Easyfun-ethereal (Jeff Koons)

A review of Jeff Koon's 2001 exhibition "Easyfun-Ethereal" at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Screening landscapes : film between the picturesque and the painterly

Inherently connected to movement and to a sequential spatial experience in time, the picturesque has been considered as a precursor of the cinematic. In addition, the idea of the picturesque is closely connected to Heinrich Wölfflin’s notion of das Malerische or “the painterly,” which stands for a dynamic style of painting characterized by qualities of colour, stroke, and texture rather than of contour or line. Based on the keynote lecture delivered at the conference, The Picturesque: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, 25–26 October, 2019), 1 the essay disentangles the complex network of connections between image and landscape, painting and film, the picturesque and the painterly

Very Loud, Very Soft: Boston University Percussion Ensemble, November 16, 2012

This is the concert program of the Very Loud, Very Soft: Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were A View From Nowhen by Samuel Solomon, Snare Drum for Camus by Joseph Celli, A Volcano Mouth by Jo Kondo, ...dust into dust... from Strange and Sacred Noise by John Luther Adams, Garden Eight by Lei Liang, and Persephassa by Iannis Xenakis. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Bastard or playmate? Adapting theatre, mutating media and the contemporary performing arts

Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with the crossing, upgrading and mutilation of media. Others explicitly explore the unknown intermedial space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This publication explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation with theatre and performance

From Maulbertsch to MMORPGs. On Digital Cross-Media Entertainment

A person familiar with the Star Wars trilogy and currently hooked to the remake of „Battleship Galactica“ may feel curiously attracted and at the same time puzzled when entering one of the grandiose baroque interiors, many of which can be found in Bavaria, Austria and Hungary, whose ceilings are decorated with elaborate celestial landscapes. The sheer exuberance of the visual display of imaginary cosmic interaction has no match in contemporary architecture, but it may well be regarded as akin to recent science fiction scenarios, not to mention the facts of real life digital warfare. As far as iconographic conventions are concerned, Jupiter and Superman are reasonably close relatives. Yet, on the other hand, centuries divide those exquisite showcases of church and nobility from pop culture

Environments for sonic ecologies

This paper outlines a current lack of consideration for the environmental context of Evolutionary Algorithms used for the generation of music. We attempt to readdress this balance by outlining the benefits of developing strong coupling strategies between agent and en- vironment. It goes on to discuss the relationship between artistic process and the viewer and suggests a placement of the viewer and agent in a shared environmental context to facilitate understanding of the artistic process and a feeling of participation in the work. The paper then goes on to outline the installation ‘Excuse Me and how it attempts to achieve a level of Sonic Ecology through the use of a shared environmental context

The Villa Barbaro: An Integration of Theatrical Concepts in Search of Absolute Illusion and Spatial Unification

This paper will now examine various spatial conceptions that existed and proliferated during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The examination will include a discussion of the form of painting known as quadratura, as well as the various contemporary and ancient beliefs driving the design of theatrical space. The discussion will then investigate the ways in which the professional work of patron Daniele Barbaro influenced and sculpted the entire project. It will be revealed how his driving concept began to experiment with a unique reconciliation of contemporary and ancient constructions of theatrical space. Following, an analysis of the structure’s architecture will explore the existing tradition of integrating the villa and the theatrical form. An examination of the entire architectural construction will reveal intentionally designed performative moments, and specific attention will be paid to the nymphaeum and its alignment with the tradition of the teatro dell’acqua. Finally, a study of Veronese’s frescoes will reveal a conflation of spatial and temporal layering that generates a single unified realm of possibility. This unification is essential to the specific form of theatricality perpetuated by the villa

Landscape, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in contemporary Uruguayan and Ecuadorian poetry: The cases of Eduardo Milan, Ivan Carvajal, Eduardo Espina and Fernando Nieto Cadena

This thesis examines the work of four contemporary poets, two from Uruguay and two from Ecuador, as examples of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literatures’. By focusing on references to landscape (understood broadly) in their poems, this work examines how these poets explore questions of belonging to local, national, regional and international spaces. To this end, the thesis draws upon the different ‘scapes’ that form part of Arjun Appadurai’s ‘critical ethnography’