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Behind the Screen / Russian New Media Lev Manovich
Behind the Screen / Russian New Media Lev Manovich Should we be surprised that as the new computer-based media expand throughout the world, intellectual horizons and aesthetic possibilities seem to be narrowing? If one scans Internet-based discussion groups and journals from London to Budapest, New York to Berlin, and Los Angeles to Tokyo, certain themes are obsessively intoned, like mantras: copyright; on-line identity; cyborgs; interactivity; the future of the Internet. This follows from the Microsofting of the planet, which has cast a uniform digital aesthetics over national visual cultures, accelerating the globalization already begun by Hollywood, MTV, and consumer packaging: hyperlinks and cute icons, animated fly-throughs, rainbow color palettes, and Phong-shaded spheres are ubiquitous, and apparently inescapable. So, given its intellectual traditions, totalitarian experience, distinct twentieth century visuality (a particular mixture of the Northern and the Communist, the gray and the bleak), and finally, its continuing pre-occupation with the brilliant avant-garde experimentation on the 1910s and 1920s, can we expect a different response to new media on the part of Russian artists and intellectuals? What will -- or could -- result from the juxtaposition of the Netscape Navigator web browser's frames with Eisenstein's theories of montage? It would be dangerous to reduce heterogeneous engagements to a single common denominator, some kind of unique "Russian New Media" meme. Yet a number of common threads do exist. These provide a useful alternative to the West's default thematics, while articulating a distinctive visual poetics of new media. One of these threads is the attitude of suspicion and irony. -
Museum of Pictorial Culture
The Museum Of Pictorial Culture From Less-Known Russian Avant-garde series Lev Manovich and Julian Sunley, 2021 Although we usually assume think that first museum of The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2019-2020, curated by Dr. modern art was MoMA (New York, 1929), an earlier museum Liubov Pchelkina. From the exhibition description: called Museum of Pictorial Culture was established in 1919 “2019 will mark 100 years since the implementation of the and run by most important Russian avant-garde artists until unique museum project of Soviet Russia – the creation of the its closing in 1929. Our essays discuss innovative museum Museum of Pictorial Culture, the first museum of contemporary concepts developed by these artists, and point out their art in our country… “The exhibition will present the history of the Museum of Pictorial Culture as an important stage in the history relevance to recent museum experiments in presenting their of Russian avant-garde and the history of the Tretyakov Gallery’s collections online using visualization methods. acquisitions. The exposition will reflect the unique structure of the museum. The exhibition will include more than 300 You can find our sources (including for images) and further paintings, drawings, sculptures from 18 Russian and 5 foreign reading at the bottom of the essay. The main source for this collections. For the first time, the audience will be presented essay is the the exhibition 'Museum of Pictorial Culture. To the with experimental analytical work of the museum. Unique 100th Anniversary of the First Museum of Contemporary Art’ at archival documents will be an important part of the exposition.” Room C at the original Museum of Pictorial Culture, containing works by Room C reconstructed at The Tretyakov Gallery, 2019. -
Film Studies, Digital Humanities and the Visualization of Moving Images
Materiality and Montage: Film Studies, Digital Humanities and the Visualization of Moving Images Digital Humanities and Film Studies In this paper, I will highlight some recent initiatives in the study of film within the digital humanities, in which context I will also present some of my own endeavors, specifically visualizations created in collaboration with the pioneering new media theorist Lev Manovich from films made by the Soviet avant-garde director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954). Following this, I will discuss some of the issues related to the use of visualizations as an aid to scholarly research. Finally, I will address a number of possible research questions in film and media studies, answers to which may benefit significantly from the collaboration between film/media scholars and computer scientists on the one hand, and (moving image) archivists on the other. Before proceeding to discuss the situation in which film archives currently find themselves, I would like to share a few introductory thoughts from my own perspective as a practitioner in digital humanities. As it has become good scholarly practice to begin by stating one’s own working definition of the term, I would like to offer the following quote by Eric Hoyt, Kit Hughes and Charles R. Acland (2016, 3), which appeals to me for its integrative approach to digital humanities: Rather than take digital humanities as a circumscribed field of research, pedagogy, and outreach, we understand DH as a strategically deployed term of mutual recognition that enables contemporary knowledge workers to signal a shared project interested in the relationship between digital technologies and humanities work. -
Catalan in the Classroom: a Language Under Fire Sara Fowler
Catalan in the Classroom: A Language Under Fire Sara Fowler Hawaii Pacific University Abstract This paper describes the role of Spain’s largest minority language, Catalan, in Spanish society, specifically in the classroom. Throughout its history, Catalan has gone through many cycles of oppression and revival. Currently, despite several decades of positive progress in its official role and a growing number of young speakers, Catalan is facing new challenges once again. Some members of the Spanish government believe that the language of instruction in Catalonia should be Castilian, a development which the citizens of Catalonia feel is an attack on their linguistic rights and identity. Catalan is a well-documented example of the tensions which can arise in a country with a minority language or languages. The Catalan case can also serve as a reminder to English teachers that the politics of language are often more complicated than they seem; teachers must be aware of and sensitive to the cultural and political backgrounds of their students. Introduction It is a fact that linguistic boundaries and political borders are not a perfect match; nevertheless, most people associate one language with one country. For example, the name Spain, for many people, brings to mind one language: Spanish. However, Spanish, or “Castilian” as it is more specifically called, is not the only language in Spain. There are 15 languages spoken in Spain—one official language and three other “co-official” languages, the largest of which is Catalan, spoken as a “mother tongue” by approximately nine percent of the population, compared to five percent speakers of Galician and a mere one percent who speak Euskera (Basque) as a mother tongue (Ethnologue, 2014; European Commission, 2006, p. -
Flexible Training Models: a Response to the Current Needs
FLEXIBLE TRAINING MODELS: A RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT NEEDS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CATALAN NEWS AGENCY: A UNIQUE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING MODEL IN JOURNALISM TEACHING • Tulloch, Christopher Universitat Pompeu Fabra Departament de Comunicació Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona (Espanya) [email protected] • Mas Manchón, Lluís Universitat Pompeu Fabra Departament de Comunicació Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona (Espanya) [email protected] 1. ABSTRACT: In 2010 the Universitat Pompeu Fabra –a public university in the heart of Barcelona- embarked on a unique joint venture in the field of journalism training in conjunction with the Agència Catalana de Notícies, the Catalan government news agency. The idea behind the project was to offer an English-language wire service aimed mainly at foreign correspondents, investors and policymakers which would take a look at current events from a specifically Catalan standpoint. This paper analyses the first four years of the Catalan News Agency experiment from an educational, professional and journalism perspective. 2. RESUMEN: En el año 2010 la Universidad Pompeu Fabra –universidad pública emplazada en el corazón de Barcelona- se embarcó en una innovadora iniciativa de formación en periodismo con la Agència Catalana de Notícies, la agencia oficial del Gobierno catalán. El proyecto pretendía ofrecer un servicio de noticias en inglés dirigido principalmente a corresponsales extranjeros, inversores y legisladores, quienes dispondrían de una aproximación a los hechos noticiosos desde un punto de vista específicamente catalán. Esta comunicación analiza estos cuatro años de trabajo Revista CIDUI 2014 ISSN: 2385-6203 1 www.cidui.org/revistacidui FLEXIBLE TRAINING MODELS: A RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT NEEDS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- conjunto con la Catalan News Agency desde un punto de vista educativo, profesional y periodístico. -
Warner.Review-1 Computable Culture and the Closure of the Media Paradigm William B. Warner Director, the Digital Cultures Projec
Warner.review-1 Computable Culture and the Closure of the Media Paradigm William B. Warner Director, the Digital Cultures Project Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [email protected] Review of: Lev Manovich, _The Language of New Media_. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. [1] Most scholars of modern media now agree that the shift of symbolic representation to a global digital information network is as systemic and pervasive a mutation, and as fraught with consequences for culture, as the shift from manuscript to print. Any one who wants to think clearly about the cultural implications of the digital mutation should read Lev Manovich’s new book, _The Language of New Media_. This book offers the most rigorous definition to date of new digital media; it places its object of attention within the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan; finally, by showing how software takes us beyond the constraints of any particular media substrate--paper, screen, tape, film, etc.--this book overcomes the media framework indexed by its own title. _The Language of New Media_ leads its reader to confront what is strange yet familiar, that is, *uncanny*, about the computable culture we have begun to inhabit. [2] Before characterizing Manovich in greater detail, it is helpful to say what this book is *not*. Pragmatically focused upon the present contours of computable media, Lev Manovich is neither a prophet nor doomsayer, peddling neither a utopian manifesto nor dystopian warnings. Manovich also eschews the conceptual purity of those cultural critics who set out to show how new digital media realizes the program of…Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida (insert your favorite theorist). -
Communicating Catalan Culture in a Global Society
G Model PUBREL-1408; No. of Pages 7 ARTICLE IN PRESS Public Relations Review xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Public Relations Review Communicating Catalan culture in a global society a,∗ b Melissa A. Johnson , Xavier Cester a Department of Communication, Campus Box 8104, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8104, USA b Catalan Institute for the Cultural Companies (ICEC), Rambla Santa Monica 8, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t This case study describes the communication objectives of the Catalan! Arts organization Keywords: based in the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain. Best practices in public relations, Culture particularly in digital and social media, are described. The authors highlight the use of Public relations International public relations sound and bold visuals in public relations programming, and address the importance of Global communication interactive tactics. Program evaluation includes digital analytics plus an analysis of cultural Digital media industry export data and employment statistics in the creative industries. The case is an Social media example of identity-based communication in international public relations. It also adds to the literature on public relations in government and arts organizations. Published by Elsevier Inc. 1. Introduction One of the limitations of current research in international public relations is the centrality of the nation state in definitions of the field (e.g., Sriramesh, 2009). And according to Bardhan (2013), public relations discourse about globalization is rooted in Western and capitalist/corporate models. Thus, most international public relations research has focused on corporate public relations, usually based in English-speaking environs. -
Business-Friendly and Investment-Ready Cities
Business-Friendly and Investment-Ready Cities City Government and the Local Business Growth and Investment Climate September 2014 Author: Greg Clark Senior Fellow, ULI EMEA Case Studies: Gesine Kippenberg, ULI Europe Robert de Jong, ULI UK 1 Business-Friendly and Investment-Ready Cities About ULI The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide • Sharing knowledge through education, applied research, leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating publishing, and electronic media; and and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI is • Sustaining a diverse global network of local practice committed to: and advisory efforts that address current and future • Bringing together leaders from across the fields of real challenges. estate and land use policy to exchange best practices and serve community needs; Established in 1936, the Institute today has more than 30,000 members worldwide, representing the entire • Fostering collaboration within and beyond ULI’s spectrum of the land use and development disciplines. membership through mentoring, dialogue, and problem ULI relies heavily on the experience of its members. It is solving; through member involvement and information resources • Exploring issues of urbanisation, conservation, that ULI has been able to set standards of excellence in regeneration, land use, capital formation, and development practice. The Institute has long been sustainable development; recognised as one of the world’s most respected and widely • Advancing land use policies and design practices that quoted sources of objective information on urban planning, respect the uniqueness of both the built and natural growth, and development. environment; To download information on ULI reports, events and activities please visit www.uli-europe.org Copyright ©2014 by ULI – the Urban Land Institute. -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Spain’s rate of annual growth was bettered only by Ireland in this period, with both countries reflecting a wider trend within the EU: ‘for a decade, 1995– 2005, the countries of Europe’s “South” (Spain, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal) had growth rates almost one per cent higher than the countries of the “North” (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands)’ (Husson, 2012: 331). 2. By late 2010, the OECD (2010) had already reported youth unemployment in Spain (then at 40.7 per cent) to be 22.2 per cent above the OECD average. 3. The rate of unemployment in the eurozone as a whole in June 2013 was 12.2 per cent, with youth unemployment then at 24.4 per cent (Elliott, 2013; Allen, 2013). 4. As the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, told the Bundestag during a debate on the Greek bailout: ‘This is about nothing less than the future of Europe and the future of Germany in Europe’ (quoted in Deutsche Welle, 2010). 5. By 2007, Irish banks’ liabilities were the equivalent of 75 per cent of GDP (World Policy Journal, 2011). Much of these were connected to speculative investment in the construction sector. 6. By June 2012, unemployment had more than doubled in Ireland from its pre- crisis level, to reach 14.8 per cent – the third highest rate in the EU after Spain and Greece at that time (Halpin, 2012). 7. Matsaganis (2012: 413) estimated that by the end of 2012 income losses in Greece had pushed 30 per cent of the population below the pre- crisis poverty line in terms of purchasing power. -
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
___________________________________________________________________ Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Application against Spain by Carles Puigdemont, President-Elect of Catalonia Lodged 1 March 2018 __________________________________________________________________ PUIGDEMONT -v- SPAIN SUMMARY: In this application Mr. Carles PUIGDEMONT alleges that Spain is guilty of violating its international treaty obligations through the cumulative imposition of disproportionate and unjustified restrictions with the exercise of his political rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”). Spain is a State Party to both treaties. It is also a signatory, without relevant reservations, to the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which provides for the right of individual petition. Spain has not notified any relevant derogation to the provisions of the ICCPR which thus remain fully in force. It is legally bound by treaty obligation to secure the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the ICCPR, throughout the territory of Spain, and to all those who fall within its jurisdiction. Mr. PUIGDEMONT brings this individual petition to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in order to vindicate his right to stand for elections (article 25, ICCPR); his right to freedom of association with other secessionist politicians and political parties in pursuit of a common goal of securing independence from Spain for Catalonia (article 22, ICCPR); and his right to freedom of peaceful political expression in support of the cause of independence for Catalonia (article 19, ICCPR). He invites the Committee to hold that these rights have been violated by cumulative and continuing conduct of the Kingdom of Spain. -
Course Schedule: Big Data, Visualization, and Digital
Big Data, Visualization, and Digital Humanities for april 24: students meeting list Spring 2013 The Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York) 365 5th Avenue, New York City. Instructor: Lev Manovich Course numbers: IDS 81650 / MALS 78500. Format: graduate seminar open to PhD and MA students. Classes meet on Mondays, 2pm-4pm. Room: 3309. First class meeting: Monday, January 28, 2013. Course description and requirements Resources: my list of resources and tools for visualizing cultural data other resources from my course Data visualization and computational art history (2012) other resources from my course Digital Humanities++ (2011) Online courses in data visualization and analysis List of tools for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data from occupydatanyc.org (2012) links to DH tools from MALS 78100 – The Digital Humanities in Research and Teaching (Spring 2012) The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide 1 data journalism handbook For people just starting in digital humanities, I recommend that you go through Tooling Up for Digital Humanities Classes schedule: This schedule shows the topics we covered in class, and the plans for the next classes. It will be updated during the semester. The topics are drawn from the larger Relevant course topics list below. class 1 / overview / january 28 Course overview. Concepts: big data, visualization, digital humanities. Lecture How and why study big cultural data (introduction to some of the course topics). class 2 / analog vs. born digital data; capturing physical world/ february 4 Types of cultural data: analog - born digital. Examples of techniques for capturing physical and biological world: 19th - 21st centuries. lecture 2 and additional notes class 3 / cultural data types; typical interactive interfaces for cultural collections / february 11 Examples of artistic projects which use recently developed techniques for capturing the physical world. -
Independence in Europe: Secession, Sovereignty, and the European Union
CONNOLLY MACRO CORRECTED CLEAN(DO NOT DELETE) 2/6/2014 12:55 PM INDEPENDENCE IN EUROPE: SECESSION, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION CHRISTOPHER K. CONNOLLY* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 51 I. NATIONALISM IN EUROPE’S STATELESS NATIONS: IDENTITY, AUTONOMY, AND THE ECONOMY ..................................................... 55 A. Catalonia: Rising Separatist Sentiment .................................................. 55 B. Scotland: The Road to the Referendum .................................................. 59 C. Flanders: Breaking Up the Most Successful Failed State of All Time .................................................................................................... 62 II. SECESSION AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ........................................................................................................... 67 A. Unilateral Secession: Limits on the Right to Self-Determination .......... 68 B. Negotiated Secession: Lessons from Quebec ......................................... 73 III. THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A FORUM FOR SELF- DETERMINATION CLAIMS .................................................................... 78 A. States and Regions ................................................................................. 79 B. The Membership Question ..................................................................... 84 C. The Eurozone Crisis ..............................................................................