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Group Exhibition: Space Oddity, Atelier Gallery, Leiston, Suffolk, UK, 2025
No full textArtists: Anthony Benjamin, Alexander Costello, Ron Fuller, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rebecca Riess, Richard Smith, Michael Stubbs, Claire Willberg.
Curated by Michael Stubbs
SPACE ODDITY takes a selection of twentieth century prints and paintings from the Atelier Gallery collection and places them side by side with works by contemporary artists. This juxtaposition points to the influence of ‘original’ British pop and abstraction on these newly produced works.
Pop and abstraction are often represented as historically distinct, a linear progress with the graphic utilitarianism of 1950s/60s pop overriding the gestural individualism of 1940s/50s abstraction. SPACE ODDITY aims to blur this dividing line and explore how the influence of historical pop and abstraction on the contemporary works is re-evaluated, sometimes as continuity, at other times antagonistically, but always with an understanding of the expanded painterly properties of optical space
Review: The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World
No full textReview of Elisabeth Gernerd, The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, New York and Dublin, 2023. xv þ 260 pp., 127 illus. £27.99. ISBN 978135029337
Modernist Scotland: 150 Post-war Buildings and Places
No full textCommissioned by The Modernist, the Manchester-based social enterprise encouraging investigation and understanding of British modernism in all of its visual and material forms, this book contains a 12,000-word introductory essay, followed by descriptions/histories and photographs by the author of 150 of the most interesting examples of modern architecture and planning realised between 1950 and 1980. The has endnotes and a bibliography and is produced to The Modernist’s high design standard
Large language models for automatic detection of sensitive topics
Get PDFSensitive information detection is crucial in content moderation to maintain safe online communities. Assisting in this traditionally manual process could relieve human moderators from overwhelming and tedious tasks, allowing them to focus solely on flagged content that may pose potential risks. Rapidly advancing large language models (LLMs) are known for their capability to understand and process natural language and so present a potential solution to support this process. This study explores the capabilities of five LLMs for detecting sensitive messages in the mental well-being domain within two online datasets and assesses their performance in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, F1 scores, and consistency.
Our findings indicate that LLMs have the potential to be integrated into the moderation workflow as a convenient and precise detection tool. The best-performing model, GPT-4o, achieved an average accuracy of 99.5% and an F1-score of 0.99. We discuss the advantages and potential challenges of using LLMs in the moderation workflow and suggest that future research should address the ethical considerations of utilising this technology
Stochastic Genesis: Phenomenologies of complex sound in modular synth environments
Get PDFAs sound synthesis technology advances and proliferates, the tools we use to create music hold increasing immaterial influence over our creative capacities and understanding. This research investigates the degree to which human interfacing with sound synthesis technology for sound creation affects us on core sensory and psychological levels, and how technology manifests as a mode of comprehension.
Electronic music literature increasingly intersects with other fields, so this research embraces an interdisciplinary approach.
Stochastic Genesis adopts a practice-based research approach, where studio experimentation and analysis formulate enquiry, and the application of technology for creative purposes acts as means of revealing. The research draws from sound and synthesis theory, philosophy, complex systems theory, and contextualises the studio practice in a narrative based on the natural sciences, particularly fundamental physics, biochemistry and theories surrounding the emergence of life on earth. The project’s validity was inspired by increasing democratisation around electronic music technology, (most people have access to a computer which can run music production software, some of which is available for free) and growing emphasis around sonic art and sound design in academia, evident in our own institution (with expanding courses, electives and research surrounding sound theory, sonic art, digital/electronic music and ambisonics)
Never forever: Buildings change and so do we / Learning from Practice, Learning for practice, lessons from C.R. Mackintosh
Get PDFWe think of buildings as static, permanent things. However, recent experience and circumstances both in Glasgow and Zagreb have taught us that nothing lasts forever and that thinking about and rethinking about our work will become the norm.This lecture outlines a process of rethinking two buildings, and through this how we can become connected directly to the questions of what it is to practice as a designer, how we evolve as designers and how we sustain our creativity
Fashion and democracy: what is happening in children’s fashion?
No full textChildren have a special status in society: despite their ability to interact with and take part in social activities, they’re not considered as responsible individuals by most political regimes. However, children are dressed, from birth, with clothing influenced by and influencing new trends and dress codes. Children’s fashion and dress codes are ruled by the adults as educators, designers, policy makers, and citizens, for socialising children: shaping children’s identity, their sense of belonging, their role and position in society is therefore a strong element of children’s fashion as much as envisaging, sometimes through innovative dress codes, children as becoming adult. Examples in Modern and Contemporary history illustrate the subtle or more obvious politicisation of children’s clothes, when adults are constrained by laws and conventions. Therefore, one could ask: when adult’s dress codes are regulated by the power in place, what is happening in children’s fashion? When children are not considered as full citizens, why does their fashion style and presence in the communication of the ruling families become a priority? Finaly, in the contemporary context of the adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child, what would happen politically if the fashion industry was listening to children’s voice to design the clothing of young people, as seldom heard communities?
Based on the study of European fashion from the 19th century onwards, and on the analysis of museums collections and archives, this communication will question the political side of children’s dress codes and open towards a child centred perspective on fashion
'Linear Brooch' included in the Interwoven: Jewellery Meets Textiles Exhibition
No full textThe interconnection of jewellery and textiles has a long history, given the intimate relationship of both crafts to the body and personal expression. But what is the nature of this bond today? Looking from the perspective of the contemporary jeweller, the catalogue and exhibition ask how and why are makers looking to textiles as they design?
Jewellers featured are: Flora Bhattachary, Eleanor Bolton, Elizabeth Bone, Caroline Broadhead, Megan Brown, Nina Bukvic, Susan Cross, Alison Evans, Ella Fearon-Low, Nora Fok, Gill Galloway-Whitehead, Anna Gordon, Faye Hall, Sue Hiley Harris, Teri Howes, Yoko Izawa, Ulli Kaiser, Andrew Lamb, Gilly Langton, Ruth Leslie, Catherine Martin, Jacqueline Mina, Caitlin Murphy, Angela O'Kelly, David Poston, Sarah Pulvertaft, Jane Sedgwick, Charlotte Smith, Joanne Thompson, Liz Willis, Misun Won
Digital Innovation in Social Care: Priorities and Opportunities for Scotland
Get PDFIn January 2024, DHI was commissioned by the Scottish Government to develop a Care and Wellbeing Innovation Portfolio, focusing, in particular, on social care innovation. Through engagement with over 20 national organizations, DHI identified key priorities for scaling digital innovation in social care and to lever research and innovation opportunities. The findings emphasise the need for a supportive infrastructure, an innovation hub and pathway, a framework for evaluating impacts, and alignment of ongoing projects. The report outlines steps to advance digital social care innovation across Scotland and shares insight on creating the conditions to foster social care innovation and collaboration across sectors
Sustainable Voices 2 - Interview with Julia Ashe & Mimi Bhogal
No full textInterview with IJulia Ashe & Mimi Bhogal, part of the Sustainable Voices Podcast Series
The interview considers the long-form content as a counter-proposal to the dominant form of social media.
Through the generous support of the Learning and Teaching Department at The Glasgow School of Art, a series of podcasts were recorded that consider the open interview methodology and the long form content in delivery. ‘Sustainable Voices’, developed in a framework of the Student Partnership Programme, considers how climate literacy, sustainable art practices, and environmental challenges affecting the creative industry are thought through.
Teh interview examine how long-form content encourages thinking critically, synthesising information , developing a deeper understanding and allowing the formulation of a nuanced and advanced position to take place. Very relevant in recent conversations of consumption of information and content and effect in mental health and skill acquisition, the longform is proposed as a potential antidote to delivery, one that improves retention and understanding and one that ultimately aids to develop both focus and a lifelong learning mindset and how this allows for expanded understandings to occur with regards to subject matters that is not only expansive, but also presents itself to be not only a ‘wicked problem’ (Rittel and Weber) but also a ‘complex one’ (Hawkings and James)