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Bodys Isek Kingelez: Perspectives. A Panel Discussion.
No full textThis panel discussion featured a range of perspectives from individuals whose work intersects with the ideas and context of artist Bodys Isek Kingelez, drawing especially from Kingelez's interest in national identity and urban planning, and his experiences in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Panelists included photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip de Boeck, coauthors of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016); Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; Hannah Beachler, production designer of Black Panther (2018) and other films; and artist Saya Woolfalk.
The program, held in conjunction with the exhibition Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams at the MoMa was moderated by Sarah Suzuki, Director, Opening of the New Museum, and Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints.status: Published onlin
Mathematics and popular painting in Congo
No full textCongolese popular art holds some surprises for the mathematical beholder. Firstly, the traditional predilection for abstract patterns, as in sand drawings or woven fabrics, seems to have become overwhelmed by figurative painted art in modern times. Secondly, African painters used parallel projection, at least until some decades ago, and this contrasts with the classical perspective that became the Western standard after its discovery during the Renaissance. Acculturation seems to have changed the minds of African painters towards perspective, and perhaps this is regretful, at least from a mathematical point of view. Indeed, both perspective and parallel projection can be based on the classical Monge top and profile view: both methods are equally correct. This algorithmic construction method can also explain intermediate forms, which can often be seen in popular African paintings, such as Panofsky’s fishbone representation.edition: 1ststatus: Publishe
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
Keynote Lecture: Vitalities of Everyday Life in Congo
No full textFilip De Boeck presented some results of his ongoing collaboration with photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji. De Boeck and Baloji have been collaborating for the past several years considering changes in how cities and territories are imagined by different kinds of people. They have explored different facets of how massive appropriations of land in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo for various global extraction commodity circuits gave rise to the idea that a major metropolitan area could be constructed from scratch, and the subsequent wheeling and dealing in land rights that accompanied this. They also have explored how old infrastructures in Kinshasa are organized into new neighborhoods and how various new built environments—some, the work of major developers and government and some, the work of individual or popular initiatives—create new forms of urban imagination and modernity.status: Publishe
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