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The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003)
This article examines the collision of virtual and real spaces through simultaneous live and online play in Uncle Roy All Around You, and how this disruption of immersion is used to expose the habitual engagements associated with the digital interface. The nature of the participants' immersion and the subsequent reintegration into the real will be explored, before attempting to articulate what defines this piece as politically resistant, through discussion of a self reflexive participation, which undermines what Baudrillard terms the 'simulated response' (Baudrillard 1985/1988 p.216
Contemporary theatre and the experiential
In the context of the blurring of boundaries between club and theatre, game and theatre, and party and theatre, experiential spectatorship is spilling into the mainstream. This article starts from the recognition of the rapid rise of the experience economy as a turning point in consumer culture towards a specific appeal to the sensory body. The definition of experience in this analysis is key and a distinction is made between experience as it passes moment by moment, erlebnis, and experience as something that is cumulatively built up over time, erfahrung.
This paper asks, in a society defined by the crisis of experience, does this rise of the experiential in theatre simply reflect the reduction of experience to a series of consumable sensory moments or is there a mode of experience modelled through performance interaction which moves both beyond this established mode of experience and also beyond the notion of experience as cumulatively formed wisdom (erfahrung)? Drawing a parallel between established popular cultural practices of the body and those of the spectator in spectacular promenade performance, Fuerzabruta is used as an illustrative example of popular experiential performance and Hwang’s The Road as an example of experiential performance in which a transformative aesthetic is made possible
Design of A Low Power Low Voltage CMOS Opamp
In this paper a CMOS operational amplifier is presented which operates at 2V
power supply and 1microA input bias current at 0.8 micron technology using non
conventional mode of operation of MOS transistors and whose input is depended
on bias current. The unique behaviour of the MOS transistors in subthreshold
region not only allows a designer to work at low input bias current but also at
low voltage. While operating the device at weak inversion results low power
dissipation but dynamic range is degraded. Optimum balance between power
dissipation and dynamic range results when the MOS transistors are operated at
moderate inversion. Power is again minimised by the application of input
dependant bias current using feedback loops in the input transistors of the
differential pair with two current substractors. In comparison with the
reported low power low voltage opamps at 0.8 micron technology, this opamp has
very low standby power consumption with a high driving capability and operates
at low voltage. The opamp is fairly small (0.0084 mm 2) and slew rate is more
than other low power low voltage opamps reported at 0.8 um technology [1,2].
Vittoz at al [3] reported that slew rate can be improved by adaptive biasing
technique and power dissipation can be reduced by operating the device in weak
inversion. Though lower power dissipation is achieved the area required by the
circuit is very large and speed is too small. So, operating the device in
moderate inversion is a good solution. Also operating the device in
subthreshold region not only allows lower power dissipation but also a lower
voltage operation is achieved.Comment: 8 Pages, VLSICS Journa
The Tackling Men's Health Evaluation Study
Tackling Men’s Health is an intervention developed out of a partnership between the Department of Health, Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Club and Leeds Metropolitan University. The intervention was designed to target men attending Headingley Carnegie Stadium, with the aim of promoting engagement with health services and therefore promoting improved health and wellbeing. The primary aim of the of the Tackling Men’s Health study is to assess engagement in an intervention targeting men attending rugby matches. Secondary aims of the research study are to: To assess the barriers and facilitators associated with implementing a health promotion intervention targeting men attending rugby league games To examine the effect of a multi-component targeted intervention on men’s self reported engagement with health services To examine the effect of a multi-component targeted intervention on men’s awareness of key health issues To examine the effect of multi-component targeted intervention on men’s perceived health status The research study monitored the evolution of the Tackling Men’s Health intervention, which was delivered in sports settings over the course of the 2009 Engage Super league Rugby league season. Seven stakeholders and 20 men who attended Rugby league matches were interviewed to achieve a broad understanding of appropriateness of the processes used in the planning and delivery of the Tackling Men’s Health intervention
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