227 research outputs found
Actors and Emotion in Performance
No full textUtilising a survey conducted among actors in the USA and UK, this article examines and challenges the historical assumption that textual-based acting in the West is concerned primarily with the [re]creation of emotion. The idea that acting is based on the [re]creation of emotion is supported by a brief exploration of historical notions of acting from ancient Rome to the early twentieth century. Through the use of a questionnaire and interviews, the author uses the words of modern actors along with the writings of their historical counterparts to demonstrate, statistically and anecdotally, that actors do not feel that they are [re]creating emotions but are, in fact, reacting to the given circumstances as the character they are portraying would
Oslo International Acting Festival 2012. Theme: Techniques and Methods
No full textVideo recordings from Oslo International Acting Festival 2012, at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, June 2-8 2012.The 2012 Oslo International Acting Festival had focus on a confrontation between the System of Constantin Stanislavsky – used in the school as the main pedagogical approach – with other German and American acting traditions. From America, the derivation of Stanislavsky’s ideas with Micheal Chechov, and the two most important personalities of the Group Theater, Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, and from the new groundbreaking ideas from German theater tradition such as Brecht and post-dramatic approaches.
Festival curators: Øystein Stene and Gianluca Iumiento.
Video recordings:
Day 1:
-Stanislavsky Acting System. Debate (Sound only)
-Stanislavsky Acting System. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Hans Henriksen
Day 2:
-Michael Chekhov Technique and acting training. Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumiento
-Michael Chekhov Technique. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Leonard Petit, Artist Director of the Michael Chekhov Institute in New York.
Day 3:
-GOB SQUAD: Post-dramatic theatre. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Alison Sarah Thom and Berit Stumpf from GOB SQUAD Theatre Group.
Day 4:
-Lee Strasberg technique "Method acting". Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumiento
-Lee Strasberg technique. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Ed Setrakian, actor, director and pedagogue.
Day 5:
-Brecht tradition. Øystein Stene in conversation with Harald Fuhrmann and Michael Keller.
Day 6:
-Meisner techinque and acting training. Debate moderated by Gianluca Iumiento
-Meisner Technique. William Esper and Suzanne Esper interviewed by Øystein Stene
Day 7:
-Acting as artistic research. Øystein Stene in conversation with Karmenlara Ely
-Acting as artistic research. Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumient
Recognizing the Alien: Science Fiction Storyworlds and the Reader’s Reality
No full textThis project is a critical study of the science fiction storyworld as the platform for the genre to contribute meaningfully to the literary canon. In the process of world-building, the author weaves a fabric of world elements in the categories of nominal, natural, cultural, and ontological. Through the crafting of an alien, secondary world, the author creates binary parallels between the reader’s reality and the fictional world. The reader is encouraged to engage with the text by filling the gap between worlds, and thus critically think about their own status quo. The secondary world is formed using departures from the current reality and these departures juxtapose the unfamiliar elements with the familiarities that go unchecked because of their ubiquitous nature. The science fiction storyworld disembodies social issues from their human categories and allows the reader to reconsider perspectives while distanced from the self.
Received Honourable Mention for the 2021 Mount Royal University Library Awards for Research Excellence in the Senior Individual Award Category
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The genetics of susceptibility to leprosy
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Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia
No full textEmployment protection legislation in Croatia is among the most strict in Europe. Firing is difficult and costly, and flexible forms of employment are limited. Is this apparent rigidity reflected-as one would expect based on standard economic theory-in low labor market dynamics? Is job creation low and hiring limited? Is the job security of insiders achieved at the cost of outsiders not being able to enter thelabor market? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining job flows. If the employment protection legislation is binding, then job and worker turnover should be low. He shows that this is indeed the case. Hiring is limited and the average job tenure is very long in Croatia. Job destruction is low, however job creation is still lower. The result is accumulation of unemployment, in large part due to new labor market entrants not being able to find a job. The high degree of job protection also seems to strengthen the bargaining position of insiders and results in relatively high wages. So, wages in Croatia are higher than among its competitors, even after adjusting for productivity. These high labor costs are likely to contribute to limited job creation in existing firms, but also are likely to discourage the entry of-and thus job creation in-new firms. The author presents evidence that firm growth has been indeed limited in Croatia, contributing to the low employment level. The author examines other potential causes of high unemployment in Croatia (the unemployment benefit system, labor taxation, the wage structure, and skill and spatial mismatches). He argues that they do not play a substantial part in accounting for poor labor market outcomes in Croatia. The author concludes that the stringent employment protection legislation is the key labor market institution behind low job creation and high unemployment. Based on this he recommends specific measures aimed at liberalizing the labor market to foster job creation and employment.Labor Management and Relations,Labor Policies,Labor Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Trade Finance and Investment,Labor Markets,Labor Management and Relations,Labor Standards,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies
The polarization-based collimated beam combiner and the proposed NOVA fringe tracker (NFT) for the VLTI
No full textThe Polarization-Based Collimated Beam Combiner efficiently produces pairwise interference between beams from multiple telescopes. An important feature is achieving ”Photometric Symmetry” whereby interference measurements have no first-order sensitivity to wavefront perturbations (or photometric variations following spatial filtering) which otherwise entail visibility measurements with increased error, bias, and nonlinearity in phase determination. Among other proposed applications, this topology has been chosen as the basis for the design of the NOVA Fringe Tracker (NFT), a proposed 4 or 6 telescope second-generation fringe tracker for the VLTI. The NFT takes advantage of the photometric symmetry thus achieved making it capable of tracking on stars resolved beyond the first visibility null, as well as interfering a telescope beam with one which is 20 times brighter, a design goal set by ESO. By not requiring OPD modulation for interferometric detection, the detector exposure time can be increased without performance reduction due to time skew nor is sensitivity reduced by removing optical power for photometric monitoring, and use of two-phase interferometric detection saves one half of the photons being diverted for detection of the other two (mainly) unused quadrature phases. The topology is also proposed for visibility measuring interferometers with configurations proposed for the achievement of balanced quadrature or 3-phase interferometric detection. A laboratory demonstration confirms »100:1 rejection of photometric crosstalk in a fringe tracking configuration where atmospheric OPD fluctuations were simulated using a hair dryer. Tracking with a 30:1 intensity ratio between the incoming beams was performed while rejecting large introduced photometric fluctuations.IST/OpticaApplied Science
Oslo International Acting Festival 2012. Theme: Techniques and Methods
No full textThe 2012 Oslo International Acting Festival had focus on a confrontation between the System of Constantin Stanislavsky – used in the school as the main pedagogical approach – with other German and American acting traditions. From America, the derivation of Stanislavsky’s ideas with Micheal Chechov, and the two most important personalities of the Group Theater, Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, and from the new groundbreaking ideas from German theater tradition such as Brecht and post-dramatic approaches.
Festival curators: Øystein Stene and Gianluca Iumiento.
Video recordings:
Day 1:
-Stanislavsky Acting System. Debate (Sound only)
-Stanislavsky Acting System. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Hans Henriksen
Day 2:
-Michael Chekhov Technique and acting training. Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumiento
-Michael Chekhov Technique. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Leonard Petit, Artist Director of the Michael Chekhov Institute in New York.
Day 3:
-GOB SQUAD: Post-dramatic theatre. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Alison Sarah Thom and Berit Stumpf from GOB SQUAD Theatre Group.
Day 4:
-Lee Strasberg technique "Method acting". Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumiento
-Lee Strasberg technique. Conversation between Øystein Stene and Ed Setrakian, actor, director and pedagogue.
Day 5:
-Brecht tradition. Øystein Stene in conversation with Harald Fuhrmann and Michael Keller.
Day 6:
-Meisner techinque and acting training. Debate moderated by Gianluca Iumiento
-Meisner Technique. William Esper and Suzanne Esper interviewed by Øystein Stene
Day 7:
-Acting as artistic research. Øystein Stene in conversation with Karmenlara Ely
-Acting as artistic research. Debate. Moderator: Gianluca Iumient
eBat: A Technology-enriched Life Sciences Research Community
No full textWe are leveraging Web-based technology to create an online community for Life Science research. Our prototype community for cardiovascular research with live bats, called eBat, consists of local researchers as well as remote collaborators. The eBat project offers scientists and students a remote-controlled microscope for conducting experiments, a message board and a chat system for scheduled
as well as spontaneous communication, and an online peer-reviewed manuscript repository. In this paper, we report our observations of the use of the eBat
infrastructure by local researchers over a period of six months. Resident researchers quickly adopted the eBat infrastructure. eBat technology has now become an indispensable part of the local research group and is used
extensively for coordination, communication, and awareness. eBat complements face-to-face interactions well and has resulted in improved communication amongst lab members. We are currently exploring the extension of eBat technology to include distant researchers in live cardiovascular research
experiments. We discuss our initial experiences with adapting the eBat infrastructure for research-at-a-distance and the lessons learned from these initial interactions
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