59 research outputs found

    08081 Abstracts Collection -- Data Structures

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    From February 17th to 22nd 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08081 ``Data Structures\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. It brought together 49 researchers from four continents to discuss recent developments concerning data structures in terms of research but also in terms of new technologies that impact how data can be stored, updated, and retrieved. During the seminar a fair number of participants presented their current research. There was discussion of ongoing work, and in addition an open problem session was held. This paper first describes the seminar topics and goals in general, then gives the minutes of the open problem session, and concludes with abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar. Where appropriate and available, links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided

    ON THE NATURE OF FIELDWORK A COMPOSER'S INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORY AND PRACTICE

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    The following text serves to accompany a body of practical work in music (composing) and mark-making. The two elements, when taken together, are an illustration of the role which certain types of fieldwork developed by the author may offer the composer if adopted into the process of acoustic invention. The introduction sets forth the conditions in which such an approach to the relationship between the natural, the sonic and the visual becomes relevant and important. Ideas of interconnectivity are introduced and terms are defined. Chapter two deals with the ideas of connecting patterns and sets of relationships in more detail, exploring the concepts of implicate order and recurring natural patterns. In chapter three we enter into discussion of fieldwork as a practice, encompassing theory and practical application. Chapters four to seven concern themselves with the analysis of the compositions borne of the fieldwork in question, and enter into more detail about any fieldwork specific to the pieces themselves. The relationships between the pages of sketches and the written music is considered here from the musical point of view. Finally, chapter eight acts as a brief conclusion to the study, in which we not only consider the results of the application of the fieldwork practice but also seek to identify which paths the continuation of this practice would benefit from and where we might take this work in the future

    Painterly interfaces for audiovisual performance

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    Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-149).This thesis presents a new computer interface metaphor for the real-time and simultaneous performance of dynamic imagery and sound. This metaphor is based on the idea of an inexhaustible, infinitely variable, time-based, audiovisual "substance" which can be gesturally created, deposited, manipulated and deleted in a free-form, non-diagrammatic image space. The interface metaphor is exemplified by five interactive audiovisual synthesis systems whose visual and aural dimensions are deeply plastic, commensurately malleable, and tightly connected by perceptually- motivated mappings. The principles, patterns and challenges which structured the design of these five software systems are extracted and discussed, after which the expressive capacities of the five systems are compared and evaluated.Golan Levin.S.M

    Perception, extension, and enclosure of space

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    Man is enabled to explore his immediate spaces due to the combined functioning of sensory perception and neuromuscular co-ordination. Relying upon learned redundancies in the world about him and being aware of his own physical capabilities, he is able to avoid chaos as he utilizes his space. The senses of vision, audition, and touch successfully co-operate to allow man an orderly manner of movement and to awaken him to the world outside himself. Over the millenia man has established territories to assure himself and his family a place to rest, mate, and rear offspring. Man has erected extensions, or invisible bubbles, of varying dimensions about himself in his dealings with his own as well as with other species. Man is not solely dependent on instinctive processes as are lower orders of animal life; instead he may think abstractly. Due to this capability, man has been able to convert many of his extensions to physically enclosed spaces which he is able to control and organize about his life

    System models for digital performance

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    Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128).by Reed Kram.M.S

    Suitably underspecified: systematic notations and the relations between paper and music

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    Through building a taxonomy of drawing, and a set of four drawing research studies aimed at generating innovative cross-disciplinary practices, an argument will be developed that systematised drawings such as the music notation are hybrid representational environments, sufficiently different from other inscriptive practices as to merit a separate classification. The taxonomical model will decentralise specific modes of drawing, in favour of a multi-disciplinary view appropriate to the persistence of its subject as a deeply rooted strategic and executive practice, and the four studies will engage the time-factoring of notation systems as transductive environments, setting the conditions for innovative practices both in and outside of the frame of the inscription

    Research in the general area of non-linear dynamical systems Final report, 8 Jun. 1965 - 8 Jun. 1967

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    Nonlinear dynamical systems research on systems stability, invariance principles, Liapunov functions, and Volterra and functional integral equation

    Tape music with absolute animated film : Prehistory and development.

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    Volume 2 consists of a film and slides (Apply direct to York to obtain)SIGLELD:D48862/84 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

    E.L.T. Mesens: his contribution to the Dada and Surrealist movements in Belgium and England as artist, poet and dealer

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    The aim of this thesis is to provide a survey of E.L.T Mesens' activities within the Dada and Surrealist movements and an initial assessment of his work. The thesis outlines Mesens' career and considers his work as an organiser and polemicist of the Dada and Surrealist movements in Belgium and the Surrealist movement in England. The period in which Mesens initiated Dada activities in Brussels and developed important contacts with Paris, though brief, affected his whole outlook on art and poetry. The development of Dada and the work of a number of European Dadaists whose work influenced Mesens' own development and the Dada movement in Antwerp and Brussels is discussed. Differences emerged between the theory and practice of Surrealism in Paris and Brussels and the thesis considers the diverging development of Surrealism in each of these centres. Mesens' involvement in the Surrealist movement in Belgium is examined and his theoretical position is appraised. The thesis also briefly outlines late nineteenth and early twentieth century art movements in Belgium, in particular Symbolism and Expressionism, in order that the Dada and Surrealist movements may be seen in context. Mesens' main efforts were concentrated in his work as an art dealer in Brussels and London, where he promoted the work of Dada and Surrealist artists in particular. From 1954 onwards, however, he turned to the making of collage, a medium which he hod already explored during the 1920's. The thesis will provide an examination of Mesens' work as an art dealer in Belgium between 1928 and 1938, and in England between 1938 and 1950. It will provide an analysis of Mesens' poetry, mostly written between 1923 and 1940, and his collages both of the early period in the 1920's, and later from 1954 until his death in April 1971
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