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Unravelling Malaysian Subjectivity: Political Identification and Bodily Experience in New Media Art
Get PDFIn this thesis, I attempt to unravel the Malaysian subjectivity with regards to the racialized body, as well as in relation to the new media art practice. A Malaysian subject is formally identified with racial identity in order to distinguish between the Malay and rest of the citizens. It is an identification that aims to classify the Malaysian population into racial groups, but never manages to represent the subject in its totality. Due to this, every Malaysian is burdened with a racialization of body that informs their individual lived experience. This research attempts to probe into this lived experience. It argues that this discrepancy between the lived experience and racial marking leads to an epistemological uncertainty that informs the Malaysian subjectivity. Adapting the work of Deleuze and Guattari on machinic assemblage, as well as Bernard Stiegler’s idea on ‘Technics and Time’ the current thesis tries to discover what it means to be a Malaysian – to think beyond the mere racial body. By treating the body as an assemblage process, necessarily employing influences from external forces in order to come into being, I examine how contemporary Malaysian new media art practice is entangled with the production of Malaysian subjectivity. The research is located within my own subjective approach as a key ingredient for the unravelling of Malaysian subjectivity. It is my contention that such an enquiry on the subjectivity, effectively, cannot develop as long as it tries to emulate a positivist and objectivist model of research. I assert that only through critical reflection gained by my new media art practice can I account for an epistemological uncertainty central to the experience of bearing the racial identity as a Malaysian
What is wrong with Singapore
No full textThis artwork was produced as part of the residency programme organised by the Centre of Contemporary Art,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Philippines
called Acts of Life, with support from the Goethe-Institut. During the residency, the artist observed that media
technology is utilised to abate the narratives by the nation state to define how a subject should operate and
experience the world. Reflecting this, the artist created a work to discern the truthfulness and relevancy of
a national narrative in individual lives. For this, a survey is devised as an artistic strategy to juxtapose the
desires of a subject with the expectations of a nation state. An opinion booth was set up as part of the 2019
Singapore Art Week. With the header “What is wrong with Singapore”—the booth invites the audience to
contribute their opinion towards the statement by writing it down on a postcard and pasting it on a designated
wall. The accessibility, dissemination, and restriction of these opinions are left completely to the judgement of
the audience visiting the booth
Mondrian in Action! Internet Art Build Using the VR Technology
No full textWestern aesthetic is built on empiricism that severs the unification of reality and metaphysics of ancient times. This restricts knowledge to the world of senses consequently shaping our modern way of operating in the world that tends to objectify and separates the world from the self. In doing so, the sense of ‘I’ enforces a viewer to externalize the world. However, with experiential technologies such as VR, this external, objectified world collapses as the viewer becomes immersed in a particular, virtual environment – overcoming the limitation of physicality by being engrossed in information as an extension of self. This paper argues such experience is reflective of an epistemology coming from Eastern cultures and philosophy. Specifically, by examining an early internet art build on VR technology called ‘Mondrian in Action!’ the article critiques the idea of High Art to resist secular fence of knowledge that marginalize other ways of experiencing the world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Assessment of Chinese Cultural Influence and Market Potential in Malaysian Chinese-Language Films Based on Big Data Analysis and Predictive Models
No full textThe paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the dynamic interplay of Chinese cultural influence and market potential
within the context of Malaysian Chinese-language films. Big data analysis and predictive modeling, the study explores various scenarios
to unveil the underlying correlations between cultural elements, market opportunities, and box office success. With integrating Stochastic
Gradient Descent (SGD) with Software-Defined Networking (SDN), the research enhances data processing accuracy and efficiency,
providing a robust framework for decision-making in the film industry. Through a meticulous analysis of scenarios, the study reveals the
intricate relationship between cultural impact and market potential, shedding light on how cultural influence contributes to box office
revenue. Additionally, an evaluation of data processing aspects offers insights into optimizing computational strategies. This paper's
findings offer valuable insights for film industry stakeholders seeking to navigate the intersection of culture, market dynamics, and datadriven decision-making, ultimately advancing the success of Chinese-language films in the Malaysian market. Our findings underscore the
pivotal role of cultural impact in shaping market viability, as evidenced by high correlation coefficients (r > 0.97) between Cultural
Influence and Market Potential Score. With a voluminous dataset, the study attains a fine-grained understanding of these films, reaffirming
the symbiotic relationship between cultural narratives and box office achievements. Moreover, the research evaluates the practical
dimensions of data processing, revealing the computational intricacies encapsulated by Processing Time, Memory Usage, and Input Data
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Virtual Reality in Empathy Towards Non-Human Being
No full textThis paper explores the potential for virtual reality (VR) to foster empathy towards non-humans. It examines how VR’s unique
characteristics of immersion and embodiment foment empathy by
allowing users to perceive and interact with virtual environments
from a novel perspective. This is achieved by using virtual reality
film technology to specifically create a chicken’s eye perspective.
Through the design and implementation of captivating narratives
and display outputs, the project develops an immersive VR experience that is close to a reality from non-human perspective. Participants’ levels of embodiment and empathy are evaluated using
a Likert scale survey, yielding valuable information on emotional
engagement. The conclusion of the paper examines the project’s
discussions, limitations, and future directions, highlighting the significance of virtual reality as a tool for cultivating empathy and
understanding towards non-humans
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Krystof Kieślowski’s Inner World: Exploring Film Editing as Sites of Memory
No full textThe objective of documentaries is to report issues and record truth
based on physical, observable, material evidence from the external reality. The three founders of the documentary genre define truth as concerning the external reality: Grierson’s documentaries focus on social
problems in society; Flaherty depicts how humans overcome the challenges in his natural environment; Dziga Vertov advocates truth through
the camera as the mechanical eye, to capture life objectively. Other
movements like direct cinema and cin�ema v�erit�e prefer to use the fly-onthe-wall technique to observe day-to-day life (Aufderheide 2007), with
longer takes and less cuts that allude to a factual documentation of the
outside world
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