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Art and celebrity : a study of the celebritisation of artists in Taiwan 1987-2010
This thesis examines the emergence of celebrity art in Taiwan in the postmartial law period since 1987. It analyses the different forces that have contributed to the construction of celebrity art as a prevalent phenomenon and explores its changing significance in Taiwanâs contemporary art scene and society. Based on extensive primary evidence from different kinds of materials, including journals and newspaper articles, magazine reports, exhibition catalogues and reviews, television programmes and Internet resources, gallery and museum visits, and interviews with celebrity artists and curators, this thesis argues that the construction of celebrity art in Taiwan demonstrates a constant negotiation between artistsâ aspirations for celebrity recognition, media, corporate business and political interests. I argue that in the celebritisation process, businesses and corporations utilise art to cultivate a positive brand image, generate commercial activities, accumulate cultural capital and consolidate their power and influence. In this sense, celebrity art becomes an aspect of business operations, in ways that are similar to those criticised by scholar Julian Stallabrassâs in the Western context. However, the development of corporate art intervention in Taiwan has distinctive features which are associated with the process of democratisation and its strong impact on the emergence of celebrity art. Furthermore, the governmentâs promotion of celebrity artists has enabled it to promote its national political identity in the global arena. This relates especially to the changing political scene in Taiwan since 1987 in which that celebrity art has become a means for different political parties to express their political concerns. At the same time, these processes have empowered artists to engage with larger social, cultural and political forces, demonstrating the capacity of celebrity art to serve as a vehicle of new social and aesthetic values about issues such as gender and womanhood. Certain aspects of Taiwanâs celebrity art also contribute to a new âcoolâ, largely young, and socially distinctive urban taste culture in Taiwan, by bringing innovative characteristics to Taiwanâs art scene that bridge high and popular culture. The celebritisation of art in Taiwan thus has many similarities with those discussed by Walker, Stallabrass and other Western scholars with reference to Western tendencies, but is distinctive in its political and social-economic causes. The first chapter introduces my aims and arguments, and gives an overview of the historical and political, media, institutional and global changes that facilitated the emergence of celebrity art in Taiwan. This chapter also describes my research methodology. Chapter two provides an analysis of relevant historical and theoretical perspectives on the construction of the celebrity and celebrity art, and examines their social, cultural and economic importance in both Western and East Asian societies. Chapter three to seven respectively examine different cases of celebrity artists, namely Lee Ming-sheng, Chu Cha-ray, Cai Guoqiang, Tang Huang-chen and the VT Artsalon group. Each of the cases exemplifies particular featuresâoverlapping with and distinct from each otherâof the concept of celebrity art in Taiwan. Through close examination of these cases, the thesis investigates an important aspect of Taiwanâs changing art scene that has not to date featured in scholarly work on contemporary culture in Taiwan.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Adjacency Matrices of Configuration Graphs
In 1960, Hoffman and Singleton \cite{HS60} solved a celebrated equation for
square matrices of order , which can be written as where , , and are the identity matrix, the
all one matrix, and a --matrix with all row and column sums equal to
, respectively. If is an incidence matrix of some configuration
of type , then the left-hand side is an adjacency matrix of the non--collinearity
graph of . In certain situations, is also an
incidence matrix of some configuration, namely the neighbourhood
geometry of introduced by Lef\`evre-Percsy, Percsy, and Leemans
\cite{LPPL}.
The matrix operator can be reiterated and we pose the problem of
solving the generalised Hoffman--Singleton equation . In
particular, we classify all --matrices with all row and column sums
equal to , for , which are solutions of this equation. As
a by--product, we obtain characterisations for incidence matrices of the
configuration in Kantor's list \cite{Kantor} and the
configuration #1971 in Betten and Betten's list \cite{BB99}
Perfect Secrecy Systems Immune to Spoofing Attacks
We present novel perfect secrecy systems that provide immunity to spoofing
attacks under equiprobable source probability distributions. On the theoretical
side, relying on an existence result for -designs by Teirlinck, our
construction method constructively generates systems that can reach an
arbitrary high level of security. On the practical side, we obtain, via cyclic
difference families, very efficient constructions of new optimal systems that
are onefold secure against spoofing. Moreover, we construct, by means of
-designs for large values of , the first near-optimal systems that are 5-
and 6-fold secure as well as further systems with a feasible number of keys
that are 7-fold secure against spoofing. We apply our results furthermore to a
recently extended authentication model, where the opponent has access to a
verification oracle. We obtain this way novel perfect secrecy systems with
immunity to spoofing in the verification oracle model.Comment: 10 pages (double-column); to appear in "International Journal of
Information Security
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Convective transport of formaldehyde to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and associated scavenging in thunderstorms over the central United States during the 2012DC3 study
Steiner t-designs for large t
One of the most central and long-standing open questions in combinatorial
design theory concerns the existence of Steiner t-designs for large values of
t. Although in his classical 1987 paper, L. Teirlinck has shown that
non-trivial t-designs exist for all values of t, no non-trivial Steiner
t-design with t > 5 has been constructed until now. Understandingly, the case t
= 6 has received considerable attention. There has been recent progress
concerning the existence of highly symmetric Steiner 6-designs: It is shown in
[M. Huber, J. Algebr. Comb. 26 (2007), pp. 453-476] that no non-trivial
flag-transitive Steiner 6-design can exist. In this paper, we announce that
essentially also no block-transitive Steiner 6-design can exist.Comment: 9 pages; to appear in: Mathematical Methods in Computer Science 2008,
ed. by J.Calmet, W.Geiselmann, J.Mueller-Quade, Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Scienc
The closest elastic tensor of arbitrary symmetry to an elasticity tensor of lower symmetry
The closest tensors of higher symmetry classes are derived in explicit form
for a given elasticity tensor of arbitrary symmetry. The mathematical problem
is to minimize the elastic length or distance between the given tensor and the
closest elasticity tensor of the specified symmetry. Solutions are presented
for three distance functions, with particular attention to the Riemannian and
log-Euclidean distances. These yield solutions that are invariant under
inversion, i.e., the same whether elastic stiffness or compliance are
considered. The Frobenius distance function, which corresponds to common
notions of Euclidean length, is not invariant although it is simple to apply
using projection operators. A complete description of the Euclidean projection
method is presented. The three metrics are considered at a level of detail far
greater than heretofore, as we develop the general framework to best fit a
given set of moduli onto higher elastic symmetries. The procedures for finding
the closest elasticity tensor are illustrated by application to a set of 21
moduli with no underlying symmetry.Comment: 48 pages, 1 figur
Families of twisted tensor product codes
Using geometric properties of the variety \cV_{r,t}, the image under the
Grassmannian map of a Desarguesian -spread of \PG(rt-1,q), we
introduce error correcting codes related to the twisted tensor product
construction, producing several families of constacyclic codes. We exactly
determine the parameters of these codes and characterise the words of minimum
weight.Comment: Keywords: Segre Product, Veronesean, Grassmannian, Desarguesian
spread, Subgeometry, Twisted Product, Constacyclic error correcting code,
Minimum weigh
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