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The Mechanical Turk
No full textGavin Turk’s film The Mechanical Turk (2006), presented by the Gervasuti Foundation in collaboration with the Hotel Metropole is a site specific installation within the context of the hotel’s Byzantine, historical and cultural references. The film shows the artist impersonating Wolfgang von Kempelen’s famous automaton ‘The Turk’ (1769) which was capable of playing a game of chess against a human opponent. This ingeniously constructed mechanism was exhibited by its various owners and captivated audiences across Europe and America, until Edgar Allen Poe exposed it in the early 1820s as a hoax. The cabinet beneath the automaton was an elaborate hiding place for a dwarf chess master to secretly play the game. The influential cultural theorist Walter Benjamin compared the Mechanical Turk to a particular view of history, which doesn’t see through the illusions that conceal the true mechanisms of power and he related the automaton to Karl Marx’s concept of historical materialism
Gavin Turk
No full textThe book illustrates 25 carefully selected artworks spanning Turk's career, from his seminal blue-plaque work, 'Cave', through his many signature-based artworks, egg sculptures, and waxworks - including 'Pop', one of the truly iconic works of recent British art - to his more recent bronze casts of sleeping bags and bin bags. Also included are lesser-known works, some of which are reproduced for the first time, including documentation of performance and installation works.
The interview with Turk focuses on the ideas behind his work: the nature of art itself, his use of popular celebrity and political imagery, and why it is that he makes art at all
Cracks in Reality: Gavin Turk / Jens Wolf
No full textWhat is reality and where do its abstraction, original and copy, overlap? Today the boundaries are in flux and are repeatedly dissolving. With the exhibition, "Cracks in Reality - Gavin Turk/ Jens Wolf', Marta Herford presents two artists from its own collection whose works correspond with each other in dialogue form: Gavin Turk, who belongs to the generation of Young British Artists, and Jens Wolf, a representative of new abstraction in painting. Almost forty works, including large-format paintings, filigree sculptures and a temporary mural work created especially for the exhibition, open up a space to think about appropriation and imitation, all the while pointing up astonishing references to art history. Concepts of authorship and originality are scrutinized here by both artists with an ironic, critical undertone
Gavin Turk in the house: a reader
No full textWritten and illustrated by Deborah Curtis; with a conversation between Tim Marlow and Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
No full textGavin Turk is a leading figure in British contemporary art. His 1991 degree show work Cave, a blue ceramic plaque commemorating his occupancy of a studio, and Pop, the waxwork figure of himself as Sid Vicious, are among the iconic artworks of the 1990s. His "self-portrait" signatures and his finely crafted sculptures of everyday objects (such as cardboard boxes cast in bronze) bring the commonplace into an art space and challenge the viewer to engage in new ways. In 2003 he created the major sculpture Her for an exhibition at the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery. This image of "Ariadne in a sleeping bag" draws together many of his key concerns, including the paintings of early modernism and the complexity of sculptural forms, and ideas of authorship, identity and authenticity. In this engaging film, he discusses Her and a wide range of his earlier work. theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover
Gavin Turk
No full textPart of the YBA (Young British Artist) movement of the mid-1990s, Gavin Turk has created pioneering works of contemporary art using materials such as painted bronze, wax, and garbage. His installations, sculptures, and images refer to issues of authorship, authenticity, and identity and toy with the art historical establishment. Featuring numerous color illustrations, the volume includes Turk's major works since the early 1990s as well as three texts. One of these, an original essay by Iain Sinclair, contextualizes the artist's work under the umbrella of psycho-geography, including the impact of London on Turk's persona
Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
No full textThis data is being made available as part of The Data Ark project (https://osf.io/view/DataArk/) and has been shared with the authors' permission. Citation for original article: Paolacci, G., Chandler, J., & Ipeirotis, P. G. (2010). Running experiments on amazon mechanical turk. Judgement and Decision Making, 5 (5): 411-419
Creating a data collection for evaluating rich speech retrieval
No full textWe describe the development of a test collection for the investigation of speech retrieval beyond identification of relevant content. This collection focuses on satisfying user information needs for queries associated with specific types of speech acts. The collection is based on an archive of the Internet video from Internet video sharing platform (blip.tv), and was provided by the MediaEval benchmarking initiative. A crowdsourcing approach was used to identify segments in the video data which contain speech acts, to create a description of the video containing the act and to generate search queries designed to refind this speech act. We describe and reflect on our experiences with crowdsourcing this test collection using the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We highlight the challenges of constructing this dataset, including the selection of the data source, design of the crowdsouring task and the specification of queries and relevant items
Neuromechanical measurement of motor impairments in relation to upper limb activity limitations after stroke
No full textLoss of upper-limb function is a problem following stroke. Recent research has led to the emergence of new treatments but progress is hampered by lack of reliable objective measures of impairment, and understanding of the underlying impairment mechanisms associated with loss and recovery of functional activity. The aim of this research was to identify, using neuromechanical measurement methods, inter-relationships between motor impairments, and correlates of motor impairments with functional activity limitation in the upper limb of acute and chronic stroke survivors.An instrumented rig has been developed to measure impairments: muscle weakness, active range of movement, motor control accuracy in rhythmic and discrete tracking tasks, spasticity, coactivation, contracture and non-neural stiffness. In pilot studies, signal processing and data analysis techniques have been used to generate novel, clinically and physiologically relevant indices to quantify impairments. In a Main Study, 13 older impaired participants in the acute phase post-stroke, 13 in the chronic phase 14 age-matched unimpaired participants underwent rig assessments and performed a test of upper limb activity. A sub-group of impaired participants were tested on two days for test-retest reliability evaluation.Statistical tests have confirmed the validity of the impairments to distinguish between acute and chronic patients and unimpaired individuals, except coactivation during discrete movements and non-neural stiffness. Repeatability coefficients for the active test indices have been presented as benchmark values for use in future trials. The muscle activation indices showed lower repeatability which highlights the challenge of using these to measure change over time. The impairments that contributed to lower motor control accuracy were reduced extensor weakness, delayed extensor onset timing, coactivation and smaller extension AROM and PROM; coactivation was more strongly associated with motor control accuracy than with spasticity or stiffness.The most important contributors to functional activity in the acute group was extensor weakness, and in the chronic group was motor control accuracy and coactivation (rhythmic task). Contracture was important contributor in both groups, and was associated with weakness and loss of active range of movement rather than spasticity. The findings support the notion that rehabilitation strategies should focus on increasing muscle strength and prevention of contracture. However, assessment of more complex impairments like motor control accuracy and coactivation may be crucial to better target therapy, especially in the later phases post-stroke
Trade unions in Turkey : an analysis of their development, role and present situation
No full textThis thesis focuses on the trade union movement in Turkey with particular reference to the Turkish
confederation of trade unions (TURK-IS) and its members. Case studies were conducted in both TURKIS
and its member unions, widely, based on open-ended interviews with union officials, but also
involving the analysis of union's reports, documents and journals, the observation of workers education
seminars and visits to the state's institutions and employers' organisations. The main purposes of the
thesis have been to illustrate the changing nature, role and struggle of the Turkish unions in the context
of the changing economic, political and social structure of Turkey. It also focuses on the dominant
trends in trade unionism in a European context.
The study argues that an explicit and theorised understanding of internal and external pressure on the
trade union movements as they emerge in many countries, is of fundamental significance to the Turkish
trade unions. It is argued that the trend in the Turkish labour relations in the 1960s and 70s seemed to
be the co-operation of unions in the formulation of policies, related to national economic performance
and social stability in politics. In other words, unions were tolerated to provide both economic and
social stability at macro level and manageability and certainty at micro level in the light of the
industrialisation process.
In this context, Import Substitution Industrialisation (lSI) was the model of capital accumulation, which
required trade unions to become integrated within the new economic and political policies in order to
secure an economically and politically stable industrial relations framework. In this respect, the Turkish
unions played a mediating role between the state, employers and workers.
It is also argued that the changing system of capital accumulation (a move from lSI to "market
liberalism") in the 1980s has endangered the traditional institutional arrangements. The traditional role
of interest representation for unions, particularly as mediation between the ruling class and working
class, has become problematic. The decline of union power, due to changes in their environments, has
also weakened the value of central labour organisations as mediators between the state, employers and
workers. The anti-labour policies seems to have been the outcome of strategic interventions of the
governments and employers. In this context, particularly in the 1980s explicit reference to theoretical
frameworks have tended to increase in favour of "strategic choices" and "union identities".
The study argues that in the Turkish case, unions have not been faced with a complete policy of
exclusion. In other words, the material conditions of "integrative" "collaborative" or "corporatist"
policies have been reduced, however, they have not been completely eliminated. The reasons for this
might be that although the economic power of TURK-IS and its members was no longer so important
for the government, the political mediating role of unions became significant in the period of the 1980s,
which included the transition to democracy, the process of integration of Europe, the implementation of
austerity policies and the fear of the possible failure of the parliamentary regime.
I argue in the thesis that under the painful and complex process of economic and political
reconstruction and the development of democracy the Turkish trade unions have been faced with a
number of tactical and political options in the rapidly evolving the issue of European Integration and of
democracy and the increasing uniformity amongst member of TURK-IS. The Turkish case suggests that
trade unions can achieve a position of influence in industrial relations systems as long as they pursue
politically motivated strategies by setting a new agenda for members, articulating the broad long-term
interests of the working class and finally displaying collective responses and collective responsibility. In
this respect, it is argued that there is still a significant scope for a more active initiating and coordinating
role for central labour organisations and unions can pursue more comprehensive and tenable
trade union strategies
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