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Unearthing the Substrata of Images: Archives and Counter-Archives of Extraction in Iran
No full textUnearthing the Substrata of Images: Archives and Counter-Archives of Extraction in Iran is a research-creation project that engages with the history of photography and film practices of the British controlled oil operations in Iran. My doctoral project examines how photography and film became the two primary cultural tools of the oil company, shaping a totalizing logic of representation around resource extraction, constructing an image regime of oil that worked in tandem with the uneven techno-racial organization of labor production in Iran. This project investigates the media practices of the oil company and their consolidation and centralization into British Petroleum’s (BP) official archives in the present moment as a form of epistemic violence. In doing so, it posits the visual technologies of photography, film, and archives utilized by the BP as embodied technologies of eradication and dispossession that have long narrativized and represented the history of British extractive history and its colonial oil operations in Iran and broader Asia. In my doctoral thesis, I argue that the link between extractivism and technologies of vision is historical, material, and ideological. Once we look at the historical continuum and lounge durée of extractivism from a representational standpoint, visuality, authority, and the archive become inseparable from the political economy of oil. Moreover, this project seeks to examine the archival temporalities and evidentiary aesthetics enmeshed in the ethnographic photography and film practices of the early British colonial explorations of oil in Iran. In conjunction with my scholarly research, my doctoral research-creation project is also a practice-based exploration of these contested archival materials through the production of documentary essay films, photographic collages, and multimedia installations, offering a multidisciplinary approach to examine and reconstruct the visual history of oil and recover untold histories of colonial petromodernity in Iran
Voices Of Virtue: Teachers’ Reflections on Past Experiences of Addressing Harms Between Peers at School
Get PDFThis thesis explores teachers' perspectives and approaches to addressing peer harm incidents in educational settings through a qualitative analysis of their narratives. Employing thematic analysis of in-depth individual interviews and a focus group with eight teachers from a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, two overarching themes were identified: 1) Teachers’ philosophies: Reflecting on navigating tensions between different concerns while centering students’ needs, and 2) Teachers recognize that harms occur in complex social contexts thus requiring collaboration with the larger community. The first theme highlighted teachers' tensions between following protocols and adapting to individual circumstances when addressing peer harm. They prioritized proactive strategies, restorative approaches, and considered students' perspectives to support their development. The second theme revealed teachers' understanding that students' behavior is shaped by family dynamics and sociocultural factors such as socioeconomics and peer pressure, necessitating a holistic and contextualized approach to address peer harm and promote positive relationships. In this complex educational landscape, the virtue of prudence was identified as a valuable lens for understanding teachers' interventions. This approach offers both structure and flexibility, aligning well with the teachers’ student-centered philosophies. These findings provide deeper insights into the challenges of managing student conflicts and underscore the human element of the teaching profession
Constructing Inclusive Learning Spaces: Structures for Community in Adult Art Education Centers
Get PDFThis thesis follows three case studies of adult art education centres in the city of Montreal, Quebec, to examine how different types of centres utilize their structures, such as funding sources, material resources, staffing, location, and programming, to create accessible entrances to education in their different communities. The types of centres researched include a Makerspace, an Art Centre, and an Artist-Run centre, each with specific mandates and structures that inform and build their community audience
Performing the Archives or Performance Art in a Process, Continued: It's on Your Head, It's in Your Head in the Realm of Banff's Acoustic Ecologies
Get PDFConsidering its role in the development of Canada, its iconic landscapes and the extensive art production at the Banff Centre, Banff is a significant site of Canadian visual culture requiring further analysis. Technological innovations, grappled with by artists during the latter half of the twentieth century (Michael Century), featured in exhibitions, residencies and on-site DIY radio stations at the Banff Centre in the Eighties and Nineties, culminating in the exhibition, Radio Rethink (1992) at the Walter Phillips Gallery. This thesis challenges how art history incorporates, remembers and contends with ephemeral performance artworks involving live radio transmissions and public interventions. The analysis focuses on an interview between Daina Augaitis, the curator of Radio Rethink (1992), and participating artist, Colette Urban, as regards Urban’s multi-day, performance art walk, It’s on Your Head, It’s in Your Head (1992). Archives of Banff Centre exhibitions, such as, Between Views and Points of View (1991) and As Public As Race (1992), and performance artworks by Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Rebecca Belmore, Margo Kane, Camille Turner and Diana Burgoyne, contextualize Urban’s work within the milieu of art production at the Banff Centre and public performance art in Canada around the turn of the twentieth century. By attempting to intercept, collaborate and respond to the archival interview through site-writing (Jane Rendell) and an interdisciplinary methodology (Katherine McKittrick), this thesis enacts the archive to reconceptualize the way we write about ephemeral works in Canada, and the parameters of artistic and spatial agency in commercially constructed and federally implicated public spaces
Machine Learning-based Energy Aware Placement of Container over Virtual Machines
Get PDFThe advent of 5G and the imminent arrival of Beyond 5G (B5G) have significantly increased demands on service providers. This exponential growth poses a challenge for 5G networks, since clients are currently offloading data to edge cloud servers to meet the connectivity and latency requirements. These servers must continually scale to meet increasing demands for CPU, memory, and storage, leading to significant energy consumption. Data centers account for 1.5% of global energy consumption and produce equally high greenhouse gas emissions. This trend will grow unless we find ways to improve efficiency. Our work proposes a solution to these problems with an efficient placement algorithm backed by an accurate energy predictive model. This model helps by pre-emptively detecting the energy each machine will consume when future tasks are deployed. These predictive
capabilities help the placement and reduce overall energy consumption. Our model uses Performance Monitoring Counters and various sensors, such as heat and fan speed, commonly found on Data Center machines, to increase its feature space and accuracy. Our work
includes creating the model and integrating it with the energy-aware placement algorithm. Additionally, our method increased the performance and overall Quality of Service. Our results show that our machine learning model, particularly using XGBoost, can reduce energy consumption and improve task completion times in realistic scenarios. Our experiments, tested on real servers with realistic loads, achieved good results without using stresses like stress-ng that generate unrealistic loads. Our model achieved an R2 score of 91.2%, helping reduce energy consumption by 6% without changes to the cluster or the
need for consolidation
Situating Kerygma in the Spiritual Schemata of Northrop Frye
Get PDFNorthrop Frye’s exploration of kerygma, traditionally considered to be the Christian proclamation leading to salvation, is the linchpin of his study of biblical language. He situates kerygma within a range of interconnected theories beginning with a series of linguistic phases which determine our ability to achieve spiritual apotheosis. In this schema, kerygma is closest to poetic language and farthest from conceptual and descriptive expression which objectify the Divine and prevent authentic inter-subjective encounters. Ultimately, however, kerygma is argued to be from beyond the poetic since it has more spiritual potency than most secular literature which remains hypothetical. A true kerygmatic breakthrough engenders a cooperative creative vision involving the human and the Divine experienced in the human imagination. Frye considers such a breakthrough to be at least possible in non-sacred expression, exemplified by the work of Stéphane Mallarmé and Martin Buber. Frye’s schemata are typically worked out through his adaptation of the Hegelian Aufhebung. This is apparent in Frye’s modes of language and Phases of Revelation, where his typological perspective is also set out. The phases culminate with the Participating Apocalypse which ideally is the reader’s total and immediate apprehension of the entirety of biblical narrative and symbolism. The resulting elevation of consciousness is related to Frye’s concept of Interpenetration where all aspects of reality, including the Divine, are experienced simultaneously in a full flourishing of the Spirit. Frye’s theoria intersects tangentially several aspects of mainstream theology. His dialectical development of Dante’s adaptation of the four senses of Scripture informs his own views of polysemous meaning, and his rejection of Bultmann’s demythologization project is a stepping stone to his identification of myth as the foundation of all linguistic expression, including biblical texts. Frye also positions his theory of primary concerns in sympathetic contrast to Paul Tillich’s ultimate concern. Perhaps most significantly, he posits analogia visionis as a potential alternative to the orthodox analogia entis and analogia fidei. Here, as throughout, Frye’s views are profoundly influenced by the Romantic poet William Blake who rejects many aspects of traditional religious thought. In the end, Frye considers himself to be a pure critic unrestricted by the usual categories of theology and philosophy, and it is suggested that he should be read in that light
Ji zoongde’eyaang, To Have A Strong Heart; Artistic Practice and Language Transmission: A Path to Healing
Get PDF"Ji zoongde’eyaang – To Have A Strong Heart” is an Indigenous/Anishnaabe research creation project which illuminates an arts-based process. This thesis explores a framework that embraces an inter-generational tradition of expressing embodied experiences—memories, losses, and reclamation between Anishnaabe artist Lara Kramer and her mother Ida Baptiste. The purpose of this research is to explore the ways in which the creative process facilitates embodied knowledge and contributes to a process of inter-generational healing. This exploration takes place in documenting the use of auto-ethnography, drawing from mother/daughter intergenerational stories and life experiences and the transmission of this knowledge through the Anishinaabemowin language and the creation of blankets as symbols of love, care, warmth and mothering. Furthermore, I describe the creative process of blanket making, working with the historical artifact of trade blankets, together with bias tape and tin jingles, and their connection to Anishinaabemowin history and language transmission. I examine the thread of “strong heartedness” that is woven through the process, and the blankets, in a spirit of relationality, cultural connection and survivance. Ultimately, this thesis provides a model of a holistic approach to healing, by fostering deeper cultural and love-based connections, centering the mother-daughter methodology through collaboration and knowledge sharing
Uncovering Blockchain Challenges: Technical Nuances and their Unforeseen Consequences
Get PDFIn this dissertation, we explore the technical nuances of blockchain technology, its diverse applications, and the unforeseen consequences that have emerged. Cryptojacking, initially seen as a potential disruptor to the convoluted online advertising industry, ultimately succumbed to its own success due to regulatory gaps and technical intricacies. The inherent transparency and permissionless nature of blockchain allow every participant to potentially exploit privileged information --adversarial environment--, leading to front-running attacks and extracting value from users. Additionally, oracles, vital for providing real-world data to decentralized applications, might change the trust assumptions based on their implementations, which necessitate a deeper understanding of their operational mechanisms. With the rise of cryptoassets as a significant financial sector, auditors face challenges in accurately evaluating and reporting these assets due to their novelty. This dissertation aims to bridge the gap between the ambitious promises of blockchain technology and its real-world implications, highlighting the technical nuances that often lead to misunderstandings. We argue that by narrowing the divide between traditional regulatory view and blockchain's technological advancements, both auditors and companies working with cryptoassets stand to gain from the enhanced transparency and the potential for real-time information reporting (e.g. financial statements) offered by this technology
Landscape as Method and Model: Developing Research-Creation in Community Through Landscape Painting and Pedagogy in Montréal’s Sud Ouest
Get PDFThis dissertation takes up landscape theory, community-engaged art education, and research-creation methodologies to ask how the creation of artworks can reveal insights into the social, political, and economic foundations of place, and how community artmaking can be used as inductive research to document experienced changes in place over time. This thesis conducts two concurrent projects that focused on Montréal’s Sud Ouest borough, the site of substantial re-development over the past 50 years. The first is a personal research-creation project using plein air landscape painting to theorize painting as fieldwork and research creation. The second was an eight-week community art class called Landscaping the City, which used community-based research creation methodology to conjoin participant artmaking with longform interviews. 17 participant-students engaged in a curriculum focused on the neighborhood’s past, present, and future, balancing skill building with conceptual concerns. To carry out these projects, I embedded in a small community art school and a grassroots anarchist development project which gave insight to how community members have self-organized to meet citizen needs. By thinking these projects together, this thesis theorizes how multimodal engagement with the built environment can help to democratize forms of engagement, make visible contradictory demands and desires for space, and foster civic interest and participation in processes of placemaking
Broadcasting in graphs containing intersecting cliques
Get PDFThis thesis is a study on the broadcasting problem in various graph topologies containing intersecting cliques. Broadcasting, is a fundamental message dissemination problem in interconnection networks, requiring an informed originator node to distribute information to all network nodes efficiently. Determination of the broadcast time of any node in an arbitrary network is known to be NP-hard. Polynomial time solutions are known only for a few network topologies. There also exist various heuristic and approximation algorithms for different network topologies. The work in this thesis addresses this challenge through the development and enhancement of algorithms tailored to specific graph structures such as windmill graphs, star of cliques, path-connected cliques, fully connected cliques, and block graphs.
Chapter 3 studies the broadcasting problem in windmill graphs and stars of cliques. A windmill graph is defined on vertices containing cliques of size , and a universal vertex. We present a constant time method introduced for determining the broadcast time of an arbitrary node in any windmill graph. We also introduce \textit{Star of Cliques}, a generalization of the Windmill graph composed of cliques with arbitrary sizes. We study the importance of unaddressed vertices in an optimal scheme for star of cliques and show the use of binary representations to track unaddressed vertices. We present an algorithm to find the broadcast time of any vertex in an arbitrary star of cliques and discuss the optimality of our algorithm.
Chapter 4 delves into broadcasting within families of block graphs, such as path-connected cliques and fully connected cliques. Every biconnected component in a block graph is a clique. We study broadcasting in block graphs with two cliques, present a constant time method to calculate the broadcast time for an arbitrary path-connected cliques graph, and discuss a method to determine the broadcast time for arbitrary fully connected cliques, where is the number of vertices in the central clique of the graph