Current Projects

The portfolio of works shown in the following pages are computer visualizations in form-Z. None of the work exists in reality although several will be built in next few years. Ed. note: Designs for 5 sculptural projects by sculptor Alice Aycock. University of South Florida, Tampa; South Gate, Miami Heat Arena, Miami; George H. Fallon Office Building, Baltimore; Waterworks Proposal for McWane Center Plaza, Birmingham, AL; Sculpture, “The Unconsciousness of the Landscape Becomes Complete,” Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Alice Aycock: The Machine That Makes The World

There is a state of free fall where you don\u27t know up, down, left, right, backwards or forwards; they\u27re totally confused. Those seem to me to be the six ways of orienting yourself. What I would like to do is probably just disorient all those sensations. On the other hand, that also can be a very euphoric state; it can be very pleasing and people engage in all kinds of activities which involve this titillation (skydiving, amusement parks) ... What are they all but ways of titillating yourself? They always have to do with whirling in space, for pleasure as much as for fear; you make yourself frightened so that you can enjoy it. For me things have that aspect. And there it is-the most direct way of describing that curious combination of fear and euphoria made immediately apparent in Alice Aycock\u27s sculpture. Like a giant mousetrap, The Machine That Makes The World issues a direct challenge to those who enter-can you make your way through without getting caught? The answer is both yes and no. For unlike the breathless speed of a sky dive or roller coaster ride, The Machine That Makes The World operates very, very slowly. Infinite patience is required to negotiate the complex series of gates and concentric labyrinth. One must wait for each element to gradually reveal an opening to squeeze through

Detecting Trending Terms in Cybersecurity Forum Discussions

We present a lightweight method for identifying currently trending terms in relation to a known prior of terms, using a weighted log-odds ratio with an informative prior. We apply this method to a dataset of posts from an English-language underground hacking forum, spanning over ten years of activity,with posts containing misspellings, orthographic variation, acronyms, and slang. Our statistical approach supports analysis of linguistic change and discussion topics over time, without a requirement to train a topic model for each time interval for analysis. We evaluate the approach by comparing the results to TF-IDF using the discounted cumulative gain metric with human annotations, finding our method outperforms TF-IDF on information retrieval.Cambridge Assessment, University of Cambridge EPSRC Doctoral Training Studentship (Jack Hughes

Hier et après = Yesterday and After

Thériault and Nemiroff illustrate some of the dominant concerns in visual arts since the end of the 1960s through their texts and a selection of 16 international artists. A commentary, biographical notes and bibliography are provided for each artist

Natur-Skulptur = Nature-Sculpture

This catalogue on the work of 35 international sculptors forefronts earthworks and sculpture gardens. While Vowinckel's introduction lays out the grounding principles of this exhibition on the interplay between art and nature, Osterwold meditates on nature as a site for self-experience. Meyer reviews the development of Earth Art, stressing Robert Smithson's and Lucy Lippard's respective contributions. Falazik recounts the experience of organising a series of "Art-Landscape" summer exhibitions/symposia in a rural setting in Lower Saxony between 1972 and 1981. Artist's statements. Biographical notes. 7 bibl. ref