John Latham’s cosmos and mid-century representation

The conceptual artist John Latham (1921 – 2006) is sometimes cast as disconnected to the currents of British visual culture. Latham’s idiosyncratic cosmology based upon time and events and incorporating human creativity rather than matter and energy is used to distinguish this disconnection. However, this paper argues that his work can be seen as closely related to that of other mid-century cultural producers who were engaged with alternative cosmic speculations, and part of a broader shift in the register of representation. Papers from the Latham digital archive help make this case

Collision, Collusion and Coincidence: Pop Art’s Fairground Parallel

This article looks at parallel methods, motivations and modes of consumption between formative British pop art and British fairground art. I focus on two strands, the emergent critical work of the Independent Group and the school of artists based at the Royal College of Art under the nominal leadership of Peter Blake. I use iconographical and iconological methods to compare the content of the art, and then examine how pop art tried to create both a critical and playful distancing from established rules and practices of the artistic canon. I focus on non-institutional cultural groupings and diffuse production and consumption models

Dysfunction of Heterotrimeric Kinesin-2 in Rod Photoreceptor Cells and the Role of Opsin Mislocalization in Rapid Cell Death

Loss of kinesin-2 function causes rapid death of rod photoreceptors. The cell death is dependent on the expression of opsin, which first accumulates along the route to the outer segment, but not on signaling by opsin-arrestin complexes or by light activation; the key element appears to be the accumulation of excessive protein in the wrong place

Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span

This article introduces a new computational model for the complex-span task, the most popular task for studying working memory. SOB-CS is a two-layer neural network that associates distributed item representations with distributed, overlapping position markers. Memory capacity limits are explained by interference from a superposition of associations. Concurrent processing interferes with memory through involuntary encoding of distractors. Free time in-between distractors is used to remove irrelevant representations, thereby reducing interference. The model accounts for benchmark findings in four areas: (1) effects of processing pace, processing difficulty, and number of processing steps; (2) effects of serial position and error patterns; (3) effects of different kinds of item-distractor similarity; and (4) correlations between span tasks. The model makes several new predictions in these areas, which were confirmed experimentally

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Art News from London

British Museum adalah museum sunyi yang kuat yang pameran khusus langka diredam oleh kebijaksanaan resmi. Ini sangat disayangkan karena catatan pameran museum yang tidak mencolok, yang diambil dari sumber dayanya yang luar biasa, lebih kuat daripada bibir atas kantor pers yang tenang dan kaku

Art News from London

Di Galeri Hanover, pertunjukan satu orang pertama dari Victor Willing mengungkapkan seorang seniman baru yang menarik yang telah berkembang dari kancah Kendington Selatan menjadi gaya independen. Dia adalah pelukis potret dan gambar subjek yang ambisius dan miring