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Comme la lueur intermittente des lucioles
No full textNée en 2020, Firefly Frequencies est une plateforme radio qui rassemble, diffuse et transforme les voix des artistes, des écrivain.e.s, des musicien.ne.s, des cinéastes, des théoricien.ne.s et des citoyen.ne.s de nombreux pays. Silvia Maglioni et Graeme Thomson -cinéastes et cofondateurs de la plateforme- expliquent comment la création sonore se met au service de la fictionnalisation du réel sur ce lieu de rassemblement et d’immersion. Pergia Gkouskou (PG) : Commençons par votre travail réce..
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Dark Matter Cinema Tarot - Out of a State of Emergency
No full textThe Dark Matter Cinema Tarot was developed by Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson during their residency common infra/ctions at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and constitutes what the artists refer to as a “vernacular technology”. After being invited to CA2M, Madrid, where several readings were made as part of JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN 2016, it has now become a fully nomadic practice, assuming a different form each time a Nocturnal Committee takes place. Whenever a Nocturnal Committee is called, members of the assembled group may pose questions to the cards, and through the collective reading that ensues, explore ways in which the images can open up new channels of inter- and infra-subjective perception, connecting different realms of personal, aesthetic and political experience and enquiry by reaching towards the dark matter that haunts the cinematographic image. At the same time, they can tease out alternative narratives and divinatory or therapeutic possibilities that may lie in the constellation of figures and forms resulting from each fall of the cards. In conceiving the DMC Tarot, the artists have replaced the Major and Minor Arcana with a selection of still images drawn from the history of cinema. No longer tied to the symbolism of the classical tarot, suspended between contingency and fatality, the DMC cards refract the questions posed to them through a process of speculative description and collective fabulation and story-telling, with each reading forming a singular montage of gestures, situations and relations. Readings are frequently interwoven with screenings of film sequences and the playing or performance of durational sound pieces that expand upon territories of infra-perception unveiled by the cards
Dark Matter Cinema Tarot - Desde un estado de emergencia
No full textDark Matter Cinema Tarot fue desarrollado por Silvia Maglioni y Graeme Thomson durante su residencia common infra/ctions en Los laboratorios de Aubervilliers y constituye lo que los artistas denominan “una tecnología vernácula”. Tras ser invitados al CA2M de Madrid, donde se llevaron a cabo una serie de lecturas dentro de las Jornadas de Estudio de la Imagen 2016, esta obra es ahora una práctica nómada que adopta formas diversas cada vez que el Comité Nocturno se reúne. Cuando se convoca un Comité nocturno, los integrantes del grupo pueden hacer preguntas a las cartas y, a través de su lectura colectiva, explorar maneras en las que las imágenes pueden abrir nuevos canales para la percepción inter e infra subjetiva, conectando la pesquisa con espacios diversos de experiencia personal, estética y política, acercándose a la materia oscura que acecha la imagen cinematográfica. Al mismo tiempo, los miembros del grupo pueden tantear las narrativas alternativas y posibilidades adivinatorias o terapéuticas contenidas en la constelación de formas y figuras resultantes de cada tirada de cartas. Al concebir el Cine tarot de la materia oscura los artistas sustituyeron los Arcanos Mayor y Menor con una selección de imágenes de la historia del cine. Desprendidas del simbolismo del tarot clásico, suspendidas entre la contingencia y la fatalidad, las cartas del Cine tarot de la materia oscura rebotan las preguntas que reciben a través de un proceso de descripción especulativa, fabulación colectiva y narración de historias, en el que cada lectura forma un singular montaje de gestos, situaciones y relaciones. Las lecturas suelen estar entretejidas con proyecciones de secuencias de cine, además de la reproducción o actuación de piezas de sonido duracionales que se expanden hacia los territorios de infrapercepción descubiertos por las cartas
Figures of Speech: Place - Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt
No full textEvent as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh City of Literature & the Scottish Storytelling Centre present figures of speech. " ... Our hosts Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt take us on a tour through nature, landscape, community and the language of place, whilst also discussing their own experiences of writing and working in Scotland."
Figures of Speech: place. One of a series of events covering six universal themes (music, friendship, future, love, place, big ideas), each event explores literary blockbusters, hidden gems and modern classics.
Our expert guides will take us on a journey through Scotland’s iconic books and stories, navigating the dazzling array of new voices, and presenting newly commissioned work by artists responding to each theme.
'Let us take you on a journey across the curious contrasts and contradictions that define Scottish literature.
In our first season (May - July), we'll be covering Music, Friendship and Future. On May 20th writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan and author Arusa Qureshi will be exploring Music, and presenting a newly commissioned dance piece from poet and performer Katie Ailes. Poet Michael Pedersen and author Val McDermid will be diving into Friendship on June 24th, with music from Kim Carnie. And on July 22nd, poet Russell Jones and writer T.L.Huchu will be looking to the Future, with new poetry from Jeda Pearl.
The second season of Figures of Speech (September - November) will take in Love, Place and Big Ideas. On September 23rd Gaelic poet Peter Mackay will talk love with romance writer Jenny Colgan. Visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson will drop a pin in the literary map with a discussion on Place with poet and film maker Roseanne Watt on October 21st (postponed to February '23). The season concludes on St. Andrew’s Day (November 30th) with some Big Ideas from Professor David Farrier with activist and author Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.
We want to welcome as wide an audience as possible and extend this conversation across Edinburgh, Scotland and the world. All the events will be recorded and made available online a week later, and both the live and recorded events will be supported by BSL interpretation.
Joule-Thomson Expansion of Gas-Condensates: Literature review
No full textRecently it was communicated that during gas-condensate production in a North Sea gasfield strong heating of the production stream occurred instead of the expected cooling. This contradictory behaviour called for an investigation of the thermodynamics of these gas condensate reservoirs. It is expected that due to the high pressure and high temperature conditions in these gas-condensate reservoirs (pressures of approximately 1000 bar and temperatures of 100-200 °C), the Joule-Thomson coefficient will have a negative value and thus heating will take place at expansion; this is called the Joule-Thomson inversion effect. To ensure a safe operation and to ensure that downhole and surface equipment is specified according to downhole temperatures, it is required that pressure and temperature profiles can be accurately estimated for future productions. The present work is a literature review of what has been reported in the open literature with respect to the Joule-Thomson inversion effect and the heating of gas-condensates at expansion. Chapter 2 will give a general introduction to the Joule-Thomson effect. In chapter 3 the various methods of how to characterize the inversion curve are described and chapter 4 will discuss the calculation of the temperature changes due to expansion. The gas-condensate systems are dealt with in chapter 5 and finally in chapter 6 a summary is given and different aspects, which are important to predict temperature changes for gas-condensate systems, are considered.Applied SciencesApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
Death Writes: Microbursts & The Clearing: a discussion on text, subject and craft with Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson - collaborators on microbursts and with Samantha Clark author of The Clearing
No full textDeath Writes is part of the University of Glasgow's interdisciplinary Arts-Lab, Reading and Writing Death and Dying.
Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson (collaborators on Microbursts) and Samantha Clark (author of The Clearing) will read and talk about their books and the writing, design and editorial processes they underwent. Both books deal with the intense time of being within parental illness, and consider experiences of illness, mental health, parental death, and various types of grief in ways that weave through and utilise artistic and multi-modal processes
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (thomson)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/4209/thumbnail.jp
Joule-Thomson Expansion of Gas-Condensates: Predictions using Equations of State
No full textThis work deals with the Joule-Thomson expansion of high-pressure high-temperature gascondensates. After observing unexpected heating of the produced condensate at pressure relief in a North Sea gas-condensate reservoir, it seemed to be necessary to investigate the possibility of the Joule-Thomson inversion effect to occur in these reservoir fluids. No experimental data is available on Joule-Thomson effects in gas-condensate reservoirs and, therefore, this work has an entirely theoretical basis. Calculated Joule-Thomson coefficients, inversion curves, and isenthalpic lines for some lighter constituents of gascondensate mixtures, e.g. nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane, were compared with experimental data to get insight in the applicability of cubic equations of state. The equations used are the Redlich-Kwong, the Soave-Redlich-Kwong and the Peng-Robinson equations of state...Applied SciencesChemical Technology and Materials ScienceApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
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