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Exposition : Hassan Khan, "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" — MMK, Francfort (Allemagne), 30/01-12/04/2015
No full textWithin the framework of the “Frankfurter Positionen”, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of Hassan Khan (b. 1975) to take place in Germany. The artist, musician and writer lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Hassan Khan has named his exhibition after a novel published in 1974 by the American science-fiction author Philip K. Dick. Set in a futuristic America, the story is about a world-famous television star who, after an attem..
Strategies of refusal: art and cultural politics in the work of Edward W. Said and Hassan Khan
No full textThis dissertation examines the thought of Palestinian-American literary scholar Edward W. Said and selected works by London-born Egyptian artist Hassan Khan. Through a comparison and contrast of their respective approaches to the production and critique of Arab representations I argue that Said's work from the 1970s and 1980s is of lasting importance for art historians dealing with contemporary art from the Middle East in general and Khan's work in particular. Much recent scholarship on contemporary art in the Middle East and Egypt has focused on features of artworks that contribute to notions of Arab political, ethnic and national identity. While such studies are valuable in describing the social and political contexts of emerging Middle Eastern art practices, they often pass over the formal, stylistic and aesthetic strategies employed by artists in the region. Through an examination of Said's published writing and his unpublished correspondence, I argue that his approach to literary and visual art interpretation accounts for both identity-political and more strictly formal or stylistic features of artworks and practices from the contemporary Middle East. In this dissertation I examine Said's interpretative strategies to prepare for an analysis of selected artworks by Hassan Khan. This is not a regional study of Arab or Middle Eastern art. Indeed, Said's work and Khan's, albeit in different contexts, with different means and to varying degrees challenges and often refuses generalizations about political, ethnic and national identity on which regional art histories are based. This dissertation thus aims to describe Said's and Khan's critical, highly individual and often eccentric approaches to Arab representations, rather than represent and identify them as Arabs, and explain their work as a consequence or expression of such a fixed identity. In the interest of preserving the particularity of Said's work and of Khan's I examine their reckoning with these problems in context.Cette dissertation examine la pensée de l'homme de lettres palestinien-américain Edward W. Said, ainsi qu'une sélection d'oeuvres de l'artiste égyptien d'origine londonaise Hassan Khan. En comparant et contrastant leurs approches respectives de la production et critique des représentations des arabes, je soutiens que l'oeuvre de Said entre 1970 et 1980 est d'une importance durable pour les historiens de l'art, du moyen orient en général, et particulièrement dans le cas de l'œuvre de Khan. Un grande part des recherches académiques récentes portant sur l'art contemporain moyen oriental et égyptien porte sur les aspects d'œuvres d'art qui contribuent aux notions d'identité politique, ethnique et culturelle arabe. Tandis que ces études ont la vertu de décrire le contexte social et politique de pratiques artistiques émergentes au moyen orient, celles-ci omettent souvent d'examiner les stratégies de représentation formelles, stylistiques et esthétiques, employées par les artistes de cette région. En examinant les écrits publiés et ses correspondances non-publiées de Said, je soutiens que ses stratégies d'interprétation de l'art littéraire et visuel s'appliquent tant aux aspects identitaires-politiques qu'aux aspects strictement formels ou stylistiques d'œuvres d'art et de pratiques du moyen orient contemporain. Dans cette dissertation j'examine les stratégies d'interprétation de Said afin de préparer une analyse d'une sélection d'œuvres d'art de Hassan Khan. Il ne s'agit pas d'une étude régionale d'art arabe ou moyen oriental. En effet, malgré que l'œuvre de Said et de Khan proviennent de différents contextes, avec des stratégies de représentation distinctes qui à divers degrés mettent en cause et refusent les généralisations portant sur l'identité politique, ethnique et nationale sur laquelle se basent les études régionales de l'histoire de l'art. Cette dissertation vise donc à décrire les approches critiques, hautement individuelles et souvent excentriques, plutôt que de les représenter et identifier comme arabes, expliquant leur œuvre comme la conséquence ou expression d'une telle identité fixe. Dans le but de préserver la particularité de l'œuvre de Said et de celle de Khan, j'examine contextuellement leur évaluation et production de représentations arabes
IoT based IMU sensor network for human arm pose estimation / Jahangir Hassan Khan
No full textHuman arm pose estimation or tracking is becoming an increasing sought after field of research due to the multitudes of uses it offers. With the start of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT) concept has made wireless data transfer into reality and hence, remote monitoring and control can be performed relatively inexpensive and portable. The applications can range from Virtual Reality gaming to training industrial robots as well as controlling surgical robots and stroke rehabilitation. For example: In the past, patients had to go periodically for rehabilitation to clinics and hospitals, can now do those same exercises at home using sensors that can send progress data over the internet to their doctors who can analyse the data and provide feedback. However, this technology is still not well-established and thus requires more research. This motivates the current study to work with this research topic. The objective of this project is to design and build an IoT based sensor system that can send its data wirelessly to a computer, which can then analyse the data and estimate the position of the human arm at remote location. The sensor used in this project is the BNO055 Inertial Measurement Unit, which is a low cost sensor incorporating a gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer to provide orientation and acceleration data. The medium for wireless data transfer is a Wi-Fi enabled Node MCU micro-controller. The sensor node will transfer data to a computer via Wi-Fi using a custom designed network protocol. A multi-threaded program running on the computer will perform Forward Kinematics on the wirelessly transferred data using an arm model created using the Denavit-Hartenberg convention. The Forward Kinematics approach has great advantage such as being easy to program and its faster computational speed, as compared to the conventional arm pose estimation algorithms. By using the developed arm pose tracking program, several important parameters such as positions of the elbow and wrist with reference to the shoulder joint, moving distance, angular movement speed and movement pattern of arm are successfully measured and estimated. The results of this research show that for basic movements such as shoulder flexion, contraction or elbow flexion and contraction, the accuracy of tracking distance is more than 80 percent. For complicated movements like tracing shapes the accuracy ranges from 60 to 70 percent. For the purpose of tracking arm movements of stroke patients, the accuracy is adequate since the arm movement exercises for stroke rehabilitation consist of basic arm movements for which the proposed design has high accuracy. The proposed system also has high enough sampling and transmission frequency to accurately track fast arm movements which makes it ideal for the purpose of arm position estimation
رشید حسن خاں کے نامکمل تحقیقی منصوبے
No full textThe long life contribution of Rashid Hassan Khan regarding research and editing is a mark able achievement. His contribution proves good and mentionable samples for his successor researchers. Rasheed Hassan khan started some research projects waiting for completion. In this article the methodology and importance of completed and uncompleted research works of Rasheed Hassan Khan are discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
No full textIn the early nineteenth century, the term “avant-garde” began to capture greater semantic territory. Once purely a military phrase used to distinguish crack troops, it then assumed a high-ranking position within cultural expression, marking out art work that forged ahead and broke new ground. What can it mean to conjoin this French phrase with the word “Arab”? French forces, along with other imperial intruders, are no strangers to Arab terrain. The colonisation of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Greater Syria followed in the wake of the brief Napoleonic “mission” to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was during this military foray that some of modern Europe’s most expansive data on Egyptian music was collected, information that comprised two whole volumes of Guillaume André Villoteau’s Description de l’Egypte. The Napoleonic campaign gathered not only military, but also cultural intelligence, if the two can be so easily separated
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
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