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Material Matters : The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles
No full textThis anthology presents critical and theoretical texts by sixteen writers concerned with the presence of textile materials, practices and metaphors within contemporary art and discourse. The following issues are considered within the frameworks of feminism, structuralism and postmodernism: material and process; gender and identity; cloth, colonialism and resistance; history and tradition. Biographical notes on contributors. Circa 310 bibl. ref
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
Walking a Line: GPS and Satellite Technologies as Narratives
Full text linkIntroduction
Over the last year I have been using a GPS (Global Positioning System) device to track my trips as drawings and a personal narrative. These lines form patterns with many variations. My recent Jacquard weavings were records of satellite images of the earth, received through the process of ‘remote sensing’, performed by a machine, instructed in this task. This presentation will briefly describe GPS and satellite technologies and discuss how these different ideas link up with my earlier work as an artist.
Walking as a conceptual practice has an interesting history. It deals with a process rather than a product, and it can be interpreted as ‘narrative’. Walking as an idea also has complex relationships with nature, the focus of my Jacquard weaving for a long time. Creating drawings and patterns out of everyday activities connects me to the useful, or functional aspects of textiles and crafts. Where my GPS drawings deal with personal and localized narratives, the woven satellite images provide a global context.
Finally my work draws equally from science and art making, often confusing the boundaries of these seemingly distinct fields. Thus I follow in Ada Lovelace’s footsteps; she also shifted the separation between these categories in the 19th century. The GPS drawings take place in real life and real ‘nature’. The resulting lines have an interesting graphic quality and they are both a narrative and a scientific and accurate recording of an event. Finally, since my early weaving days, the idea of pattern as language has intrigued me
Nature as Code
Full text linkIn order to explore \u27nature as code\u27, I will look first at the complexities involved in naming and defining nature and the assumptions that have historically associated women with nature. I will focus on historical gardens and floral patterns in textiles as cultural constructs of nature. Specifically I will focus on the differences between French formal gardens of the seventeenth century and the picturesque and naturalist English gardens of the eighteenth century. I will examine how these gardens are reflected in textile designs that use floral motifs. Finally, I hope to provide some explanation of the influences of industrial and technological innovations.
Much has been written about women painting flowers, as well as the representation of flowers and their symbolism, so I will not reiterate it here. My interest is to explore representations and codes of meaning, as a language of interpretation, to be examined, in order to uncover that which is hidden in cultural forms and images.
I work in textiles with a specific interest in how textiles function as objects through their historical, social and cultural associations. To this effect, I have altered or deconstructed men\u27s suits by removing threads selectively. I have also constructed women\u27s dresses that are based on nineteenth century dress patterns by using aluminum flashing. Floral designs used in women\u27s dresses and in fabrics for the home such as upholstery and curtains are my most recent area of research. The images will show how the more ordinary and innocuous aspects of textiles influence my approach to textiles
Urban Textiles: From Yarn Bombing to Crochet Ivy Chains
Full text linkSmall hand-knitted little cozies appear in my local neighborhood; overgrown weeds in an urban community garden become a source for materials and inspiration.
These new approaches to textiles by emerging artists explore new aesthetics and explode relationships between process and material and ideas about the use for handmade objects. These artists question the use of galleries as exhibition venues, curators, and juries as judges, and commerce/consumerism around finished objects. Instead they use the street as exhibition space and blogs or flickr sites as venues to create local and global communities.
KnitGirl’s work consists of knitted patches attached to telephone poles, on fences and as a cover of my car antenna. She is part of an international yarn bombing movement where traditional knitting meets graffiti culture. She records all her actions and also the neighborhood on her flickr site.
Sharon Kallis works in an artist’s community garden collective, which is also outdoor gallery space, celebration, and play. She bridges on old sustainable practices of growing her own materials, but also uses weeds that overgrow things to build anything from fences to dresses.
I will look at work by these two young Vancouver artists: Robin aka. KnitGirl and Sharon Kallis, and describe their ideas and philosophies. Then I will present my own ideas about how this work fits into contemporary textile art practices and emerging ideas of ‘craftivism’. How do they develop or question certain textile traditions, other art practices and philosophies
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