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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
A computational approach based on high-performance beam finite element for predictive response in monitoring existing bridges
No full textIn recent years, the structural safety of existing bridges has become an increasingly relevant topic due to the age and extent of the Italian infrastructure assets. Several technologies, such as the application of machine learning techniques, have been developed to automate inspections and monitoring processes of existing bridges. One promising approach is the use of simulated data from numerical models to train data-driven algorithms for detecting structural damage. To improve the effectiveness of the algorithm training, it is necessary to create an extensive dataset including various damage scenarios. This procedure entails performing numerous nonlinear analyses, thereby highlighting the importance of adopting an efficient numerical model to reduce the computational effort. This work proposes a high-performance computational approach to predict the nonlinear response of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridges. Specifically, this work adopts an advanced fiber beam element based on a damage-plasticity model, which offers superior computational efficiency, compared to 2D and 3D finite element models. The proposed damage-plastic model introduces two different damage variables for tensile and compressive behaviour to consider the re-closure of tensile cracks when moving from tension to compression states. To accurately assess the frequency variation due to the cracking of structural components, this research proposes a modification of the damage-plastic model which accounts for the partial closure of cracks. Both constitutive models are imple-mented in OpenSees software framework. Computational aspects and solution algorithms are extensively detailed in this thesis. Several applications are presented in this work to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed computational approach in simulating the nonlinear static and dynamic responses of concrete bridge structures. The advanced fiber beam element is validated by comparing numerical results with experimental measurements from tests conducted on reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete beams. Additionally, an application at the structural level of the proposed numerical method is discussed simulating a full-scale test of an existing prestressed reinforced concrete bridge. The application of the model within the new promising developments in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is explored. Especially, this research proposes an approach for training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to detect structural damage using simulated data derived from numerical results. An unsupervised method has been employed to train a neural network. The prediction error of such network model is investigated as a suitable measure for the definition of a damage indicator. Finally, regarding the new advancements in vision-based techniques, this thesis also explores the integration of the proposed fiber beam element into the process of creating synthetic environment, that is virtual dataset generated to train algorithms of visual recognition systems. In conclusion, the integration of the advanced fiber beam model with an accurate constitutive law and machine-learning techniques shows promising potential for future innovations in the monitoring of existing bridges
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
Give Up Art
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.Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in Scotland. Her award-winning writing crosses the registers of criticism, ction, and theory. Her work has been translated into ten languages.Edited by Jeff Khonsary
COSEY COMPLEX
No full textA one-day experimental conference held at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 27 March 2010, convened by myself.
commissioned by the ICA – that has developed from conversations between Fusco and artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti. Cosey is known as a member of the art/music groups COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, and for her solo activities which famously include works based on appropriated pornographic images of herself – works that were exhibited in COUM’s Prostitution exhibition at the ICA in 1976. ‘Cosey’ is an assumed name that has allowed the artist to engage in multiple practices and roles across her life, and today’s event builds on the shared interests of Fusco and Fanni Tutti around language and power relations, exploring the potential of ‘Cosey’ as a working method.
Participants include Martin Bax, Gerard Byrne, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Daniela Cascella, Diedrich Diederichsen, Graham Duff, John Duncan, Anthony Elms, Corin Sworn, Chris Kraus, Zak Kyes, Clunie Reid and Rob Stone
RPSAP52 lncRNA inhibits p21Waf1/CIP expression by interacting with the RNA binding protein HuR
No full textLong-non coding RNAs have been recently demonstrated to have an important role in fundamental biological processes, and their deregulated expression has been found in several human neoplasias. Our group has recently reported a drastic overexpression of the lncRNA RPSAP52 in pituitary adenomas. We have shown that this lncRNA increased cell proliferation by upregulating the expression of the chromatinic proteins HMGA1 and HMGA2, functioning as a ceRNA through competitively binding to miR-15a, miR-15b and miR-16. The aim of this work has been to identify further mechanisms by which RPSAP52 overexpression could contribute to the development of pituitary adenomas. We investigated the involvement of RPSAP52 in the modulation of the expression of cell cycle-related genes, such as p21Waf1/Cip, whose deregulation plays a critical role in pituitary cell transformation. We report that RPSAP52, interacting with the RNA binding protein HuR, favors the delocalization of miR-15a, miR-15b and miR-16on the cyclin45 dependent kinase inhibitor p21Waf1/Cip1 that, accordingly, results downregulated in pituitary adenomas. A RIPseq analysis performed on cells overexpressing RPSAP52 identified 40 mRNAs enriched in AGO2 immunoprecipitated samples. Among them we focused on GAS8 (Growth Arrest-Specific Protein 8) gene. Consistently, GAS8 expression was downregulated in all the analyzed pituitary adenomas with respect to normal pituitary and in RPSAP52-overepressing cells, supporting the role of RPSAP52 in addressing genes involved in growth inhibition and cell cycle arrest to miRNA-induced degradation. This study unveils another RPSAP52-mediated molecular mechanism in pituitary tumorigenesis
Epigenetic mechanisms leading to overexpression of HMGA proteins in human pituitary adenomas
No full textOverexpression of the HMGA1 and HMGA2 proteins is a feature of all human pituitary adenoma subtypes. However, amplification and/or rearrangement of the HMGA2 have been described in human prolactinomas, but rarely in other pituitary subtypes, and no genomic amplification of HMGA1 was detected in pituitary adenomas. Here, we summarize the functional role of HMGA proteins in pituitary tumorigenesis and the epigenetic mechanisms contributing to HMGA overexpression in these tumors focusing on recent studies indicating a critical role of non coding RNAs in modulating HMGA protein levels
O agressor by Rosário Fusco : evil or paranoia.
No full textO artigo analisa um romance de Rosário Fusco, O agressor, publicado em
1943 e logo resenhado por Antonio Candido em sua coluna no jornal Folha da Manhã.
Diferentemente da avaliação de Candido, no entanto, orientando ao que parece pela defesa
tanto do romance nacional quanto de certo realismo na literatura, e que critica no livro de
Fusco justamente sua suposta desintegração em relação à “experiência brasileira”, o artigo
procura revalorizar O agressor tendo em vista duas aproximações: com Kafka e com o
surrealismo. Para isso, busca-se associar o romance ao “método crítico-paranoico”, tal como
elaborado por Salvador Dalí, resultado por sua vez de uma leitura que fez das primeiras
teorias lacanianas em torno da noção de paranoia, que também são consideradas, em larga
medida, no presente artigo. Como se verá, a exemplo do que argumenta Gunther Anders
a respeito do autor de O processo, por meio de sua técnica própria de estranhamento, a
literatura de Fusco não faz outra coisa senão tocar o cerne da realidade.The article analyzes O agressor (The aggressor), a novel by Rosário Fusco
published in 1943 and reviewed by Antonio Candido shortly thereafter in “Folha da Manhã”.
However, differently from Candido’s assessment, which seems to be guided both by the
defense of the national novel and a certain realism in the literature, then criticizing Fusco’s
book precisely by its supposed disintegration in connection to the “Brazilian experience”,
the article seeks to revalue O agressor taking two approaches into consideration: with
Kafka and with surrealism. For this purpose we try to associate the novel with the “critical-
paranoid method” as elaborated by Salvador Dalí after the spanish painter read first Lacanian
theories around the notion of paranoia, also considered in this article. As will be seen, as
Gunther Anders argues about the author of “The Process”, Fusco’s novel, through its own
technique of estrangement, does nothing but touch the very core of reality
On a result by Boccardo-Ferone-Fusco-Orsina
No full textVia a symmetric version of Ekeland’s principle recently obtained by the author we
improve, in a ball or an annulus, a result of Boccardo-Ferone-Fusco-Orsina on the properties of
minimizing sequences of functionals of calculus of variations in the non-convex settin
Validation of the standardized index of shape tool to analyze DCE-MRI data in the assessment of neo-adjuvant therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer
No full textWe iploaded the database of the manuscript: Fusco R, Granata V, Sansone M, Rega D, Delrio P, Tatangelo F, Romano C, Avallone A, Pupo D, Giordano M, Grassi R, Ravo V, Pecori B, Petrillo A. Validation of the standardized index of shape tool to analyze DCE-MRI data in the assessment of neo-adjuvant therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer. Radiol Med. 2021 Aug;126(8):1044-1054. doi: 10.1007/s11547-021-01369-1. Epub 2021 May 26. PMID: 34041663
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