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Art Plus 06: Award scheme for art in public places
No full textArt Plus, the Award Scheme for Art in Public places is a competitive programme led by Arts Council England, South East and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA). Art Plus offers funding and support to help artists develop their skills in commissioning and creating innovative public art of outstanding quality. Claire Barber working collaboratively with RA Webb as Barber & Webb received the Art Plus Development Award in June 2005 and recently the Final Arts Plus Award in May 2006. Working with commuters who make the 20-minute ferry journey across Southampton Water from Hythe to Southampton Quay Barber & Webb have re-designed the Hythe Ferry Ten Journey Ticket as a focus for reflection, combining the functionality of the ticket with an interactive public artwor
Through the surface: collaborating textile artists from Britain and Japan
No full textThrough the Surface explores points of difference and similarity within cultures of Japan and Britain through the exchange of ideas, techniques, cultural and personal sensibilities as they relate to working practice. Fourteen textile artists from the UK and Japan have taken part in the project, which has been structured as a mentoring scheme. Seven emerging artists, four from Britain and three from Japan, travelled to work with established artists form their opposite country. All the artists have produced work as a result of that exchange, and all the work has been created through collaborative involvement with themes of the project which have been concerned with surface texture and hidden structure of textiles. The work presented for Through the Surface international touring exhibition is the outcome of Claire Barber's three months research in Japan while working alongside the established Kyoto based Textile Artist, Teruyoshi Yoshida. Additionally Barber & Yoshida developed site sensitive textile installations for exhibition venues in Halifax, Brighton and Nottingham
Westonbirt International Festival of the Garden 2004
No full textWestonbirt Arboretum enjoys a unique role as a focus for conservation and research. It is in this environment that Claire Barber was commissioned to research, explore and respond to the arboretums collections and environment. The main aims of the commission brief was to develop a wider appreciation of the arts within the forest/rural context and to create an interesting and challenging work that could stimulate debate and reconsideration of the collection at Westonbirt. Claire Barber in her installation 'Stepping Lightly on 88 Pillows' makes us aware that our single intervention, however small, on the rural environment can be significant. The work has been conceived to be located by a regularly-used pathway through the Arboretum, not on the pathway but alongside it, as a reminder of the difference between the human areas of the Arboretum and the trees' own environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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