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Exploring the Dichotomy of Musical Creation Between Soulless AI and Human Essence
Get PDFThe creation of music, often considered an art form intimately tied to human emotion and soul, has ventured into new realms through the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). This performance seeks to investigate the fundamental disparities in the creation and interaction with music between soulless AI and the essence of humanity
How can we be inclusive of diverse cultural perspectives in international higher education? exploring interculturality
Get PDFAs the flow of international students to UK Higher Education continues to grow and becomes ever more diverse, Higher Education institutions and Business Schools seek to engage more with students’ cultural differences and prior educational experiences in order to create an inclusive and level playing field for academic achievement. For this to happen, institutions and their employees require a greater understanding of the challenges that international students face, both as academic learners and as sojourners in a, sometimes, substantially different cultural context. On the one hand, this involves an appreciation of what is entailed in the process of cross-cultural adjustment and what kind of practical support can be provided for students engaged in exploring and thriving in a new way of life that may be different to their own. Likewise, greater awareness of how to build interculturality and level out the playing field when it comes to ways of learning and approaching academic tasks that may be new and challenging for them is of paramount importance. This article explores how Higher Education institutions can help to build a more welcoming and inclusive environment and exerience for a growing and increasingly diverse body of international students and enable them to succeed and excel on a level that would demonstrate genuine equity in academic opportunity and achievement
Product sustainability framework: a qualitative scenario based analysis to assess the feasibility of replacing the bovine leather palm in cricket batting gloves with a plant based vegan leather
Get PDFThe report provides the findings of a comparative analysis of product sustainability of cricket batting gloves using vegan and bovine leathers. Vegan Leather Cricket Gear (VLCG) project is funded by UKRI via University for the Creative Arts, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation cric-kit reuse report
Get PDFThis report provides a case study on the Cric-Kit programme developed by Yorkshire Cricket Foundation. The research was funded by Research England Strategic Priorities Fund
A Chorus of Colour
No full textA group exhibition by Milieu Studios, 6 November 2023 - 5 January 2024
Post-terrona. A drawing project about an imaginative reconfiguration of the southern Italian woman
No full textTerrone is a pejorative term used by northern Italians to address and describe southern Italians. The English words “hick”, “hayseed”, or “redneck” function as rough translations. Yet these words do not capture the specificity of terrone, its unique connection to geography—the south of Italy and the Mediterranean Sea. Rooted in the world “terra”, which means ground, terrone suggests the action of working the land by a poor and uneducated person. The reference to the ground is also connected with the color brown as a way to address the fact that people from the south of Italy have darker skin than people from the north.
The term “terrona”, the female form of “terrone”, refers to the southern Italian woman. My drawings represent the southern Italian woman according to how she has been traditionally represented—even caricatured—in a variety of media as loud, uneducated, impulsive, possessive, maternal, buxom, and attractive. By adopting a simple and minimalist drawing style I isolate, appropriate, and focus on these features of the terrona in order to shift the dialogue. With these drawings, my goal is to transform the meaning that traditional culture assigned to her. I do this by adopting a reductive drawing style to challenge the conventional representations of the terrona’s body where I emphasize the use of ink and line to allow the terrona’s gesture, pose, and facial expression to become primary
Making quantum questions material: 'soft' textile thinking for the 'hard' questions arising from an investigation of light
Get PDFParadoxical 'hard' philosophical questions and themes that confound ordinary perception arise from the question "Space, time, material, are they one with light?" posed by László Moholy-Nagy in 1917. What new forms and understandings might be revealed through an art-based investigation into the nature of light by appropriating of optical laboratory apparatus as art materials? Artistic material research contributes to illuminating the nature and properties of quantum light and the philosophical themes that arise.
Investigating quantum light reveals hidden and immaterial aspects of both light and matter and exposes the indeterminate interfaces and intrinsic interconnectedness between things, thereby questioning many assumptions and perceptions about the world— dualisms, boundaries, certainty, constancy and wholeness. The appropriation and practical exploration of optical materials used as beam-splitters in the two-slit experiments (half-silvered mirrors, diffraction grating, prisms and dichroic film) visually and experientially contribute to understanding these entwined themes. The resulting playful, illusory artworks offer multiple visual encounters simultaneously, giving access to experiences of entwined dualities, quantum superposition and entanglements.
A methodology of combining applied textile thinking (a non-linear 'soft' logic) and art processes of thinking-through-making is employed to manage the 'hard' complexities under investigation. Textile thinking, with metaphors of folding, interlacing and weaving, braids together many thinkers and makers from the fields of quantum physics, philosophy, Eastern metaphysics and art, highlighting the correspondences between them and emphasising where they share common ground. David Bohm's quantum theories of the implicate/explicate orders are particularly compelling, inspiring an inclusive both/and approach and a focus beyond dualistic thinking towards wholeness.
Applying textile thinking to visualising difficult scientific ideas enables multiple elements to reside within the physicality of abstract, mixed-media artworks simultaneously. The experimental art-making processes that interrogate the apparatuses through material investigations that are experiments in perception and the artworks created not only represent but phenomenologically demonstrate the bizarre and elusive nature of the quantum world for others to experience, opening up a visual language of possibilities for novel non-linear, non-dualist thinking
Handbook of research on the relationship between autobiographical memory and photography
No full textAutobiographical memory and photography have been inextricably linked since the first photographs appeared during the 19th century. These links have often been described from each other's discipline in ways that often have led to misunderstandings about the complex relationships between them.
The Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography covers many aspects of the multiple relationships between autobiographical memory and photography such as the idea that memory and photography can be seen as forms of mental time and the effect photography has on autobiographical memory. Covering key topics such as identity, trauma, and remembrance, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, sociologists, psychologists, artists, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, educators, and students.
Authors include: Mahesh Bhat, Eszter Biró, Eleanor Dare, Annabel Dover, Gail Flockhart, Jennifer Good, Catarina Fontoura, Phil Hill, John Hillman, Carol Hudson, Ana Janeiro, Fotis Kangelaris, Elin Karlsson, Ksenija Krapivina, Wiebke Leister, Mireia Ludevid Llop, Jessie Martin, Rosy Martin, Judith Martinez Estrada, Caroline Molloy, Sarah Neely, Panayotis Papadimitropoulos, Nathalie Payne
Alex Pearl, Sophie Rickett, Richard T. Sawdon Smith, Paul Stephens, Sally Waterman
Generating social sustainability through placemaking: a study of everyday lived space in Basha Miao settlement
Get PDFThis paper explores the role of placemaking in the process of creating social sustainability, through the everyday practice of minority ethnic communities in traditional Miao settlements in Guizhou. Most settlements in Guizhou, the South-West mountainous region of China located in isolated or remote areas. With the implementation of the national policy by the Chinese authority, the built environment in this region has rapidly developed in recent decades. This transformation of spatial conditions in the local communities, as well as the effects of the tourism economy and modernisation, has profoundly challenged the traditional construction methods, living habits, practices, and social structure of local residents/communities. From the perspective of everyday life, resonating with key scholars such as Bruno Latour and Henri Lefebvre, this paper examines how social sustainability is generated through the relationships among local residents, their practices and the living environment. By mapping the practices, the sites and the social networks in the process of placemaking in traditional Miao settlements, the paper investigates different meta-dimensions of social sustainability such as social justice, social network, safety and social cohesion. This study aims to reveal how peoples’ everyday life practices (re)produce, (trans)form and (re)configure their public space in traditional Miao settlements
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