Film as database: a visual analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey

This paper reports on research that explores new possibilities for experiencing film as a digital database. The way we access, interact with and experience film is changed with new digital tools and initial visual experiments towards the design of a graphical user interface respond to this change. The film 2001:A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is the focus for the research. It is essentially a visual film with an expanded context of critical writing and archived material. Two visual outcomes that map the use of red within scenes of the film will be demonstrated in order to critique and review the film in its new context

Blogs, Reflective Practice and Autonomous Learning in Graphic Design Communication

Abstract Since their inception in 2004 Blogs have become a major contributor to the development of the social networking phenomenon. This paper reports on a small qualitative research project utilising case studies of the use of blogs by Level2 BA Graphic Design Communication students. In the project particular emphasis is given to the capacity of the Blog to assist in the development of reflective behaviour. Reflection is consistently emphasised as a desirable graduate capability, and is an expectation in programmes in the general field of Art and Design. Whilst students in Graphic Design are used to handling sophisticated hardware and software in the fulfilment of design briefs, it is less common for them to draw on the power of ICT to support metacognitive activity such as reflection. The report discusses the tool in comparison to sketchbooks and reflective journals in terms of collating and organising information and reflecting on action and questions how this implementation can further foster an autonomous approach to learning. The increasingly fragmented and often remote nature of current university education experience means there is a necessity for a re-introduction of community through a blended learning approach. To what extent can Blogs not only satisfy this need to engender community and promote peer learning but also offer new paradigms for the pedagogic practice of the teacher? The present study has particular value in that it bridges a number of aspects of level 2 student learning such as placements, student exchanges and electives. The presentation will exemplify student practices and will demonstrate the flexibility of the tool in a range of learning and teaching activities. It will seek to situate this research project in the wider application of blended learning technology and discuss issues surrounding the use of third party software applications within learning and teaching practices at this level

Discovering communities of social e-learning practice

Teaching and Professional Development Fellowship Report 201

Seismic analysis of the Niger Delta gravitational detachment system

Ductile deformation of overpressured, fine-grained, argillaceous sediments (“mobile shale”) is commonly invoked to explain the deformation style at the base of thin-skinned, gravitational detachment systems. The usage of “mobile shale” arose as a consequence of poor imaging on seismic reflection data, where low-resolution seismic intervals appeared ductile on a seismic scale (a thickening and thinning of the seismic interval). Acquisition of high-quality seismic reflection data from the Niger Delta provides an opportunity to investigate the internal structures within a basal detachment succession that is commonly referred to as the “mobile shale.” Deformation within the basal detachment succession in down-dip compressional settings is characterised by brittle deformation. Thickening of the basal detachment succession occurs through contractional duplexes and stacked imbricates that have formed within the cores of detachment folds. In up-dip extensional settings, the formation of stacked master detachment faults and detachments, which splay off the pre-existing master detachment fault, incorporates structures that formed in the hanging wall of older, structurally lower detachment faults into the basal detachment succession. Plastic deformation that involves a complete loss of shear strength within the deforming sediment probably does occur. Such processes are invoked to explain the lateral redistribution of strata leading to the formation of a “shale weld” in down-dip compressional settings. The recognition of fault-related folding within detachment fold cores and the deformation imaged beneath a major listric fault system highlights the fact that end-member structural models do not always adequately capture the structural complexity at the base of gravitational detachment systems. Despite the overpressured signature of basal detachment successions composed of argillaceous sediments, overpressure is not synonymous with a wide-spread ductile deformation style. Therefore, the term “mobile shale” – although widely used – inaccurately represents the styles and types of the deformational processes that occur within basal detachment successions composed of overpressured, argillaceous sediments

In-Heritage Group

About the Presentation: During Lockdown 2021 In-heritage Group members worked remotely with the Camberwell Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Collection with support from UAL Archivist Jacqueline Winston-Silk. Each member of the the group carried out creative research and practice in response to selected items from the archive. Outcomes from this activity were presented and discussed by the members in a live presentation at the 2021 Remote Sensing Symposium. 'Do Not Touch', outlines my work produced as part of the In-Heritage Group's 'Remote Sensing' project with the ILEA archive. About the Symposium In April 2021, the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts hosted a one-day online symposium; Remote Sensing. Speakers were members of the UAL academic community (staff and students) and invited guests from national and international institutions. About the In-Heritage Group The In-Heritage Group is a community of practice established during the coronavirus pandemic by academics from across illustration, 3d product and furniture and interior and spatial design, seeking to expand disciplinary research and knowledge exchange activity between heritage objects, sites, and settings to stir narratives in places. Presenters: Dr Jason Cleverly, Dr Leah Fusco, Peter Maloney, Colin Priest, Dr Rachel Emily Taylo

Film as Form: Deconstructed + Preconstructed 2018

In the original work 'Film as Form' 2007, the film '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Stanley Kubrick (1968) is visually expanded, disassembled and mapped against archival material and critical writing. Methods of spatial and temporal sequence, index and mapping are tested to generate new ways of seeing the film inspired by Mulvey's idea of the 'pensive spectator' (Mulvey, 2006). The three screen digital work in this exhibition documents the notations, scores and instructions produced as pre-construction for a newly commissioned version of the work to celebrate 50 years since the release of the original film and 10 years since the opening of the public Stanley Kubrick archive at University of the Arts London. --- Notating Space: Scores, Instructions, Timelines Group Exhibition in the Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, 23-26 January 2018. An exhibition of work by staff and research students teaching on the Interior and Spatial Design Programme at Chelsea College of Arts. In his 1968 Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman states that the combination of drawing and text, numerals and symbols of the architectural plan ‘counts as a digital diagram and as a score’. This exhibition explores the analogy between architectural drawing and musical scores or dance notation. These are all forms of ‘instruction’, and it is no coincidence that Goodman was writing at a time when ‘event scores’ were being developed by conceptual artists, composers and performance artists, such as Sol Le Witt, John Cage and Yoko Ono. Addressing the idea of notating space, the exhibition focus is not on the output itself, but rather generative scores and instructions, from detail drawings to scripted performances, film timelines to choreographed spatial sequences. Curator: Dr Ken Wilder, UAL Reader in Spatial Design Exhibitors : Grace Adam, Mike Bell, Marsha Bradfield, Fangyu Cheng, Owain Caruana Davies, Julia Dwyer, Will Fischer, Amritt Flora, Takako Hasegawa, Emma Hunter, Kristina Kotov, Kyun Hye Lee, Peter Maloney, Dr Aaron McPeake, Nicola Murphy, Colin Priest, Sue Ridge, Shibboleth Shechter, Matthew Turner, Dr Ken Wilder

Volcanology of the Lake Wanaka diatreme in the Alpine Dike Swarm, New Zealand

The Lake Wanaka diatreme represents an eroded Oligocene maar-diatreme volcano situated within the Alpine Dike Swarm, northwest Otago, New Zealand. Current levels of exposure display lithofacies that are characteristic of lower diatreme and root zone deposits. There are four main lithofacies exposed within the Lake Wanaka diatreme; (1) country-rock breccia, (2) lapilli tuff and tuff breccia, (3) schist megablocks, and (4) coherent lamprophyre. The country-rock breccia is monomict and composed of randomly orientated schist clasts millimetre to a metre in size with no juvenile material present. Lapilli tuff and tuff breccias are unbedded, poorly mixed, and clast-supported by juvenile pyroclasts. They contain common composite loaded pyroclasts with dispersed schist lithics within. The schist megablocks are large blocks of schist country-rock up to 4 m in size that protrude from cliffs of the coherent lamprophyre. The coherent lamprophyre is the most prominent rock within the diatreme, is typically columnar jointed, and contains xenoliths of schist and peridotite, plus amphibole megacrysts. The country-rock breccia represents the deposit of rock fall into an open cavity, sourced from weakened and unstable wall rock. The open cavity was created by explosions, probably thermohydraulic, within the root zone that drove volcanic material upwards, leaving behind a temporarily evacuated volume. Further volcanic activity produced shaking that led to the clasts of the country-rock breccia becoming tightly packed in places and caused brittle fragmentation at clast contacts. The large schist megablocks were slabbed off the vent wall, and accumulated on a ledge before becoming enveloped by the lamprophyre. Lapilli tuff and tuff breccia were primarily deposited as spatter. Local agglutination textures can be seen at the point contacts of some juvenile pyroclasts, implying they were above the minimum glass transition temperature. Fragmentation of the magma was driven by bubble bursts or more intensive lava fountaining inferred to have been driven by vapour explosions generated by magma-water interactions at depth. Abundant composite loaded juvenile pyroclasts formed when wall rock lithics were shed into the magma prior to, and during fragmentation. Void space that remained between clasts in the lapilli tuff deposit was later cemented by ankerite. Isotopic signatures of the ankerite suggest it was sourced from mixing between meteoric waters and atmospheric CO2. The columnar jointed coherent lamprophyre is interpreted to have been a late stage intrusive sill that entrained schist xenoliths of various sizes as it intruded the diatreme. Paleomagnetic determination of emplacement temperatures suggests that the lapilli tuff was deposited hot, above 580 °C and the same deposit was later reheated to 295–349 °C. A schist xenolith in the coherent lamprophyre was heated to a minimum of 630 °C. These results indicate high temperatures in the diatreme soon after lapilli tuff deposition, and later heating when a nearby lamprophyre sill was intruded

Strain localization and anisotropic correlations in a mesoscopic model of amorphous plasticity

A mesoscopic model for shear plasticity of amorphous materials in two dimensions is introduced, and studied through numerical simulations in order to elucidate the macroscopic (large scale) mechanical behavior. Plastic deformation is assumed to occur through a series of local reorganizations. Using a discretization of the mechanical fields on a discrete lattice, local reorganizations are modeled as local slip events. Local yield stresses are randomly distributed in space and invariant in time. Each plastic slip event induces a long-ranged elastic stress redistribution. Rate and thermal effects are not discussed in the present study. Extremal dynamics allows for recovering many of the complex features of amorphous plasticity observed experimentally and in numerical atomistic simulations in the quasi-static regime. In particular, a quantitative picture of localization, and of the anisotropic strain correlation both in the initial transient regime, and in the steady state are provided. In addition, the preparation of the amorphous sample is shown to have a crucial effect of on the localization behavior

Supplying Power to Chimborazo, Ecuador

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