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Give Up Art: Collected Critical Writings
No full textGive Up Art is a collection of critical writings by author Maria Fusco. Operating across fiction, criticism, and theory, Fusco’s work forges a contemporary space for critical art writing internationally. Give Up Art brings together nearly two dozen essays, reviews, and smaller pieces published between 2002 and 2017
Shedding light on species boundaries in small endogeic animals through an integrative approach: species delimitation in the centipede Clinopodes carinthiacus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) in the south-eastern Alps
No full textFigure 3. Subdivision of specimens into candidate species according to a model-based cluster analysis through normal mixture models on ten morphological characters (Table 2). The ventral view of the forcipular segment is illustrated for representative specimens of the candidate species. Denticles are indicated by arrowheads. The lower panel shows Bayesian information criterion (BIC) values of different models (coded as in the paper by Scrucca et al., 2016) in relation to the hypothetical number of candidate species.Published as part of Peretti, Emiliano, Cecchin, Chiara, Fusco, Giuseppe, Gregnanin, Luca, Kos, Ivan & Bonato, Lucio, 2022, Shedding light on species boundaries in small endogeic animals through an integrative approach: species delimitation in the centipede Clinopodes carinthiacus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) in the south-eastern Alps, pp. 902-923 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196 (2) on page 913, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac008, http://zenodo.org/record/718445
Derek Walcott: A Shipwrecked Mind
No full textThe paper addresses Derek Walcott's Collected Poems, reading the persistence of images like harbors, islands, shipwrecks and sails as the poetic response that the author offers to the uncomfortable questions of cultural identity and language in the Caribbean archipelago, where the brutal experience of colonial enslavement has left a destiny of creolization behind
The walled nuns of the crypt of Santissima Annunziata in Valenza (Piedmont, Italy)
No full textThe Church of SS. Annunziata in Valenza was built in 1699, together with an underground crypt that preserves the cells in which, according to a particular type of burial practice, the nuns of the nearby cloistered convent were deposed. The hypogeum space was brought to light in the twentieth century, paving the way to the study of the ritual underlying this practice and to the anthropological study of the remains that the opening of the cells have brought to light
Estimating and exploiting the capacity of urban street networks
No full textThe paper deals with the problem of estimating and exploiting traffic capacity of different road elements (link, nodes, network) and presents the results obtained by performing a systematic investigation of the role that the parameters of a microscopic simulation model play on the macroscopic representation of different road elements
Artificial neural network models for car following: experimental analysis and calibration issues
No full textThe paper deals with the application of Artificial Neural Networks to model the car following driver’s behavior. The study is based on experimental data collected by several GPS equipped vehicles that follow each other on urban roads. A ‘swarm’ stochastic evolutionary algorithm has been applied in training phase to improve convergence of the usual error-back propagation algorithm. Validation tests highlight that ANNs provide a quite good approximation of driving patterns and can be suitably implemented in micro-simulation models. On this regard, a new experimental calibration method for micro-simulation software might consist of training one specific ANN for each representative individual of driver population through systematic observations on the field or in virtual environment trials
The disease of a plague: study proposal of a sample of individuals from the convent of San Rocco in Merate
No full textSan Rocco in Merate is a hill town in which were hospitalized the victims of Plague epidemics of 1524 and 1576, which had hit Lombardy causing around 50,000 and 10,000 dead. According to the written sources, near the oratory dedicated to Saint Rocco were buried about five hundred victims. Today a huge granite column, erected around 1854, persists in correspondence of the common grave in which the dead of the plague were buried. This evidence is an important case study that allows to analyze a bioarchaeological context pertaining to documented episodes of epidemic, permitting to investigate the mortality rate and demographical data of the examined population, which reflect the nature of the crisis. The analysis of the sample allows also to highlight eventual selective compositions of the population, therefore to investigate the selectivity of death and whether it is linked to age, sex and the pre-existent health status of the individuals
An integrated method for short-term prediction of road traffic conditions for intelligent transportation systems applications
No full textThe paper deals with the short-term prediction of road traffic conditions within Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. First, the problem of traffic modeling and the potential of different traffic monitoring technologies are discussed. Then, an integrated method for short-term traffic prediction is presented, which integrates an Artificial Neural Network predictor that forecasts future states in standard conditions, an anomaly detection module that exploits floating car data to individuate possible occurrences of anomalous traffic conditions, and a macroscopic traffic model that predicts speeds and queue progressions in case of anomalies. Results of offline applications on a primary Italian motorway are presented
Acting Out:Cuban Artists Challenge to the State
No full textFive of the videos in Coco Fusco’s exhibition Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island at KW were filmed in Cuba, where the artist has collaborated with local artists on a range of projects for over thirty years. The videos explore the fraught relationship between civic engagement and the Cuban state. Coco Fusco will be joined by Cuban artist and former political prisoner Hamlet Lavastida, and Cuban poet and essayist Antonio José Ponte for a discussion about Fusco’s work and the current state of artistic activism in relation to cultural politics in Cuba today. Hamlet Lavastida is a Cuban artist, based in Berlin. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana. Lavastida reinterprets the role of Cuban political rhetoric and iconography in public culture. He focuses on the ways that Cuban propaganda shapes and distorts history. He explores the visualization of state ideology in his videos, collages, drawings, and public art. Lavastida’s work has been shown at Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin); Center of Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Gdańsk) and Center of Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw). Antonio José Ponte was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1964. He first worked as a hydraulics engineer, and later as a professor of literature, script writer and author. He is Deputy Director of the online daily Diario de Cuba, founded in Madrid in 2009. His published work includes the essays Un seguidor de Montaigne mira La Habana (1995), Las comidas profundas (1997), El libro perdido de los origenistas (2004), Villa Marista en plata (2010) and La lengua suelta y Diccionario de la lengua suelta (2021), the short stories Cuentos de todas partes del Imperio (2000) and Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos (2005), a book of poems with the title Asiento en las ruinas (2005), and the two novels Contrabando de sombras (2002) and La fiesta vigilada (2007). Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Latinx Art Award, a Fulbright fellowship and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours (2001) and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.Coco Fusco Hamlet Lavastida Antonio José Ponte An event of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in cooperation with ICI BerlinFünf der Videos in Coco Fuscos Ausstellung Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island in den KW wurden auf Kuba gedreht, wo die Künstlerin seit über dreißig Jahren mit lokalen Künstler*innen in einer Reihe von Projekten zusammenarbeitet. Die Videos thematisieren das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen zivilem Engagement und dem kubanischen Staat. Mit Coco Fusco diskutieren der kubanische Künstler und ehemalige politische Gefangene Hamlet Lavastida und der kubanische Dichter und Essayist Antonio José Ponte über ihr Werk und den aktuellen Stand des künstlerischen Aktivismus in Bezug auf die Kulturpolitik in Kuba heute. Hamlet Lavastida ist ein kubanischer Künstler, der in Berlin wohnt. Er studierte Malerei an der Akademie der Künste San Alejandro und der Universität der Künste (ISA) in Havanna. Lavastida interpretiert die Rolle der politischen Rhetorik und Ikonographie in der öffentlichen Kultur Kubas neu. Er konzentriert sich auf die Art und Weise, wie die kubanische Propaganda die Geschichte prägt und verzerrt. Anhand seiner Videos, Collagen, Zeichnungen und seiner Kunst im öffentlichen Raum erforscht er die Visualisierung staatlicher Ideologie. Lavastidas Arbeiten wurden auf der Documenta 15 (Kassel, Deutschland) gezeigt, im Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), im Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), im Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Łaźnia (Danzig) und im Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zamek Ujazdowski (Warschau). Antonio José Ponte wurde 1964 im kubanischen Matanzas geboren. Er arbeitete zuerst als Hydraulik-Ingenieur und dann als Literaturprofessor, Drehbuchautor und Schriftsteller. Er ist stellvertretender Direktor der 2009 in Madrid gegründeten Online-Tageszeitung Diario de Cuba. Zu seinen veröffentlichten Werken gehören die Essays Un seguidor de Montaigne mira La Habana (1995), Las comidas profundas (1997), El libro perdido de los origenistas (2004), Villa Marista en plata (2010) und La lengua suelta y Diccionario de la lengua suelta (2021), die Kurzgeschichten Cuentos de todas partes del Imperio (2000) und Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos (2005), ein Gedichtband mit dem Titel Asiento en las ruinas (2005) und die beiden Romane Contrabando de sombras (2002) und La fiesta vigilada (2007). Coco Fusco ist eine interdisziplinär arbeitende Künstlerin und Autorin. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter ein Guggenheim-Stipendium, der American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, der Latinx Art Award, ein Fulbright-Stipendium und der Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fuscos Performances und Videos wurden auf der 56. Biennale von Venedig, bei Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, drei Whitney-Biennalen (2022, 2008 und 1993) und mehreren anderen internationalen Ausstellungen gezeigt. Ihre Werke sind Teil der ständigen Sammlungen des Museum of Modern Art, des Art Institute of Chicago, des Walker Art Center, des Centre Pompidou, des Imperial War Museum und des Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Sie ist die Autorin von Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours (2001) und A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). Sie ist Kunstprofessorin an der Cooper Union.Coco Fusco Hamlet Lavastida Antonio José Ponte Ein Event von KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berli
I pavimenti di età romana (periodi III - V) dal complesso archeologico di Campetti a Veio (RM)
No full textI pavimenti presi in esame in questo studio sono stati rinvenuti nel sito di Campetti a Veio in occasione di scavi avvenuti a partire dal 1940 fino ai nostri giorni. L’area archeologica insiste su un leggero declivio presente nell’area sud-occidentale del pianoro dell’antica città di Veio, a meno di 1 Km in linea d’aria dal centro del municipio romano, vicino alla porta delle mura etrusche detta «Porta di Portonaccio» e occupa attualmente un’area di circa 10.000 m2, articolata su due livelli. A partire dal mese di settembre 1996, nell’ambito del “Progetto Veio”, nato dalla convenzione tra la Sapienza, Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell’Antichità - e il Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per l'Etruria meridionale, l’area è stata interessata da nuove campagne di scavo sotto la direzione scientifica del prof. A. Carandini. I nuovi scavi, terminati nel mese di ottobre 2009, hanno scoperto una sequenza stratigrafica riepilogabile in 8 Periodi, articolati a loro volta in Fasi, che coprono un arco cronologico dalla fine del IX secolo a.C. fino all’età moderna
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