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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 ...

Wine Tourism In The Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies And Their Contradictions, Kevin Yelvington, Jason Simms, Elizabeth Murray

Jason L Simms

Wine tourism is a growing phenomenon, with tourists enjoying not only wine but a rural lifestyle that is associated with winegrowing areas and the elusive essence of terroir. The Temecula Valley in southern California, a small wine-producing region and wine tourism destination, is experiencing state-led plans for a vast expansion of production and tourism capacity. This article traces the challenges inherent in this development process, and questions the sustainability of such plans regarding the very environment the wine tourists seek out, especially regarding the availability of natural resources, mainly water, needed to fulfill these plans. The article concludes with a …

Estimating The Accuracy Of Neurocognitive Effort Measures In The Absence Of A “Gold Standard”, Douglas Mossman, Dustin Wygant, Roger Gervais

Dustin B. Wygant

Psychologists frequently use symptom validity tests (SVTs) to help determine whether evaluees' test performance or reported symptoms accurately represent their true functioning and capability. Most studies evaluating the accuracy of SVTs have used either known-group comparisons or simulation designs, but these approaches have well-known limitations (potential misclassifications or lack of ecological validity). This study uses latent class modeling (LCM) implemented in a Bayesian framework to estimate SVT classification accuracy based on data obtained from real-life forensic evaluations. We obtained archival data from 1,301 outpatient evaluees who underwent testing with the Computerized Assessment of Response Bias (CARB), the Test of Memory …

Staying Systemic: The Example Of Separation, Divorce And Remarriage, Tiffani Kisler

Tiffani S. Kisler

No abstract provided.

Obama In Words And Deeds, Donna R. Hoffman, Alison D. Howard

Alison Dana Howard

The Viability Of Malaysian Developmental State For Africa In An Era Of Economic Globalization, Asayehgn Desta

Asayehgn Desta

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

Zheng Wang

No abstract provided.

The Performance Of Multiple Imputation And Full Information Maximum Likelihood For Missing Ordinal Data In Structural Equation Models, Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D.

Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.

Monte Carlo simulation techniques were used to compare the performance of full information maximum likelihood (FIML), multiple imputation, and listwise deletion to handle missing ordinal data in confirmatory factor analyses and full structural equation models. Robust ML (Satorra-Bentler) and weighted least squares mean- and variance adjusted (WLSMV) were used as estimators with listwise deletion employed. The listwise deletion methods were compared with FIML and multiple imputation (with the multivariate probit model used during the imputation phase and WLSMV used at the analysis phase). The method for treatment of missing data, rate of missing data, missing data mechanism, model parameterization, level …

Perspectives On Help-Negation, Coralie J. Wilson

Coralie J Wilson

Help-negation refers to the process of help avoidance or refusal that commonly occurs in clinical and non-clinical samples with varying forms and levels of psychological symptoms. In the last decade the effect has been established as an inverse relationship between the severity of symptoms and help-seeking for suicidal ideation, depression, and general psychological distress, for a variety of professional and non-professional help sources [see Wilson CJ, Bushnell JA, Caputi P. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2011; 5: 34-39, for a review]. Findings from now over 20 help-negation studies suggest that at least some types of psychological symptoms or processes associated with …

Ieee T&S Magazine: Undergoing Transformation, Katina Michael

Professor Katina Michael

Our Magazine is in a transformative period, not only because we are ‘Going Green’ in 2013 but because we are experiencing tremendous growth in quality international submissions. This means that we are increasingly appealing to an international audience with transdisciplinary interests. This has not gone unnoticed by the media, nor by our SSIT readership or wider engineering community.

Ts Transformations: Workflow, Budget, Staffing, Margaret Beecher Maurer

Margaret Beecher Maurer

No abstract provided.

“Complications Of Forging E-Book Deals.”, Rob Kairis

Rob Kairis

No abstract provided.

Google Tips & Tricks, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

No abstract provided.