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Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of Boise State University Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Connor, Mitch Wieland, and Clay Morgan.

Tuning Into The Future: Sharing Initial Insights About The 2012 Musical Futures Pilot Project In Ontario, Betty Anne Younker, Ruth Wright, Leslie Linton, Carol Beynon

Ruth Wright Dr

This article reports on a pilot research project introducing informal music pedagogy developed by Professor Lucy Green to two Ontario schools. Developed from the observed learning practices of popular musicians, the pedagogy locates production and development of musical knowledge firmly with the students. The research team's initial training visit to the UK is reported upon. The research questions and methodology for the project are presented and some initial observations from the early stages of the Canadian implementation project are discussed.

This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Janet Holmes Formats Dickinson, Jonathan Morse, Janet Holmes

Janet A. Holmes

As they are currently appearing in poetry journals, the pages of Janet Holmes' The ms of my kin look almost entirely blank. Floating in the emptiness of each page, however, are a few fragments of verse by Emily Dickinson.

Maneuvering The Labyrinth Of University Affiliation: A Symposium, R. Berry, Alan Davis, Stephanie G'Schwind, Janet Holmes, Salima Keegan, Don Lee, April Ossmann, Mary Rockcastle

Janet A. Holmes

No abstract provided.

Sweet Sounds Soundscapes Project, Sound Recording, Rebecca Coyle

Dr Rebecca Coyle

No abstract provided.

Impressionism: Performance And Lecture, Del Parkinson

Del Parkinson

In the Rick Allen Room of the Herrett Center for Arts and Science, his presentation called “Impressionism” will feature composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. The performance will blend music, narration and paintings as well as projected images of moonlight, rain, waterfalls, oceans, gardens and other beauty depicted by the music.

Geant4 Physics Processes For Microdosimetry Simulation: Design Foundation And Implementation Of The First Set Of Models, S. Chauvie, Z. Francis, S. Guatelli, S. Incerti, B. Mascialino, P. Moretto, P. Nieminen, Maria Pia

Susanna Guatelli

New physical processes specific for microdosimetry simulation are under development in the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic package. The first set of models implemented for this purpose cover the interactions of electrons, protons and light ions in liquid water; they address a physics domain relevant to the simulation of radiation effects in biological systems, where water represents an important component. The design developed for effectively handling particle interactions down to a low energy scale and the physics models implemented in the first public release of the software are described.

Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Finance, Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio

Timothy DiMuzio

Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy-demanding built environments and growth imperatives of these societies are threatened by global climate change and the coming end of cheap and abundant carbon energy. Throughout the twentieth century, this pattern of energy-intensive social reproduction was largely shaped by the oil and gas sector creating what I call a petro-market civilization. However, given the challenges presented by peak oil and global warming, transitioning to a low-carbon or green energy future has gathered increasing attention and investment. In this paper, I …

Video-Recorded Usability Testing Of A Web-Based Self-Administered Dietary Assessment, Yasmine Probst, David Steel, Linda Tapsell

Professor David Steel

No abstract provided.

Heimo Lattner, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Surface: Susan Ballard, Kim Pieters, Seraphine Pick And Maryrose Crook, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Extracts from Catalogue essay: Pages and paintings generate spaces of activity, where basic white is always stung by experience. In Beyond the Surface, three painters and one writer present these visual spaces as fragments that unfold before the viewer. Travelling between the paintings and words in this exhibition, we find ourselves in seemingly exotic places and other worlds, watching fleeting half-lives which are often pervaded by the perfume of earlier thoughts or memories. Pick’s shelf of Earthly Possessions offers an archive of yet another kind. These Possessions may be disguised in white paint, but unlike most found objects they do …

Audible, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Pixel Focus, Su Ballard, Nathan Thompson, Peter Stapleton

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Virtual Affection: Bodies And Installation Spaces, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Discourses of the digital and their central concerns with issues such as duration, sensation, interactivity, immersion and affect offer new positions from which to view and articulate contemporary installation art. The digital as used here refers broadly to installations that have passed through a digital environment (such as an editing suite or a computer), or are simply informed by digital presence. Digital installation involves many aspects, including - but not limited to - space, light, time, viewer, projection, apparatus, objects and shadows, and as such is a machine operating across different thresholds. Like Alice's experiences in Wonderland, or Dorothy in …

Performing Visual-Bodies, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

"Whakaruruhau", Su Ballard

Su Ballard

"In 1997 the whare at Araiteuru marae was destroyed by arson. In 2003 the whare was rebuilt. Through an interdisciplinary use of dance, performance, video, sound, light, collected stories and memories Louise Potiki Bryant explores three integrated aspects of the Araiteuru marae: the importance of the wharenui to the community and to the individual; the mauri or life force of the whare; and, the relationship of the whare to the human body. Whakaruruhau is the shelter, the space within which Bryant moves, tells the story of a community, and in particular takes us to the story of Emma Potiki Grooby …

Nonorganic Life: Encounters Between Frequency And Virtuality In Antarctica, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

This paper is not about Antarctica at all. In many imaginaries Antarctica exists as a virtualized yet real utopia. It is a place known through material productions that oscillate between the fictional and the scientific. The discovery of the Don Juan Pond lead scientists towards life formed by brine-derived nitrates (a kind of molecular self-organization by non-carbon sources) and onwards to the possibility of life on Mars. If it is autonomous, can reproduce and evolve, it must be life, mustn’t it? Amidst complex computational models, nonorganic matter is not static; it changes and tying it to either nature or culture …

Nonorganic Life: Frequency, Virtuality And The Sublime In Antarctica, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

How do we understand what it means to live on a planet? First, we might examine the qualities of a planet: spherical, rotating around an axis, revolving around a star (in the case of our Earth, the sun). Perceived according to these properties, it becomes clear that certain locations on the surface of this sphere are subject to different conditions of life. For example, due to the rotation of the Earth, most locations on its surface are subject to a 24-hour cycle of light and dark. However, two places, the axis points of the Earth's rotation, experience a vastly different …

Flickering Affect, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Et Al. That's Obvious! That's Right! That's True!, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

A review of an installation by et al. for Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu. July 23 - 22 November 2009.

Seeing Things, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Distraction And Feedback: Sound, Noise And Movement In Aotearoa New Zealand, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

If sound is a material and digital media have lead images toward a realm where they engage materiality at a deeply coded level, then it is only logical that at some point sound and image will meet on similar ground. In Aotearoa New Zealand artists playing with and shifting the distinct materialities of sound and image enabled by, and in response to, digital technologies have generated significant bodies of work. Much of this work does not only cross the boundaries of sound and image but blurs their material distinctions. This short essay focuses on some recent installations by artists Nathan …

Time-Based Art: An Introduction, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

Aotearoa Digital Arts Emerge, Su Ballard, Stella Brennan

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.

The Geekosystem: Adam Hyde And Julian Priest, With David Merritt, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Many of us have memories, now reduced to nostalgic reminiscence, of the first time we persuaded our family’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum to move a glowing green pixel a centimetre or two to the left. At this moment we experienced the magic of programmed motion. Too quickly these early machines disappeared into obsolescence and the desire for faster and more became the dominant feature of human computer relationships, as we succumbed to the lure of the next techno-gadget. In the early twenty-first century it is essential to think about the technological footprints we are leaving in our wake as we continuously …

Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard

Su Ballard

This paper begins from a belief that all media are material, and that in their specificity time-based media can introduce us to different kinds of relationships and experiences across material surfaces and forces within gallery spaces. To this end, it will demonstrate how a 16mm film installation within a gallery space presents materiality as emergent. The paper focuses on an artwork that draws on installation's cinematic legacy Line Describing a Cone by Anthony McCall (1973). Line Describing a Cone is currently undergoing a renaissance of sorts possibly because it invokes a particularly affective interactive experience that echoes many works being …

Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard

Su Ballard

Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section," Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities ...

Review Of Death Blow To Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress And The Rise Of Militant Civil Rights By Erik S. Gellman, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

Book Review: H-Net, By Zachary Fredman (December, 2012), Zheng Wang

Zheng Wang

No abstract provided.

Outback And Urban: Australian Country Music, Philip Hayward

Professor Philip Hayward

This book provides an in depth introduction to aspects of Australian country music. Individual chapters address such topics as the origins and pre-history of the form in Australia, the development of Aboriginal country music, and other relevant country music issues.