TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
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Media
Activated Space: the transformation of internal spaces to become audible and interactive
Posted by David Cunningham on March 29, 2015
Activated Space is a proposal to develop and present a series of installations that alter an architectural space to allow its resonant frequencies to become audible and interactive. The proposal combines elements from sculpture, electronic media, music, architecture and acoustics.
research questions:
Primary:
How can active listening be encouraged?
How does our awareness of acoustic surroundings influence our perceptions?
What happens if you magnify the sound of a room?
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The digital and computer-based arts in the United Kingdom from their origins to 1980
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
CACHe is a major research project into the origins and history of British computer arts.
We are based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The substantial government funding for our project indicates the level of interest in creating an historical framework for this period. CACHe began its work in 2002.
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Representing and enacting knowledge about producing Tibetan text-critical editions
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
This project aimed to advance our understanding of the processes of the textual criticism and editing of canonical and other Classical Tibetan texts - including the basic task of rendering them readable at all. These mainly ancient materials are undoubtedly of the very highest possible scholarly interest, but without intensive modern scholarship in most instances remain partially or completely incomprehensible because of accumulated errors in copying, as they have been for many centuries.
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A critical and bibliographical study of stars in modern French film
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
An invaluable research resource in an exciting new area of French cultural studies the site comprises profiles of nearly 200 Francophone film stars, film descriptions and a database of references of press, radio and television coverage of Francophone film celebrities between 1949 and the present day. Publications selected for the database give a broad social and cultural perspective on film stars and the star concept. General mass-market titles like Paris-Match and Voici are complemented by titles conceived along the lines of gender, sexuality and age.
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Project to Digitise the Archive of the Independent Local Radio (ILR) Programme Sharing Scheme
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
"This project is now complete and the entire Programme Sharing Archive, consisting of 1,570 quarter-inch analogue audio tapes has been digitised. This archive is a unique record of a key time in the history of British commercial radio, in danger of being obliterated forever as the oxide on the original tapes progressively degenerates. The collection also created a catalogue of data captured from the Programme Sharing Information Sheets.
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South East Film and Video Archive's digital access project
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
Screen Search, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, provides an enhanced online catalogue of over 700 selected films from the Screen Archive South East collection. This resource brings significant films from the archive to the desktops of all academics and members of the public interested in the region's social, cultural and moving image history.
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Transmitting Craft Knowledge: Eliciting and passing on the skills of craft masters with the help of interactive media
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
Development and evaluation of a digital resource for craftspeople learning traditional knifemaking techniques. The aim is to validate and demonstrate pronciples of craft knowledge transmission developed in earlier research.
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Curating New Media Art - Networks and Collaborations (2)
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
The CRUMB resource aims to help curators, academics and arts workers with these new challenges, by sharing examples of projects, by curating exhibitions of new media art, and by publishing analytical writing on the different histories of new media art.
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Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading
Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015
Mass reading events – ‘Richard & Judy's Book Club,’ ‘One Book, One Chicago’ – are a new, proliferating literary phenomenon that remains uninvestigated. They raise important questions: why do they cause people to come together to share reading? Do they attract marginalized communities, foster new reading practices, enable social change? Our interdisciplinary project produces a trans-national analysis of contemporary shared reading practices, the formation of reading communities and the popular function of literary fiction in the UK, USA and Canada.
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