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Outside Narration
No full textOutside Narration is a curatorial project in which Keith Piper was invited by Sheffield Museums to select work from their historic collections to be displayed alongside, and in conversation with, his work ‘The Seven Rages of Man’ (Originally made in 1984/ Reconfigured in 2018).
‘The Seven Rages of Man’ is a large-scale narrative driven work in which seven historical epochs are viewed through the personal experiences of a single black subject. These seven epochs are selected from a timeline starting in pre-colonial Africa, stretching through the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Plantations of the New World, migration to the UK in the 1950s, growing militancy and political awareness, ending in a final ‘return’ to a reconfigured Africa. This represents a historical timeline that sits outside of the official narration of history, a narration which more often informs the collections of objects found in Museum storerooms.
Objects were therefore researched and selected from the official Sheffield Museums collection that provided an official ‘counter narrative’ of each historical epoch within the ‘Seven Rages’, bringing these at times contested, at times complimentary accounts of history into dialogue
Music devised for the film Viva Voce by Keith Piper
No full textI was asked by Keith Piper to provide some musical material for the film, Viva Voce. He and I then shared ideas about the music of the 1920s that could have been heard by the frequenters of the Gargoyle Club of which Rex Whistler was a member. The heyday of the US ragtime craze had passed by this time but left influences in the music of a number of touring bands one of which was the Plantation orchestra with American jazz singer and dancer, Florence Mills whose song I’m a Little Blackbird, Looking for a Bluebird was a hit, and has since been seen as a plea for racial equality.
Keith Piper’s Viva Voce film, 2024 is installed in the old member’s dining room, Tate Britain. In Viva Voce, Keith Piper stages an imagined conversation between artist Rex Whistler and a fictional academic, Professor Shepherd, who asks Whistler about his 1927 mural 'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats', challenging him on its racist narrative and imager
Jet Black Futures (Monograph)
No full textJet Black Futures (Publication) is an Artist Monograph exploring Keith Piper’s past and present practice, with special focus on two related solo exhibitions: ‘Jet Black Futures’ at the New Art Gallery Walsall (14th January – 24th April 2022) and ‘Body Politics’ Works from 1982-2007’ held at Wolverhampton Art Gallery (10 October – 1st December 2019). The Monograph is comprised of a commissioned essay by Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton entitled “Time Looping: Cyclical pasts and speculative futures in the work of Keith Piper”. It also featured an visual and textual essay by Keith Piper entitled ‘Obscured Black Histories/Jet Black Futures’ and an Introduction by Deborah Robinson, Head of Exhibitions, The New Art Gallery Walsall
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
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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