Institutional Elaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 271-338
Author(s):  
Mark Minett
Keyword(s):  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Institutional Norms

Accounts of Altman’s career trajectory tend to efface dynamic intra- and intermedial relationships in favor of presuming the constraint and emergence of norm-breaking expressivity. Industrial filmmaking is paradoxically said to have groomed Altman to be an observational documentarian while also somehow training him in Hollywood’s illusionist norms. Filmed television is taken to be a forum in which Altman’s expressive agency was shackled by the producer-dominated medium’s attenuated version of Hollywood style, inadvertently fueling his later desire to reject Hollywood’s norms. Chapter 5 employs archival material and formal analysis to specify the contingencies of Altman’s industrial contexts and to demonstrate how they actually contributed to his development, steering him toward practice-oriented preferences and providing opportunities to push beyond standard approaches. The manner in which Altman’s elaborative attitude toward institutional norms extends across “Earlier Altman” to “Early Altman” challenges hierarchizing assumptions about the nature and direction of cross-media influence.

Entombing Antiquity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Elite Culture ◽  
Funerary Architecture

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is home to some of the United States’ most prominent Neo-Antique mausolea, which used Classical and Egyptian motifs in their architecture and decor. Using the lens of Classical archaeology, this paper undertakes a formal analysis of funerary architecture in specific tombs belonging to Jay Gould, Francis Garavan, William Leeds, the Goelet Brothers, Jules S. Bache, and F.W. Woolworth. This discussion examines the architecture of these tombs and their reception of ancient architecture alongside archival material. It also discusses individual patrons’ and architects’ motivations for requisitioning such forms. Finally, this analysis demonstrates that through the appropriation and redeployment of ancient architecture and motifs and through the landscape design of the tombs in Woodlawn, these mausolea were rich nexuses of public and private self-fashioning and place-making, and were an expression of elite culture.

Metropolis Ecologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-175
Author(s):  
Meiling Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Art World ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Individual Female ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Ecological Art

This article takes an ecological approach to Beijing-based artist Yin Xiuzhen’s cross-media artworks, which comprise installations, performances, and inhabitable sculptures. Yin’s creative outputs—from her earliest installations that bemoan the vanishing old Beijing, through her Portable Cities series that uses fabric architecture to convey her impressions of world cities, to her latest “ecoengineering” projects that provide contemplative spaces for viewers to temporarily inhabit—delineate the career trajectory of an individual female artist establishing her position within the contemporary art world. The author’s inquiry suggests that Yin’s reluctance to embrace her gender identity as central to her ecological art reflects her species-based environmental ethics that goes beyond identity politics. Yin’s ecological focus manifests her situated knowledge as a metropolitan resident living and traveling in a glocalized era. While we may debate about the feasibility of (en)gendering her art, many of Yin’s ecology-leaning solutions point to urgent ecological imperatives that are much less negotiable for our continued terrestrial survival.

Immunoelectron microscopic localization of elastic tissue in archival material using an improved method

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 794-795
Author(s):  
J. C. Fanning ◽  
J. F. White ◽  
R. Polewski ◽  
E. G. Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Normal Animal ◽  
Animal Tissue ◽  
Elastic Tissue ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Immuno Electron Microscopy ◽  
Arteries And Veins ◽  
Biochemical Examination

Elastic tissue is an important component of the walls of arteries and veins, of skin, of the lungs and in lesser amounts, of many other tissues. It is responsible for the rubber-like properties of the arteries and for the normal texture of young skin. It undergoes changes in a number of important diseases such as atherosclerosis and emphysema and on exposure of skin to sunlight.We have recently described methods for the localizationof elastic tissue components in normal animal and human tissues. In the study of developing and diseased tissues it is often not possible to obtain samples which have been optimally prepared for immuno-electron microscopy. Sometimes there is also a need to examine retrospectively samples collected some years previously. We have therefore developed modifications to our published methods to allow examination of human and animal tissue samples obtained at surgery or during post mortem which have subsequently been: 1. stored frozen at -35° or -70°C for biochemical examination; 2.

How Do Text Format and Type of Media Influence Highlighting Behavior and Learning?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Tsai ◽  
Carole Yue ◽  
Daniel Oppenheimer ◽  
Elizabeth Bjork ◽  
Robert Bjork
Keyword(s):  
Media Influence ◽  
Text Format

The Effect of Media Influence on Male Body Image

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee Marie Gibbs ◽  
Kristin Byington ◽  
Alexandria Murallo ◽  
Leigh Anne Randa
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Male Body Image

Formal Verification of Control System Software

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Loïc Garoche
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Formal Verification ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
System Software ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Verification Methods ◽  
Autonomous Cars ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Verification Techniques

The verification of control system software is critical to a host of technologies and industries, from aeronautics and medical technology to the cars we drive. The failure of controller software can cost people their lives. This book provides control engineers and computer scientists with an introduction to the formal techniques for analyzing and verifying this important class of software. Too often, control engineers are unaware of the issues surrounding the verification of software, while computer scientists tend to be unfamiliar with the specificities of controller software. The book provides a unified approach that is geared to graduate students in both fields, covering formal verification methods as well as the design and verification of controllers. It presents a wealth of new verification techniques for performing exhaustive analysis of controller software. These include new means to compute nonlinear invariants, the use of convex optimization tools, and methods for dealing with numerical imprecisions such as floating point computations occurring in the analyzed software. As the autonomy of critical systems continues to increase—as evidenced by autonomous cars, drones, and satellites and landers—the numerical functions in these systems are growing ever more advanced. The techniques presented here are essential to support the formal analysis of the controller software being used in these new and emerging technologies.

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