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Friends of the Greenwood Library Presents David Baldacci
No full textOn April 3, 2009, the Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library hosted its spring event, which featured an evening with bestselling novelist David Baldacci. Baldacci spoke with guests during the social hour, provided a presentation to a crowd of almost 200 people, and then concluded the evening with a book signing. During his presentation, Baldacci addressed a captive audience as he discussed his many experiences related to becoming a successful writer. He reinforced the fact that he is a fantastic storyteller by sharing some amusing stories related to his career as a novelist. An Evening With Bestselling Novelist David Baldacci The author also spoke about his work in promoting literacy through the “Wish You Well” Foundation and by partnering with Feeding America in Feeding Body & Mind. At the close of his presentation, the audience rewarded Baldacci with enthusiastic applause. Longwood’s Barnes & Noble provided two of Baldacci’s newest novels, Divine Justice and The Whole Truth, for the book signing that followed the presentation. This memorable evening was enjoyed by all of the library’s guests
Re-enactment e altre storie. Dall’archivio alla contro-narrazione per immagini nell’arte contemporanea
No full textThis text is intended to serve as an introduction to ‘re-enactment’, one of the key concepts of the research on Visual Errancy. The Wandering Image and Its Multiple Temporalities that the author is conducting at ICI Berlin as part as the biennial core project ERRANS, in Time (2016-2018). By ‘visual errancy’ Baldacci means the travelling of certain images or forms over time, which contemporary artists appropriate by grasping them from the archives tout court, as well as the archive understood in a broader sense, as a heterotopic space where all cultural images (past, present, future, utopian...) potentially converge and remain in a state of flux. This appropriation is then followed by a reactivation – which usually also undergoes a process of manipulation and/or migration on different media and in new contexts – providing the images with other values, meanings, and conformations. It is in this way that (cultural) history is put in motion and knowledge re-circulated often as a counter-narrative made of ‘chains of images’ that challenges the traditional idea of heritage and at the same time renovates the modalities of conservation, presentation/representation, and distribution. Filipa César’s Conakry (2013) and Rosa Barba’s From Source to Poem (2016) are taken as two representative filmworks to show how the artistic re-enactment and montage of visual material, both appropriated from the archive and produced ex novo, can give rise to ‘other histories’
d.verse. Primo Festival Internazionale del Teatro per le Diverse Abilità
No full textNell’ambito delle manifestazioni per Genova 2004 Capitale Europea della Cultura, si è svolto a Genova, fra il 4 ottobre e il 26 novembre 2004, "d.verse. Primo Festival Internazionale del Teatro per le Diverse Abilità" organizzato dal Centro Studi per l’integrazione lavorativa dei disabili della ASL 3 “Genovese” in collaborazione con l’associazione culturale “la Milonga” e il Laboratorio Teatrale Integrato Tuttinscena, con il sostegno della Provincia di Genova e della Regione Liguria, il patrocinio dell'Università degli Studi di Genova, e la collaborazione di otto teatri genovesi. Responsabile: Maria Paola Ferrigno; Progettazione artistica: Cristina Valenti; Coordinamento artistico: Sandro Baldacci. In conclusione, il convegno "D.verse Abilità e Teatro", occasione che ha consentito a studiosi, attori, registi e scrittori di interrogarsi sulle nuove frontiere del teatro come strumento di integrazione e sul peculiare apporto che artisti “diversamente abili” possono dare alla rappresentazione artistica. Il cartellone ha ospitato alcune fra le più importanti compagnie di teatro integrato, e di compagnie composte da attori disabili, che operano in Italia e in Europa. Il Festival si è aperto con il musical “l’Anima Buona del Pianeta Sezuan” del Laboratorio Tuttinscena: trenta ragazzi, di cui una buona parte portatori di handicap, provenienti da dieci scuole genovesi, per la regia di M. Pirovano e M. Bonomi. A seguire: “Microphobia” e “The Human Suite”, due coreografie della CandoCo Dance Company di Londra, una compagnia di danza contemporanea formata da danzatori disabili e normodotati, leader nella formazione e nell’educazione alla danza integrata; “La Sirena di Rodari” del Laboratorio Teatrale Integrato Piero Gabrielli di Roma, per la regia di R. Gandini: tredici “ex” del laboratorio in uno spettacolo che ha dato vita alla prima Compagnia Italiana Integrata di Teatro Ragazzi; “Esopo Opera Rock”, musical per la regia di S. Baldacci, frutto di un laboratorio integrato che ha coinvolto i centri diurni della Città di Imperia, il DAMS di Genova e operatori socio sanitari; “No Exit”, regia di A. Viganò, della compagnia francese Oiseau Mouche, finanziata dallo stato e composta da attori professionisti portatori di handicap; “Ritratti” di Lenz Rifrazioni di Parma per la regia di M.F. Maestri: cinque ritratti del mito occidentale resi con eccezionale forza rappresentativa delle attrici diversamente abili ; “Filottete H” di Maccabeteatro per la regia di E. Toma: ispirato a Sofocle, lo spettacolo, con attori portatori di handicap, tratteggia la difficoltà di accettare l’idea di non essere perfetti.
A conclusione del ciclo di rappresentazioni, il convegno dal titolo "D.verse Abilità e Teatro". Interventi di E. Buonaccorsi (Università di Genova ), M.P. Ferrigno (Centro Studi della ASL 3 “Genovese”), G. Oliva (Università Cattolica di Milano), C. Valenti (Università di Bologna), A. Celestini (attore e regista), R. Frati (Teatro dell’Oppresso di Parigi), T. Scarpa (scrittore), D. Segre (regista). In chiusura: “A proposito di sentimenti”, mediometraggio di D. Segre. Il Festival si è concluso con la performance “Emplacement Reservé”, che Rui Frati ha rappresentato con i suoi attori e con il coinvolgimento diretto del pubblico presente. Le disavventure di una madre “speciale” a causa delle circostanze che coinvolgono sua figlia disabile. Un modo dinamico e vitale affinché il dibattito e l’atto teatrale siano un unico corpo
Editing as a Performative and Collaborative Practice. Ryan Trecartin's Hectic Video Collages
No full textThis contribution examines editing as an art practice focusing on Ryan Trecartin’s work. Trecartin is definitely one of those artists among the younger generations who is experimenting in a more radical and crosswise manner with the new media and the opportunities of using, sharing and mobilizing images offered by the Internet, beyond copyright and the proper citation of “poached” materials. In Trecartin’s videos, images, sounds and words are assembled in a digital hypertext − schizophrenic and hypnotic − of which the artist is the main but not exclusive author. The analysis focuses on central aspects of Trecartin’s practice, such as the supposed re-materialisation of the art object related to the idea of “an Internet of things”; the visual re-codification that generates new aesthetic standards, such as the so-called “post-Internet style”; and co-working as a contemporary art practice and remedy to the “death of the author” that was pessimistically theorised throughout the 20th and 21st century
'Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read': Language as a Sculptural Material in Robert Smithson
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Rotational spectra of rare isotopic species of fluoroiodomethane:Determination of the equilibrium structure from rotational spectroscopy and quantum-chemical calculations
No full textSupported by accurate quantum-chemical calculations, the rotational spectra of the mono- and bi-deuterated species of fluoroiodomethane, CHDFI and CD2FI, as well as of the 13C-containing species, 13CH2FI, were recorded for the first time. Three different spectrometers were employed, a Fourier-transform microwave spectrometer, a millimeter/submillimter-wave spectrometer, and a THz spectrometer, thus allowing to record a huge portion of the rotational spectrum, from 5 GHz up to 1.05 THz, and to accurately determine the ground-state rotational and centrifugal-distortion constants. Sub-Doppler measurements allowed to resolve the hyperfine structure of the rotational spectrum and to determine the complete iodine quadrupole-coupling tensor as well as the diagonal elements of the iodine spin-rotation tensor. The present investigation of rare isotopic species of CH2FI together with the results previously obtained for the main isotopologue [C. Puzzarini, G. Cazzoli, J. C. López, J. L. Alonso, A. Baldacci, A. Baldan, S. Stopkowicz, L. Cheng, and J. Gauss, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 174312 (2011); G. Cazzoli, A. Baldacci, A. Baldan, and C. Puzzarini, Mol. Phys. 109, 2245 (2011)] enabled us to derive a semi-experimental equilibrium structure for fluoroiodomethane by means of a least-squares fit procedure using the available experimental ground-state rotational constants together with computed vibrational corrections. Problems related to the missing isotopic substitution of fluorine and iodine were overcome thanks to the availability of an accurate theoretical equilibrium geometry (computed at the coupled-cluster singles and doubles level augmented by a perturbative treatment of triple excitations)
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