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Florida Society spotlights pharmaceutical care at annual meeting, hosts record number of exhibitors

Florida Society spotlights pharmaceutical care at annual meeting, hosts record number of exhibitors

Holographic Portraiture of Humans, Plants and Ghosts in Belgium

A lthough the most productive manufacturer of holographic silver halide materials is based in Belgium, nothing very spectacular has happened in this country in the field of holography since its inception over 25 years ago. Having come from a scientific background, I began making holograms in 1966; I use holography mainly for technical applications, such as non-destructive testing and displacement measurement. I began to feel increasingly disappointed after working in the medium for a decade, because so few people knew about holography and what it could do and because many ignored holography completely. As a scientist I have learned to be logical, and it seemed logical to me to do something about this situation. So I organised exhibitions and gave lectures, thinking that bringing holography out of the laboratory would suffice to provide a needed impetus. A couple of years and a number of exhibitions later, I had to admit that, although some improvement could be noted, a large portion of the population was still unaware of the existence of holography and its applications. I decided that more spectacular things would have to be done before people really noticed, and I realized that the continuous presence of holograms in normal life would also be of much interest. When things cease to be a mystery, they become common; people are much more critical about common things, but also notice them

“The Third Man,” or Automatism American Style

One evening in the winter of 1940-41 three young artists from the Federal Art Project laid out some canvases on the floor and began to experiment on them with a quick-drying lacquer paint, which they found hardened almost immediately when dripped onto the canvas. William Baziotes, the artist who had bought the paint at Arthur Brown's art supply store, was excited about its possibilities and had brought some over to the studio of Gerome Kamrowski so that they, along with Jackson Pollock, could try it out together. As they were “fooling around,” as Kamrowski calls it, they all worked on the same canvases and during the course of that evening produced a number of collaborative spontaneous works. Most of these Kamrowski discarded when he moved to another studio, but one was kept as a kind of souvenir (Fig. 1), and it is this work that has surfaced in recent years in a number of exhibitions and publications—a kind of twentieth-century equivalent of the Gauguin-Sérusier Talisman. As the latter marked a breakthrough in the relation of color areas to the picture plane, so the former froze for posterity a moment in the genesis of what would, by the end of the decade, be recognized as a major American art movement, Abstract Expressionism.

ICT News

Held in the Cameo Room of the Metropole Hotel, Brighton, on the evening of 9th October, the Cahners Gala Awards Dinner sponsored by Electronics Weekly was attended by over 200 guests. Mr A. B. Nolan, Director Cahners Exhibitions Ltd, in welcoming those present to the 4th Annual Awards Dinner, explained that Internepcon was 18 years old; 31 of the original 54 exhibitors were still supporting the event, and the total number of exhibitors in 1985 amounted to 420.

Robots Automate Sample Preparation

For the first time in its 36 years of operation, the Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy had a sharp drop in attendance-down 16 percent to 20,731. That loss was attributed to the fact that the meeting was held in New Orleans for the first time, and most of the lost attendees were students and young professionals who had previously come for only 1 day. The number of exhibitors and the number of booths, however, were both up about 15 percent, to 730 and 1856, respectively. A large proportion of that increase was contributed by foreign companies exhibiting for the first time, but there were also some well-known names, such as General Electric and Xerox, making first forays into analytical chemistry. There was also a sharp increase in the number and type of instruments displayed. "The key skill now in analytical chemistry," says Perkin-Elmer president Horace McDonell, Jr., "may be simply finding the right tool to obtain the answers you need." The predominant theme of the show, as it has been for the past few years, was automation of both laboratories and instruments. That trend is having major effects in chemical laboratories, but it is also affecting the instrument companies themselves. At large companies such as Varian, Beckman, and Perkin-Elmer, as much as 50 percent of the research and development budget is now going toward development of software-a much higher percentage than it was even 5 years ago. Another trend in automation also seemed clear at the show. As recently as 2 or 3 years ago, much of the available software for chemistry was designed for Apple and similar computers. Now, the laboratory standard is the IBM PC. As a representative of another company that manufactures computers noted with only slight exaggeration, "There's probably not a booth on the floor that doesn't have one."

AIRMEC '83

The 3rd international Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Exhibition and Congress, AIRMEC 83, was staged in Düsseldorf for the first time. The space‐city style raised walkways, with their oval glass roofing, which link the halls and buildings of the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre, made an appropriate setting for an Exhibition of modern Aerospace technology. The Exhibition occupied a stand space of approximately 3,000 sq. metres. The displays offered a comprehensive picture of current developments in the servicing and overhauling of aircraft of all kinds. AIRMEC 83 attracted exhibitors from 15 countries. Of the 110 companies taking part, 45 were from West Germany. Britain had the second largest group, with 18 stands covering a floor space of 352 m2. Thirteen of the British contingent were grouped together in a British Joint Venture organised by the British Overseas Trade Board. Visiting the various stands, I found that most of the exhibitors were pleased not only with the attendance figures (2,500), but also with the quality of the visitors. Those attending the show came from 34 countries, and were, almost without exception, members of the technical management of their company or were sales executives. More than half were from establishments with more than a thousand employees. However, on the Friday, which was the last day, a number of exhibitors were complaining about the timing of the Conference in relation to the exhibition. The Conference ended on the Thursday lunch‐time, as a result, attendance at the Exhibition was somewhat sparse on the Friday morning and virtually non‐existent in the afternoon. Many exhibitors felt that the Conference should have been spread over the full period of the Exhibition. During the Conference, experts from 10 countries delivered a total of 32 lectures on aircraft maintenance and overhauling. These ranged from a series of lectures on hangars to training of personnel, design of engine maintenance and computer‐aided maintenance and spares management. The knowledge gained was not only of significance for airlines of developing and emerging industrial countries that have no sophisticated maintenance facilities of their own, but also to long‐established airlines. In times of dwindling profits, every airline has to keep a careful eye on possibilities for cutting operating expenditure, whilst at the same time ensuring optimum safety of the aircraft. Through the international exchange of experience and the presentation of new maintenance techniques, AIRMEC greatly contributed to the achievement of this objective.

Design and the retailer

With the promise of more and more retailers trading up and the increasing proliferation of speciality shops, it seems that the designer may be just coming into his own. Interior Design International, held at Olympia in March, claimed record numbers of visitors to its exhibition — a claim which was endorsed by a number of exhibitors to whom RDM spoke. And the conference held alongside it, “Tomorrow's Interiors”, had its shops and stores' seminar well attended; among the delegates from design houses and product groups were names like Marks & Spencer, Macdonalds, John Lewis, Littlewoods, Maple and Cadbury‐Schweppes. Other exhibitions in the offing include Shopex, to be held at Olympia from 18–22 May. The publicists have forecast a bumper exhibition, and claim to have some 220 exhibitors lined up. That's 55 up from last year's showing, when RDM counted something in the region of 165 companies. Of last year's number, around 75 have dropped out this year — or if your prefer it the other way, 90 exhibitors have chosen to stay on. The fact that Shopex has been brought down to London's Olympia has led to speculation that this could be a good thing for visitors from home and abroad. Last year, it was said that Birmingham was simply too decentralised, especially for the foreign visitor, and that most of the good examples of design and shopfitting were in the London shops anyway. The exhibition has a range of participants from the fields of shopfitting, design, display, point of sale, security, lighting, business machines, merchandising and allied products. It is interesting to see how many exhibitors are in the field of computers, cash registers and EPOS: Anker Data Systems, Associated Business Machines, Cash and Security Equipment, Chubb Cash, Compucorp, Decimo, Electronic Cash Registers, Geller Business Equipment, Gunn Electronic Cash Registers, Hugin Cash Registers, MLM Computers, NCR, Norfrond, Norman Pendred Cellgrave, SI Design Studio, Sanyo Marubeni UK, Shilglade Retail Systems, TEC UK, Transaction Data Systems. It will also be interesting to see what the shopfitter and designer has to offer the retailer today, faced as he is with a shrinking market. The consumer's pocket is emptier than ever before, and the major multiples have already absorbed most of the growth possible from squeezing out the independent. That the element of design will also play an increasingly important part in retailing was also evident from the ICSC 5th Annual Conference, also held in London in March. In the seminar entitled “Shopping centre response to the need for a better quality of life”, we heard how the consumer has become more discerning and demanding, and how we have to give her a more enjoyable, attractive and socially useful shopping centre; one that is well‐designed, convenient and inclusive of good services, eating areas and facilities like nurseries and libraries. From the same conference came a very interesting talk by Rodney Fitch of Fitch & Company, the design consultants, on the subject of “Graphics, signs and mall furniture.” This speech is reported below; we also present a version of the paper on design by David Calcott of John Michael Design Consultants, presented at the “Tomorrow's Interiors” conference.

The Russian Avant-Garde and the Russian Tradition

The period in Russian art history directly following the Bolshevik Revolution and lasting until the advent of Social Realism in the middle 1920s has rightly been heralded as truly progressive and at the forefront of the European avant-garde. A number of exhibitions have focused in recent years on such prophetic figures as Malevich, Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Rodchenko, with appropriate consideration of their profound influence on contemporary art. Yet art historians have almost totally failed to recognize the essentially Russian nature of this art and thus we have developed, I believe, a mistaken view of the Russian post-revolutionary avant-garde.

The Present State of Rembrandt Studies

Because they came into this world or because they left it exactly one or more centuries ago, Erasmus, Pieter Bruegel, Rembrandt and Matisse were commemorated in 1969. Special exhibitions were devoted to all four, and the pace of publications quickened. The first volume of Erasmus's Opera Omnia was prepared in time to appear in the Erasmus Year, and the exhibition in Rotterdam devoted to him probably included more works of art of great significance than any other exhibition that was primarily of a historical rather than an art-historical nature. Pieter Bruegel's art and thought as it was reproduced and made accessible in the numerous prints issued by Jerome Cock and other publishers was shown in Brussels, and both Bruegel and Matisse received special attention at the International Congress of the History of Art in Budapest. The number of exhibitions and the volume of publications devoted to them, however, are in no way comparable to the staggering amount of articles, catalogues and books devoted to Rembrandt (see appended list referred to by number). It is doubtful whether the reasons for this imbalance should be sought in a greater need for clarification of questions concerning Rembrandt than the other artists. Commercial motivation on the part of book publishers, the availability of drawings and etchings for exhibitions (Bruegel does not travel well), and the sense of duty of Dutch art historians to pay homage to the nation's greatest artist may all have contributed to this flood of publications. The results are surprisingly refreshing. Although the changes in the interpretation of the past do not follow the cycle of commemorative events, the latter apparently encouraged those who had something to say to formulate their thoughts. The year 1969 has contributed some fundamental and numerous minor changes to our concept of Rembrandt. I will discuss the changes effected by publications that appeared in 1969 in the following categories: (I) Exhibitions; (2) The artist's life; (3) The definition of his oeuvre (in the sense of the extent of paintings, etchings, and drawings, as well as of formal derivations and dating of individual works); (4) Iconography; (5) Rembrandt and the art of his contemporaries; (6) Monographs; (7) Finally, I should like to formulate some desiderata.

Trade Fair for developing countries

It is six years now that the first Import Trade Fair called “Partners of Progress” has been staged in Berlin. Its original form was that of a pure aid to information, but following actual needs, it gradually changed into a commercial trade fair of the developing countries. The number of exhibitors taking part in these fairs, and the growing interest shown by more and more expert visitors, have both made it clear that this kind of trade show has gained a firm position among German trade fairs and specialised exhibitions. We have asked Dr M. Busche, authorised signatory of the Berlin Exhibition Service (Ausstallungs-Dienst Berlin: ADB), about his experiences with the import show, “Partners of Progress”, which is designed exclusively for the promotion of imports from African, Asian, and Latin American developing countries.

1968 Physics Exhibition

It is generally agreed that the 1968 Physics Exhibition was a marked success particularly in comparison with the 1967 exhibition. The number of exhibitors in all classes showed an increase, although not yet to the level of 1964, and the number of visitors was the greatest yet recorded at Alexandra Palace (18 000), surpassing by almost 50% the figure for 1967 (12 600).

THE RT. HON. HAROLD WILSON, M.P., O.B.E., P.C. On opening the CORROSION AND METAL FINISHING EXHIBITION

THIS Exhibition is only five years old. Its growth in coverage from the first exhibition in the Royal Horticultural Hall is measured by the fact that floor space occupied here at Olympia is five times that occupied in 1957, and the range and qualitative coverage, not least because of the speed of new developments in the anti‐corrosion and metal finishing field, has increased in like proportion. The number of exhibitors represented today, from industrial firms to government departments and the range of contributions to the four days of technical meetings, show the wide realisation of the extent of this problem for British industry and the scope of the attack being made upon it.

The Textile Machineries Exhibited in the International Trade Fair Held in Tokyo in 1961

The 4 th international trade fair was held at Harumi pier near the center of Tokyo from 17 th April to 7 th May of this year. Twenty eight countries participated in the fair and not only the scale of the fair was big but the number of visitors increased from 2.5 million to 1.9 million in comparison with the last year. Most of the textile machines were exhibited in hall No. 10. In comparison with the last year's Osaka international trade fair, the number of exhibitors and exhibits were less in number, but there was progress in the content of the exhibits. Here we are giving a report on it.

The Technical Exhibits

The beautiful and spacious Gold Coast Room of the Drake Hotel, Chicago, was this year the location of twenty technical displays of great interest to radiologists. Both side walls and a large center section of this room were taken up by the exhibits. In spite of present conditions the number of exhibitors was only one less than at the 1941 meeting in San Francisco, just before the United States entered the war. A patriotic motif predominated, varying all the way from an illuminated V, on which one exhibitor had listed the names of employees in the service, to the showing of complete x-ray units developed especially for work on the field of battle. Uniforms were numerous among the visitors to the exhibits, reminding one of the seriousness of war and demonstrating the co-operation of our Society members with the armed forces. It is impossible to describe adequately the various exhibits, but a short resume of each will give at least a little information to those who were unable to attend and let them know som...

Venetian Painting at Toledo

In Recent Years a number of exhibitions of Venetian painting, some covering the whole field and some devoted to a special period, have been arranged, the most complete being that at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 1938. The exhibit which is being held during March at the Toledo Museum of Art surpasses all its predecessors in richness of selection and in the high quality of the works shown.

Building Exhibition at Olympia, London

THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY firms and associations have already booked space in the twentieth biennial Building Exhibition which is to be held at Olympia, London, on September 16-30. This number of exhibitors is in excess of the number which exhibited on the last occasion in 1934, and an increase of about 10 per cent in the total number may be expected. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is again to have a large exhibit, and this will cover not only the work of the Building Research Station, but also that of the Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princes Risborough, and the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. The Building Research Station exhibit will deal with plastering materials; common types of failure caused by using unsuitable material or by faulty construction; concretes, with special emphasis on light-weight concrete; further work on the driving of concrete piles; the measurement of strain on masonry structures; and the weathering of building stone. The work of the Forest Products Research Laboratory illustrated in the Exhibition will deal with the correct moisture content of timbers for various purposes; wood-working, with special reference to new and difficult timbers; and wood preservation and protection against the death-watch and other beetles. The National Physical Laboratory's exhibit will deal chiefly with building acoustical problems, models being shown of typical quiet and noisy rooms. Short-length films are to be shown by the Department on its stands.

British Industries Fair

THE British Industries Fair, 1935, organised by the Department of Overseas Trade, is being held at Olympia and the White City, London, on February 18-March 1. This year the Engineering and Hardware Section is to be held at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, not simultaneously with the London sections, as previously, but later, on May 20-May 31. The textile and furnishing exhibits will be shown at the White City and the general articles, other than engineering and hardware products, will be exhibited at Olympia. There are 1,550 exhibitors at Olympia and the White City, of which more than 750 are from London. There are again notable increases in the space taken and the number of exhibitors, compared with last year's figures. An indication of the remarkable growth of the Fair is given by the fact that the advance catalogue, which is issued in nine languages, runs to 684 pages, or about 152,000 words. The exhibits of products of scientific interest at the Fair again cover a wide range and reveal markedly the increasing use of scientific products, both materials and instruments, in the field of industry. The Committee responsible for the organisation of the united exhibit of scientific instruments is to be congratulated on the important display at Olympia of scientific, optical and photographic instruments. Microscope object-glasses of great refinement of construction; microscope projection apparatus; sound projection apparatus for cinemas, with suit-case sound sets for commercial and educational purposes; various forms of plani-meters; pocket cameras and aircraft cameras; distant-reading thermometers; geophysical apparatus for prospecting for gold, minerals and oil-these are but a few examples, selected almost at random, of the products that are being shown in this united exhibit. It is worth notice that, until two years ago, practically all the various forms of planimeters used in Great Britain came from abroad; and similarly, the particular geophysical apparatus referred to above was practically a German monopoly. It is good to note the enterprise of British scientific instrument manufacturers in these new fields.

British Industries Fair

THE British Industries Pair, 1931, to which brief reference was made in our last issue (p. 281), has exceeded its previous records in the total area occupied by the stands, in the number of exhibitors, and probably, also, so far as the evidence is available at the time of writing, in the number of overseas and home buyers, as well as of the general public, that have visited it. The integrated effort to demonstrate visually the extent, variety, and quality of the products of British industry required this year no less than four separated, but not unrelated, exhibitions: for the light industries, at Olympia, London; for the heavy industries, at Birmingham; for textiles, at the White City, London; and for artificial silk goods, at the Albert Hall, London. In the critical industrial period through which the country is now passing, the Fair was a remarkable and bold achievement, and tribute must be paid to the Department of Overseas Trade, to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and to the various trade and industrial organisations, as well as to individual firms, that co-operated in its organisation. Information is not yet available, but will be eagerly awaited, as to the business orders that have been received for British goods, as the direct result of the Fair.

Book Reviews

THIS long-established annual is no longer just another of the same sort, although it includes a hundred or more pictorial illustrations and about twenty articles on various subjects by about as many different authors. The pictures include a great variety of types of subjects, some excellent portraits and views, and a few that we can only refer to as grotesque. Similarly, the articles range from the severely technical to the highly popular. One of the special features is “Who's Who in Pictorial Photography, 1927–8.” This is a list of the contributors to fifty exhibitions practically all over the world, with the number of exhibitions that each has contributed to and his total number of prints hung. It includes similar lists for the two preceding years. As each person's address is given, this unique feature will doubtless be useful to many.