Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction

The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives — partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed — are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?

Ekspresi Wajah Manusia dalam Menanggapi Kehidupan Sebagai Ide Pada Penciptaan Karya Seni Grafis

<p><em>Karya ini berjudul ‘Ekspresi Wajah Manusia dalam Menanggapi Kehidupan Sebagai ide Pada Penciptaan Karya Seni Grafis’. Ekspresi wajah yang timbul dari seseorang, berawal dari interaksi terhadap apa yang dilihat</em><em>nya</em><em> dan apa yang tersimpan di dalam pikiran</em><em>nya</em><em>. </em><em>Pada karya yang</em><em> </em><em>dibuat,</em><em> visual ekspresi wajah manusia yang tergambar lebih dititikberatkan kepada Ninik Mamak.</em><em> Ninik </em><em>M</em><em>amak atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama penghulu adalah pemimpin adat (fungsional adat) di </em><em>M</em><em>inangkabau. Jabatan </em><em>N</em><em>inik </em><em>M</em><em>amak</em><em> </em><em> adalah sebagai pemegang sako datuk (datuak) secara turun temurun menurut garis keturunan ibu dalam sistem matrilineal.</em><em> Pencipta memilih ninik mamak sebagai objek pada tema yang diangkat.</em> <em>Karya yang diciptakan merupakan hasil dari peminjaman figur beberapa potret wajah ninik mamak di Minangkabau. Ninik mamak atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama penghulu adalah pemimpin adat di Minangkabau. Jabatan ninik mamak sebagai pemegang sako datuk (datuak) secara turun temurun menurut garis keturunan ibu dalam sistem matrilineal. Ekspresi wajah yang terlahir dari ninik mamak </em><em>ini </em><em>nantinya </em><em>akan menciptakan</em><em> respon ketika me</em><em>nghadapi</em><em> suatu konflik </em><em>sosial</em><em> yang terjadi </em><em>dalam kehidupan</em><em>. Di mana kebudayaan dan adat istiadat di Minangkabau</em><em> </em><em>mulai terkikis oleh perkembangan zaman modern. </em><em>Hal ini </em><em>bertujuan untuk introspeksi dan penyadaran kepada masyarakat terhadap prilaku sosial yang bersifat negatif</em><em> melalui</em><em> figur dan ekspresi wajah ninik mamak</em><em> di </em><em>M</em><em>inangkabau.</em><em> Penggarapan karya seni grafis yang dibuat menggunakan teknik hardboard cut, hand colouring, dan mixed media. </em><em></em></p>

I-Docs and New Narratives

Digital media make it possible to move from a conventional storytelling medium to other avenues that allow open stories to be told, maintaining the traditional basis of narratives while also adding other elements that enrich and deepen storytelling innovation. Therefore, it is important to analyze how the characteristics of digital storytelling work together in order to create meaning through new narratives. Recent documentary projects show how new ways of telling stories involve new ways of relating meaning and form, multiple platforms, and strong interaction and engagement from the side of the viewer. Interactivity and participation change the way in which a story is told and received, thus changing its nature as a narrative. To delve deeper into this field, I will analyze Highrise. The Towers in the World. World in the Towers, (http://highrise.nfb.ca) by Katerina Cizek. This is a complex project produced by the National Film Board of Canada, a multiyear, many-media collaborative documentary experiment that has generated many projects, including mixed media, interactive documentaries, mobile productions, live presentations, installations and films. I will develop a textual analysis on part of the project, the interactive documentary Out My Window, by focusing on its ways of meaning-making and the specific narrative implications of the relationship between meaning and form. The project is ambitious: Cizek's vision is "to see how the documentary process can drive and participate in social innovation rather than just to document it, and to help reinvent what it means to be an urban species in the 21st".

Utilizing the wood waste for eco-friendly mixed-media artwork

Wood waste can be found easily around us. It is usually used as household fuel resulting burning smoke that pollutes the air and reduces oxygen intake, later it would have a contribution to climate change. As alternative, to reduce air pollution due to wood waste combustion, it can be use as part of media artwork. This study used action research to create mixed-media artwork by utilizing the wood waste to reduce wood waste from industry. The results of this study are expected to help maintain eco-friendly industry and reduce the impact of climate change.

Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and planting media on seedlings growth of Helicteres isora L. in the nursery

A screw tree (Helicteres isora L.) is a small/large shrub species that grows and spreads in many Asian countries, including Indonesia (NTT and Maluku). It is a medicinal plant commonly used to treat many diseases, such as bleeding and constipation. This study aimed to determine the effect of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and planting media on the growth of screw tree seedlings in a nursery. This research was conducted at Bogor Forest Research and Development Center’s nursery, Indonesia. This study consisted of two factors: AM fungi with three levels, namely control, Glomus aggregatum and Glomus clarum and growth media with two levels, namely mixed media of soil: rice husk charcoal (2:1) and mixed soil of media: rice husk charcoal: cocopeat (2:1:1). The results showed that treatment of G. aggregatum and soil mixed of media: rice husk charcoal: cocopeat (2:1:1) was significantly different from other treatments except for G. clarum and soil mixture of media: rice husk charcoal: cocopeat (2:1:1) that significantly increased height, diameter and dry weight of seedlings and the values were 97, 56, 126 and 46, 37, 127% compared to the control. Mycorrhizal dependency of screw tree was very high (126 and 127%). Generally, interaction treatment of G. clarum and mixed media of soil: rice husk charcoal: cocopeat (2:1:1) increased the growth of 11-month-old screw tree in the nursery.

Artistic license: Celebrating the talents of students and educators

This monthly column features a pencil drawing of a broken figurine by student Claire Cathers and a mixed media image of an egg by teacher Robert E. Duncan.

Harrisons Innere Medizin

Norbert Suttorp, Martin Möckel, Britta Siegmund, Manfred Dietel. Harrisons Innere Medizin. Thieme, 20. Auflage 2020, 4 Bände, 4700 S., 1800 Abb., Mixed Media Product

Wildlife art and illustration – combining black and white ink drawings with colour: some experiments in Auroville, India

Mixed media and wildlife illustration has been experimented with and the combination of using puristic black and white media along with colour has been found most interesting, creative, and expressive.