151 research outputs found

    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume

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    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum

    HAPTIC FEELING: GENEALOGIE TRA STORIA DELL’ARTE, CRITICA E NEW-MEDIA

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    This doctoral project aims to offer a genealogical investigation of haptic perception in art history. Although haptic perception has been the subject of an extraordinarily articulated and interdisciplinary panorama of studies from the last decade of the 19th century to the new millennium, it has yet to receive systematic recognition in art history and historiography.It was intersecting these directions, the four sections that make up the thesis aim to create a cohesive and harmonious treatment. The motility of the hand is the protagonist of the first section entitled Prehistory of the haptic. From iconography to morphogenesis, which, starting from a philological deconstruction of Jeff Koons' Balloon Venus series (2008-2021) and its relationship with the haptic feeling "of positivity", aims to formulate a hypothesis of a reinterpretation of modernist plastic hinged on this prehistoric artefact and on some of its figures, tracing a submerged historiography that could support this critical proposal. he second section of the project, entitled The History of the Haptic - State of the Literature and Critical Reconnaissance initiates an itinerary into the 20th-century development of the notion of the Haptic in the art-historical sphere through a critical re-reading of a panorama of sources, approaches, and orientations. In posing the haptic as a methodological question, the section moves from a critical reconnaissance of Alois Riegl’s role and an examination of the figures elaborated in the historiographic field to analyses the relations between haptics and the historical avant-garde. Following this, the third section of the work, defined as An Alternative History of Haptics, hypothesizes a 'prehistoric' and laboratory genealogy leading back to the 1892 rehabilitation of the term 'haptic/haptics' in the psycho-aesthetic sphere, tracing a network of relations between the scientific side (Wundt, Dessoir, Titchener, Münsterberg, James) and the artistic side (Berenson and Stein). Such an interweaving gives rise to the fourth section of the present work, entitled In the histories of the haptic, and aims to interrogate some selected nodes by which, in the second half of the 20th century, understood as a conceptual figure and interdisciplinary dynamic, a web of case studies has emerged whose analysis can assist the study of haptic feeling in an art-historical perspective and which, from the New York of 1916 up to the 1990s, allows us to highlight how it has grafted itself onto, actively participating in, stylistic issues and the intermediate development of sculpture. Finally, in the third section, entitled “In the sanctuary cave: haptic feeling and new media”, conceived as an appendix, the discussion interrogates the multimodal disposition of the haptic when sculpture takes over complex environmental and intermedial organisms. It again interrogates the paleo-historical framework about the contemporary mediasphere and the modes of evocation of touch widely probed by artists such as Laure Prouvost, Camille Henrot, Julien Prévieux and Marguerite Humeau

    Machine Learning Algorithm for the Scansion of Old Saxon Poetry

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    Several scholars designed tools to perform the automatic scansion of poetry in many languages, but none of these tools deal with Old Saxon or Old English. This project aims to be a first attempt to create a tool for these languages. We implemented a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model to perform the automatic scansion of Old Saxon and Old English poems. Since this model uses supervised learning, we manually annotated the Heliand manuscript, and we used the resulting corpus as labeled dataset to train the model. The evaluation of the performance of the algorithm reached a 97% for the accuracy and a 99% of weighted average for precision, recall and F1 Score. In addition, we tested the model with some verses from the Old Saxon Genesis and some from The Battle of Brunanburh, and we observed that the model predicted almost all Old Saxon metrical patterns correctly misclassified the majority of the Old English input verses

    Proof-theoretic Semantics for Intuitionistic Multiplicative Linear Logic

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    This work is the first exploration of proof-theoretic semantics for a substructural logic. It focuses on the base-extension semantics (B-eS) for intuitionistic multiplicative linear logic (IMLL). The starting point is a review of Sandqvist’s B-eS for intuitionistic propositional logic (IPL), for which we propose an alternative treatment of conjunction that takes the form of the generalized elimination rule for the connective. The resulting semantics is shown to be sound and complete. This motivates our main contribution, a B-eS for IMLL , in which the definitions of the logical constants all take the form of their elimination rule and for which soundness and completeness are established

    Villages et quartiers à risque d’abandon

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    The issue of villages and neighborhoods at risk of abandonment is a common topic in many Mediterranean regions and is considered as a strategic point of the new European policies. The progressive abandonment of inland areas, with phenomena of emigration and fragmentation of cultural heritage, is a common trend in countries characterized by economic underdevelopment. This leads to the decay of architectural artifacts and buildings and problems with land management. Some aspects of this issue are also found in several urban areas. The goal of this research work is collecting international debates, discussions, opinions and comparisons concerning the analysis, study, surveys, diagnoses and graphical rendering of architectural heritage and landscape as well as demo-ethno-anthropological witnesses, typological-constructive stratifications, materials and technologies of traditional and vernacular constructions of historic buildings

    Prospettive nello studio del lessico italiano

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    The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Society of Italian Linguistics and Philology (SILFI), «Prospects in the study of Italian vocabulary» (Florence, 14-17 June 2006), comprise 88 contributions by scholars from Italy and abroad. The essays are divided into twelve sections, each representing a study prospect, thus illustrating the vitality of the great tradition of Italian studies on language. The Conference confirms the importance of tradition, but also points up how the new areas of study – concerning the use of information infrastructures for the acquisition and conservation of the linguistic heritage – are by now pivotal both for research and for the establishment of essential resources for the defence and promotion of our language. Meditation on the Italian lexicon at this moment in time signifies retrieving the relation between our language and our culture, which tends to be overshadowed in a period of globalisation and of vehicular language such as the present

    Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons

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    The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008)

    'I visited the natural history museum, which is very good, and also the mining museum...' Frederick Horniman and his reviews of museum practices at the end of the nineteenth century

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    Throughout his life Member of Parliament, tea merchant, and museum founder Frederick Horniman (1835-1906) possessed a strong interest in museums, collecting objects, and visiting museums and exhibitions. Through his journals, which appeared serialized in local London newspapers, Horniman documented two extended trips between 1894 and 1896. He provided descriptions of museums in North America, Asia, and Africa as well as noted his praise or criticism of museum practices. This work details the museum practices Horniman applauded and those he criticized during his travels, including the creation of complete collections, labelling objects in museums, and the use of models in museums for educational purposes. This work provides an example of how a British businessman and museum founder viewed museum practices and how museums displayed and presented knowledge on the world and other cultures at the end of the nineteenth century. By examining how Horniman described visiting museums, this work presents new perspectives on understanding how late nineteenth-century private individuals and museums constructed, depicted, and propagated knowledge as well as collected, displayed, and interpreted object
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