67 research outputs found
Situated Listening: Partial Perspectives and Critical Listening Positionality
Critical listening positionality, as theorized by sound studies scholar, Dylan Robinson, points to the way in which our identities and histories shape what and how we hear. In his 2020 publication, âHungry Listening,â Robinson remarks of Deep Listening, the practice of sonic attunement developed by composer Pauline Oliveros: âin my experience the meditative opening up of listening through the body has also seemed to distance me from the particularity of listening positionality.â In this paper, we explore the tensions between this âopening up of listening through the bodyâ and the prospect of critical listening positionality. Thinking alongside Robinson, Oliveros, and decolonial scholars such as Rolando Vasquez, we propose frameworks for situated listening that acknowledge the partial perspective of our own listening, while allowing for the porous and transformative experience of attunement to the many presences within, and histories of, the places and times we are embedded in
Connective Tissue and Bacterial Echoes: Four Artists, a River, and an Artificial Agent
Since 2018, Freya Zinovieff, Gabriela Aceves-SepĂșlveda, Steve DiPaola, and prOphecy sun have
collaborated in the production of a series of artworks and research-creation projects that explore the
creative uses of machine learning, both practically and theoretically. Informed by feminist
methodologies, and combining their diverse backgrounds as scholars, cognitive scientists, and visual
artists, they develop large-scale and immersive works using video, sound, performance, and
computational creativity
Murder in Jerba : honour, shame and hospitality among Maltese in Ottoman Tunisia
Little is known about the sizeable Maltese communities developing along the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean in the mid-nineteenth century and the extent to which the migrants reproduced Maltese cultural traditions and practices overseas. This article considers this question through a microhistorical analysis of events culminating in the murder of a Maltese woman in the Ottoman Regency of Tunis in 1866. A close reading of transcripts from the interrogation of witnesses and the accused, all members of a Maltese community in Jerba reveals their shared cultural practices and beliefs surrounding the provision of hospitality, honour and shame. Viewed from this perspective, the curious responses of the witnesses to the murder of their compatriot become meaningful, and the crime is reframed as an honour killing.peer-reviewe
Interaction of lexical-semantic and imagery representations
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