967 research outputs found
Styling the Eighties: Ray Petri
No full textCurated by Shaun Cole, Associate Professor in Fashion and Matthew Coats, Senior Teaching Fellow in Fashion Design at WSA this is of two complementary exhibitions, launched to coincide with Black History Month. Focusing on the work of Ray Petri and Simon Foxton, stylists who made their name in the 80s creating ground breaking fashion images that addressed issues around race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality and contemporary style. The exhibitions feature original magazines, predominantly from the library collections at Winchester School of Art Library, with photo shoots by Petri and Foxton plus academic texts which address and investigate the work of both stylists
Styling the Eighties: Simon Foxton
No full textCurated by Shaun Cole, Associate Professor in Fashion and Matthew Coats, Senior Teaching Fellow in Fashion Design at WSA this is of two complementary exhibitions, launched to coincide with Black History Month. Focusing on the work of Ray Petri and Simon Foxton, stylists who made their name in the 80s creating groundbreaking fashion images that addressed issues around race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality and contemporary style. The exhibitions feature original magazines, predominantly from the library collections at Winchester School of Art Library, with photo shoots by Petri and Foxton plus academic texts which address and investigate the work of both stylists
El giro fenomenológico en las neurociencias cognitivas: de Fancisco Varela a Shaun Gallagher
No full text[EN]Our doctoral dissertation is entitled "The phenomenological turn in cognitive neurosciences: from Francisco Varela to Shaun Gallagher". This subject is highly relevant and innovative because, as noted Edmund Husserl ([1911] 2009: 8), we are persuaded –even in our 21st century– that “it is still being discussed until today in what relation is philosophy with the sciences of nature and spirit”. This discussion has been rekindled, again and again, in the last decades with regard to natural sciences and cognitive (neuro)sciences. In this thesis, we wanted to contrast the hypotheses that drove our research: one general hypothesis and three special ones in derivation of the first one. Hence, we opted to formulate them as follows:
• General Hypothesis (GH). There has been a phenomenological turn in cognitive (neuro)sciences, which was originally led by Francisco J. Varela and continued, after him, by Shaun Gallagher.
o First Special Hypothesis (SH1). The above phenomenological turn is reaction and product of some particular assumptions pertaining to a naturalization project, which we intend to investigate.
o Second Special Hypothesis (SH2). The above turn was originally promoted by the Chilean neurobiologist Francisco J. Varela in a determined intellectual and historical context.
o Third Special Hypothesis (SH3). The above turn has been updated and ripened, without injury from other authors who claim a similar action, by the Irish-American professor Shaun Gallagher in a determined intellectual and historical context.
If, on the one hand, GH comprehends all the present doctoral research, SH1 belonged to Part I, SH2 to Part II, and, as it could not be otherwise, SH3 to Part III. But before continuing, let's explain why we titled our thesis of the already enunciated form. Thus, the proposed title of this book is composed of various elements, as diverse was our standpoint: "Phenomenological turn", "cognitive neurosciences", "Francisco Varela" and "Shaun Gallagher". The very presence of these elements showed that we were faced with a research aimed to build bridges and not trenches between the different fields of knowledge. There is no work in our field of study that is strictly parallel to our chosen theme and authors. This point reinforced the originality of this book.
By "phenomenological turn", an original expression of ours, we were not willing to mean the positioning towards the mind or the conscience as a problematic entity on the part of philosophy or the sciences of cognition, since it was something already done by authors like John Searle (1992 ), Ray S. Jackendoff (1987) or Owen Flanagan (1993), among others; but rather we denoted with it the exceptional turn towards phenomenology as a complementary method on the part, not of a qualified philosopher, but of a renowned neuroscientist with outstanding philosophical skills: Francisco J. Varela and his philosophical partner, Shaun Gallagher. They tried to step out “the relation between philosophy and empirical science [as] one-way enterprise [or] an application of ready-made concepts [where there is] no reciprocity, and there is no feedback. The application does not lead to a modification of the original analysis” (Zahavi 2009: 13)
Fashion Media: Past and Present
No full textPublisher's description of the volume:
The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies, from fashion plates to fashion films, and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs, this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.
Winner of the PCA/ACA Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection, Fashion Media includes chapters written by international scholars covering topics from historic magazine cultures and contemporary digital innovations to art and film, exploring themes such as gender, ethnicity, design, taste and authorship.
Highlighting the complexity of processes that bind design, design, technology, society and identity together, Fashion Media will be of be essential reading for students of fashion studies, cultural studies, visual culture studies, design history, communications and art and design practice and theory.
This volume was co-edited by Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole and Agnès Rocamora, who also authored the introduction
Active X-ray optics for the next generation of X-ray space telescopes
No full textDescribed within is the design, manufacture, metrology and X-ray testing of an active X-ray
prototype intended for the next generation of X-ray telescopes. One of the challenges faced by
the X-ray telescope community is how to combine high resolution and high sensitivity into one
system, as weight limitations place constraints on the optics that can be launched. Therefore the
mandate of the active X-ray prototype is to provide high sensitivity through the ability of the optics
to be nested and to deliver high angular resolution through the active control of the optic’s form.
Piezoelectric unimorph actuators provide the active component: it is intended that they will correct
for figure errors within the optic and therefore increase the angular resolution capability.
The prototype’s design is based upon an ellipsoidal segment which provides point-to-point
focussing of an X-ray source. The prototype itself is composed of an electroformed nickel optic
where the non-reflective surface is populated with 30 piezoelectric actuators and it is the production
of the prototype that is the core of the presented research. Metrology of the actuators’ influence
functions is presented and highlight the prototype’s ability to deform its optic surface by microns.
In addition, the measured influence functions are compared against finite element models and a
distinct similarity between the functions is observed.
The prototype was tested at an X-ray beamline facility in November 2008 and the results
showed the prototype’s ability to correct the optic to achieve an improved angular resolution: from
0.786 arc-minutes to 0.686 arc-minutes in terms of full width half maximum. Finally, difficulties
in the manufacture of the prototype and X-ray testing shall be presented alongside future work in
conclusion to this thesis
‘Looking good in a Buffalo stance’: Ray Petri and the styling of new masculinities
No full textThrough his collaborations with models, photographers and musicians London based Ray Petri presented a new vision of masculinity within the pages of the new British style magazines of the 1980s. Known as the Buffalo Collective, this group led by Petri created new expressions of men’s fashion that juxtaposed high fashion designer garments with sportswear and found items. This chapter will examine the way in which Petri drew on his own life experiences and particular icons of masculinity in the creation of the Buffalo collective’s signature style. Petri’s choice of non-traditional male models from a range of mixed ethnic backgrounds challenged the hegemony of masculinity and fashion media images of men. This chapter looks specifically at how the ways in which his collaborative output in the eighties lifestyle magazines i-D, The Face and Arena presented this new vision and pay particular attention to sportsmen and boxer, cowboys, traditional tailoring, men in skirts and female masculinities to paint a picture of his creative approach to masculinities
Time out
No full textCatalogue essay by Shaun Wilson.
Published to accompany the exhibition held at s.p.a.c.e. Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, 6-20 July 2007
Beautifully Dangerous
No full textClaire Wilcox contributed a chapter to Shaun Leane's book 'Shaun Leane'.
Celebrated world-wide for his modern romantic jewels that push the boundaries of contemporary design, Shaun Leane has been responsible for creating a new genre of jewellery; precious, poetic, with a sense of eternity, yet relevant to today's world.
Illustrated with a breath-taking combination of high fashion shots and detailed close-ups of the pieces themselves. Captured by photographers Nick Knight, Robert Fairer and Chris Moore, along with a dedicated photo essay of unseen backstage images recorded by Leane's close friend Ann Ray.
Shaun Leane is introduced by the jeweller himself, then divided into three distinct parts: His heritage and training, by Joanna Hardy; reflections on Leane's famous collaboration with Alexander McQueen, by Claire Wilcox; and his modern classic commercial jewellery style, by Vivienne Becker. Altogether, this book provides a vital overview of an artist that will be of interest to anyone who follows the contemporary jewellery and fashion scene
COVID-19 housing assistance / analyst: Shaun McGann
No full text1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages)"November 24, 2020."; Includes bibliographical references (2nd unnumbered page)Discusses federal government and Connecticut's state lending authority temporary relief to public student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemi
Interview with Shaun Tan
No full textShaun Tan is a Melbourne-based artist and author, whose work is celebrated worldwide for the beautiful, dynamic, and mesmerizing story worlds that it offers readers and viewers. In 2011, Tan received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in honour of his contribution to international children’s literature, and an Academy Award for the short animated film adaptation of The Lost Thing (Ruheman and Tan 2011), which he directed with Andrew Ruhemann. Tan’s work ranges from drawing and painting, to sculpture and animation, whose complex themes, and sensitive nuances resist easy classification. Instead, his sometimes surreal, playful, and evocative stories immerse readers into new and productively strange places
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