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Curating Resistances : Crisis and the limits of the political turn in contemporary art biennials
No full textCurating Resistances focuses upon the socially interventionist and activist agendas of
two contemporary art biennials in Europe during and in response to the current
economic crisis. This thesis seeks to untangle their tensions, conflicts and intimate
socialities as they evolve against the backdrop of neoliberalism, austerity, crisis and
the rise of Occupy cultures. Drawing upon primary ethnographic research on the 3rd
Athens Biennale (2011) and the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012), as well as on the
examination of curatorial, journalistic and archival documents, I argue for an approach
that takes into consideration the threefold nature of these sites, as institutions,
organizations and events.
A central area of investigation is the post-1990s curatorial idea of strategically
occupying the institution from within and mobilising it as a space of radical
knowledge production. This idea gave rise to a model of exhibition-making, that I call
the ‘discursive exhibition’, which shapes the vocabulary and forms of curating
cultures at least since documenta X (1997). I argue that this model was challenged
during the European crisis through the post-2010 art activism that brought ideas
related to class, labour and the commons to the centre of debates on art and politics.
Through their attempts to radicalise in response to such challenges, I argue that the
two biennials I examine expose the limits of biennials as sites of activism and political
resistance. In employing the research perspectives of place and translocality, terms
borrowed from cultural geography, I argue that rather than imposing a global art
language, biennials unfold through complex socio-spatial dynamics, manifesting a
remarkable capacity to absorb, remediate and repurpose their surrounding
environments. By discussing how a series of failed statements, border-crossings,
internal conflicts, withdrawals, police interventions and press spectacles interconnect
with the biennial’s organizational and institutional dynamics, this thesis navigates
through the translocal tensions played upon the materiality, infrastructures and
economies of curating resistances
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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 representation of speech in deep neural networks
No full textIn this paper, we investigate the connection between how people understand speech and how speech is understood by a deep neural network. A naïve, general feed-forward deep neural network was trained for the task of vowel/consonant classification. Subsequently, the representations of the speech signal in the different hidden layers of the DNN were visualized. The visualizations allow us to study the distance between the representations of different types of input frames and observe the clustering structures formed by these representations. In the different visualizations, the input frames were labeled with different linguistic categories: sounds in the same phoneme class, sounds with the same manner of articulation, and sounds with the same place of articulation. We investigate whether the DNN clusters speech representations in a way that corresponds to these linguistic categories and observe evidence that the DNN does indeed appear to learn structures that humans use to understand speech without being explicitly trained to do so.Accepted author manuscriptMultimedia Computin
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Advanced content-based semantic scene analysis and information retrieval: the SCHEMA project
No full textThe aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of universities, research centers, industrial partners and end users, in order to design a reference system for content-based semantic scene analysis, interpretation and understanding. Relevant research areas include: content-based multimedia analysis and automatic annotation of semantic multimedia content, combined textual and multimedia information retrieval, semantic -web, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards, user interfaces and human factors. In this paper, recent advances in content-based analysis, indexing and retrieval of digital media within the SCHEMA Network are presented. These advances will be integrated in the SCHEMA module-based, expandable reference system
Author in Essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere”
No full textFeatures of the embodiment of the author’s position in the essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere” are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the poorly studied poetics of this work. A review of the scientific literature on relevant topics is performed. Methodological and theoretical definitions are given. The scientific novelty of the article is in the fact that for the first time attention is paid to artistic techniques that allow to identify the author's position in the specified literary text. The author of the article grounds her opinion from the fact that, despite the dominance of the subjective point of view, other characters’ views stand out in the work. It is concluded in the study that the text of the work represents a biographical author and author-creator. It was established that the position of the author-creator is expressed through the title, epigraphs, which are quotes, as well as through different points of view, including the author-character, the author-narrator, the characters of the work. The author of the article dwells in detail on different ways of expressing the points of view of the author-character and the author-narrator. It is proved that the point of view of the author-character and the author-narrator can intersect, they are interchanged. The author's development of the term comic “point of view” is presented in the article
Real-Time Bag of Words, Approximately
No full textWe start from the state-of-the-art Bag of Words pipeline that in the 2008 benchmarks of TRECvid and PASCAL yielded the best performance scores. We have contributed to that pipeline, which now forms the basis to compare various fast alternatives for all of its components: (i) For descriptor extraction we propose a fast algorithm to densely sample SIFT and SURF, and we compare several variants of these descriptors. (ii) For descriptor projection we compare a k-means visual vocabulary with a Random Forest. As a preprojection step we experiment with PCA on the descriptors to decrease projection time. (iii) For classification we use Support Vector Machines and compare the x2 kernel with the RBF kernel. Our results lead to a 10-fold speed increase without any loss of accuracy and to a 30-fold speed increase with 17% loss of accuracy, where the latter system does real-time classification at 26 images per second
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