Cybernetic-Existentialism in Performance Art

Leonardo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-254
Author(s):  
Steve Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Technological Performance

A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed to offer a new critical perspective on technological performance art. Case studies of Wafaa Bilal, Stelarc and Steve Mann are used to demonstrate how core ideas and themes from both cybernetics and existentialism are increasingly converging in contemporary arts.

HOMER AND THE SUBLIME

Ramus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 184-199
Author(s):  
James I. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Ancient Astronomy

Was Homer sublime? The question is rarely asked today. Sublimity was once a staple of the ancient intellectual traditions, as Homer is perfectly suited to show. The present essay will take up the question of Homeric sublimity by examining four case studies drawn from ancient astronomy to literary criticism to Homer himself, who not only licensed but also inaugurated these later traditions. Longinus will lurk everywhere in the background, but part of the point of this essay is that Longinus, while broadly representative, is in fact a minority voice in the wider landscape of ancient thought, as is the purely literary critical perspective that he is usually assumed to represent. Just as sublimity transcends customary frameworks of experience by putting these radically into question, so does it challenge the ways in which we tend to carve up antiquity into domains and disciplines that are artificially removed from one another. Sublimity by its nature crosses over genres and discourses and brings out the underlying patterns of thought that they share. But now to our case studies, which will give us a clear entrée to the problem, and will supply us with criteria of what should or should not count as ‘sublime’, as we follow each case in turn.

Cellphilms in Public Scholarship

2019 ◽  
pp. 417-442
Author(s):  
Katie MacEntee ◽  
Casey Burkholder ◽  
Joshua Schwab-Cartas
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Visual Methodology

Digital media offer new platforms for engagement and dissemination for public scholarship. Cellphilm method (cellphone + film production) is a participatory visual methodology that builds on the increasing ubiquity of cellphones and other mobile technology across the globe, and the uptake of cellphone video-making as a form of socially engaged visual practice. In this chapter the authors trace the development of cellphilm method in research. They present case studies of cellphilm research in Hong Kong, Mexico, and South Africa in order to provide concrete examples of cellphilm research in practice and nuance the methodological implications of integrating cellphones and visual media production into public scholarship. The chapter concludes by offering directions for future research on cellphilms as a public scholarship method and providing a critical perspective on the integration of cellphones in research for public scholarship.

scholarly journals Is Creative Commons a Panacea for Managing Digital Humanities Intellectual Property Rights?

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Ding
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Us

Digital humanities is an academic field applying computational methods to explore topics and questions in the humanities field. Digital humanities projects, as a result, consist of a variety of creative works different from those in traditional humanities disciplines. Born to provide free, simple ways to grant permissions to creative works, Creative Commons (CC) licenses have become top options for many digital humanities scholars to handle intellectual property rights in the US. However, there are limitations of using CC licenses that are sometimes unknown by scholars and academic librarians. By analyzing case studies and influential lawsuits about intellectual property rights in the digital age, this article advocates for a critical perspective of copyright education and provides academic librarians with specific recommendations about advising digital humanities scholars to use CC licenses with four limitations in mind: 1) the pitfall of a free license; 2) the risk of irrevocability; 3) the ambiguity of NonCommercial and NonDerivative licenses; 4) the dilemma of ShareAlike and the open movement.

scholarly journals In-Between Images: Where is the Ground?

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Andrea Thoma
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Virtual Image ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Tate Modern ◽  
Large Survey ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Joan Jonas’s large survey exhibition at Tate Modern (2018) highlighted the contemporary relevance of this pioneer of performance art in her juxtapositions of analogue and virtual methods. Her process often relies on a ground or stage where physical remnants of her performances are tangible. Drawing from these insights and exploring figure-ground relations through a selection of works by various artists and filmmakers, this article aims to challenge Hito Steyerl’s polemic that we might not need a ground within contemporary virtual image worlds. The consideration of case studies will be informed by philosophical reflections as to the relevance and scope of the idea of ground within the post-digital era.

The practice of scalecraft: Scale, policy and the politics of the market in England’s academy schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1060-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Papanastasiou
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
The Relationship

This paper builds on geographical understandings of scalar practices and illustrates how they can enrich studies of policymaking, in particular for the area of education policy. It achieves this by integrating a focus on ‘scalecraft’ with an approach to ‘policy as practice’ featuring in critical policy studies. The paper draws on one of the few empirical studies of England’s academy schools policy and analyses the work of actors tasked with implementing the policy in two local authority case studies. Analysis presents a new critical perspective on the academies policy by revealing how policy actors’ work is underpinned by scalecraft practices. The analysis also reveals how scalecraft intersects with marketisation politics to create scalar tensions which profoundly shape the work of policy actors. The paper uses its analytical findings to conceptually develop the relationship between scalar practices and the politics of the market, and to propose new conceptual dimensions for understanding the practice of scalecraft.

Introduction: Performance – action – extremity

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Dominic Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Subsequent Chapter ◽  
Ana Mendieta

The introduction defines and contextualises the performance of extremity. If extremity assumes a limit, what might be made of the borders, gaps or ruptures between art and its purported outsides? The introduction provides detailed contexts for performance art in the 1970s; the action as an emergent practice for performance art; extremity as a conceptual frame for exploring limits of bodily experience, aesthetics and spectatorship; and broadly contextualises the 1970s in social and political terms. It introduces a number of performances by artists, beginning with a public intervention by Ana Mendieta, to set the scene for the sustained analysis of case studies in each subsequent chapter. The ethical, political, and affective implications of the performance of extremity are discussed in detail.

Erneuerbare und dezentrale Energien aus postkolonialer Perspektive

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Barthel
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
New Type ◽  
New Research

By combining postcolonial theory and development and technology research, this interdisciplinary work offers new research avenues. Through two detailed case studies, it contributes to theoretical knowledge as well as critical developmental practice. First, it reflects on the role of (energy) technologies from a critical perspective on development and technology. It proceeds to highlight current discursive formations and the political strategies of the energy and ‘devel-opment’ nexus. Against this theoretical background and via ethnographic research methods, processes of technology development in two case studies of German–Tanzanian partnerships are reconstructed, analysed from a postcolonial perspective and examined for their potential in terms of self-determined technology development and use and the obstacles they also pose in this respect. The case studies look at the cooperation between two NGOs that are developing a new type of biogas system for the home and two companies that install solar home systems.

Theatricality in Contemporary Visual and Performance Art on New World Slavery

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilka Saal
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
New World ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

This article examines forms and uses of theatricality in recent African American productions on slavery in the performing and the visual arts. It argues that by deploying modes of the comic, such as satire and parody, along with racial stereotypes, in their engagement with the traumatic history of slavery, contemporary artworks aim to provoke their audiences into an affective relationship with the artwork and the history it represents. In this manner, they seek to bring into focus not the past itself but our present-day reactions to it, asking viewers to reflect on their involvement with the ongoing mimetic and affective legacies of New World slavery. The article discusses Suzan-Lori Parks’s 1996 playVenusand Kara Walker’s 2014 installation ASubtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Babyas case studies.

Agency in ensemble interaction and rehearsal communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Su Yin Mak ◽  
Hiroko Nishida ◽  
Daisuke Yokomori
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
String Quartets ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
Research Outcome ◽  
Research Frameworks ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

Agency refers to the capacity to act and act upon, to initiate and carry out actions either for their own sakes or to influence and affect others. The concept is often invoked in music studies, but the nature and types of actions and agents are defined differently in various research frameworks. This study integrates sociocultural and metaphorical approaches to investigate the interactions between work and performer agencies in the verbal communication and gestural exchanges that take place during ensemble rehearsal. The chapter begins with an overview of current theories of musical agency and traces their implications for research on ensemble music-making. Next, using conversational segments drawn from two empirical case studies of professional string quartets as illustrations, the chapter considers agential roles and ascriptions that are not accounted for in current paradigms. In closing, the chapter explores the theoretical implications of the research outcome and proposes a new critical perspective.

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