Crossing Over: Theatre Beyond Borders / Telematic Performance

This article discusses “Crossing Over,” a pedagogical art / performance project linking university students around the world that investigates the notions of cosmopolitanism and mobility as ways to constitute meaningful social networks by exchanging virtual performances—and suitcases—over the internet. The questions that the project asks are critical in light of the globalization of information that the World Wide Web and other crossing over points represent. While globalization opens borders to all manner of material exchanges (including people), endless digital data stream through the Internet portal providing opportunities to trade on personal information. We explore and share our identity at our peril. “Crossing Over” also explores the idea that there is an intrinsic relationship between embodied presence and one’s place in the world. Performing or representing who we are is indistinguishable from the place from which we come. The Internet shows us that the experience of presence is manifold and strongly manifest in virtual environments. Cyberspace is not a non-place—it is the ever-mutable backdrop, the mirror held up to a virtual spectator—who will always see something more than a mere reflection—will see differently based on his/ her place in the world.Dans cet article, l’auteure examine «  Crossing Over  », un projet pédagogique artistique axé sur la performance auquel ont participé des étudiants universitaires du monde entier. Ces derniers ont examiné les notions de cosmopolitisme et de mobilité en tant que fondements de réseaux sociaux porteurs de sens en échangeant des performances virtuelles—et des valises—au moyen d’Internet. Le projet soulève des questions très importantes en cette ère de mondialisation de l’information par l’entremise d’Internet et d’autres points de convergence. Si la conjoncture actuelle ouvre nos frontières à toutes sortes d’échanges matériaux (y compris les gens), le flux incessant de données numériques sur nos portails Internet nous permet d’échanger des données personnelles. Or, c’est à nos risques et périls que nous nous livrons à l’exploration et au partage de notre identité. Le projet « Crossing Over » explore l’hypothèse selon laquelle il y aurait un rapport intrinsèque entre la présence « incarnée » et la place que chacun occupe dans le monde : jouer ou représenter qui nous sommes est un processus indissociable de notre lieu d’origine. Sur Internet, nous voyons que l’expérience de la présence est multiple et qu’elle se manifeste fortement dans un environnement virtuel. Le cyberespace n’est pas un non-lieu  : c’est un arrière-plan en constante évolution, un miroir que l’on présente au spectateur virtuel. Ce dernier y verra toujours plus qu’un simple reflet de luimême, selon sa place dans le monde

The Bus Project: Technologies, Spectators and Locational Practices

This paper interrogates the claim made by many users of super-technologies in the field of theatre entertainment that these trappings redefine audience perception in entirely new ways. What this explosion fails to address is the relationship between technology and the spectating body and how interactivity poses questions that address the specificities of the spectator in the twenty-first century. In relative magnitude, The Bus Project described here, was low tech. Nonetheless, it illustrates the use of interactive technologies in integrating performance into our everyday lives, how new audiences may be reached and how preconceived notions of spectatorship and identity may be productively troubled through locational and site-specific practices. The Bus Project was a collaborative, media-based, public art installation undertaken by theatre and intermedia artists, computer scientists and graduate students at the University of Regina in June 2004. The central focus of the project was to open up the idea of multiculturalism and the anxieties that have grown up around the multiple coding of this term by investigating issues of immigration in the local communities (Regina and Saskatoon). As the project moved from planning to implementation, the nature of interdisciplinarity, community collaboration and assessment became central to the investigation. Résumé Bien des utilisateurs de super technologies au théâtre déclarent que ces « ornements » font en sorte que les spectateurs perçoivent les choses tout à fait autrement. Or, l’explosion de ces moyens ne dit rien du rapport qu’entretient le public avec eux et n’interroge pas l’effet de l’interactif sur la spécificité du spectateur au XXIe siècle. En termes d’importance, The Bus Project, le spectacle qui sert d’exemple ici, employait des moyens relativement rudimentaires. Et pourtant, il montre comment l’on peut user de technologies interactives pour intégrer la performance à la vie quotidienne, atteindre de nouveaux spectateurs et remettre en question de façon productive nos idées préconçues sur le spectateur et l’identité au moyen de pratiques localisées. The Bus Project est une installation média à laquelle ont participé des artistes de théâtre et des artistes multimédia, des informaticiens et des étudiants de deuxième cycle à l’Université de Regina en juin 2004. Le projet avait pour principal objectif de présenter l’idée du multiculturalisme et les anxiétés qui entourent la codification complexe du terme en examinant les enjeux liés à l’immigration dans les villes de la région (Regina et Saskatoon). Au cours de sa réalisation, l’enquête s’est centrée peu à peu sur l’interdisciplinarité du projet et la participation des membres de la collectivité, devenus collaborateurs et évaluateurs

Self-injurious behaviour among adolescent girls in residential treatment.

Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1979 .I785. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1979

Modeling and Managing Urban Growth at the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Parcel-Level Model of Residential Land Use Change

As many local and state governments in the United States grapple with increasing growth pressures, the need to understand the economic and institutional factors underlying these pressures has taken on added urgency. From an economic perspective, individual land use decisions play a central role in the manifestation of growth pressures, as changes in land use pattern are the cumulative result of numerous individual decisions regarding the use of lands. In this study, the issue of growth management is addressed by developing a spatially disaggregated, microeconomic model of land conversion decisions suitable for describing residential land use change at the rural-urban fringe. The model employs parcel-level data on land use in Calvert County, Maryland, a rapidly growing rural-urban fringe county. A probabilistic model of residential land use change is estimated using a duration model, and the parameter estimates are employed to simulate possible future growth scenarios under alternative growth management scenarios. Results suggest that "smart growth" objectives are best met when policies aimed at concentrating growth in target areas are implemented in tandem with policies designed to preserve rural or open space lands.Land Economics/Use,

Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives

Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1117/thumbnail.jp

The Homeless Child Health Care Inventory: Assessing the Efficacy of Linkages to Primary Care

Each year, the New York City homeless family shelter system provides transitional housing for nearly 20,000 homeless children. While health care needs of these children are substantial, there is currently no system-wide mechanism for ensuring that they have access to appropriate medical care. This report analyzes information from the Homeless Child Health Care Inventory, a survey conducted by Montefiore Medical Center’s Division of Community Pediatrics, to examine the adequacy of health care resources available to the homeless children in New York City. Results showed that available health care resources varied considerably throughout the shelter system and that nearly 50% of homeless children in New York City did not have access to appropriate medical care