10,378 research outputs found
Ernest Edmonds: Light Logic
No full textDocumenting all works, in full colour, from Ernest Edmonds' exhibition Light Logic, this catalogue includes two critical texts.The first, a contextual overview entitled Cause and Effect, by Laura Sillars, reflects upon the impact of global developments, which culminated in the incredible events of 1968, and the effect of ensuing technological advancements on Edmonds' practice.Francesca Franco has researched Edmonds' influences as an artist from his interest in concrete poetry, film and music to mathematical logic and computing. Her essay documents the artist's practice from early algorithmically produced paintings to his research into human interaction.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Light Logic, at Site Gallery, Sheffield, 17 November 2012 – 2 February 2013
Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
Full text linkTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
Letter, Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869
No full textALS of Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869, about interviewing other first ladies. ALS.Found in:Mss. 65 T97 Additions, Series 1: Mss. Acc. 1993.19 Addition, 186
Heritage tourism: a case study of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Heritage Site at Pepin, Wisconsin
Full text linkPlan BMany things must be taken into consideration when developing a heritage tourism site. It can be a wonderful opportunity for the community involved to benefit economically and historically. Heritage tourism can keep alive the heritage and traditions of the communities past. When it is discovered that a heritage site exists, the first step is to consult with the community. A site will not succeed without the acceptance and assistance from the community involved. Once the interest is known, the development process can proceed. After determining that there is a heritage tourism site possibility in their area, a commumity must do research to determine the feasibility of the site, what will make it a success, and how to obtain that success. This study will examine a community with a heritage tourism site that has been successful in developing and maintaining it's site. By conducting this study, other communities seeking information for developing their site will have an example and tool to work with. The site chosen for this study is the Laura Ingalls Wilder site in Pepin, Wisconsin. The town is rich with it's heritage associated with Laura Ingalls Wilder. The development and success for this town will be documented through this study. Laura Ingails Wilder is a perfect choice for examining heritage tourism. The author of many American Pioneer books, she has become famous all over the world. In turn all places that she or her family members lived are or are becoming heritage tourism sites. There are older ones that have been in progress for some years, such as the one in Pepin, and there are ones that are being discovered through the popularity of new books written about Laura's family. These communities would benefi greatly from the information this study will produce. Without the bene-fit of this knowledge communities who are unaccustomed to tourism or the way the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites operate, may make terrible errors in development, tarnishing the site. This may also reflect badly on the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites. It is important for new Wilder sites to examine all information and know exactly what they are doing when developing the site. If all the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites can benefit from each other's knowledge and experience it will greatly increase the market for all sites. The more detailed and expansive the sites are about their knowledge and sites to see, the more people are going to want to travel to as many sites as possible, learning all they can about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. These sites not only attract Laura Ingalls Wilder fans but all people that are interested in the American Pioneer period of the United States history. This study will provide the knowledge for communities who are developing heritage tourism sites, especially those focusing on Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is a very important study for tourism and especially heritage tourism. When a heritage site is discovered communities run into the barrier of not having the experience and knowledge to develop the site properly. This study will analyze tourism in Pepin, Wisconsin to determine it's successfulness due to the fact that it is a Laura Ingalls Wilder heritage tourism site, and Wfit was developed in a way to provide tourists with a view of Laura Ingalls Wilder's past and the past of many Pioneer Americans. By studying this subject it will allow for many people to benefit. Tourist who are seeking the pleasure of the knowledge of the past, and communities who want to preserve their past and profit from tourism
Core Journal Lists: Classic Tool, New Relevance
No full textReviews the historical context of core journal lists, current uses in collection assessment, and existing methodologies for creating lists. Outlines two next generation core list projects developing new methodologies and integrating novel information/data sources to improve precision: a national-level core psychology list and the other a local institutional core list for the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and planning. The paper is based on the authors’ panel presentation at the 2009 ACRL National Conference (Seattle, Washington) titled “Core Journal Lists Re-viewed and Re-imagined.”This is an electronic version of an article published in Robin A. Paynter, Rose M. Jackson & Laura Bowering Mullen (2010): Core Journal Lists: Classic Tool, New Relevance, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 29:1, 15-31. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639260903571096Peer reviewe
Liquid Crystal Display
No full textThe Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) research project, led by Laura Sillars, investigated the LCD screen as a cultural form.Using museological research methods, art history and media archaeology (Huhtamo and Parikka, 2011), the project sought to deconstruct the LCD device both theoretically and physically, to reveal its inner workings. Moreover, the visual shaping role of the screen was exposed through artworks investigating the visual systems of LCD technology. The liquid crystals themselves, discovered in the 1880s, produce extraordinary visual effects. The harnessing of these materials into the highly compressed glass stack of the LCD screen has geo-political and cultural significance.Artworks, mineral object sets and science images were brought together for exhibition at Site Gallery, Sheffield and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). These works variously addressed LCD histories, materiality, geo-politics of material extraction, labour, histories of science innovation, colonial structures of exchange still shaping LCD production and the technologies end of life recycling processes. Overall, the project aimed to enable a greater understanding of the role of the LCD in creating visually seductive and arresting images.Sillars’ research project triangulated media archaeology, museology and art history research methods, to investigate the distinctive visual conditions of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens.The project output was in the form of two group exhibitions at Site Gallery, Sheffield (2018-2019) and MIMA, Middlesbrough (2019), and a book (ed. Site Gallery’s Sharna Jackson et al) including essays by the lead researcher, Laura Sillars and influential figures, including media theorists Jussi Parikka and Esther Leslie. The exhibition and publication were accompanied by an expansive public programme of events exploring industrial infrastructure, magical machines and animation using biological materials.Over two hundred object records were built in a database prior to the final corpus of 27 – 40 works selected for each venue. A freestanding hanging device/sculpture was commissioned from artist Anna Barham based on Donna Haraway’s idea that art allowed scientists to make ‘extra-logical’ leaps. Audience research was undertaken to understand how the exhibition informed them (or otherwise) about core ideas of technology, LCDs and media, and this data was used to re-formulate the exhibition for the second iteration. A critical analysis was commissioned by Dr Ele Carpenter.Media archaeologists research technologies that pre-date our current tools (Crary, 1992; Zielinski, 2008). This project saw research into early C.19th microscopical drawings of polarisation of light through crystals (Edinburgh National Gallery); John Ruskin’s crystals in Museum Sheffield’s collection and The Dorman mineral collection, which serve as exemplars of the predecessors of liquid crystals. Crystals were collected and studied as mineral specimens, but also because they were beautiful and desirable as visual objects.The world’s first curatorial practice-led research project to investigate LCDs using a media/geological and archaeological methodological approach meant the project was highly original. This project developed understanding into how the LCD’s polarisation of light, the quality of the colours produced, and the screen’s back-lit illumination transform visual material. The project has advanced the field of museum practice that draws on media archaeological methods. It was a case study in New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute (September 2019)
How Many Children Read Lady Macbeth? Prose Versions of the Scottish Play for Children
No full textThe chapter investigates and compares a number of prose versions of Macbeth for a child audienc
IATUL 32nd Conference 2011, “Libraries for an Open Environment: Strategies, Technologies and Partnerships,” Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 29 May-2 June 2011
No full textThis report provides details recorded from the author's attendance at the IATUL 2011 conference in Warsaw, Poland, May 29-June 2, 2011.This is a post-print version of an article that published in Library Hi Tech News. The published version is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0741-9058&volume=28&issue=8&articleid=1958452&show=abstrac
IFLA satellite pre-conference: open access to science information: trends, models and strategies for libraries
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to disseminate information about the IFLA pre-conference in Chania, Crete, Greece on the subject of open access in libraries.This is a post-print version of an article published in Library Hi Tech News. The published version of the article is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0741-9058&volume=27&issue=6/7&articleid=1891644&show=abstrac
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