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Haere Mai to the highway, a talk about a new project in painting and some of its precedents and inspirations. Presented at Otago Polytechnic School of Art. March 2018
No full textRecently I’ve been working on paintings that make an exchange between historical events of the colonial period, constructed incidents and my own personal memory and imagination of the places I spent my youth in the Manawatu and Rangatikei and latterly in Waikato and Thames Valley. These paintings have developed from several exhibition projects based on my trips in India and China that reflected on the dislocation and fantasy of travel.
I’ll show images of works from these projects and some source material from my current work on Haere Mai to the Highway. I’ll talk a bit about my artistic influences and methods too, if that seems relevant to the audience.
I draw on traditions of ‘history painting’ as a genre or mode of representation that was frequently used by European artists to ‘capture’ the colonies. In history painting, narratives were often ‘invented’ in such works to portray the life and culture of indigenous and immigrant residents. Such works were used to ‘document’ the pristine and developing colony and to promote migration.
Regionalism in art is also of interest to me, not so much for its origins in the American mid-west but for its common subjects; ordinary people, work atmosphere and everyday life, often in rural and agricultural scenes. I don’t want to replicate these romantic sentiments, but to use them as a counterpoint to more contemporary visions and concerns.
The project will implicate long established and contested traditions in landscape Painting in New Zealand and their implication in constructs of personal and national identity, cultural change and loss
Erasmus mobility project collaboration.
Get PDFIn collaboration with Dr Lukas Capek of the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic we have been given an Erasmus mobility grant to develop an international collaboration. The duration of the project is 2018-2020
Member spotlight on Paul D. Ewart
Get PDFFollowing a request from the American Powder Metallurgy Institute International a member profile was created and published in the Spring issue of the journal.
International Journal of Powder Metallurgy
Introductions to the cosmos
No full textIntroductions to the Cosmos is the debut studio album by Dr. Mesmer's Private Army.
Originally conceived as a live performance ensemble, this group usually creates long-form improvisations in conjunction with live multimedia projection art.
This album sees a shift to shorter compositional forms, developed in the studio through a collaborative process where titles inspired pictures, and pictures inspired music.
TRACKS:
1. A way for the universe to know itself
2. Shining feebly by reflected sunlight
3. All that is or was or ever will be
4. A slowly dawning awareness
5. An inconspicuous point of light against the citadel of the stars
6. You must first invent the universe
7. A very small stage in a vast cosmic arena
8. Something incredible is waiting to be known
released March 29, 2018
Dr Mesmer's Private Army are:
Yotam Levy - cello
Kent Macpherson - octave guitar, synths, electronics, textures
Jeremy Mayall - keyboards, electronics, textures
and
Paul Bradley - visuals
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Recorded in the WINTEC Music Department Studios by Dan Edgar Reese
Mixed by Jeremy Mayall
Produced by Jeremy Mayall and Kent Macpherson
Cover Art by Paul Bradley
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RELEASED BY 3'33" (three-thirtythree)
Thanks to Wintec Research Fun
Meniscus literary journal
Get PDFMeniscus is a literary journal, published and supported by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) with editors from the United Kingdom,
Australia and New Zealand.
The title of the journal was the result of a visit made by two of the editors to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where James Turrell’s extraordinary installation, ‘Within without’ (2010), led them to think about how surfaces, curves, tension and openness interact. In particular, they were struck by the way in which the surface of the water features, and the uncertainty of the water’s containment, seems to analogise the excitement and anxiety inherent in creative practice, and the delicate balance between possibility and impossibility that is found in much good writing
Paralelos Urbanos
Get PDFParalelos Urbanos, is a type of visual conversation. As brothers, artists and researchers living on opposite sides of the world, Xavier and Reo Meade both find themselves drawn to urban graffiti and poster art as they travel. Paralelos Urbanos brings together photographic images taken by each of them over 5 continents, highlighting their continunued connection.
One photograph presented, the archive rummaged, one placed in response. This back and forward that occurs creates links and connections between the giver and receiver. As a viewer to the resulting pairs, connections are made bouncing between countries and continents, and referring us back to our own experiences and memories. We are reminded of the political and socially conscious potential of these images and the need for a public space to be heard
Role of oxidative stress in the pathology and management of human tuberculosis
No full textTuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the leading cause of mortality worldwide due to a single infectious agent. The pathogen spreads primarily via aerosols and especially infects the alveolar macrophages in the lungs. The lung has evolved various biological mechanisms, including oxidative stress (OS) responses, to counteract TB infection. M. tuberculosis infection triggers the generation of reactive oxygen species by host phagocytic cells (primarily macrophages). The development of resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics poses a challenge to treat TB; this commonly manifests as multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). OS and antioxidant defense mechanisms play key roles during TB infection and treatment. For instance, several established first-/second-line antitubercle antibiotics are administered in an inactive form and subsequently transformed into their active form by components of the OS responses of both host (nitric oxide, S-oxidation) and pathogen (catalase/peroxidase enzyme, EthA). Additionally, M. tuberculosis has developed mechanisms to survive high OS burden in the host, including the increased bacterial NADH/NAD+ ratio and enhanced intracellular survival (Eis) protein, peroxiredoxin, superoxide dismutases, and catalases. Here, we review the interplay between lung OS and its effects on both activation of antitubercle antibiotics and the strategies employed by M. tuberculosis that are essential for survival of both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant bacterial subtypes. We then outline potential new therapies that are based on combining standard
antitubercular antibiotics with adjuvant agents that could limit the ability of M. tuberculosis to counter the host’s OS response
J Bookshow, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
No full textMark Purdom's Photobook - Mimetic, was exhibited at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland. On the 14th and 15th of April 2018, Photobookshow and Cork Photo 2018, will host J Book Show, an exhibition of self-published photobooks. This is the tenth show in the ongoing photobook exhibition series. Previous exhibitions have been hosted in cities including Tokyo, Malmo, London and Helsinki.
Photobookshow is a Brighton-based arts organisation, set up in 2011 to raise the profile of artist-led photobooks. It is a self-funded project and is supported generously by galleries and supporters giving up their free time. The goal of the organisation is to further increase accessibility of the artform
Fortune blue student book
No full textIn an approach that draws from research in Conversational Analysis and Pragmatics, the Fortune textbook draws attention to social actions such as offering to help, apologizing, and leave taking, that are key for maintaining relationships and functioning in society. Students are encouraged to look beyond mere helpful words and phrases to reflect on context, relationships, and whole sequences of language while studying and ultimately producing language
Benchmarking resources and making judgements, using the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
Get PDFThis presentation will look at ways of selecting and benchmarking materials, both commercial and in-house/self-developed, for use in NZCEL programmes. It will also share some of the resources identified in the NZCEL Guiding Document to assist teachers in developing suitable tasks and texts for use in assessing NZCEL qualifications and EAP / English Language unite standards. Participants are asked to bring a laptop / mobile device to the session