99 research outputs found
LIPIcs, Volume 248, ISAAC 2022, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 248, ISAAC 2022, Complete Volum
Participatory methods, guidelines and good practice guidance to be applied throughout the project to enhance problem definition, co-learning, synthesis and dissemination
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art
âThis book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities. The second issue studied in this volume is related to the ontology of the work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type of objects, containing particular kinds of representation which elicit a particular kind of experience. The research question explored is: What properties in artful objects trigger this type of experience, and what characterizes representation in written and visual artworks? The volume sets the scene for state-of-the-art inquiries in the intersection between the psychology and ontology of art. The investigations of the relation between the properties of artworks and the characteristics of aesthetic experience increase our insight into what art is. In addition, they shed light on essential properties of human meaning-making in general
Commemoration, Memory and the Process of Display: Negotiating the Imperial War Museum's First World War Exhibitions, 1964 - 2014
This thesis explores the key permanent and temporary First World War exhibitions held at the Imperial War Museum in London over a fifty year period. In so doing, it examines the theoretical, political and intellectual considerations that inform exhibition-making. It thus illuminates the possibilities, challenges and difficulties, of displaying the 'War to End All Wars'. Furthermore, by situating these displays within their respective social, economic and cultural contexts, this produces a critical analysis of past and present practices of display. A study of these public presentations of the First World War enables discussion of the Museumâs primary agendas, and its role as a national public institution. In considering this with the broader effect of generational shifts and the ever-changing impact of the Warâs cultural memory on this institution, the thesis investigates how the Imperial War Museum has consistently reinvented itself to produce engaging portrayals of the conflict for changing audiences.Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with Imperial War Museums
Broadening national security and protecting crowded places - Performing the United Kingdomâs War on Terror, 2007-2010
This thesis critically interrogates the spatial politics of two âfrontsâ of the UKâs
on-going war on terror between 2007-2010: first, broadening national security, the extension of national security into non-traditional social and economic domains; and second, security in âcrowded placesâ, counter-terror regimes in the UKâs public spaces. It responds to the neglect within security studies of the spatial politics of this conflict by considering the spatial performativities enabling these two contemporaneous iterations of national security. The first part applies critical geopolitics and biopolitics frameworks to a case study of the new National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom. It argues that UK national security reiterates the âinterconnectingâ performativities of neoliberal norms as a âbroadeningâ understanding of national security which licenses a âbroadeningâ register of coercive policy responses. The second part carries out an exploratory case study of one such
coercive policy response: security at the âcrowded placeâ of the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. It identifies crowded places security as reliant on practices of emptying out and âzero-ingâ space, pre-emptive 'zero tolerance' risk imaginaries, and extensive surveillance â both electronic and ânaturalâ. In other words, counter-terrorism is becoming increasingly important in shaping daily life in the UK through a diverse range of spatial control practices. The thesis uses an innovative methodological and conceptual strategy combining Foucauldian discourse analysis of security policies, participant observation of situated security practices, with theoretical frameworks from political geography, international relations and visual culture. It also develops Judith Butlerâs theory of performativity as a conceptual tool to critique the materialisation of contemporary spaces of security and counter-terrorism, from the meta-imaginative geographies of national security to the micro-spaces of counter-terrorism in UK public space. In sum, this thesis points towards new avenues for understanding the on-going encroachment of the war on terror into everyday spaces in the U
Myanmar's New Generation: A study of elite young people in Yangon, 2010 to 2016
With Myanmarâs 2010 general election the worldâs longest
reigning military regime undertook a managed diminution of overt
authoritarian rule. As the population adjusted to a series of
cascading social transformations, elite young people stepped up
to catalyse a period of generational change. This thesis
considers elite young people in Myanmar from 2010 to 2016, and
provides analysis based on extensive fieldwork in the city of
Yangon, Myanmar. This thesis disaggregates five social groups of
elite young people in contemporary Myanmar, and orders them
according to their proximity to established arrangements of the
former military regime: the Yakuza gangsters, the cronies, the
beloved young women, the cool underground rappers, and the
creatives.
Through a process of generational rejuvenation elite young people
influenced Myanmarâs social and economic transformations, in
what proved to be nuanced and contradictory ways. Theories of
generations conceptualise generational change as an iterative
process, involving the regeneration and rejuvenation of existing
explanations and systems alongside the introduction of entirely
new ones. In contrast, theories of elite formation explain how
various elite qualities are inherited from one generation to the
next, often bolstering the social status of the people with that
quality. This thesis applies a combination of these approaches to
the case study of Myanmar, contributing a vibrant understanding
of the processes of generational change, highlighting the role of
elite young people in the early days of a wide-ranging social
transformation
Material memory: the work of late Sickert 1927-42
This thesis argues that late Sickert was as significant and
complex as the Sickert of Camden Town, and explores the richness
of the historically specific ways a major British artistâs
hitherto neglected corpus functioned. In particular, I investigate
the mediation of time and material memory in Sickert's paintings
of 1927-42. These works mix responses to contemporary press
photography with Victorian imagery from a century earlier at a
time when both were loaded with problematic political and cultural
meanings.
Late Sickert appropriated both past and contemporary mass
culture, but I stress the importance of the material conversion
of memory. The thesis argues that in his work 'time' is played
with in various material ways â from speed to delay and from the
time of historiography to the time of painting itself. Spectacle
and remembrance were critically negotiated in the space where the
materiality of paint meets the different temporal qualities of its
source images. These paintings used the material thingness of
paint to reflect sceptically on narratives of Englishness in the 1930s
LIPIcs, Volume 258, SoCG 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 258, SoCG 2023, Complete Volum
Large bichromatic point sets admit empty monochromatic 4-gons
We consider a variation of a problem stated by ErdËos
and Szekeres in 1935 about the existence of a number
fES(k) such that any set S of at least fES(k) points in
general position in the plane has a subset of k points
that are the vertices of a convex k-gon. In our setting
the points of S are colored, and we say that a (not necessarily
convex) spanned polygon is monochromatic if
all its vertices have the same color. Moreover, a polygon
is called empty if it does not contain any points of
S in its interior. We show that any bichromatic set of
n ⼠5044 points in R2 in general position determines
at least one empty, monochromatic quadrilateral (and
thus linearly many).Postprint (published version
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