Team Of Artists Research Articles

Embedding textile capacitive sensing into smart wearables as a versatile solution for human motion capturing

This work presents a novel and versatile approach to employ textile capacitive sensing as an effective solution for capturing human body movement through fashionable and everyday-life garments. Conductive textile patches are utilized for sensing the movement, working without the need for strain or direct body contact, wherefore the patches can sense only from their deformation within the garment. This principle allows the sensing area to be decoupled from the wearer’s body for improved wearing comfort and more pleasant integration. We demonstrate our technology based on multiple prototypes which have been developed by an interdisciplinary team of electrical engineers, computer scientists, digital artists, and smart fashion designers through several iterations to seamlessly incorporate the technology of capacitive sensing with corresponding design considerations into textile materials. The resulting accumulation of textile capacitive sensing wearables showcases the versatile application possibilities of our technology from single-joint angle measurements towards multi-joint body part tracking.

O-124 What is the role of tubal surgery in the era of ART?

Abstract Role of Tubal surgery in the era of art Tubal surgery is not very popular these days due ti the amazing important and successes of ART. However: • access to IVF is far for granted in a many countries for financial, cultural or religious reasons • ivf is not always successful • tubal surgery is sometimes necessary before ivf in case of hydrosalpinx and conservative surgery may be discussed being in some cases a very valid option. • recently subtle tubal abnormalities has been studied and demonstrate their importance in infertility Therefore it seems important to redefine the place of tubal surgery, taking in account the fact that ivf doctors have usually no surgical skills, and that surgeons with tubal skills are not numerous nowadays. It is also important to recall the principles of tubal surgery: tubes are complex and fragile organs and deserved to be preserved. That is possible is the principles of microsurgery (today done by laparoscopy) are applied: magnification, selective hemostasis, irrigation, gentle handling of the tube with atraumatic instrumentation and microsutures when needed. A special attention must be observed when adhesions are present which is very often the case. Meticulous adhesiolysis and prevention of recurrence are essential. If careful selection of cases and appropriate technique are used then we may expect very good results in term of pregnancy, similar which was is obtain with ivf It seems very important to teach these principles of tubal surgery in medical school and to have at least one reproductive surgeon in every ART team.

Neuro-Aesthetics – Representing the Mind on Stage

This article analyses the challenges of representing the mind on stage, through stage design and acting techniques. To address this particular difficulty, we used our practice as research at Craiova National Theatre in 2019, with the play Under (re)Construction, written by Marco Tesei, and also various examples in both theatre literature and theatre practice, focusing on relevant renditions of the mind on stage in modern theatre. Our conclusions highlight the difficulties, from a director’s point of view, of making the audience understand that a specific section of a play takes part in a character’s mind. Moreover, the study shows that representing the mind on stage equally poses problems to the team of artists involved in the creation of the show.

Exploring Autoethnographic and Arts-Based Approaches to Planetary Health: Honoring Diversity through Creativity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Loving Relationships

The complexity of contemporary global challenges concerning biosocial–political wellbeing comprises humanity’s actions on many scales. Planetary Health and One Health are examples of broad fields emerging in the last decade to address these complexities. Scientific research has been focusing mainly on the biological aspect of the problem, and the role of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) as drivers of change in Planetary Health is poorly explored. Transdisciplinary approaches are needed, and, thus, it is essential to highlight the social–political side of this reality by integrating social sciences and humanities in these research communities. The Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment (ACOPPHE), through its Art and Indigenous action team, seeks to explore this integration by interrogating and engaging in research using self-study methodologies and arts-based research methods. In traditional scientific research, it is common practice that the researcher is positioned outside of their research. The results are expected to offer complex scientific answers that are often not useful for communities in need of solutions. Frequently, the arts have not received sufficient exploration as a means for research. Another aspect of this problem is that the indigenous peoples of many places in the world have often had their knowledge of human and planet health marginalized because it was practice-based and passed down through the embodiment of knowledge and not through modern-day written knowledge. Autoethnographic and arts-based methodologies have great potential here in bridging the communication between the scientific world and the lived experience of the communities through their cultural and traditional practices. They make room for intersectionality, as well as making the knowledge from research findings valuable and explicit to the layman. Self-study methodologies offer the space for sharing lived experiences, critical dialogue, and possible solutions for the biosocial and political issues that our world faces today.

Surgery to improve male fertility

At a time when increasing attention is being paid to the limitations and risks of in vitro fertilisation techniques, surgeries to improve male fertility are attracting growing interest. Systematic review based on a Pubmed search of surgeries to improve male fertility. Vasovasostomy (VV) gives patency rates of 70-97% and pregnancy rates of 30-76%. Vasoepididymostomy (VE) gives patency rates of 80-84%, with pregnancy rates of 40-44%. The duration of obstruction and the age of the partner are 2 predictive parameters for the occurrence of a natural pregnancy. In cases of obstructive azoospermia due to pelvic obstruction (prostatic cyst, obstruction of the ejaculatory ducts), several surgical procedures may be proposed. Transurethral resection of the ejaculatory ducts leads to an improvement in sperm parameters in 63-83% of patients, with spontaneous pregnancy occurring in 12-31% of cases. Microsurgical cure of varicocele by the subinguinal route is a benchmark technique with recurrence rates of less than 4%. It improves live birth and pregnancy rates, both naturally and by in vitro fertilization, as well as sperm count, motility and DNA fragmentation rates. Whenever possible, the urologist should present the surgical options for improving male fertility to the ART team and to the couple, discussing the benefit/risk balance of the operation as part of a personalized approach.

Environmental performance of nonthermal plasma dry and conventional steam reforming of methane for hydrogen production: Application of life cycle assessment methodology

The environmental performance of nonthermal plasma assisted dry reforming of methane (NTP-DRM) for hydrogen production from methane rich natural gas is investigated and compared with the current state of the art steam reforming technology through a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA). The NTP-DRM technologies studied in this analysis include dielectric barrier, microwave, and pulsed plasma discharges. Due to the level of technology the study is considered as the prospective LCA of selected types of NTP-DRMs for hydrogen production. Of these, the NTP-DRM using microwave and pulsed plasma presented better environmental performance. The impact categories include midpoints levels applying TRACI 2.1 and AWARE for the water scarcity, using ecoinvent 3.8 and US NETL databases. The scenario analysis regarding carbon dioxide, electricity, and natural gas sources, revealed the highly dependency of NTP-DRMs technologies environmental performance to the energy efficiency of the processes. In terms of steam reforming of methane (SRM) despite the main contribution of steam use in the technology environmental performance, the uncertainty analysis showed higher sensitivity to natural gas input. Investigation showed that using renewable energy sources can have significant improvement regarding NTP-DRMs environmental performance and specifically global warming potential. Accordingly, at their current reactant conversion and product selectivity reaching the energy use of eV per molecule of reactant equal or less than 2, can be a proper target for the studied best case NTP-DRM to make their environmental behavior competitive with the state-of-the-art SRM technologies.

‘Together We Prepare a Feast, Each Person Stirring Up Memory’

Our story starts in April 2020, in the early stages of the UK’s first national COVID-19 lockdown. A multidisciplinary team of researchers and artists began a collaboration with Migrateful, a charity that runs cookery classes led by refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants struggling to integrate and access employment. Teaching classes and sharing their cuisine and stories helps the chefs develop their confidence and sense of belonging, and food is central to the enterprise. The focus of the project was a series of interactive online cookery classes delivered by Migrateful chefs, with ongoing involvement from the researchers and artists. In this paper, we weave together the research team’s reflections on the project with commentary from the participants and artists. We outline our methods and our learning from the collaboration and explain how it inspired new ways of thinking about refugee representation, food and belonging, co-creative storytelling, and virtual engagement. We discuss the ways in which Migrateful’s model helps to support the production of counter-narratives that value, foreground, and amplify migrants’ perspectives and voices while acknowledging the tensions involved in adapting this model to the virtual space. We emphasise the power dynamics inherent in engaging and researching with marginalised people and their stories while considering whether artistic involvement and creation may help to navigate some of these challenges, and we address how the virtual environment affected the potential for collaborative storytelling, interaction, and engagement levels among participants. Together, these reflections form a ‘recipe’ for what we hope to be a more meaningful and ethical model of engagement activity that builds on this learning.

PUTTING EGO ASIDE IN NEW OPERA: ON THE CO-CREATIVE DYNAMICS AROUND JE SUIS NARCISSISTE

AbstractThe world of opera is well known as a professional community in which egos often clash, yet the complexity of the operatic artwork is often heavily dependent on collaborative practice. This article discusses the co-creative dynamics that gave rise to the premiere production of the comic opera Je suis narcissiste, by composer Raquel García-Tomás, librettist Helena Tornero and stage director Marta Pazos. Through a series of interviews with this artistic team, and a scrutiny of the libretto, score and documentary video recording of its premiere, three significant features of this collaboration are flagged, particularly in Act VIII. These are: a quest for balance in the convergence of the disciplines involved; a mitigation of undesired redundancies in the representation of some elements in the action of the opera; a consideration of the capacity of the human and material resources available for the premiere. The article will also discuss how these anticipatory strategies helped to optimise time during rehearsals.

Create.Connect.Unwind: A creative response to the pandemic for NHS staff well-being

This article presents a reflection on the hurdles faced by arts and health organizations during England’s COVID-19 lockdown in 2020–21 through the work of the arts team at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), Lime Arts. As the pandemic hit, Lime risked being shut down, their premises reallocated and staff redeployed. Convinced that, more than ever, frontline health professionals might benefit from creative workshops, Lime piloted a six-month innovative programme of online creative workshops for MFT staff. Lime then partnered with the Employee Health and Wellbeing Service to take the online workshops across the Trust, creating a new project called Create.Connect.Unwind. The pilot phase ended in May 2022 with a Creativity and Wellbeing Festival at Manchester Royal Infirmary. The authors reflect on this two-year project, considering in retrospect the team response, the participant response and the artwork created as well as the creative perspective behind the project.

La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano); La Leçon (The Lesson); Les Chaises (The Chairs)

La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano); La Leçon (The Lesson); Les Chaises (The Chairs)

My Deer Hunter

Interview with participants from My Deer Hunter by Christoffersen, Krøgholt og Winkelhorn. In dialouge with four participating veterans and the artistic team behind My Deer Hunter, the interview explores, how the performance and rehearsal process functioned for a group of PTSD affected veterans, and how their histories and participation in war was challenged.

On the Development Prospect of Psychic Magic Performance in Commercial Activities

With the normalization of prevention and control, the market of commercial activities in Shaoguan City gradually resumed the atmosphere before the epidemic, a variety of commercial activities held frequently. Our demons haunt magic performing arts team to soul magic performance into the commercial performance industry in Shaoguan City, breaking the traditional magic interpretation of the pattern, and obtained good economic benefits. This paper will analyze the limitations of local magic commercial performance in Shaoguan, discuss the team's experience in performing in Shaoguan in the past year, and analyze the market prospects of Psychic magic performance in commercial activities.

Педагогічна співтворчість як умова підготовки майбутніх вчителів музичного мистецтва до керівництва фольклорними колективами.

The article examines the phenomenon of co-creation as a condition for the professional growth of future music teachers. The content of creative interaction of future teachers-musicians both during classroom work and in the process of production practice is highlighted. The author of the article draws attention to the fact that the process of co-creation has a positive effect not only on student learning, but also on the development of the teacher himself, improves his creative abilities, deepens knowledge and creative skills. Such interaction is the best possible means of establishing a working atmosphere in the artistic team, and also has a developmental impact on the practical activities of future music teachers in direct work with students. Based on the works of modern researchers of this issue, the author comes to a conclusion about the use of special forms and methods of professional training for ensemble management, the development of a number of personal qualities for creative communication. The work provides examples of interaction and useful co-creation of teachers and students. The author offers ways to overcome problems and misunderstandings on the way to productive interaction between members of the artistic team.

METHODICAL PRINCIPLES OF PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS-MUSICIANS TO LEAD FOLKLORE GROUPS

The purpose of the article is to reveal the methodological principles of training future teachers of musical art to lead folk music groups.Methodology. The main theoretical provisions of this article are based on the leading principles of the cultural approach. Such research methods as the method of artistic analysis of folklore sources, art history and pedagogical literature, the method of theoretical generalizations and conclusions are used in the investigation.Scientific novelty. The article highlights the problem of continuity of national traditions, transmission of aesthetic ideals and self-awareness of the people in modern Ukrainian society.The author developed the issue of folklore as a means of personality formation, considered folk songs as a model of aesthetic taste, high moral qualities and artistic experience of Ukrainians, as the embodiment of the national identity of the people. Attention is drawn to the originality, uniqueness and versatility of Ukrainian folk music.The article explains the methodical principles of training future teachers of musical art to lead folklore groups, which consist in: cultivating Ukrainian national identity in working with students, creative productivity of performing activities and artistic integration in the design and implementation of an artistic idea. Special attention is paid to the methods of interaction between the manager and the members of the artistic team as the basis of effective creative work.Conclusions. National folklore reveals the dynamism and multi-layered existence of Ukrainians, attests to the ways of understanding the artistic and aesthetic values of the past through the prism of the perception of modern cultural realities. The training of future teachers-musicians is interpreted by us, first of all, as a process of gaining experience of communication with folk art in the postmodern era based on the current methodical principles of interaction of student youth with samples of Ukrainian folk art.

Introduction

Introduction| March 01 2023 Introduction: Words from the Editor Jay Needham, MFA Jay Needham, MFA Jay Needham is an artist, musician, and cultural producer who utilizes multiple creative platforms to produce his works. As a hearing-divergent person, Needham explores present and emerging ecologies of the electromagnetic spectrum that often feature the sense of sound and vibration as a component in the interpretation of his works. His sound art, works for radio, visual art, performances, and installations have appeared worldwide at museums, festivals, and on the airwaves. His most recent sound installation is on permanent display in the BioMuseo, designed by Frank Gehry in the Republic of Panama. Needham’s writing appears in the books Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time, Culture and Moving Sounds: A Cultural History of the Car Radio. His research has been published in Exposure, Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology and Leonardo Music Journal. Needham is a professor in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He received his MFA from the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Resonance (2023) 4 (1): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2023.4.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jay Needham; Introduction: Words from the Editor. Resonance 1 March 2023; 4 (1): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2023.4.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentResonance Search As I introduce the fourth volume of Resonance, I’m very proud to welcome the newest members of the journal’s editorial board. These sound studies scholars and artists add to the diversity of perspectives as we continue to explore cultural boundaries and expand upon the concept of sound as a living, cultural force. Throughout our fourth volume we will be presenting a new special series, “Queer Politics & Positionalities in Sonic Art.” The series will be guest edited by Charles Eppley (they/he), assistant teaching professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance at Arizona State University and co-editor and research coordinator for the Proclaiming Disability Arts initiative at the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Their work will be assisted by a diverse team of scholars and artists from within the Resonance community. “Queer Politics & Positionalities in Sonic Art” asks vitally important questions such as, Does queer sound exist, and are there... You do not currently have access to this content.

Television in the Language Classroom: A Call to Embrace One of Our Most Powerful Resources

Thanks to recent advances, in the 21st century, numerous apps for phones and PCs, zoom and skype calls, electric dictionaries and other advanced technology can be employed to help language learners develop their skills more efficiently. However, one of the most popular and powerful technologies has been around for decades, and has been woefully under-utilized by educators: television programs. Huge teams of writers, technicians, and artists work to make regular television programming as entertaining and absorbing as possible. When viewed in the target language, with appropriate subtitles, such programming is a powerful tool for developing two of the four language areas, listening and reading, as well as giving a huge boost to grammar and vocabulary, often without the student making any special effort whatsoever. Most surprisingly, the benefits may even approach those of reading, especially in vocabulary size, even for passive viewers. In this paper we will look at research which has been done in this area, and ways to tap into “TV power” in the ESL classroom.

Jan Sawka: Theatre of Image and Metaphor

Jan Sawka: Theatre of Image and Metaphor

My Deer Hunter

My Deer Hunter. Interview af de medvirkende og det kreative team. Interview with participants from My Deer Hunter by Christoffersen, Krøgholt og Winkelhorn. In dialouge with four participating veterans and the artistic team behind My Deer Hunter, the interview explores, how the performance and rehearsal process functioned for a group of PTSD affected veterans, and how their histories and participation in war was challenged.

English Summaries

Hostages of Me by Tue Biering and Hvad har vi egentlig haft gang i? Etiske, sociale og kunst­neriske undersøgelser by Jeppe Kristensen: In two articles, the founders of FIX&FOXY are reflecting on how the production company can develop theater and performances, in order to make the audience reflect on societal dilemmas. InterviewsPretty Woman Walking Down the Street. Interview with Biering and Kristensen by Gade. The interview explores the artistic strategy around the performance Pretty Woman A/S (2008), performed by female prostitutes, which triggered a strong public debate. Møder, relationer, populærkultur og repræsentation. Interview with Bering by Gade. In this conversation, Gade draws a portrait of FIX&FOXY’s practices, and identifies some fundamental themes in contemporary theatre. Udflugt til ungdomsland. Interview with Kristensen by Christoffersen and Krøgholt. Kristensen reflects on the process of Youth (Ungdom) focusing and on how the company created ownership for the young participants, to give agency as co-developers of the performance’s various spaces. My Deer Hunter. Interview af de medvirkende og det kreative team. Interview with participants from My Deer Hunter by Christoffersen, Krøgholt og Winkelhorn. In dialouge with four participating veterans and the artistic team behind My Deer Hunter, the interview explores, how the performance and rehearsal process functioned for a group of PTSD affected veterans, and how their histories and participation in war was challenged. FIX&FOXY’s poetik, metode og organisering. Interview with Biering by Christoffersen, Krøgholt and Winkelhorn. Biering tells about the principles and the theatre view that have been guiding for FIX&FOXY’s creative and theatrical strategies throughout the theatre’s work. Articles Europæerne. En postdramatisk tilgang til klassikerne by Mads Thygesen. How did the staging of The Europeans exploit classics as a tool to intervene and mix in a current historical and political context? The common denominator for the work was European wars as a dramatic focal point. The article discusses how this performance illuminates the seed of FIX&FOXY’s poetics and conceptual thinking from 2005. Mod alle Odds. Tragedie og statistik by Erik Exe Christoffersen. Against All Odds (2019) are based on identity, representation, and statistics, which portrays how today’s young persons’ lives would statistically look in the future. The question raised by Christoffersen is, how the dramaturgy of the performance creates communication. Forvaltningen af publikums ubehag. FIX&FOXY som politisk konfrontationskunst by Laura Luise Schultz. She describes the approach to the audience in various of performances and highlights, that a central feature of FIX&FOXY’s political remediation is their sophisticated engagement with the audience and managing of the audience’s discomfort. Love Theater. Uhåndgribelige konflikter by Jeppe Kristensen. Kristensen went to Bangkok to cast a prostitute who should play the leading character in Love Theater. The performance was based on her own life-experiences as prostitute, and the article is reflecting on intangible conflicts, regarding the prejudices of an audience. Samtidskunst, repræsentation og remediering by Erik Exe Christoffersen. Christoffersen empha­sizes FIX&FOXY’s way of doing remediation, perceived as a way of ‘overpainting’ a work like a palimpsest. Verdensteater og øjebliksteater by Jeppe Kristensen. Kristensen gives an overall artistic discussion of FIX&FOXY and draws a thread from the company’s beginning as a theatrical variant of con­temporary art, to Peter Osborne’s analysis of what contemporary art is today. EssaysFIX&FOXYs distribuering af ledelse by Ida Krøgholt. Krøgholt is unfolding FIX&FOXY’s way of working as distributed facilitation, where the participants facilitate each other, and thus through the theatre process develop an awareness of communication and observation. FIX&FOXY’s representation strategies by Anne Liisberg. Liisberg raises the important questions: Who and how can we represent? And who will never be represented?

Research as a Practice of Collective Care and Resistance: A Roundtable Conversation with Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles

Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles (TMHJ:LA) is an initiative of Gender Justice Los Angeles, a grassroots organization led by and for trans, gender nonconforming, two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, People of Color. The organization's mission includes resisting oppression, developing community responses to violence, and healing from present and historical trauma. TMHJ:LA was created in 2016 to use cultural arts and participatory action research to combat the erasure and invisibility of trans men and transmasculine people in public health planning and services in Los Angeles County. We began, and have since organized, as a majority transmasculine, queer, and Black, Indigenous, People of Color team of researchers, educators, community organizers, artists, and cultural workers.In the past five years, we have witnessed the increased politicization and monetization of “transgender health care” and a surge of transgender health-related research. Most public funding for research related to transgender health goes to efforts that are initiated and led by people without lived experience and with limited ties to trans-led social change organizing. TMHJ:LA started as a community-initiated organizing effort, situated within the leadership of a social movement organization with a broad vision for health justice. In the following roundtable conversation, held in May 2021, a few of the creators of TMHJ:LA reflect on the work and some of the tensions and opportunities for organizing data projects on the principles of research justice and collective care.To learn more or connect with TMHJ:LA organizing team, visit: tmhealthstudyla.org.