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"Inventories of Limbo": Post-Minimal Aesthetics in Cinema From the Readymade to Institutional Critique

This dissertation charts the philosophical premises of post-minimalism in the practices of experimental filmmakers and video artists, exploring specific reorientations of cinematic works since the late 1960s. Post-minimalism refers to a myriad of aesthetic transformations initiated by the conceptual art movement, interrogating the ontology of art from a perspective outside its historical bonds to medium, style, and Kantian aesthetic judgment. I examine three strategies in the progression of post-minimal aesthetic practice: the readymade, institutional critique, and seriality. A central goal of this research is to remap entrenched language and ideas in the spheres of the arts and cinema to point to a profound reciprocity between cinematic technology and post-minimal aesthetic intelligence, perception, and judgment. This research moves away from the problems raised by artificially constructed movements and prescriptive categories which inevitably produce important sites of exception, and look instead to the aesthetic engines of post-minimal artmaking offering opportunities for constant renewal, evolution, and refinement. I follow these aesthetic engines like a knights tour in chess, jumping through history, appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected times to draw continuities in the approach to the heretical breaks from modernism found in post-minimal aesthetic intelligence. I will primarily focus on four objects: William E. Jones Tearoom, Robert Smithsons Underground Cinema, Lis Rhodes collaborative intervention into the Film as Film exhibition, and Christian Marclays The Clock. Examining the use of Marcel Duchamps concept of the readymade, and its profound assault on both medium specificity and authorship, I illustrate radical new ethical imperatives in the presentation of found footage filmmaking. My two core chapters grapple with ontological and locative explorations of cinematic architectures and sites. The two projects discussed engage with institutional critique, a philosophical model of artmaking which directly engages the sites, economic infrastructures, administrative imperatives, and power dynamics of the cinema, museum, and gallery. Finally, I examine a case study in contemporary post-minimal practice through Christian Marclays 24-hour installation The Clock, and will explore its relationship to archival projects engaging in the collection, ordering, and hermeneutic approach to 20th century media. I will explore this installation as symptomatic of both a technologically determined grammar of collection for the now immense digital archive, and an archeological inclination for artists to thematize film history

Strengthening Resource Sharing through Community Driven Development and Innovation

Resource sharing is an area in libraries with intense focus on cooperation and innovation. Libraries dedicate themselves to sharing collections to enhance access far beyond what any one library could offer. Resource sharing involves connecting not only users to collections, but connecting many different library technologies. An effective and innovative resource sharing group requires both a commitment to community, but also a commitment to developing technology that can help achieve the group’s goals. The IDS Project is a community-based resource sharing development cooperative whose members are tightly connected through professional development and high-level support initiatives such as the Online Learning Institute and the Mentor Program. Also, the IDS Project serves its members through software development based on deep understanding of community needs. As a development cooperative, the collective expertise of the group is integrated into building new technologies that solve major resource sharing issues. To effectively connect the disparate technologies needed to make resource sharing effective, a new resource sharing platform, IDS Logic, was created to harvest the knowledge and expertise of the engaged community and connect technologies including ILLiad, OCLC services, Integrated Library Systems, and other vendor and library platforms

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Improved catalysts by low-G processing

The advantages of space for manufacturing more perfect microcrystalline morphologies and structures will be investigated. Production of smaller silver and palladium crystals with enhanced catalytic properties is discussed. The elimination of convection accompanying electrodeposition of fine metallic powders at high overvoltages in a low gravity environment is outlined

OER Metadata Rosetta Stone

This document is the technical specification of core and contextual elements for Open Educational Resources using existing schema to create a Metadata Application Profile. It provides a list of relevant classes and properties used in OER metadata records at the institutional and repository level. It is our hope that this document will support best practices for OER repositories and institutions to leverage existing library expertise and networks

Whatever Happened to 1845 - The Missing Decisions of the Texas Supreme Court

Have you ever noticed a gap in the publication of Texas Supreme Court decisions? Both the Harvard Blue Book and the University of Texas Green Book inform readers that opinions of the court from 1840 to 1844 (the Republic period) can be found in Dallam\u27s Decisions, while decisions from 1846 on (statehood) are available in Texas Reports or the Southwestern Reporter. That\u27s all very clear, but whatever happened to 1845? This article will supply half an answer to this question; perhaps some reader can provide the other half. Three questions arise. The first, and simplest: Are there any 1845 opinions? The answer is Yes. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas met in December of 1845, had a perfectly ordinary session, wrote more than 30 opinions, and adjourned on Jan. 5, 1846, to reconvene in the fall as the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. That was the easy question. The second one is harder. Why weren\u27t the opinions printed? The last question is the hardest: Where are the 1845 decisions today? It appears that opinions at this time were initially written in longhand by the judges or their clerks, then copied by the court clerk into a bound opinion book. This book is preserved in the State Archives, and does contain the full text, sometimes faint and faded, of 16 opinions. As we said at the beginning, this article provides only half an answer to the question of what happened to the missing year of the Texas Supreme Court. Efforts are underway to arrange publication of all available opinions as a Texas Sesquicentennial project. If any reader has an idea or suggestion as to where the remaining opinions might be found, information would be gratefully received by James Hambleton, Director, State Law Library, Box 12367, Capitol Station, Austin 78711. Naturally, any confidences will be respected. A list of the missing opinions follows [.

Special Libraries, November 1938

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Index to Savannah Biographies J-L

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