scholarly journals Good Vibrations: Living with the Motions of our Unsettled Planet

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Badcoe ◽  
Ophelia Ann George ◽  
Lucy Donkin ◽  
Shirley Pegna ◽  
John Michael Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Broadband Seismometer ◽  
Continuous Basis ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Large Earthquakes

Abstract. Historical commentary in the aftermath of large earthquakes has frequently noted unscheduled ringing of church bells excited by the shaking around them. These purported unscheduled bell ringing events were caused not only by near earthquakes but also by distant incidents. To investigate this phenomenon, as part of the Brigstow Institute funded Unsettled Planet Project, we installed a state-of-the-art broadband seismometer in the Wills Memorial Building tower to record how Great George (the tower bell) responds to the restless world around him. The installed seismometer has been recording activity around and within the tower on a near continuous basis since 23 March 2018. Here, we present the signals recorded by the seismometer as Great George overlooks the hustle and bustle of the city around him and investigate how connected we are to our unsettled planet, even from our tectonically quiet setting in Bristol. We find that the seismometer not only shows the hem and haw of activity in and around Bristol, but also brings to light earthquakes from as nearby as Lincolnshire, UK, or as far away as Fiji ~ halfway around the world. In order to contextualise our findings, our project also considers what determines how people have responded to earth shaking events, drawing on both historical and recent examples, and looks to contemporary art practice in order to consider how an awareness of our unsettled planet can be communicated in new ways.

scholarly journals It’s All in the Reading

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Déirdre Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

It seems inherent in the nature of contemporary artist’s book production to continue to question the context for the genre in contemporary art practice, notwithstanding the medium’s potential for dissemination via mass production and an unquestionable advantage of portability for distribution. Artists, curators and editors operating in this sector look to create contexts for books in a variety of imaginative ways, through exhibition, commission, installations, performance and, of course as documentation. Broadening the discussion of the idea of the book within contemporary art practice, this paper examines the presence and role of book works within the context of the art biennale, in particular the Venice Art Biennale of which the 58th iteration (2019) is entitled ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ and curated by Ralph Rugoff, with an overview of the independent International cultural offerings and the function of the ‘Book Pavilion’. Venetian museums and institutions continue to present vibrant diverse works within the arena of large-scale exhibitions, recognising the position that the book occupies in the history of the city. This year, the appearance for the first time, of ‘Book Biennale’, opens up a new and interesting dialogue, taking the measure of how the book is being promoted and its particular function for visual communication within the arts in Venice and beyond.

Casa Daros Library: a nascent Latin American contemporary art library in Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Ranieli Piccinini
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City

In 2006, Daros Latinamerica – one of the most comprehensive collections dedicated to Latin American contemporary art in the world – acquired a building, designed by the architect Francisco Joaquim Bethencourt da Silva (1831-1912) and listed as official historical heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro. After seven years of refurbishment, Casa Daros and its library opened its doors on 23 March 2013. The library has maintained and improved its collection about contemporary Latin American art – considered unique in the region – ever since, with a view to motivating and increasing the amount of research on the subject in Brazil. At the same time, the library team plays an important role in the preparation of the programming planned in the cultural centre – considered a platform for art, education, and communication – and also during the events at Casa Daros, providing support for the researchers’ needs.

scholarly journals Good vibrations: living with the motions of our unsettled planet

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-327
Author(s):  
Tamsin Badcoe ◽  
Ophelia Ann George ◽  
Lucy Donkin ◽  
Shirley Pegna ◽  
John Michael Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Broadband Seismometer ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Convective Motions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Large Earthquakes

Abstract. By its very nature Earth is unsettled and in continual motion. Earthquakes and volcanoes are an expression of the convective motions of the planet, and our existence on Earth is a consequence of this tectonic activity. Yet, as humans, we often struggle to understand our role in relation to such unpredictable natural phenomena and use different methods to attempt to find order in nature's chaos. In dwelling on the surface of our “unsettled planet”, we adapt and live with a range of ground vibrations, both natural and anthropogenic in origin. Our project, funded by the University of Bristol's Brigstow Institute, seeks to explore how we perceive and understand the shaky ground we live on, using an interdisciplinary approach that brings together the Earth sciences, the history of art and literature, and performance art. Inspired by historical commentary in the aftermath of large earthquakes, which frequently notes the unscheduled ringing of church bells excited by the shaking around them, we reflect on how these purported unscheduled bell-ringing events were caused not only by near earthquakes but also by distant incidents. To investigate this phenomenon, we installed a state-of-the-art broadband seismometer in the Wills Memorial Building tower to record how Great George (the tower bell) responds to the restless world around him. The installed seismometer has been recording activity around and within the tower on a near-continuous basis between late-March 2018 and January 2019. Here, we present the signals recorded by the seismometer as Great George overlooks the hustle and bustle of the city around him and investigate how connected we are to our unsettled planet, even from our tectonically quiet setting in Bristol. We find that the seismometer not only shows the ebb and flow of activity in and around Bristol but also registers earthquakes from as nearby as Lincolnshire, UK, or as far away as Fiji, halfway around the world. In order to contextualize our findings, our project also considers what determines how people have responded to earth-shaking events, drawing on both historical and recent examples, and looks to contemporary art practice to consider how an awareness of our unsettled planet can be communicated in new ways. The project has led to a number of art installations and performances, and feedback from artists and audiences shows how making art can be used to both investigate our connections with the Earth and to articulate (and even accept) the uncertainties inherent in encountering unstable ground.

scholarly journals The heritage problem: is current policy on earthquake-prone heritage buildings too costly?

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Henrich ◽  
John McClure
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Major Earthquake ◽  
The World ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Collapsed Buildings ◽  
The City ◽  
Large Earthquakes

Earthquakes are a major hazard around the world (Bjornerud, 2016). A recent example is New Zealand, where three major earthquake events occurred within a six-year period. The 2010–11 earthquakes in Canterbury, centred close to the city of Christchurch, led to 185 fatalities, mainly due to two collapsed buildings and crumbling facades (Crampton and Meade, 2016). In addition, the rebuild of Christchurch after the earthquakes cost $40 billion (English, 2013), a large sum for a small country. Subsequent large earthquakes occurred in 2013 in Seddon (close to Wellington) and in 2016 in Kaiköura. 

scholarly journals The Brazilian Scientific Production on Film Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis - 2011 To 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1064-1079
Author(s):  
Nathália Körössy ◽  
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Rute Gabriela dos Santos Paes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Main Motivation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Film tourism is a segment whose main motivation is to visit places linked to audiovisual production, mainly films produced for cinema and television series. It is an expanding segment all over the world that gains attention from the localities due to its possibilities of spreading the image of the city and improve economic benefits. Thus, both the creation of new tourism products related to the audiovisual productions that had the locality as scenery for the filming, as well as the implementation of strategies to capture new productions capable of attracting more visitors. In spite of the worldwide trend of growth of the sector, in Brazil there is still an institutional and scientific gap on the subject, which leads to a low utilization of the potential of cinematographic tourism in the national scenario. Based on the above considerations, this research seeks to understand the state of the art of film tourism in Brazil, based on the analysis of the national scientific production.

Drawing dust

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Johanna Love
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Scientific Image ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Power ◽  
Affective Process

Over the last few years, I have become increasingly interested in how the material power of dust can be explored through the affective process of drawing to generate a new way of looking at the inevitable disintegration of the material world around us. This paper will discuss a body of drawings and prints that show how art and science have very different ways of investigating and communicating with the world around us. I am looking to science to provide an image, a particular view of the world, generating otherwise inaccessible information, but I then use a material art practice to incorporate things that are beyond the reach of science, things that science cannot engage with – the emotional, irrational, imaginative and historical ways in which we live. The body of work under discussion emerges from a research project undertaken in collaboration with an expert in the field of scientific imaging and analysis to examine particles of dust. The project considers dust as an overlooked and valuable material archive that can speak in a new way about human history and our material lives. Using state-of-the-art scientific technologies, I am able to make visible otherwise invisible particles of dust, the material that persists and remains, the omnipresent evidence of past existence. Key to the project is how the technological image that emerges from scientific analysis looks unlike anything we ordinarily see around us. The technology used to produce the scientific image creates something that seems distant, disconnected from our experience. It is this disconnection that drives me to use the slow pace and the tactile, material body of graphite drawing to transform the image using the eye and the hand in order to reconnect it with a more human, understandable way of knowing about the world.

Emergency Medicine: The State of the Art

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Death Wish ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Coming from the city in the world which has made the least political progress in the past decade, I hope you will excuse me for starting with a distinction often made in Northern Ireland, and for all I know in other places in relation to the sphere of political activity. We say that such and such a matter is politics with a small p, and such and such is politics with a large P. Let me give you two examples. If I were to say that the contribution of nurses to disaster medicine is ten times as important as the contribution of paramedics, this would not only demonstrate that my death wish is alive and well, it would also be an example of politics with a small p. On the other hand if I were to say that Maggie Thatcher is destroying the National Health Service and somehow we must persuade all non Conservative parties to form a single coalition to get rid of her, that would be an example of politics with a very big P. If you wish to understand the entire scope of political activity, then it is very important that you recognize both politics with a small p and politics with a large P. Politics with a large P is really a subset of politics with a small p, which in its broadest sense embraces the totality of the subject.

scholarly journals The Work of Modern Art: In Search for the New Meanings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Moskalyuk ◽  
Tatyana Serikova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

The article discusses the characteristics of contemporary art works and the specifics of its interaction with the audience. We demonstrate that contemporary art is not so much a way of reflecting on the world around us, but rather a way of learning about it, as well as a peculiar game (provocation) whose meanings are unknown and closed for discussion. Today it is impossible to provide unambiguous answers to the challenges faced by the art practice of the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, it is necessary to consider topical issues, outline ways to study them, structure groups of facts, and determine methods for their research and description. The priority during this process is to identify the qualitative components of the works of contemporary visual art. To do this, it is necessary to determine the features that distinguish contemporary works from those created at the previous stages of art development. Further research is required for this problem. Here we use as case examples the works of Krasnoyarsk artists Anna Osipova and Alexander Surikov, who combine both classical and actual characteristics. Keywords: contemporary art, communication, Anna Osipova, Alexander Surikov

Lyon – UNESCO’s Creative City of Gastronomy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Marketing Program ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The fast urbanization in many regions of the world has generated a high competition between cities. In the race for investments and for international presence, some cities have increasingly resorting to the territorial marketing techniques like city branding. One of the strategies of recent years has been to use of creativity and / or labeling of creative city for the promotion of its destination. This phenomenon raises a question whether the city branding programs have worked in accordance with the cultural industries of the territory or if such labels influence the thought of tourists and locals. This paper begins by placing a consideration of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) and the strategies of the Territorial Marketing Program of the city of Lyon in France, Only Lyon. It also raises the question the perception of the target public to each of the current actions through semi-structured interviews which were applied between May and August 2015. Finally, I will try to open a discussion the brand positioning adopted by the city of Lyon

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

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