Speciesism | Ageism | Racism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Alves da Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Mask Making ◽  
On Line ◽  
Policies And Practices

Speciesism | Ageism | Racism (SAR) is a generative cinematic artwork stemming from the millennia-old practice of mask making and laying claim to the fundamental richness of diversity. SAR generates sequences of masks from photos of people and animals without bias, imbued meaning or particular intent, leaving all interpretations and assumptions to the audience. SAR is aesthetically rooted in traditional folklore and the worldwide popular art of mask-making, in the concepts of “loop” and metric montage. Conceptually, SAR thrives in the intersectionality of postcolonial theory, feminist and anti-discrimination studies, as well as animal rights movements, policies and practices. By stripping away the ability to consistently identify species, age, race, gender or sexual orientation, the artwork allows for a disruptive aesthetic appreciation, which confronts the ideology and politics of group superiority. SAR delivers a participatory, hypnotic, rhythmic and generative audio-visual experience, charged with an anti-discriminatory message countering speciesism, ageism and racism. Speciesism | Ageism | Racism can be enjoyed in its on-line pre-calculated version at https://pedroveiga.com/sar-speciesism-ageism-racism/

Twofoldness in Moving Images

Projections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Joerg Fingerhut
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Aesthetic

When watching a film, we are seeing-in moving images. Film’s visual experience is therefore twofold, encompassing a recognitional (the scene presented, the story told, etc.) and a configurational fold (editing, camera movement, etc.). Although some researchers endorse twofoldness with respect to film, there is also significant resistance and misrepresentations of its very nature. This paper argues that the concept is central to an understanding of the basic apprehension and the aesthetic appreciation of film. It demonstrates how twofoldness could play a more substantial role in a new cognitive film theory and a naturalized aesthetics of film. By discussing recent theories of our motor engagement with cinema it shows how referencing to the interplay of two filmic folds could inform such a theory.

scholarly journals Perception and Appreciation of Tactile Objects: The Role of Visual Experience and Texture Parameters †

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Rezaul Karim ◽  
Sanchary Prativa ◽  
Lora T. Likova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Texture Parameters ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Congenitally Blind ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This exploratory study was designed to examine the effects of visual experience and specific texture parameters on both discriminative and aesthetic aspects of tactile perception. To this end, the authors conducted two experiments using a novel behavioral (ranking) approach in blind and (blindfolded) sighted individuals. Groups of congenitally blind, late blind, and (blindfolded) sighted participants made relative stimulus preference, aesthetic appreciation, and smoothness or softness judgment of two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) tactile surfaces through active touch. In both experiments, the aesthetic judgmen t was assessed on three affective dimensions, Relaxation, Hedonics, and Arousal, hypothesized to underlie visual aesthetics in a prior study. Results demonstrated that none of these behavioral judgments significantly varied as a function of visual experience in either experiment. However, irrespective of visual experience, significant differences were identified in all these behavioral judgments across the physical levels of smoothness or softness. In general, 2D smoothness or 3D softness discrimination was proportional to the level of physical smoothness or softness. Second, the smoother or softer tactile stimuli were preferred over the rougher or harder tactile stimuli. Third, the 3D affective structure of visual aesthetics appeared to be amodal and applicable to tactile aesthetics. However, analysis of the aesthetic profile across the affective dimensions revealed some striking differences between the forms of appreciation of smoothness and softness, uncovering unanticipated substructures in the nascent field of tactile aesthetics. While the physically softer 3D stimuli received higher ranks on all three affective dimensions, the physically smoother 2D stimuli received higher ranks on the Relaxation and Hedonics but lower ranks on the Arousal dimension. Moreover, the Relaxation and Hedonics ranks accurately overlapped with one another across all the physical levels of softness/hardness, but not across the physical levels of smoothness/roughness. These findings suggest that physical texture parameters not only affect basic tactile discrimination but differentially mediate tactile preferences, and aesthetic appreciation. The theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES AND PRACTICES ACROSS THE AGING CONTINUUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S437-S437
Author(s):  
Brian W Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Gerontological Society ◽  
International Borders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Policies And Practices

Abstract Aging crosses all domestic and international borders. It’s an issue that affects everyone regardless of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The main purpose of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is “to advance the scientific and scholarly study of aging and to promote human welfare by the encouragement of gerontology in all its areas.” Yet in 2019, policies remain in effect that impact individuals in a discriminatory manner. The program will highlight research in several areas that demonstrate the effects of these discriminatory practices.

scholarly journals Sexual orientation predicts women’s preferences for sexually dimorphic face-shape characteristics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Kenji Medeiros Shiramizu ◽  
Lisa Marie DeBruine ◽  
Benedict C Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Face Shape ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Women’S Preferences ◽  
Shape Characteristics

Previous research has suggested that heterosexual women show stronger preferences for images of male faces displaying masculine shape characteristics than do homosexual women. Because many other findings regarding individual differences in women’s masculinity preferences have not replicated in subsequent studies, we carried out a direct replication of Glassenberg et al’s (2010) comparison of heterosexual and homosexual women’s preferences for sexually dimorphic face-shape characteristics. In common with Glassenberg et al., our replication study found that heterosexual women (N = 20,360) showed stronger preferences for masculine men that did homosexual women (N = 1598). This association between women’s sexual orientation and masculinity preferences is consistent with the proposal that heterosexual women’s masculinity preferences, at least partly, reflect hypothesized benefits to offspring fathered by masculine men. However, we also emphasize the importance of testing alternative explanations in future research, such as those that might stem from between-group differences in visual experience with different types of faces.

scholarly journals Perception and Appreciation of Tactile Objects: The Role of Visual Experience and Texture Parameters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Rezaul Karim ◽  
Sanchary Prativa ◽  
Lora T. Likova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Texture Parameters ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This exploratory study was designed to examine the effects of visual experience and specific texture parameters on both discriminative and aesthetic aspects of tactile perception. To this end, the authors conducted two experiments using a novel behavioral (ranking) approach in blind and (blindfolded) sighted individuals. Groups of congenitally blind, late blind, and (blindfolded) sighted participants made relative stimulus preference, aesthetic appreciation, and smoothness or softness judgment of two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) tactile surfaces through active touch. In both experiments, the aesthetic judgment was assessed on three affective dimensions, Relaxation, Hedonics, and Arousal, hypothesized to underlie visual aesthetics in a prior study. Results demonstrated that none of these behavioral judgments significantly varied as a function of visual experience in either experiment. However, irrespective of visual experience, significant differences were identified in all these behavioral judgments across the physical levels of smoothness or softness. In general, 2D smoothness or 3D softness discrimination was proportional to the level of physical smoothness or softness. Second, the smoother or softer tactile stimuli were preferred over the rougher or harder tactile stimuli. Third, the 3D affective structure of visual aesthetics appeared to be amodal and applicable to tactile aesthetics. However, analysis of the aesthetic profile across the affective dimensions revealed some striking differences between the forms of appreciation of smoothness and softness, uncovering unanticipated substructures in the nascent field of tactile aesthetics. While the physically softer 3D stimuli received higher ranks on all three affective dimensions, the physically smoother 2D stimuli received higher ranks on the Relaxation and Hedonics but lower ranks on the Arousal dimension. Moreover, the Relaxation and Hedonics ranks accurately overlapped with one another across all the physical levels of softness/hardness, but not across the physical levels of smoothness/roughness. These findings suggest that physical texture parameters not only affect basic tactile discrimination but differentially mediate tactile preferences, and aesthetic appreciation. The theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Ferretti
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Picture Perception ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Action Processing ◽  
Pictorial Experience ◽  
Peculiar Nature ◽  
The Way

Standard philosophical studies on picture perception usually investigated the peculiar nature of pictorial experience and the way aesthetic appreciation can be generated during this experience. Recently, however, the philosophical literature has also focused on a new aspect of picture perception: the possible involvement that the visual states related to action processing may actually play in pictorial experience. But this role has been studied only in relation to the understanding of the nature of pictorial experience, qua visual experience. This paper offers some preliminar speculation, which may guide future research, on the role of action in aesthetic appreciation of pictures.

Sexual Orientation Policies and Practices Scale

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belle Rose Ragins ◽  
John M. Cornwell
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Policies And Practices

The on-line use of histogram data for high-speed correction and alignment of electron microscope images

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 556-557
Author(s):  
William Krakow
Keyword(s):  
Power Spectrum ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Direct Memory Access ◽  
Digital Television ◽  
Contrast Transfer Function ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
On Line ◽  
Correction Of Astigmatism ◽  
The Fourier Transform

In the past few years on-line digital television frame store devices coupled to computers have been employed to attempt to measure the microscope parameters of defocus and astigmatism. The ultimate goal of such tasks is to fully adjust the operating parameters of the microscope and obtain an optimum image for viewing in terms of its information content. The initial approach to this problem, for high resolution TEM imaging, was to obtain the power spectrum from the Fourier transform of an image, find the contrast transfer function oscillation maxima, and subsequently correct the image. This technique requires a fast computer, a direct memory access device and even an array processor to accomplish these tasks on limited size arrays in a few seconds per image. It is not clear that the power spectrum could be used for more than defocus correction since the correction of astigmatism is a formidable problem of pattern recognition.

Image registration with a computer driven S.T.E.M.

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-99
Author(s):  
A.M.H. Schepman ◽  
J.A.P. van der Voort ◽  
J.E. Mellema
Keyword(s):  
Spot Size ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Small Computer ◽  
Structural Studies ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Specimen Area ◽  
On Line ◽  
Minimum Distances

A Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) was coupled to a small computer. The system (see Fig. 1) has been built using a Philips EM400, equipped with a scanning attachment and a DEC PDP11/34 computer with 34K memory. The gun (Fig. 2) consists of a continuously renewed tip of radius 0.2 to 0.4 μm of a tungsten wire heated just below its melting point by a focussed laser beam (1). On-line operation procedures were developped aiming at the reduction of the amount of radiation of the specimen area of interest, while selecting the various imaging parameters and upon registration of the information content. Whereas the theoretical limiting spot size is 0.75 nm (2), routine resolution checks showed minimum distances in the order 1.2 to 1.5 nm between corresponding intensity maxima in successive scans. This value is sufficient for structural studies of regular biological material to test the performance of STEM over high resolution CTEM.

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