal nationalism” argued by Michael Billig, in a broader context of cultural production advocated by Tim Edensor. It does this by looking into Turkey’s first liberalisation period in the 1950s where a boosting print industry, a standard print language and high literacy contributed to the daily reproduction of a collective historical past through representations. This period is analysed through publications like Sunday comic strips, advertorial giveaways, illustrated history journals that emulate popular American formats in the commodification of history. These are treated as material tools to present and disseminate an imaginary reconciliation of secular modernism with imperial history in a new print culture. This analysis reveals how representations in the foreground of everyday cultural artefacts are used to produce and reproduce difference that designates a distinct national consciousness detached from the realm of state. It also sheds light on the prevalence of identity negotiation and the commoditisation of culture in the professionalisation of visual communication disciplines in non-Western design paradigms
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