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Person-environment relationships: influences beyond acoustics in musical performance
Get PDFThe environment in which a musical performance takes place is highly influential over a musician’s playing and performance and over their experience while doing so. Existing research within music performance studies tends to focus on the effects of the acoustic characteristics within an environment on a musician’s playing. This chapter aims to reveal how person-environment relationships can be influential in the context of a musical performance, focusing on themes of behaviour-settings, socio-cultural significance, and personal meaning. Environmental psychology is a discipline concerned with the study of the interactions between humans and their surroundings; how behaviour-settings, social instruction, and place attachment affect the ways we perceive and experience our built environment. The chapter discusses themes of behaviour-settings, social and cultural significance, and personal meaning. A local musician is likely to be familiar with the cultural significance of an environment, whereas a visiting musician may approach it with an outsider’s perspective
Review: Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment / Cemre Yeşil Gönenli
No full textThis review highlights the reframing of a historically important anti-imperialist archive as a piece of creative practice
Review: FORMAT21: Control / International Photography Festival
No full textReview of one of the leading UK photography festivals
Using synthetic data for person tracking under adverse weather conditions
Get PDFRobust visual tracking plays a vital role in many areas such as autonomous cars, surveillance and robotics. Recent trackers were shown to achieve adequate results under normal tracking scenarios with clear weather conditions, standard camera setups and lighting conditions. Yet, the performance of these trackers, whether they are correlation filter-based or learning-based, degrade under adverse weather conditions. The lack of videos with such weather conditions, in the available visual object tracking datasets, is the prime issue behind the low performance of the learning-based tracking algorithms. In this work, we provide a new person-tracking dataset of real-world sequences (PTAW172Real) captured under foggy, rainy and snowy weather conditions to assess the performance of the current trackers. We also introduce a novel person-tracking dataset of synthetic sequences(PTAW217Synth) procedurally generated by our NOVA framework spanning the same weather conditions in varying severity to mitigate the problem of data scarcity. Our experimental results demonstrate that the performances of the state-of-the-art deep trackers under adverse weather conditions can be boosted when the available real training sequences are complemented with our synthetically generated dataset during training
Registered Design for Training 'Dummy Calf' Device, working title 'Moo-Moo Lasso.
No full textDesign rights granted for a plywood flat-packed training 'Dummy Calf' device for lasso/lariat/roping practice for throwing a lasso/lariat rope around the head/horns (known as 'heading') and also the ankles of the hind legs (known as 'heeling')
Provoking practice: visualising histories
No full textThis presentation shares a visual abstract of a practice as research project, drawn from a longer film Women of Walsall, made in collaboration with Walsall for All whilst on residency in Walsall as an Arts Council/the Heritage Lottery Funded Living Memory Bursary Artist 2019-20, then exhibited in 2020 and 2021. The mission statement for Walsall for All is to create integrated empowered inclusive communities. For this presentation I will contextualise this participatory project. I will share my motivation and aims, narrate the process/challenges - successes - and then show a short film clip that draws from the large body of work
Tales from the crypt: applying Jungian concepts to grief narratives in film
Get PDFIn its simplest form, this thesis is about cinematic representations of grief. However, it approaches and expands this subject area using a hybrid of psychoanalytic and Jungian concepts focusing on a specific type of grief: the aftermath of a traumatic bereavement. I use films and their narratives as case studies where I outline protagonists’ crypts using Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s theory of the intrapsychic tomb. The way out of this trapped state is then investigated using the psychological framework of Carl Gustav Jung, which suggests that the psyche aims for an equilibrium, meaning a state of relief.
After acknowledging the legacy of psychoanalytically fuelled film theory which grew with the works of Lacan, Metz, Baudry, Mulvey, and Miller, and explaining the reasons why I follow in the footsteps of Braswell, Fox, and Edwards, the investigation then pairs clinical theory with Jungian concepts and analyses seven films which not only depict traumatised states but also portray different paths out of these states. First, I use grief theory to explore the psychological problem, as my anchoring topic is traumatic loss. Second, I apply specific Jungian concepts such as shadow, symbols, archetypes, enantiodromia, amplification, and dreams to expand, explain, and illuminate particular narratives with their connections to these losses. By doing so, this thesis provides a combination of replicatory and incremental contribution to knowledge. Through using films as case studies, these new and creative applications of several Jungian concepts to cinematic narratives contribute to grief theory, film studies, psychoanalysis, and Jungian studies in a multi-layered, interconnected, and transdisciplinary way
Key findings, key outstanding questions and recommendations on China green design products and green products, and China energy label products
Get PDFA report on recommendations for future policy development related to Green Design Products, Green Product policy and Energy Label product policy in China completed as part of EC-China eco-design and standards cooperation project
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