Aesthetic Implications Research Articles

Discrimination of Malus Taxa with Different Scent Intensities Using Electronic Nose and Gas Chromatography⁻Mass Spectrometry.

Floral scent is important in plant reproduction and also has aesthetic implications. However, the accurate determination of aroma is presently limited by the available collection and analysis tools. In this study, the floral scents of four crabapple taxa exhibiting faint, weak, clear, and strong scent intensities were comparatively analyzed by electronic nose (E-nose) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The E-nose was able to effectively group the different taxa in the principal component analysis in correspondence with scent intensity. GC–MS analysis identified a total of 60 volatile compounds. The content of nitrogen-containing compounds and aliphatics and the number of unique components of the more aromatic taxa was significantly higher than the less aromatic taxa. α-Cedrene, β-cedrene, 5-methyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzimidazol-2-one, benzyl alcohol, linalool, and 4-pyrrolidinopyridine contributed significantly to taxon separation. The pattern recognition results confirmed that the E-nose results corroborated the GC–MS results. Furthermore, partial least squares regression analysis between the aromatic constituents and sensors indicated that particular sensors were highly sensitive to N-containing compounds, aliphatics, and terpenes. In conclusion, the E-nose is capable of discriminating crabapple taxa of different scent intensities in both a qualitative and quantitative respect, presenting a rapid and accurate reference approach for future applications.

Interfaces between Physical and Virtual Bodies in Merce Cunningham’s BIPED

The paper explored philosophical and aesthetic implications of a virtual body in the context of a live dance performance Merce Cunningham’s...

러시아 문학 속에 나타난 농민 형상의 존엄성과 묘사의 예술성

본 논문은 18세기 말에서 19세기 중반에 이르는 러시아 문학 단편들 중에서 대표적인 네 편을 선정하여, 농민의 죽음이 어떻게 드러나는지를 살펴보고 있다. 아울러 각 단편의 플롯 속에서 농부의 죽음이 얼마나 고귀하고 진지하게 다뤄지고 있는지를 분석하면서, 특히 이들의 몸, 즉 육체에 대한 묘사가 농민의 건강한 정신 혹은 영혼을 재현하는 과정에서 어떤 상관관계가 있는지도 분석하고 있다. 농민의 신체는 노동을 통해 단련된 건강한 육신으로 나타나면서 그렇지 못한 등장인물의 육적인 상태를 역설적으로 강조해 준다. 반면, 허약하거나 병들고, 이기적인 계급의 표상으로 등장하는 귀족계급 인물의 육신은 자신들이 부리는 몸종이나 농민하인들로부터 간호를 받거나 영적인 깨달음의 매개로 연결되어 있다. 이 같은 일관된 묘사법은 특히 톨스토이의 단편에서 압도적으로 등장하여 일종의 ‘육체묘사의 교본’으로까지 인식될 정도로 보편적으로 드러난다. 아울러 본 논문은 농민들의 삶의 환경인 숲, 농민 형상이 끼친 정신적인 영향을 함께 다루면서 이 둘의 문제가 사회의 상층 인물들과 어떠한 맥락에서 깊은 관계를 맺고 있는지도 살피고 있다. 라디셰프의 계몽주의 시대 기행문 『페테르부르크에서 모스크바로의 여행』에서 그 원형을 찾고 있는 본 연구는 시대 순으로 카람진의 “가엾은 리자,” 투르게네프의 『사냥꾼의 수기』에 속해 있는 단편 “죽음,” 톨스토이의 “세 죽음”을 분석한다.

The chained camera: on the ethics and politics of the follow-shot aesthetic

ABSTRACTThis essay explores the aesthetic, philosophical, and political implications of the ‘follow shot’, a tracking shot that follows a human subject on foot from behind. Analyzing two films that conspicuously explore the follow shot as their core stylistic principle, Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003), I examine how the formal properties of the follow shot – the camera’s forward movement, its denial of the subject’s face, its sense of being tethered to its subject – are crucial to each film’s meditation on violence and human agency. I argue that by visually emphasizing the forward movement of its subjects while denying access to their interiorities (via the face), the follow shot attunes its viewers to the subject’s agency as a sense of pure towardness devoid of psychological insight, an effect I call ‘trajectivity’. The overall aim of this essay is to consider the political stakes of trajectivity as a mode of representing human agency in general and acts of violence in particular. What emerges is at once a more robust account of the relation between form and politics in these films and a revised film theoretical account of the relation between camera movement, expression, and ethics.

Religiusitas Pementasan Tari Baris Kupu-kupu pada Upacara Pujawali di Pura Dalem Dasar Banjar Sema Desa Pakraman Bungkulan Kecamatan Sawan Kabupaten Buleleng

<p>Bali is an island rich in cultural and religious art. One of the most famous religious artworks in Bali is the Butterfly Row Dance. Butterfly Row Dance is a sacred dance that is only found in Buleleng Bungkulan village. This study aims to find out in detail how the staging structure, means of staging, history, values and tingkan religiosity of society in the village of Bungkulan. Based on the results of the research, it is known that the Butterfly Dance has several religious aspects such as the purification aspect, the aspect of expression of gratitude, the cultural aspect, the aesthetic aspect of the religious, the sociological aspect, the aspect of pleading fertility. In addition, Butterfly Rice Dance contains the implications of high religious values such as Tri Hita Karana Implication, bhakti attitude implications, sociocultural implications, aesthetic implications, sacred implications, leadership implications, tatwa implications, ethical implications, psychological implications, and the implications of religiosity.</p>

What remains: reviving Lumumba's legacy in music video

ABSTRACTIn the face of prolonged violence, rupture, and erasure, the music video, ‘Agizo ya Lumumba,’ reflects efforts by emerging artists in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to mediate memory. This video, produced by the Yole!Africa cultural centre in Goma, is part of an online series, Art on the FrontLine, that probes the possibilities for political art in sites of active conflict. But where other episodes evoke overt protest through aesthetics of hip hop and Third Cinema, ‘Agizo ya Lumumba’ relies on embodied, textual, and archival engagement with a poem by Patrice Lumumba. In this video, rappers, contemporary dancers, and filmmakers creatively interrogate both the contested record of historical facts crippling Congo's postcolonial development as well as the underlying questions of agency, power, and accountability that obscure narrations and representations of Lumumba's political legacy. Through close reading and analysis of its aesthetic and moral implications, this essay frames ‘Agizo ya Lumumba’ as an example of socially engaged art that foregrounds history and social memory as both dialogic and fundamental to discourses on human rights in conflict zones. By extension, it queries the potential for socially engaged scholarship to influence the conception and administration of international aid.

On-demand streaming services

This paper discusses the listening experience provided by on-demand music streaming services and some of its aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic implications. It also presents the concerns of performers and authors regarding the changes introduced to listening habits since modern times, the coexistence of analog media under the auspices of the content production industry, and the contemporary omnipresence of digital music. On-demand music streaming services stand as the hallmark of this era, by offering convenient access to music collections, customized playlists (scrobbling) integrated with social media, intuitive user interfaces, and, in some instances, the possibility of searching for and posting original content. Nonetheless, implicit constraints such as controlling for and blocking unlicensed files and supposedly restricting amateur musical creations and interventions have been implemented. The convenient, yet heavily mediated, listening experience provided by on-demand music streaming services should be rethought as a potentially creative instance of the “micropolitics of experimentation.”

Performance e presentificação: sobre a forma artística/estética no instante

O artigo propõe pensar e problematizar características e implicações de uma estética do performativo a partir dos trabalhos de Erika Fischer-Lichte e Paul Zumthor, se debruçando, em especial, sobre a duração situacional da performance como poética artística e a evanescência de sua forma artística-estética, a qual se apresenta como contexto-dependente e contingente ao encontro com o público presente. Também levanta questões sobre a percepção da performance e sua presentificação, para, por fim, tecer comentários sobre crítica de arte de performances artísticas.

253 Physician- and Patient-reported Outcomes Following Use of a Compounded Scar/Burn Gel: Results from a Prospective Observational Survey Study

In addition to aesthetic implications, scar/burn tissue can cause symptoms including pain, itching, tenderness, physical deformities, and psychological effects, and interferes with daily activities. Collection of physician- and patient-reported outcomes is important in the study of scar/burn treatments. This prospective observational survey study (IRB-approved, informed consent) evaluated physician- and patient-reported outcomes for patients treated with compounded scar/burn gel over 4 and 8 months. Adult patients with scar/burn tissue ≥1-month old, healed/closed, uninfected, using one of two formulations of compounded scar tissue treatment (collagenase 200U/gm, naltrexone 1% 10mg/gm, aloe vera freeze-dried 1:200 3mg/gm, in anhydrous silicone base with pracaxi plant seed oil; OR naltrexone 1% 10mg/gm, EGCG 1%, dimethyl sulfone 5%, caffeine 1%, in anhydrous silicone base with carapa guaianensis plant seed oil) enrolled. Results (2014–2017) report paired analyses from physician/patient surveys at baseline to visit 3 (120 days, n=522, 435F/87M) and to visit 6 (240 days, n=68, 60F/8M). From baseline to visit 3: 52% (272/522) reported reduced scar size; in those with itching rating >0, ratings ↓73% (3.79 to 1.02/10, P<.001, n=130); scar interference with mood/daily activities ↓52% (0.90 to 0.43/10, P<.001, n=522); patients taking medication for pain ↓75% (43.1% to 10.9%, P<.001, n=522); adverse events reported by 4% (21/522)—none serious; 91% (473/522) indicated the creams helped/improved scar appearance. From baseline to visit 6: 74% (50/68) reported reduced scar size; in those with itching rating >0, ratings ↓88% (3.85 to 0.45/10; P<.001, n=20); scar interference with mood/daily activities ↓75% (1.22 to 0.30/10, P<.001, n=68). The compounded gel treatments used in this study may reduce: scar size, itching ratings, mood/daily living interference scores, and pain medication use, at 4 months, and more so at 8 months. The compounded gels were safe/well-tolerated. Compounded gels may provide a safe and well-tolerated treatment for reduction of: scar size, mood/daily living interference scores, and pain medication use, in adult patients with burn scars.

Gastropoetics in the Jian’an Period: Food and Memory in Early Medieval China

The importance of the feast in the Jian’an period was already mentioned by Jian’an literary figures themselves, and the role of such feasts in the creation of poetical works and epistolary writing is well known. It has even been noted that the memory of such feasts is largely responsible for the very notion of a Jian’an literary period. In this article, an examination of works in various genres shows that Jian’an writing on food and the transitory act of eating contributes to a gastropoetics, a term used here as a shorthand for the complex of relationships involving food, cultural practice and cultural memory, poetic inheritance and poetic production, social bonds and social identity— a way of looking at poetry that encompasses both aesthetic singularity and social implications. A stage in the development of poetry involving food imagery is elucidated and works that have sometimes been disparaged as trivial are shown to have had immediate social value and to have embodied old and enduring elements of culture and cultural memory.

Composing the Context: Considerations on materially mediated electronic musicianship

A range of material objects can be transformed into sound emitters by the induction of audio-rate vibration with structure-borne sound drivers. The resulting acoustically activated physical objects offer the possibility to extend the compositional gesture towards the material environment, providing a literal re-reading of Schaeffer’s objet sonore concept. Engaging sound in physical objects ties the creative gesture to its surroundings, grounding the approach in an inherently situated dimension. This article examines the compositional strategies emerging from diffusing sound via physical objects, such as sound spatialisation, audiovisual sculpture and audiotactility in concert setting, illustrated by four case studies of recent aural artwork. On the basis of the case studies, the aesthetic implications of materially mediated aural art are discussed, in relation with the ideal of purity represented by the high-fidelity loudspeaker. While the technological development of the loudspeaker aims for a perfect reproduction of an idealised and autonomous sound, materially mediated sound diffusion merges sound and matter into an agglomerate where the sound can no longer be perceived as an autonomous entity, but rather in relation to its material source. Engaging electronic musicianship in materiality gives rise to a hybrid setting at the interface of the digital, the material and the human, where the context – the environment of sound-emitting objects – becomes an object of composition.

A lâmina que opera: um estudo sobre João Cabral e Marianne Moore

Pode-se afirmar que um dos pontos mais característicos da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) é a metalinguagem, e uma metalinguagem não raro associada também a um juízo estético sobre outros escritores e artistas. Um bom exemplo dessa poesia “crítica” cabralina são seus textos sobre a poeta norte-americana Marianne Moore (1887- 1972). No total, são cinco os textos em que Moore e/ou sua obra aparecem como assunto de poesia. Sabendo também que, em João Cabral, esse juízo crítico sobre outros muitas vezes reflete uma visão crítica sobre seu próprio trabalho artístico, este estudo objetiva averiguar certas implicações estéticas estabelecidas nesses poemas de Cabral sobre Marianne Moore.

«Peripezia» ed «estasi della catastrofe»: figure della tragedia nei romanzi di Proust e Joyce

The paper considers the presence of subjects and structures belonging to the aesthetics of the tragic in the work of Marcel Proust and James Joyce. In the first place, the authors’ meditations on tragedies and on the concept of the tragic are compared; the influence derived from tragic plays such as Racine’s Phedre and Shakespeare’s Hamlet is then analysed and commented on, following the intertextual links and their echo in the characters and plots in the Recherche and Ulysses. Finally, we seek to understand how the tragic meaning of events is developed beyond its aesthetic implications.

Por uma estética radicante: deslocamento, experiência e cidade

Resumo O artigo tem como objetivo analisar uma prática artística que, na contemporaneidade, vem ganhando ampla dimensão e recorrência: o deslocamento. As implicações do percurso, sua dimensão plástica e urbanística são motes cruciais a esta análise com base na análise de produções artísticas posteriores à década de 1960. A aproximação apresenta especificidades que tem paulatinamente buscado qualificar o deslocamento urbano nas suas mais diferentes acepções. Nela emergem as principais considerações teóricas sobre as especificidades da caminhada como ato com implicações estéticas e também urbanísticas tendo como base a deriva situacionista e a estética radicante de Nicolas Bourriaud.

Práticas corporais e artísticas: aprendizagem inventiva e cuidado de si

In the last years we have worked with corporal and artistic practices with students and communities, in institutions of health and spaces of artistic production, understanding that these practices promote the production of care, the encounter and the increase of the potency of life, according to an ethics which resists prescriptive, normative and exclusive models, focusing on the processes of subjectivation. Here we present experimentations with the body - involving dance, music, arts and writing - and discuss the relationships between Inventive Learning, aesthetic experience and the care of the self, taken as conceptual references to think bodies in a state of presence, producing connections, inventiveness and a turning to oneself with collective, political, clinical and aesthetic implications that move thought, bodies and life.

Literature, crisis, and Spanish rural space in the context of the 2008 financial recession

ABSTRACTThe novelistic production related to the 2008 financial crisis has been partially studied from the lens of the label of “literatura de la crisis.” In this article, I analyze the complex and essential transformations suffered by literary writing practices in contemporary Spain where ill attention has been devoted to the social, political, and aesthetic implications of neoliberal globalization in rural areas. Departing from a thorough conceptualization of the notion of “literatura de la crisis” and its paradoxical impact over the most recent literary production, I study the rural discourse and the emerging academic challenges for the assessment of the rural experience in literary works. In conclusion, I set the main principles for the development of a transposable model of textual analysis that will shed new light on the cultural representation of the rural sphere in the aftermath of the 2008 financial recession.

O rosto do sofrimento na TV

Neste artigo, investigamos a exposição dos rostos de pessoas comuns na televisão a partir de implicações estéticas e políticas relativas à inscrição do testemunho de sujeitos sofredores em narrativas televisivas. Partimos do reconhecimento das imagens televisivas em primeiro plano como formas expressivas capazes de produzir intimidade com o sujeito que sofre diante da câmera. Em seguida, à luz da chamada política da piedade, tomamos o primeiro plano como estratégia orientada pela instrumentalização do sofrimento alheio. Problematizamos, então, a coincidência entre a aparição dos rostos dos personagens e a tomada de sua palavra. Ao final, examinamos o vis-à-vis televisivo em sua propriedade de colocar os espectadores diante da singularidade e da ordinariedade de sujeitos sofredores. Como lugar de problematização, analisamos os programas A Liga (Rede Bandeirantes) e A verdade de cada um (National Geographic).

Marcos de deseo y violencia: el árabe como Otro en J. Butler y J. Massad

El presente artículo propone una aportación al debate suscitado en torno al problema que plantean la violencia y la sexualidad (particularmente la homosexualidad) en la representación del otro, en este caso del árabe como Otro, partiendo en primer lugar de las consideración que hace Judith Butler sobre la noción de marco teórico y sus implicaciones políticas, éticas y estéticas. En un segundo momento confrontaremos este enfoque con las críticas planteadas por J. Massad al presunto orientalismo y etnocentrismo de ciertas corrientes reivindicativas de los derechos LGTB desde el punto de la especificidad cultural del mundo árabe y analizaremos la polémica suscitada por dichas críticas entre distintos interlocutores.

The Historic Museum of Abomey: Exhibiting Colonial Power and Post‐colonial Identity

This paper delineates the political and aesthetic implications of the formation of West Africa's Historic Museum of Abomey by examining underlying colonial motives, display practices of the museum objects, the altering of architecture and reception by the Fon people. Secularising a once exclusive and religious royal space and the mode of display of the museum artefacts bolstered the colonial agenda of the French West African administration. The Historic Museum of Abomey was created, bolstered, and transformed by colonial public policy. Despite these problematic issues, the Historic Museum of Abomey became an important historic and cultural centre for the people of the colonial Dahomey, today the Republic of Benin.

Septorhinoplasty: Our Experience.

Rhinoplasty is one of the oldest known surgeries to the human kind. However, being a cosmetic of surgery of utmost importance, it has been an attractive and fascinating surgery for the otolaryngologists and plastic surgeons. Along with the evolution of improved techniques and better surgical modalities, this surgery has been growing in panorama including its indications, needs and techniques. We present our experience with rhinoplasty in a tertiary care center of north India. We have included all cases operated with septorhinoplasty from 2001 to 2014 by the senior author in the manuscript. We reviewed their presentations, investigations, preoperative counselling records, operative details and post-operative clinical records to audit our results and hence to document our experiences in septorhinoplasties. A total of 53 cases including 37 males and 16 females had undergone rhinoplasty surgeries. The most common reason of disfigurement was road traffic accident (58.5%). All these patients included different deformities and required varied corrections. There were no major post-operative complications except persistent edema with longest lasting for 23weeks. Thermal splints gave a better patient satisfaction in post-op compared to POP splints. Results were completely and partially satisfying for 50 patients and not satisfying for three. Unrealistic expectations from the procedure might be thereason for non-satisfactory results in rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty is a delicate procedure and has greater aesthetic implications in planning surgical techniques and approaches. For better satisfaction of patients, adequate preoperative counseling and realistic expectations are warranted. Skillful surgical techniques null chances of complications.