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Roswell F. Cottrell
No full textPhotographic reproduction of a head and shoulders portrait of Roswell F. Cottrell. Cottrell was a minister and evangelist. He was an author and wrote for the Review & Herald. He also served as President of the New York Conference
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A connectionist model of metaphor by pattern completion
No full textBook synopsis: This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Papers have been loosely grouped by topic, and an author index is provided in the back. In hopes of facilitating searches of this work, an electronic index on the Internet's World Wide Web is provided. Titles, authors, and summaries of all the papers published here have been placed in an online database which may be freely searched by anyone
'So many sparks of fire': Dorothy Cottrell, modernism and mobility
No full textThe broad brush strokes of Dorothy Cottrell's paintings in the National Library of Australia mark her as a modernist artist, although not one who painted the burgeoning Sydney Harbour Bridge or bright still-life paintings of Australian flora. Rather, she captured the dun surrounds of Ularunda Station, the remote Queensland property to which she moved in 1920 after attending art school in Sydney. At Ularunda, Cottrell eloped with the bookkeeper to Dunk Island, where they stayed with nature writer E.J. Banfield, then relocated to Sydney. In 1924 they returned to Ularunda and Cottrell swapped her paintbrush for a pen, writing The Singing Gold. After advice from Mary Gilmore, whom her mother accosted in a pub, Cottrell send it to the Ladies Home Journal in America. It was snapped up immediately, optioned for a film and found a publisher in England, who described it as 'a great Australian book, and a world book'. Gilmore added, 'As an advertisement for Australia, it will go far - the Ladies Home Journal is read all over the world'. Cottrell herself also went far, emigrating to America, where she wrote The Silent Reefs, set in the Caribbean. Cottrell's creative, intellectual and physical peregrinations - all undertaken in a wheelchair after she contracted polio at age five - show how the local references the international, and vice versa. Through an analysis of the life and writing of this now little-known Queensland author, this essay reflects the regional and transnational elements of modernism as outlined in Neal Alexander and James Moran's Regional Modernisms, illuminating how a crack-shot with a rifle once took Queensland to the world
Resonant Spaces: Electroacoustic Music and Ritual: A commentary on my recent music.
No full textThe following portfolio and commentary concerns music and performance works created between 2008 and 2012, and an exposition of the research, ideas, aesthetics and techniques that connect
these works. I will discuss in detail the role that archaeoacoustics has played in my composition of fixed and mixed media works and how it has influenced me aesthetically in my approach to live performance. I will also explain in each instance any actual data used from various research sources, and my metaphorical interpretation of various archaeological sites and acoustic phenomena. Similarly, I will discuss the concepts of shamanism, ritual and transcendence that have influenced me, and how these concepts are expressed in my instrumental works, fixed media and live performance pieces
Chronicles of a primary care practice pharmacist
No full textChristopher R Freeman,1 W Neil Cottrell,1 Greg Kyle,2 Ian D Williams,3 Lisa M Nissen11School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; 2Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia; 3Camp Hill Healthcare, Camp Hill, Brisbane, AustraliaBackground: In 2009, a pharmacist commenced working in a nondispensing role at a primary care medical center located in a metropolitan suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Research into the role and function of a practice pharmacist in this setting is still in its infancy.Methods: Ethnographic methods were used over a 3-month period to record activities undertaken by the practice pharmacist on a daily basis.Results: During the 3-month period, 296 hours of activity were documented. Activities the practice pharmacist performed most frequently included medication review, “pharmaceutical opinion,” student supervision, drug information, and administrative tasks.Conclusion: This study demonstrates the broad range of activities which were conducted by a practice pharmacist in the primary care setting as part of a multidisciplinary team.Keywords: practice pharmacist, general practice, integration, medical cente
Breath Clouds
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: Cottrell was one of nine artists invited to participate in 'THISNESS' a group exhibition that explored the essential qualities of their nature through the fashioning of their materiality/immateriality. The works exhibited challenged the audience's relationship with interior spaces and interrogated the defining properties of perception. The exhibition as a whole sought to highlight compelling approaches toward the manipulation of our physical environment and to contend the actions that constitute contemporary spatial art and design. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Breath Clouds' comprised of a responsive audio visual installation which used custom electronics and programming to produce a system that responded to the small scale amtospheric variations caused by weather and human occupation of the gallery. This innovative research project used specifically developed software programming and electronics to visualise and auralise the fleeting atmospheric changes caused by breath. Chris Cottrell conceived the project and developed the electronic sensor system and soundscape, while Jeff Hannam developed a dynamic visualisation based on the same sensor data. This project extended Cottrell's research practice that explores issues of air, breath, immateriality and spatial perception. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: BUS Projects is a prestigous Artist Run Initiative, funded by the Victorian State Government, through Arts Victoria. Exhibition proposal are selected by a curatorial board (see http://busprojects.org.au/people/). A catalogue documenting and contextualising the works in the exhibition was also produced
Phylogeny: Kitset
No full textChris Cottrell developed Kitset in early 2009 to explore boundaries between drawing, modelmaking and spatial construction, that is, the relationship between two-dimensional and threedimensional representations and everyday experience. The geometry of Kitset is based on an irregular tiling pattern developed by British mathematician Roger Penrose. Kitset is intentionally an open-ended work enabling it to be used in several ways. These include illustrating complex systems and stimulating public engagement (where the public are free to contribute and edit a work in progress, using Kitset as a modular three-dimensional drawing system). Kitset has evolved into several forms. These iterations have been presented at several diverse venues such as an architecture and ecology symposium in Sheffield, a series of art/science workshops on phylogeny, organized by Hamer Dodds, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh and as part of an exploration of unity and complexity at the University of Oxford. When used in relation to phylogenetics, Kitset became a tool to enable discussions between artists and scientists. The idea of nodes, speciation and the architecture of an evolving system is, in some ways, visualized in a structure that can be read by both scientists and artists, adding to their mutual understanding
Index to Nuclear Safety: a technical progress review by chronology, permuted title, and author. Vol. 11(1)--Vol. 18(6)
No full textThis index to Nuclear Safety covers articles published in Nuclear Safety, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January-February 1970), through Vol. 18, No. 6 (November-December 1977). It is divided into three sections: a chronological list of articles (including abstracts) followed by a permuted-title (KWIC) index and an author index. Nuclear Safety, a bimonthly technical progress review prepared by the Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC), covers all safety aspects of nuclear power reactors and associated facilities. Over 450 technical articles published in Nuclear Safety in the last eight years are listed in this index
With Fluidity artists' book
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: This work accompanies the audio walk project of the same name, and responds to the context of post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand. As with publications by Roni Horn ('Another Water' 2000, Steidl Verlag, Gottingen), the artists' book format is used to pose questions through a short text and through the juxtaposition of images made by the artists. Cottrell and Pratt worked with Alice Bush at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts to produce the book during their ten-day artist residency hosted by the Physics Room Gallery.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The artists' book 'With Fluidity' consists of a short text, a sequence of ten images and fold-out poster. The cover text situates ?t?karo/Avon River as a confluence for stories, proposing both as formative in the city's identity. It poses a number of questions: "How do the river and the city choreograph each other? What turns is the city making?" and suggests that thinking of the city and river together creates new "narrative thresholds that function not through separation, but with fluidity."The inside pages are a visual essay consisting of five pairings of images merged with two layers of line work which weave over and under the images. The line works create optical effects similar to the Op Art painting of Bridget Riley. The images document the city in terms of flows of material. The book makes innovative connections between the city and river. It uses line work to create moiré, drawing connections between the visual (artists' book) and aural (audio walk).
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Physics Room Gallery is one of two top-ranked independent art spaces in New Zealand. It is funded by Creative New Zealand (the Arts Council of New Zealand), Christchurch City Council, Asia New Zealand Foundation and 10 other community and business partners. Director Melanie Oliver invited Cottrell and Pratt to do the residency. The gallery is governed by a 9-member board of trustees
With Fluidity audio walk
No full textRESEARCH BACKGROUND: This project responded to and built upon the work of artists such as Janet Cardiff ('The Missing Voice' 1999, Artangel London) and Circumstance ('A Hollow Body' 2014, Museum of London) who have been working with two-channel audio to choreograph participant movement while merging narrative and physical environments. Cottrell and Pratt's project responded to post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand. Specifically, the tensions between Ōtākaro/Avon River as a founding icon of the city, and as a major contributor to the city's destruction through liquefaction. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The audio walk 'With Fluidity' invites participants to be guided along the river while listening to audio that includes found sounds, manipulated sounds and fragments of spoken text. The artists take Ōtākaro/Avon River as a model to propose alternative ways of thinking about and inhabiting Christchurch. Cottrell and Pratt researched the various histories of the river and distilled these into short spoken stories that raise questions about the relationship between the river and city. These are woven into the acoustic and imaginative space of the listener, allowing them to consider their implications. The project proposes an original and innovative model for urban design, embracing ideas of fluidity and contingency, in response to a tightly scripted urban masterplan that consists of neatly delineated precincts that emphasise stability. The audio walk extends Cottrell's research into threshold conditions to aural and narrative realms, and extends his conception of architectural contingency to an urban scale. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Physics Room Gallery is one of two top-ranked independent art spaces in New Zealand. It is funded by Creative New Zealand (the Arts Council of New Zealand), Christchurch City Council, Asia New Zealand Foundation and 10 other partners. (cont. on coversheet
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