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Virtuality of landscape. Atlas of artistic manifestations from real to imaginary
Full text linkAcademic debates concerning landscape convey a number of different definitions, varying by the discipline in which the term is used. This dissertation attempts to shed light on the understanding of what encompasses landscape in artistic projects. Using the notion of virtuality as an alteration to what has been established so far, the research will open the debate on what architects and designers can learn from artists and their way of thinking. Through the analysis of literature from the fields of art history, philosophy, sociology, and architecture, the research focuses on examining artistic practice in relation to landscape. This shift in perspective enriches the design process and is, at the same time, complementary to the study process of architects and designers. Virtuality, as potentiality transcending its technological aspect, is an idea borrowed from the field of philosophy—deriving from the theories of Gilles Deleuze—that appears as part of the problematics within the theories of emergence. Landscape, as a social construct, is analysed from the perspective of Henri Lefebvre's theory of The Production of Space, along with the perceptual theories of Lucius Burckhardt and John Berger, which will be applied here to comprehend the phenomenon of nature as seen by the artist. The research endeavors to challenge existing paradigms and explore alternative narratives of the relationships between humans and nature, which are subsequently mirrored in selected case studies of contemporary art. In this context, virtuality functions as a catalyst for transformation, creating a platform for diverse perspectives—a phenomenon of seeing certain things differently. This process supports a deeper focus on the artistic understanding of landscape and how it resonates with society at large in times marked by climate change, systemic risk, uncertainty, and its attendant apparatuses of power in the contemporary world. To grasp the multiplicities of today's landscape, there is a need to examine the volatile context of the 21st century, where technology and digitalisation establish the knowledge-based economy system to which we have access. Landscape, scientifically, is considered an objectified perspective on territory that is, at any time, under threat of turning into a product of capitalism and power. These issues are present in contemporary art, which often serves as a reference. The sciences, with their various forms of representation, encompass landscape in different ways—from cartography through representation to descriptive definitions. The goal of this research is to show the possibilities that arise from learning from all of these perspectives. As a product of artistic manifestation, landscape can take forms borrowing from all of these disciplines
The Pixelscape Project
No full textLe pointillisme, a pictorial technique developed at the end of the nineteenth century, allowed the landscape to be rendered through swarms of colored dots arranged on the pictorial surface. Based on scientific discoveries relating to visual perception, a partnership was created between art and science to represent the landscape of the time. The word pixel, contained in the calembour that gives the name to this idea, reinterprets the postulate underlying this pictorial technique by making a direct reference to a new precision agriculture method called Pixel Farming. This, in addition to the use of the most recent technologies, is based on a principle of punctual colonization of the territory, which can be divided into minimum units. A new vision of agriculture is initiated, sparking significant reflection on the existence of total territoriality, overturning the concept of No-Stop City with the idea of No-Stop Countryside. The design experiment launched with the New Species of Agriculture seminar in Maccarese was a privileged opportunity to research new city-countryside relationships and, at the same time, investigate how a technological and high-precision agricultural system can enter into dialogue with the existing living communities. The postulate questions how much forestry, hydrological systems, and natural irregularities can interact with a controlled production system through a hierarchical agricultural infrastructure. The text takes this question as the cornerstone of a theoretical reflection that sees a significant operational perspective in a specific model of agriculture. Exactly as done by the neo-impressionists, the attitude pursued in pixel farming allows the territory to be redesigned through sets of dots at variable scales, which blend together through the principle of proximity, actively interpreting the complex territorial palimpsest. A new type of agriculture that would represent the possibility of restaging Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, where the natural environment achieves aesthetic harmony with the most modern uses of the time
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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