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Fabricated group show Hexham
No full textFabricated Queens hall Hexham Curated by Dominic Smith works by JH Clay Cage PLA 3d Dimension print, Recline 22, Digital Print. Mercury remixed Milled polystyrene & Clay Cage Mov as0jhu
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@erin.dickson @bettinanissan @colin_rennie curated by @subsample Saturday 10 March – Saturday 14 April
Open 10.00am-5.00pm Monday-Friday and 10.00am-4.00pm Saturda
Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image Podcast:An interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy
No full textAn interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy, around energy, image(s) and artificial intelligence. Recorded as part of the AHRC-funded project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice, University of Dundee. Find out more: energy-philosophy.ac.uk/ Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images (2016 translation with Fordham), All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (2016 translation with Fordham), and Kant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials (2013 with Fordham). This episode explores Peter’s work as an ‘energetics of the image’, excavating how the energies of images may function differently to those of concepts, and touching suggestively on what Peter diagnoses as the ‘euergeia’ of images generated by Artificial Intelligence. As a focal point, we use Peter’s 2021 book Pour une écologie des images (For an Ecology of the Image), forthcoming in translation by Verso in early 2025
Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image Podcast:An interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy
No full textAn interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy, around energy, image(s) and artificial intelligence. Recorded as part of the AHRC-funded project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice, University of Dundee. Find out more: energy-philosophy.ac.uk/ Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images (2016 translation with Fordham), All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (2016 translation with Fordham), and Kant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials (2013 with Fordham). This episode explores Peter’s work as an ‘energetics of the image’, excavating how the energies of images may function differently to those of concepts, and touching suggestively on what Peter diagnoses as the ‘euergeia’ of images generated by Artificial Intelligence. As a focal point, we use Peter’s 2021 book Pour une écologie des images (For an Ecology of the Image), forthcoming in translation by Verso in early 2025
Prioritization and optimization of software deployment: rationale for large scale software upgrade to enhance performance and deployment methodologies to minimize time to completion, and the effects of managerial and political interference in information technology strategic decisions
Full text linkPlan BAs technology continues to advance, companies are forced to keep up with these changes or lose their competitive advantage. However, there are significant costs also associated with the implementation or acquisition and installation of that technology. In order to make the most efficient use of the resources to gain the most benefit from that technology, it is important that these implementations are done in a cost effective manner. Many factors contribute to the cost of implementing or upgrading to new technology. Some of these are fixed costs, or have very little flexibility. Many are necessary in order to complete the project, no matter what other choices are made. Some choices, however, have a significant impact on the cost of implementation without providing any additional efficiency for that cost. Decisions regarding the methods and mode of software deployment are one group with such an impact. Poor decisions, frequently made by managers with no Information Technology (IT) experience, can significantly raise the cost of a deployment project. This study looks at the impact of allowing political prioritization to take precedence over IT based decisions. When these decision strategies were compared within a division of the University of Wisconsin – Stout, significant variations were discovered. This scenario led to a 38% cost overrun between the models, and 2 weeks of additional time to complete the project with no benefit to the division as a result
Smith Street
No full textSmith Street corner looking towards the sea, showing the barbed wire fence at the corner of Bennett Street where the military zone (HMAS Melville) around the port began, with the Old Town Hall in the background.Unknown.Date:194
From Foucauldian Biopower to Energopower and Infopower:An Interview with Dominic Boyer and Colin Koopman
No full textKirsten Hasberg talks to Dominic Boyer, anthropologist and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthroprocene, and to Colin Koopman, philosopher and author of How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Their books published in mid-2019 put forward novel conceptualizations of Foucauldian biopower, which they term infopower and energopower, respectively. Criss-crossing between philosophical conceptualizations and concrete problems like the struggles of renewable energy communities (Boyer) and the influence of economic thinking on datafication (Koopman), the conversations show how Foucauldian concepts are relevant to today's power struggles inherent to the energy transition and the digital transformation.Kirsten Hasberg talks to Dominic Boyer, anthropologist and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthroprocene, and to Colin Koopman, philosopher and author of How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Their books published in mid-2019 put forward novel conceptualizations of Foucauldian biopower, which they term infopower and energopower, respectively. Criss-crossing between philosophical conceptualizations and concrete problems like the struggles of renewable energy communities (Boyer) and the influence of economic thinking on datafication (Koopman), the conversations show how Foucauldian concepts are relevant to today's power struggles inherent to the energy transition and the digital transformation
My Cost Runneth Over: Data Mining to reduce construction cost overruns
Full text linkMost construction projects overrun their budgets. Among the myriad of explanations giving for construction cost overruns is the lack of required information upon which to base accurate estimation. Much of the financial decisions made at the time of decision to build is thus made in an environment of uncertainty and oftentimes, guess work. In this paper, data mining is presented as key business tool to transform existing data into key decision support systems to increase estimate reliability and accuracy within the construction industry. Using 1600 water infrastructure projects completed between 2004 and 2012 within the UK, cost predictive models were developed using a combination of data mining techniques such as factor analysis, optimal binning and scree tests. These were combined with the learning and generalising capabilities of artificial neural network to develop the final cost models. The best model achieved an average absolute percentage error of 3.67% with 87% of the validation predictions falling within an error range of ±5%. The models are now being deployed for use within the operations of the industry partner to provide real feedback for model improvement. <br/
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