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Kevork Mourad: Memory Gates - Artist\u27sTalk
No full textUsing his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Kevork Mourad built Memory Gates, an immersive installation, on site in the Cantor Art Gallery in February 2021. The work, imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through, explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory.
Artist Kevork Mourad gives a talk live on YouTube from the gallery in conjunction with the opening of his site-specific installation work Memory Gates . The installation was on view at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery from March 4 through April 11, 2021.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/atb_events/1006/thumbnail.jp
On a Lie-theoretic Approach to Generalized Doubly Stochastic Matrices and Applications
No full textIn this article, we study generalized doubly stochastic matrices using the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Applications to the inverse eigenvalue problem for symmetric doubly stochastic matrices are presented.ATIYAH M, 1982, B LOND MATH SOC, V23, P1; ATIYAH MF, 1983, P EDINBURGH MATH SOC, V26, P121; Audin M, 1991, TOPOLOGY TORUS ACTIO; BAUERLE GG, 1990, FINITE INFINITE DIME; BRUALDI RA, 1988, LINEAR ALGEBRA APPL, V107, P77, DOI 10.1016-0024-3795(88)90239-X; BRUALDI RA, 1991, ENCY MATH; CRUSE AB, 1975, DISCRETE MATH, V13, P109, DOI 10.1016-0012-365X(75)90012-6; GIBSON PM, 1980, LINEAR ALGEBRA APPL, V30, P101, DOI 10.1016-0024-3795(80)90185-8; GOURDIN M, 1982, BASICS LIE GROUPS; Helgason S., 1984, GROUPS GEOMETRIC ANA; JOHNSEN EC, 1971, LINEAR ALGEBRA APPL, V4, P225; Johnson C., 1981, LINEAR MULTILINEAR A, V10, P113, DOI 10.1080-03081088108817402; Katz M, 1970, J COMB THEORY, V8, P417, DOI 10.1016-S0021-9800(70)80034-5; Kirillov A.A., 1976, ELEMENTS THEORY REPR; Kostant B., 1973, ANN SCI ECOLE NORM S, p[6, 413]; Minc H., 1988, NONNEGATIVE MATRICES; MOURAD BH, 1998, THESIS U NEW S WALES; Perfect H., 1965, MONATSH MATH, V69, P35, DOI 10.1007-BF01313442; SINKHORN R, 1962, NOT AM MATH SOC, V9, P334; Soules G., 1983, LINEAR MULTILINEAR A, V13, P241, DOI 10.1080-03081088308817523; Tam T.Y., 1997, LINEAR MULTILINEAR A, V43, P87, DOI 10.1080-030810897088185188101
Artist Kevork Mourad Demonstrates His Monotype Printing Technique
No full textKnown for his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Syrian artist Kevork Mourad was invited by Arts Transcending Borders and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross to create the site-specific installation Memory Gates during a ten-day residency in Spring 2021. The work, imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through, explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory. Visit the exhibition website at https://memorygates.holycross.edu/https://crossworks.holycross.edu/atb_events/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Migration of Memory: The Art of Kevork Mourad
No full textIn his extraordinary practice, Syrian artist Kevork Mourad creates and projects drawings live in concert alongside musicians, such as members of the Silkroad Ensemble. His work explores a wide range of issues, including personal and cultural memory, the ways in which memory is inscribed in architectural spaces, the plight of refugees and survivors of genocide, and, perhaps most importantly, the possibility of our finding one another amid the cultural and political differences that so often divide us. Mourad\u27s work is thus animated by an abiding hope that, through art and artful collaboration, we can rediscover the deep history and shared humanity that binds us together.
In anticipation of the artist’s Spring 2021 ATB residency where he will create an installation in the College’s Cantor Art Gallery, join us for a live conversation featuring Mourad, composer and recent collaborator Osvaldo Golijov, Loyola Professor of Music, and Meredith Fluke, Director of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery. Moderated by Mark Freeman, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society.
Kevork Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians – developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Perspectives Ensemble, Paola Prestini, and Kinan Azmeh and he has performed in many institutions, including The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), The Art Institute of Chicago, The American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, ElbPhilharmonie (Germany), Rhode Island School of Design, Nara Museum (Japan), Lincoln Center Atrium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Born in Qamishli, Syria, Mourad now lives and works in New York City. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia. Mourad has been a resident teaching artist at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross (Worcester). He is the only visual artist member in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is featured in the film “Music of Strangers” (2016).
Recent commissions include Israel in Egypt, for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Sound of Stone to accompany the exhibition “Armenia!” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Well Wish Ya, a dance performance piece with the OYO Dance Troupe in Namibia. His performance, Home Within, co-produced with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, has toured the world. The 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize, his animated film 4 Acts for Syria made its 2019 premiere at the Stuttgart Animation Festival. He was recently asked by the Aga Khan Foundation to create a site-specific 20-foot drawing-sculpture called Seeing Through Babel, at London’s Ismaili Center, addressing the importance of diversity in our contemporary times.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/atb_events/1003/thumbnail.jp
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
On boundaries, charges and Fermi fields
No full textWe address some general issues related to torsion and Noether currents for Fermi fields in the presence of boundaries, with emphasis on the conditions that guarantee charge conservation. We also describe exact solutions of these boundary conditions and some implications for string vacua with broken supersymmetry
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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