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[EFF15S6] Session 7: Constanze Ruhm, Re-staging the Locations of Film History
No full text27 March 2015, 12:30, Birkbeck Cinema
Constanze Ruhm is an artist and author, whose work, exhibited internationally, encompasses installations, films and videos, publications and curatorial activities. Her artistic practice explores the interactions between film, film theory, theatrical forms, and new media, primarily with regard to questions of identity, representation and (feminist) film theory. Since 2006, she has been professor for Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2007, she has also been an adjunct professor at the Art Institute Boston/Lesley University.
This event, combining screenings and discussion, was structured in two parts.
Part one – Constanze Ruhm in conversation with Roland-Francois Lack (UCL, creator of website: The Cine-Tourist) [Link: https://www.thecinetourist.net]
In La Difficulté d’une perspective: A Life of Renewal (2013), Constanze Ruhm, with Emilien Awada and using location research by Roland-Francois Lack, created this photographic series of eight locations from Une Femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) shot from two different perspectives: first, as a precise replica of a shot from the original film, and then as a representation of the subjective perspective of the main female character (Angela/Anna Karina). The photos show what Anna Karina must have seen when she herself was seen by Godard and his camera.
Part two – screening and presentation
Film: Panoramis Paramount Paranormal (part of the Invisible Producers series), Constanze Ruhm with Emilien Awada, Austria, 2014, digital, 59 minutes, French and German with English subtitles
Out of their work on Une Femme est une femme, Ruhm and Awarda discovered the film studio St. Maurice, founded in 1913 and destroyed by fire in 1971. The film focuses on the history of this specific location and its place within the history of cinema. Subsequently, the apartment complex Le Panoramis was built on the same site
Constanze Mozart Kajaanin Kaupunginteatterissa : Pukusuunnittelijan prosessi rokokoonäytelmän henkilöhahmon rakentamisessa
No full textOpinnäytetyön aiheena oli teatteripuvustuksen suunnittelu Kajaanin Kaupunginteatterin Amadeus-näytelmän yhdelle pääroolille, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartin vaimolle Constanzelle. Amadeuksen ensi-ilta on 20.09.2014 teatteritalon näyttämöllä. Tekijän suunnittelema rokokootyylinen puvustus sisälsi seitsemän asukokonaisuutta, joista valmistettiin yksi kokonaisuus teknisine ohjeistuksineen. Opinnäytetyö toteutettiin tekijän pukusuunnittelu- ja ompelutaitoja hyödyntäen, sekä Pirkko Anttilan kriittis-realistisen evaluaation prosessimallia mukaillen. Suunnitteluprosessin tukena käytettiin J. Michael Gilletten teatterituotantoon tarkoitettua suunnittelu- ja ongelmanratkaisumallia. Lisäksi pukusuunnittelussa hyödynnettiin tekijän aikaisemmin suunnittelemia Amadeus-näytelmään sopivia printtikuvioita.
Tekijä perehtyi Amadeus-näytelmän käsikirjoitukseen ja 1700-luvun loppupuolen naisten pukeutumisen historiaan. Aineistoa hankittiin havainnoimalla yhtä teatteriesitystä ja kahta elokuvaa, jotka sijoittuvat rokokooaikaan. Havainnointiaineistoa täydensi näytelmän ohjaajan, skenografin ja opinnäytetyön tekijän pitämät kolme eri palaveria, joissa keskusteltiin näytelmän ideoista sekä pukuluonnoksista. Palaverit dokumentoitiin videoimalla. Pukuluonnoksista valittu ja tekijän valmistama asukokonaisuus kuvattiin puettuna Constanzen näyttelijälle. Tekijä sai työstään asiantuntijapalautetta ohjaajalta, skenografilta ja teatterin puvustossa työskenteleviltä ammattilaisilta palautelomakkeen avulla.The aim of the final project with thesis was to design theatrical costumes for one of the main characters, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s wife Constanze, in the Amadeus Drama at Kajaani Town Theatre. The premiere of Amadeus is on 20 September 2014 on the stage of the theatre building. The Rococo costume set designed by the author includes seven outfits, of which one outfit with technical drawings was manufactured. The final project with thesis was implemented by exploiting the author’s skills in costume designing and sewing, together with adapting the principles of the critical-realistic evaluation process model presented by Pirkko Anttila. The design and problem solving concept of J. Michael Gillette, intended for theatre production, was used to support the design process. In addition, suitable print patterns designed previously for the Amadeus Play were also exploited in the costume designing.
The author became familiar with the script of Amadeus Drama and the history of women’s clothing in the late 18th century. The information was collected by observing one theatre show and two movies, which are placed in the Rococo time. The observation data was completed by three different meetings held by the director and the scenographer of the play and the author. The ideas and the costume sketches of the play were discussed in the meetings, which were documented by video. One outfit chosen from the sketches and produced by the author was worn by the actor playing the role of Constanze and photographed. The author received expert feedback about her work from the director, scenographer and the professionals of the theatre’s costume shop via the feedback blank
Advanced methods in NDE using machine learning approaches
No full textArt. 020022, 8 S.Machine learning (ML) methods and algorithms have been applied recently with great success in quality control and predictive maintenance. Its goal to build new and/or leverage existing algorithms to learn from training data and give accurate predictions, or to find patterns, particularly with new and unseen similar data, fits perfectly to Non-Destructive Evaluation. The advantages of ML in NDE are obvious in such tasks as pattern recognition in acoustic signals or automated processing of images from X-ray, Ultrasonics or optical methods. Fraunhofer IKTS is using machine learning algorithms in acoustic signal analysis. The approach had been applied to such a variety of tasks like quality assessment of gears in automotive industry; detection of cracks and impacts in aircraft materials, quality evaluation for musical instruments, determination of softness of tissue paper or condition monitoring of train wheels. The principal approach is based on acoustic signal processing with a primary and secondary analysis step followed by a cognitive system to create model data. Already in the second analysis steps unsupervised learning algorithms as principal component analysis are used to simplify data structures. In the cognitive part of the software further unsupervised and supervised learning algorithms will be trained. Later the sensor signals from unknown samples can be recognized and classified automatically by the same algorithms trained before. Recently the IKTS team was able to transfer the software for signal processing and pattern recognition on a small printed circuit board (PCB). Still the algorithms will be trained on an ordinary PC, however trained algorithms run on the hardware comprising of a Digital Signal Processor and a FPGA chip. The identical approach will be used for pattern recognition in image analysis of OCT pictures. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is used to identify failures in planar ceramic components. After the depth related grey scale compensation and image noise reduction a sliding window will scan the picture to identify various failures in the ceramic material using machine learning algorithms. Again automated classification of the components is possible. These are just two examples how machine learning can be used in quality inspection and non-destructive testing. Some key requirements have to be fulfilled however. A sufficiently large set of training data, a high signal-to-noise ratio an optimized and exact fixation of components are key requirements to get useful results. So the well trained NDT expert is still required to develop and validate the concept. The automated testing can be done subsequently by the machine. It will be of high value to collect all test data and link it to any single component. By integrating the test data of many components along the value chain and even with field use data further optimization including lifetime and durability prediction based on big data becomes possible, even if components are used in different versions or configurations. This is the promise behind German ""Industrie 4.0."
Railway Operation Research Centre – A Learning Factory for the Railway Sector
No full textAbstractThe railway operation research center Darmstadt (EBD) developed from a pure simulation center towards an interdisciplinary learning factory. The paper presents methodical concepts for the three main fields of its application - the student's education, the advanced education and the research on railway operation. Education is focus on role and business games. The participants can slip in the role of operators or dispatchers training the regular or disrupted operations. Research projects complement the needed technique and enable new didactical concepts. Moreover new technical concepts are developed and tested in the EBD before they are used in railway operation
Rigidity and exotic models for v1-local G-equivariant stable homotopy theory
No full textWe prove that the v1-local G-equivariant stable homotopy category for G a finite group has a unique G-equivariant model at p=2. This means that at the prime 2 the homotopy theory of G-spectra up to fixed point equivalences on K-theory is uniquely determined by its triangulated homotopy category and basic Mackey structure. The result combines the rigidity result for K-local spectra of the second author with the equivariant rigidity result for G-spectra of the first author. Further, when the prime p is at least 5 and does not divide the order of G, we provide an algebraic exotic model as well as a G-equivariant exotic model for the v1-local G-equivariant stable homotopy category, showing that for primes p≥5 equivariant rigidity fails in general
Monitoring der Lebensmittelverluste in der Schweiz : Zwischenstandsbericht 2025
No full textIm Jahr 2022 wurde in der Schweiz ein nationaler Aktionsplan gegen die Lebensmittelverschwendung verabschiedet. Ziel ist die Halbierung der vermeidbaren Lebensmittelverluste entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette bis 2030 – mit einem Einsparpotenzial von rund 11% der heutigen ernährungsbedingten Umwelt- und Treibhausgasbelastung. Der vorliegende Zwischenbericht 2025 analysiert den Fortschritt seit dem Referenzjahr 2017 auf Basis eines sektorenübergreifenden Monitorings. Die Jahre 2022–2024 waren geprägt von intensiver Aufbauarbeit: Unternehmen, Verbände, Wissenschaft und Bund haben gemeinsam die Monitoring-Methodik entwickelt und erprobt. Damit wurde erstmals eine solide Grundlage geschaffen, um Fortschritte der beteiligten Unternehmen systematisch zu erfassen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen: Erste Reduktionen sind sichtbar, insbesondere im Detailhandel und in Vorreiterunternehmen der Gastronomie. Auch in der Verarbeitung und im Grosshandel entstehen Leuchtturmprojekte, deren Wirkung mit der aktuellen Datenlage noch nicht quantifizierbar ist und teilweise erst mit Verzögerung eintritt. Für die Landwirtschaft gibt es noch keine neuen Daten. Eine besondere Rolle kommt den Konsumierenden zu: Ihre Verluste tragen am stärksten zur Umweltbelastung bei. Gleichzeitig können viele Massnahmen in Landwirtschaft, Verarbeitung, Handel und Gastronomie nur greifen, wenn sie bei den Konsumierenden auf Akzeptanz stossen. Über die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette betrachtet liegt die Schweiz deutlich hinter dem Zielpfad: Für eine Halbierung bis 2030 wären rund 25% Reduktion bis 2025 nötig; die erreichte Reduktion wird im vorliegenden Bericht aber nur auf 5% seit 2017 geschätzt (Kapitel 4.7.2). Um auf den Zielpfad zurückzukehren, müssen wirksame Lösungen in die Breite getragen und mehr Akteure eingebunden werden. Ebenso müssen die Datenerhebung und das Monitoring (Kapitel 8.1) sowie die Sensibilisierung der Haushalte (Kapitel 8.2) verstärkt werden. Die aufgebauten Strukturen haben ihre Funktionsfähigkeit gezeigt und Vorreiterakteure eine beachtliche Dynamik ausgelöst. Für die nötige Breitenwirkung sind aber weitergehende Massnahmen entscheidend. Ein klarer Regulierungsrahmen bietet dafür entscheidende Hebel: Er gibt Orientierung, belohnt Vorreiter und schafft Planungssicherheit für innovative Lösungen (Kapitel 8.3). So kann die Schweiz die Resilienz ihres Ernährungssystems stärken und kostensparend zu Klima- und Umweltzielen beitragen
From Discomfort to Danger : Exploring how affective obstacle properties influence avoidance in stepping
No full textOpen Access via the Sage agreement We thank Daniela Ruseva, Caitlin Tittensor, and Samuel Johnson for their help with data collection. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.Peer reviewe
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The Silent Language of the City: Prague in Paul Leppin’s Severin’s Journey into the Dark
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Script and Song in Pindar and Aeschylus
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