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A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer
No full textExhibition dates: 15 March – 19 April 2024MattFlix is pleased to present A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer (2023) by Graham Fagen.A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer tells the story of the renowned human rights activist and scientist, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer.In this single channel video portrait, Graham Fagen portrays Sir Geoff’s story as he talks about his life. Sir Geoff Palmer OBE left Jamaica for the UK in 1955, and pursued his studies at Leicester, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities. As a scientist, his work at the Brewing Research Foundation led to the discovery of the barley abrasion process. For this research, he was awarded the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction in 1998. He is also a prominent human rights activist, and has studied slavery links between Scotland and the Caribbean for the last 15 years, contributing notably with the book The Enlightenment Abolished: Citizens of Britishness (2007).Fagen’s portrait breaks the boundaries of what we think of as traditional portraiture and, in his words, “attempts to expand our perceptions of portraiture in the age of the selfie.”Each chapter of Sir Geoff Palmer’s life is punctuated by the sounds of Nyabinghi drumming and vocals by reggae artist Ghetto Priest, produced by Adrian Sherwood.A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer was commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and supported by the Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Bequest Award.Duration: 19′37″CreditsVideoDirector/Producer/EditorAndy McGregorCameraLee RichardsonSoundHamish BrownProduction/Covid supervisionTracy WedderburnSoundtrackVocals and Nyabinghi drumsGhetto PriestProducerAdrian SherwoodEngineerMatt Symth<br/
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer
No full textExhibition dates: 15 March – 19 April 2024MattFlix is pleased to present A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer (2023) by Graham Fagen.A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer tells the story of the renowned human rights activist and scientist, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer.In this single channel video portrait, Graham Fagen portrays Sir Geoff’s story as he talks about his life. Sir Geoff Palmer OBE left Jamaica for the UK in 1955, and pursued his studies at Leicester, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities. As a scientist, his work at the Brewing Research Foundation led to the discovery of the barley abrasion process. For this research, he was awarded the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction in 1998. He is also a prominent human rights activist, and has studied slavery links between Scotland and the Caribbean for the last 15 years, contributing notably with the book The Enlightenment Abolished: Citizens of Britishness (2007).Fagen’s portrait breaks the boundaries of what we think of as traditional portraiture and, in his words, “attempts to expand our perceptions of portraiture in the age of the selfie.”Each chapter of Sir Geoff Palmer’s life is punctuated by the sounds of Nyabinghi drumming and vocals by reggae artist Ghetto Priest, produced by Adrian Sherwood.A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer was commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and supported by the Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Bequest Award.Duration: 19′37″CreditsVideoDirector/Producer/EditorAndy McGregorCameraLee RichardsonSoundHamish BrownProduction/Covid supervisionTracy WedderburnSoundtrackVocals and Nyabinghi drumsGhetto PriestProducerAdrian SherwoodEngineerMatt Symth<br/
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer
No full textAbout this artworkSir Geoff Palmer OBE is a life-long human rights activist and historian of Scotland’s relations with the Caribbean. His story is a remarkable one. After leaving Jamaica for London in 1955 aged 14, he attended school in the city, eventually continuing his studies at Leicester, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities. As a scientist, his research at the Brewing Research Foundation from 1968–77 led to the discovery of the barley abrasion process – which makes the malting process more efficient. For this research, he was awarded the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction in 1998. In 1989, Sir Geoff became the first Black university professor in Scotland. He is the author of a critically acclaimed book, The Enlightenment Abolished: Citizens of Britishness, in which he argues for maintaining but reinterpreting public monuments associated with the transatlantic slave trade. Artist Graham Fagen worked in collaboration with Sir Geoff to create a portrait which, in Fagen’s own words attempts to ‘expand our perceptions on portraiture in the age of the selfie.’Materials: Single channel video installation, with sound (duration 19mins 37secs)Object type: InstallationCredit line: Commissioned by the National Galleries of ScotlandAccession number: PG 3836Gallery: Scottish National Portrait Gallery (On Display)Depicted :Sir Geoff PalmerSubject: Video Ar
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer
No full textAbout this artworkSir Geoff Palmer OBE is a life-long human rights activist and historian of Scotland’s relations with the Caribbean. His story is a remarkable one. After leaving Jamaica for London in 1955 aged 14, he attended school in the city, eventually continuing his studies at Leicester, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities. As a scientist, his research at the Brewing Research Foundation from 1968–77 led to the discovery of the barley abrasion process – which makes the malting process more efficient. For this research, he was awarded the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction in 1998. In 1989, Sir Geoff became the first Black university professor in Scotland. He is the author of a critically acclaimed book, The Enlightenment Abolished: Citizens of Britishness, in which he argues for maintaining but reinterpreting public monuments associated with the transatlantic slave trade. Artist Graham Fagen worked in collaboration with Sir Geoff to create a portrait which, in Fagen’s own words attempts to ‘expand our perceptions on portraiture in the age of the selfie.’Materials: Single channel video installation, with sound (duration 19mins 37secs)Object type: InstallationCredit line: Commissioned by the National Galleries of ScotlandAccession number: PG 3836Gallery: Scottish National Portrait Gallery (On Display)Depicted :Sir Geoff PalmerSubject: Video Ar
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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