Trick of the light

Trick of the Light is a video installation essay that relates the story of the incubus in the form of a multiple screen and sound installation. Research into the topic of the incubus as it has been represented in art and film, both historical and contemporary, reveals that in the main these works have been from the male perspective. Trick of the Light endeavours to put forward a viewpoint of the incubus experience with regard to female sexuality and subjectivity. In 'The Haunting', I will relate the connection between the incubus and the monstrous-feminine, concentrating first on three key historical paintings: The Nightmare (Henri Fuseli, 1781), Danaë (Rembrandt, 1636), Danaë (Gustav Klimt, 1907). I will follow an analysis of these three paintings with an examination of two cinematic works that pertain to the incubus: Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968), The Entity (Sidney J. Furie, 1985). These works will be surveyed in the context of the monstrous-feminine. 'Crotch' will look at woman artists who have sought to counter negative attitudes towards women with regard to sexuality. The performance art of woman working in the 1960/70s – Valie Export, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann – will be examined in relation to their highlighting of the female sexual part. I will follow with a comparison of contemporary woman artists working in this subject area: Tracey Emin and Zoe Leonard. A number of woman feature filmmakers who have also addressed women's sexuality will be studied in 'Touch'. In today's era of post-Mulveyism, in the hands of the woman director the gaze is female. While directors such as Jane Campion have eroticized sex on screen, others such as Catherine Breillat have maintained a natural aesthetic not dissimilar to pornography. Here I also introduce Laura U. Mark's notion of 'haptic cinema' and relate it to my own concept of film-ecriture feminine. 'Body Cuts' will foreground the recent phenomena of film and video moving into the gallery space, and the resultant changed relationship of the viewer with such works. Peter Greenaway's idea of the audience performing the editing will be examined here. I look at the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila as an example of an artist/filmmaker working in both the gallery and the cinema. Artist Pipilotti Rist's video installation work Sip My Ocean will be looked at in relation to film-ecriture feminine. I will also use her work to introduce a premise for the spatiality of eroticism and the relationship of woman's sexuality and architectural space. 'A Bedtime Story' tracks Trick of the Light from its genesis to its resolution. I explain the process of creating the work, and talk about the separate pieces – Incubus Drawing, These Lips, Condensation, Spirit Photography, Sink Scene, Skeptic/Spiritualist- in relation to the depiction of women's sexuality in art, film-ecriture feminine, sexuality in space, and the video installation essay. [From Introduction

A Final Formality: Three Modernist Pavilion Houses of the early 1960s

The Beard, Alington, and Mackay houses represent the endpoint of a direction in New Zealand domestic architecture that was both internationalist and based within the realities of local house building in the mid-twentieth century. Imi Porsolt, while reviewing Stephanie Bonny and Marilyn Reynolds'book Living with 50 Architects in 1980, specifically points to the Alington house as the final formalisation of this purist trend. Porsolt's review provides an historical subtext to Living with 50 Architects that opposes the "altogether austere style" of the pavilion with the vernacularism of what is best described as the "elegant shed" tradition of New Zealand house design. More elegant than the elegant shed, these pavilions reveal something of a "blind spot" in New Zealand's architectural history – aside from the inclusion of the Beard and Alington houses in Living with 50 Architects,they have not appeared in any of the canon-forming historical surveys such as Mitchell and Chaplin's The Elegant Shed or Shaw's A History of New Zealand Architecture. The Mackay house also has not featured until its recent appearance in Lloyd Jenkins' At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design. This paper uses Porsolt's view as a useful starting point from which to consider the relationship that exists between the Beard, Alington, and Mackay houses, and their place in the development of New Zealand's domestic architecture during the 1960s

The Lisbon Agreement: Why the United States Should Stop Fighting the Geneva Act

In May 2015, members of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a Diplomatic Conference that resulted in the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. The Act modified the Lisbon Agreement (originally created in 1958), extending its previous protection of appellations of origin to geographical indications as well. The United States, which remains a non-party to the Lisbon Agreement, has been adamantly against the expansion of the Agreement to geographical indications. This Note explores the issues surrounding the Geneva Act, the state of the law and international agreements leading up to the Act, and the potential benefits to the United States of joining the new Lisbon Agreement

Memory, evidence, and artifice: the overseas journal in New Zealand post-war architectural historiography

This paper is based upon the premise that US architectural journals have had a much greater significance on the development of post-war New Zealand Modernism than has thus far been admitted to be the case. This is a rather difficult position to defend, not just because of a lack of hard evidence, but because the established orthodoxy posits the English Architectural Review as the ‘bible' to this generation of architects. The privileging of the Architectural Review in recent historiography is easily traced to a 1994 interview, conducted by Philippa Hoeta, with five architects who belong to that post-war generation. As a "fact," this privileging can easily be taken at face value: there is evidence in the many libraries and collections that subscribed to the Review; and there is the personal testimony provided in the interview itself. It is fairly safe to say that the statement is valid. But somewhere along the process, which sees simple fact become historiographic truth, other truths are overlooked, skirted around, rejected, or forgotten - perhaps there was more than one gospel? In the Hoeta interview, the conversation was redirected after only a few seconds - the journal discussion was not returned to. This paper restarts that discussion, extends it, and probes deeper to find the role and significance of the other journals that sat next to the Review on local architects' shelves. New Zealand architectural historiography has shifted into its second-generational phase; where the canon is largely set and new histories are able to operate uncritically within its scope, its structure and main narratives have become entrenched, and the key truths are almost self-evident. This paper picks up on one such truth, examines the historiographic process from which it arose, and investigates what has been obscured by uncritical adherence to its complete veracity

Theoretical and Methodological Issues and Challenges in Analyses of Teen Fertility

The United States has the highest teen birth rate of any developed country in the world. In the period 2005-2010, the fertility rate for the United States was 41 births per 1,000 women ages 15-19, compared to 26 births in the United Kingdom, and 4 in Switzerland and The Netherlands. However, the teen birth rates in the United States vary considerably by race and ethnic group. National vital statistics data for 2009 report that the rate for Blacks is more than twice that of non-Hispanic Whites, and the rate for Latinas is almost three times as high. The difference within Latino groups is just as dramatic. The adolescent fertility rate per 1,000 for Cubans is 23.5, while for Puerto Ricans it is 61.67, and for Mexicans the rate is 78.7. Teen pregnancy and childbearing in the Mexican American population are issues of great concern because this ethnic group is the fastest growing population in the United States. The literature on teen childbearing among Latinos, and specifically among Mexican origin teens, tends to attribute the high rates to cultural differences. In this dissertation, I argue that the high rates of teen pregnancy cannot properly be attributed to "cultural" characteristics. Instead, I develop falsifiable hypotheses that are derived from theoretical frameworks which recognize the relationship between racial inequalities and teen fertility. I first test the social characteristics hypothesis to determine the effect that income and parents? education have on teen fertility. Second, I test if other characteristics such as religiosity, type of religion and views on teen pregnancy have an impact on predicting the odds of having a teen birth. Third, drawing on demographic literature, I ascertain whether educational experiences and aspirations to attend college are critical factors in predicting a teen birth. Last, I test if having a teen birth has the same impact for Mexican origin teens compared to Whites in terms of being able to obtain a college degree

Courage in Mississippi

Letter expressing support and admiration for James Silver\u27s decision to remain at the University of Mississippi; Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatchhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1002/thumbnail.jp

Reconstructing Our Ships: Navigating the Use of Simulation in CSD

Simulations for clinical training is an example of a disruptive technology in that it offers great potential in the training and assessment of students and professionals in Communication Sciences and Disorders. As such, those considering adoption of simulations should anticipate the need for restructuring of the educational program in order to take full advantage of the benefits and minimize the unintended consequences

Jim Dudding, Bob Drury to James Meredith (4 October 1962)

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Whole, turret and step methods of rapid rescreening : is there any difference in performance?

We compared the performance of the Whole, Turret and Step techniques of 100% rapid rescreening (RR) in detection of falsenegatives in cervical cytology. We tested RR performance with cytologists trained and among those without training. We revised 1,000 consecutive slides from women participating in an ongoing international screening trial. Two teams of experienced cytologists performed the RR techniques: one trained in RR procedures and the other not trained. The sensitivities in the trained group were Whole 46.6%, Turret 47.4% and Step 50.9%; and in the non-trained group were 38.6, 31.6 and 47.4%, respectively. The j coefficient showed a weak agreement between the two groups of cytologists and between the three RR techniques. The RR techniques are more valuable if used by trained cytologists. In the trained group, we did not observe significant differences between the RR techniques used, whereas in the non-trained group, the Step technique had the best sensitivity