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Q: What Happened Then? The Visual Workshop
No full textAt the moment that all Canadian universities went into lockdown in March 2020, Landon Mackenzie was a visiting artist at Brock University. Our lives and plans were all abruptly interrupted at the stroke of midnight, and we woke up in the unknown. In March 2022, she conducted a visual workshop at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts). Students in Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and Visual Arts (VISA) were invited to reflect on how the self reacts to the pandemic experience of lockdowns and restricted use of space outside one’s own four walls. During the Visual Workshop, participants used sheets of paper cut into rounds (tondo) and conceptualized this working space as a charged “surface of record” to contain fragments of time lost but insights gained. 
Erasures
No full textWhether in visual expressions or in texts, erasures are invitations to scrutinize, read, and interpret. Marking a mutation in style, content or form, they are about presence and absence, mutations and updates, old and new versions, a “before” and an “after.” An erasure may be an action (that of deleting), a state (the blankness resulting from this action) or the juxtaposition of what has been erased, still visible, and of the new mark or script replacing it (also named “sous-rature,” often translated as “under erasure."
This exhibition welcomes different types of erasures, be they scenes lacking important elements, simplified adaptations of existing artworks, or abstracted forms of figurative objects.
To accompany these pieces, short written statements commenting on well-known digital artworks result from extensive editing as well as our readiness to create voids and unusual associations.
Rather than correcting something wrong, erasures are signs of process and of an expanding imagination.
Curators: Shawn Serfas and Catherine Parayr
Crisscross
No full textCatalogue of exhibition Crisscross, Art Gallery, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University, St. Catharines, ON (2020)
Curators Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfa
The Museum in the Hallway 2018-2019
No full textThe Museum in the Hallway is located in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Brock University, Canada. This catalogue reviews the academic year 2018-2018 (Curator Catherine Parayre)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Soft Walls
No full textCatalogue of art exhibition Soft Walls at City Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Artists and authors from the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and the Department of Visual Arts (VISA), Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University
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