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Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004)
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This paper uses the cinema of Tuskamoto Shinya to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the ‘flesh’. Flesh rejects the ontological antinomy between the empirical and the rational, our determination by either matter or ideas, in favour of a more... Read More about Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004).

Relocating the notion of the archive within the digital age
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Has the increasing popularity and accessibility of digital photography, especially through the incorporation of cameras into mobile phones, in capturing moments of everyday life combined with the use of web technology and social networking sites to c... Read More about Relocating the notion of the archive within the digital age.

Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence
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Performing Geographies of Love – landscape between presence and absence is an extended critical reflection on a forthcoming paper by the cultural geographer John Wylie that seeks to resist the use of philosophical positions to annex/belittle the “enc... Read More about Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence.

Caribbean autobiography, domestic photography and the family photo album
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Conference presentation on visual autobiography and the critical practice of documentary.

La piu bella bombina de Roma: Child performance and the popular in Luchino Visconti's Bellissima (1951)
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An analysis of the representation of the child performer in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima.

Do something, now: Reporting political violence in India
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Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning
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Looking specifically at the Dorset coast; a place designated a 'world heritage site' and replete with cultural discourse such as the novels of Thomas Hardy, the photographs of Paul Nash and the history of the south coast holiday trade. This paper use... Read More about Boring, trivial and dubious: Photographing place and the construction of meaning.

Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics
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We present a new approach to the fabrication of soft dielectric elastomer actuators using a 3D printing process. Complete actuators including active membranes and support structures can be 3D printed in one go, resulting in a great improvement in fab... Read More about Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics.

Early cinema, animal death, virtual presence: Measuring the ethical charge of Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
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An analysis of the representation of electrocution and animal death in Thomas Edison’s Electrocuting an Elephant.

The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War
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The blurring of public/private space, or front line/home front, during the Second World War, had the effect of privileging the female voice and experience by redrawing loci of work and home, or by politicising the domestic. In doing this, some of the... Read More about The home front: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Beyond digital
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Printmaking with Extreme Technology Panel
Chair: Erik Brunvand
Panelists: Stephen Hoskins, Edward Bateman, Mike Lyon

Printmaking is an art form that celebrates and embraces new technology in a way that other media do not. This panel gathers an... Read More about Beyond digital.

Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998)
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This paper suggest Solondz’s film materialises Lacan’s claim that there is no (logical) sexual relationship between the sexes and then critiques this claim via a reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The figures that emerge from the model of su... Read More about Good lacanians and bad hegelians: Sexual differences and the dialect of (Un)Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA, 1998).

Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer
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Paper given at the Dark Side of Color panel. Current technologies are designed to capture a pictorial image by reflectance of light upon the sensor, in order to create the potential to render a colour image pixel by pixel, which can then be re-render... Read More about Pictorial information as transcribed by the artist or designer.

On determining the color gamut of N-ink printers
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Paper given at Session 7: Spectral Imaging [7241-32].
With the development of digital printing technologies, increasing number of primaries are adopted in colour reproduction systems aiming to improve the quality of the print, in particular, to achi... Read More about On determining the color gamut of N-ink printers.

Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War
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Plays of the Second World War can be described as middlebrow. They work through a process of ‘the pleasure of familiarity’, where the choice of genre, whether of family comedy, domestic drama, or thriller, make them the perfect medium through which t... Read More about Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940
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This paper explores how the interwar plays of female dramatists like Muriel Box, Clemence Dane, G. B. Stern and Dodie Smith, show the existence of a tension between, on the one hand, the damaging effects of the First World War, and on the other, its... Read More about Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940.

Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war
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Middlebrow drama has long been dismissed as unrealistic and unchallenging. Ultimately, this led to the rejection by critics (though interestingly not by audiences) of the middlebrow for confrontational and experimental drama in the post-war period. T... Read More about Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war.

Reflectance, illumination, and edges in 3-D Mondrian colourconstancy experiments
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AIC 2009 Proceedings published as CD-Rom
Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC 2009), edited by Dianne
Smith, Paul Green-Armytage, Margaret A. Pope and Nick Harkness. CD.
Sydney: Colour Society of Australia

Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice
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"The challenge for digital sculpture artists, however, is to work with new electronic medium without relying on it for content or presence. The virtual translated to the physical, sculpture files traveling around the world, infinite dissemination and... Read More about Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice.

Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment
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Paper given at Perception and Sensation Session 3.
Colour sensation does not depend strictly of the light signal conveying colour information, but also depends on the arrangement of the visual array of all signals coming from the scene. Colour cons... Read More about Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment.