16,902 research outputs found
Technology in Search of an Artist: Questions of Auteurism/Authorship and the Contemporary Cinematic Experience
No full textAutorka koncentruje się na tym, w jaki sposób dzisiaj funkcjonuje koncepcja auteur/autora w kontekście przemian technologicznych i „rewolucji cyfrowej”. Śledzi interesujące ją pojęcie od czasu jego pojawienia się we francuskiej teorii (w „Cahiers du cinéma”), przez jego krytykę ze strony poststrukturalistów, aż do współczesnych form autorstwa – rozproszonego, kolektywnego, wypartego. Porusza też kwestię interaktywności, dzięki której widz może być współautorem danego dzieła. Notaro nie stawia żadnej sztywnej tezy; przedstawia raczej różne postawy wobec obecnej kondycji autora – te, które wiążą się z wiarą w interaktywność, i te, które widzą w niej iluzję; te, które w entuzjastycznym tonie zapowiadają demokratyzację autorstwa dzięki nowym mediom oraz Internetowi, i te, które sceptycznie do owych „techno-utopijnych” koncepcji podchodzą. Autorka przedstawia też niezwykle istotne zjawiska z zakresu rozwoju nowych mediów – inicjatywy takie jak Open Source Movement, pojęcie „Hollywood 2.0” czy „Future Cinema”. Jej rozważaniom cały czas towarzyszy refleksja, jak we współczesnych technologiach odbija się lub zatraca „aura artysty”, etos autora jako mistrza, geniuszu, indywidualnego twórcy. Tekst jest tłumaczeniem artykułu Technology in Search of an Artist: Questions of Auteurism/Authorship and the Contemporary Cinematic Experience opublikowanego w czasopiśmie „The Velvet Light Trap” 2006, nr 57, s. 86-97. © 2006 by University of Texas Press.Anna Notaro focuses primarily on how the concept of the auteur/author manifests itself today in the context of technological changes and a “digital revolution”. She examines the concept from its inception (in Cahiers du cinéma) through its critical reception by post-structuralists to its contemporary forms – scattered, collective and displaced authorship. The issue of interactivity is also considered; it helps the viewer to become the co-author of a given work. Notaro posits no stiff thesis; she rather offers various approaches to the present condition of the author – those that believe in interactivity and those that see in it an illusion; those that enthusiastically herald the democratisation of authorship via new media and the Internet and those that are skeptical about “techno-utopian” concepts. Notaro’s article also engages with the extremely important phenomena as regards the expansion of new media, including the initiative started by the Open Source Movement, the concept of “Hollywood 2.0” and “Future Cinema”. In her reasoning she is accompanied by the reflection on how the “aura of the artist”, the ethos of the author as master, genius or a singular creator is reflected or lost in contemporary technologies. The text is a translation of the article Technology in Search of an Artist: Questions of Auteurism/Authorship and the Contemporary Cinematic Experience published in The Velvet Light Trap 2006, no. 57, pp. 86-97. © 2006 by University of Texas Press
Understanding the innovative viral glycosylation machinery using a combination of chemical and structural methodologies
No full textThe aim of this thesis is the study of the innovative glycosylation machinery of the Mimiviridae family, using Mimivirus, Moumouvirus australensis and Megavirus chilensis as prototypes of lineages A, B and C, respectively. In 2003 the discovery of Mimivirus, the first giant DNA virus infecting amoeba, challenged the traditional view of viruses. Mimiviruses are giant viruses due to the size of their virions, easily visible by light microscopy, with a diameter of 700 nm against 200 nm for “traditional virus”. Their genomes encode 1000 proteins and count up to 1.2 Mbp, so they are as complex as the smallest free-living bacteria. Mimiviruses exhibit heavily glycosylated fibrils surrounding their capsid that differ in length depending on the lineages. Surprisingly, it was evidenced that they encode the proteins involved in their fibrils glycosylation. The glycosylation of the fibrils was confirmed by the analysis of their sugar content, revealing that the major saccharide components were rhamnose, N-acetylglucosamine, and viosamine for Mimivirus and N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylrhamnosamine for Megavirus chilensis. Until now, we lack information on the sugar composition of fibrils from members of the B lineage. In this thesis, the innovative glycosylation machinery of these giant DNA viruses was investigated combining three different strategies: carbohydrate chemistry, bioinformatic and biochemical methodologies. The carbohydrate chemistry methodologies allowed to elucidate the structures/composition of the glycans associated to the giant DNA viruses fibrils. Mimivirus fibrils are decorated with two distinct polysaccharides, called poly_1 and poly_2. Poly_1 is characterized by a linear disaccharide repeating unit made of 3)--L-Rha-(1→3)--D-GlcNAc-(1→, with a pyruvic acid branched at position 4,6 of GlcNAc. Poly_2 has a branched repeating unit with the sequence 2)--L-Rha-(1→3)--D-GlcNAc-(1→ in the linear backbone and rhamnose further branched at position 3 by viosamine methylated at position 2 and acetylated at position 4. Regarding the novelty of the identified structures, they have no equivalent in eukaryotes, while some components were reported in bacteria. Megavirus chilensis has a different sugar composition of its shorter fibrils, with N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylrhamnosamine and N-acetylquinovosamine as major components. Purification results suggested that Megavirus fibrils were decorated by more than one polysaccharides/oligosaccharide species, one having this trisaccharide: -L-4OMe-RhaNAc-(1→3)--L-RhaNAc-(1→3)--L-RhaNAc-(1→. A preliminary analysis revealed that Moumouvirus australensis fibrils were decorated with glucosamine and quinovosamine in addition to the rare sugar, bacillosamine. Starting from this experimental data, it was possible to identify new genes involved in glycosylation. As a result, the published nine-gene cluster of Mimivirus was extended to thirteen genes. A different cluster of fourteen genes was identified in Moumouvirus australensis, representing the first glycosylation gene cluster identified for the B lineage. A comparison of the glycosylation genes in the Mimiviridae family reinforced our finding that fibrils glycosylation was lineage specific. However, Moumouvirus australensis is an exception as it exhibits a cluster of glycosylation genes that is missing in other member of the B lineage. Among the genes with the glycosylation cluster, the function of L142 was investigated in vitro, demonstrating that it is a N-acetyltransferase that acetylates the 4 amino group of viosamine. N-L142 represents the first virally encoded N-acetyltransferase. To conclude, the fibrils of Mimiviridae are heavily glycosylated and the type of sugars and their organization depends on their lineage. The majority of the genes responsible for sugar production, sugar modification and glycosyltransferases were identified, strongly suggesting that Mimiviridae are autonomous for their fibrils glycosylation
Exilio y amistad entre mujeres: el epistolario de Zenobia Camprubí y Graciela Palau de Nemes
No full textLos epistolarios forman parte de la rica literatura que habla de la interioridad, de sí, y hoy en día están muy valorados por los estudios culturales, de gran auge en la actualidad, como documentos-testimonio. Lo que se encuentra en las cartas escritas por mujeres representa lo más íntimo y personal: se intercambian cartas con secretos, con menudencias y grandezas, pensamientos, cuestiones del mundo y de la vida cotidiana, y acciones de todos los días. La confianza y la complicidad que se va creando entre las mujeres que se intercambian misivas hace que el epistolario no sólo muestre aspectos de su faceta profesional y pública, sino también plasme sus experiencias más personales e íntimas. Es precisamente lo que pasa en el epistolario que está al centro de este estudio, que recoge las cartas intercambiadas entre Zenobia Camprubí y Graciela Palau de Nemes, dos intelectuales que intentan abrirse paso en un mundo dominado por hombres
Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences
No full textThis special issue focuses on the fractious, contested concept of ‘participation’ as it has emerged from the recent cross-fertilisation of literary and cultural studies with an array of performance theories and practices. In particular, it aims to investigate how a critical focus on the ‘travelling’ and interstitial concepts of performance and performativity can help to reframe, revise and challenge existing notions of publics and audiences (both as spectators and as readers).
The contributions published here range from installation artworks and reality shows to photography and antithetical forms of theatre, including Deaf performances and embodied narrative, thus reflecting, each with their distinctive concerns and specific case studies, a limited but significant sample of the richness and variety of the inter- or trans-disciplinary dialogue tensely taking place among different artistic and critical perspectives on the issue of performing audiences
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
Full text linkAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
A Mixed Finite Element Method for Modeling the Fluid Exchange Between Microcirculation and Tissue Interstitium
No full textThanks to dimensional (or topological) model reduction techniques, small inclusions in a three-dimensional (3D) continuum can be described as one-dimensional (1D) concentrated sources, in order to reduce the computational cost of simulations. However, concentrated sources lead to singular solutions that still require computationally expensive graded meshes to guarantee accurate approximation. The main computational barrier consists in the ill-posedness of restriction operators (such as the trace operator) applied on manifolds with co-dimension larger than one. We overcome the computational challenges of approximating PDEs on manifolds with high dimensionality gap by means of nonlocal restriction operators that combine standard traces with mean values of the solution on low dimensional manifolds. This new approach has the fundamental advantage of enabling the approximation of the problem using Galerkin projections on Hilbert spaces, which could not be otherwise applied because of regularity issues. This approach, previously applied to second order PDEs, is extended here to the mixed formulation of flow problems with applications to microcirculation. In this way we calculate, in the bulk and on the 1D manifold simultaneously, the approximation of velocity and pressure fields that guarantees good accuracy with respect to mass conservation
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
Full text linkVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Author and Lecturer Anna Bird Stewart will Speak at the University of Dayton
Full text linkNews release announcing the visitation and speech of author and lecturer Anna Bird Stewart to the University of Dayton
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