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The Archive of Unrealised Devices
No full textGoogle Patents is an eight-year-old virtual searchable database containing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) patents, with US patent applications dating back to 1790. This searchable online archive of invention, novelty and innovation is a valuable tool for designers and researchers. As a point of departure for recent art-based research, Google Patents online database is mined by me as a creative practitioner. As an artist-hacker, the found material used in my research arises from patent searches for fantastical machines and devices developed to assist with swimming, dating from the 1870s to the early twentieth century. The retrieved patent, etched drawings and information evidence an understanding of a new sport at particular moments in time. However, almost all of these patents remained ‘unrealized’, only contained within the drawing and text of the patent itself. These patents are used as the visual and conceptual basis for The Swimming Machine Archive (2014), a growing body of collages featuring fictional devices for moving through water
The Fluid Archive
No full textIn Hal Fosters essay The Archival Impulse (2004) he suggests that contemporary art is fused with individuals desire to arrange and juxtapose. He also describes how practitioners elaborate on ‘the found object, image and text’. In considering the notion of ‘fluid archives’ I will pose questions around the use of objects and text in artists digital and material archives within contemporary art practice and how archive narratives are created by the presence of an author. This will also involve an interrogation of the fictional archive and how objects, texts and images are utilised to generate fictive approaches, which impacts upon the continually shifting ‘fluid’ relationship of an audience/user/viewer in the reception of such work.
My own digital archive will be discussed and the methods of construction which include appropriating objects, imagery and text using the mechanised logic of search engines who are ‘co-authors’ in the process, enabling a connection of seemingly random text and information. The archive has recently developed into a research tool and continuing associations are made from its contents meaning that the archive itself functions as the starting point for a variety of separate material art work/objects.
Foster, Hal (2004) OCTOBER 110, Fall 2004, pp. 3–2
Spoons
No full textSoanyway is a magazine project initiated by Derek Horton and Lisa Stansbie.Soanyway is a repository for words, pictures and sound that tell stories.We interpret the idea of a ‘story’ very openly, in relation to fact and fiction, narration or implication, and structure or a lack of it. And we regard most history, theory and critique as stories about stories.“There's a thousand sides to everything - not just heroes and villains. So anyway, ... so anyway, ... so anyway…“Soanyway” ought to be one word. Like a place or a river… Soanyway River.”'Spoons' is published within the Chapter 'Over and Over'
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
Nothing Great Is Easy
No full textA solo exhibition of 13 pieces of art work.
Nothing Great is Easy is an exhibition of sculpture, film, drawing and photography that proposes reconstructed narratives using the sport of swimming and in particular the collective interaction and identity of the channel swimmer. The work utilises the processes, rituals/rules, language and the apparatus of sport.
“Nothing great is easy” are the words on the memorial to Captain Matthew Webb who was the first man to swim the English channel in 1875
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