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Łódź as an Archive: “FILLin project – artistic activities (soundwalks, performances, knees-up, ‘Food for the story’) in Księży Młyn.”

Author(s): Marta Ostajewska / Language(s): / Issue: 12/2015

City lives, breathes with human stories, soaks with memories. According to the object-oriented ontology and psychogeography it is not just a stage or scenography for our existence, it is an active partner with whom we enter into a dialogue every day. Artistic activities are a special type of such a dialogue. Above all, the site-specific activities assume real cooperation with the space. This is a kind of 'relational art', consisting of the delicate interaction with the place, playing on emotions and saturating the area with additional meanings. In my paper I focus on Ksiezy Mlyn in Lodz, the postindustrial district that inspires artists to create site-specific artistic implementations. A place full of stories and emotions, which is a living archive of the factory workers’ memory, an industrial history of Lodz, but above all individual and moving human stories. In the text I present some of the artistic activities that were carried out on the Ksiezy Mlyn in 2013 and 2014, with special emphasis on soundwalks Shoulder – stories of the trampled and the project FILLin. I refer to the contemporary oral histories and archival memories of the inhabitants from the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, which are the starting point for the creation of these actions. keywords: site-specific, participation, soundwalks, ubran art, oral history, anthropological archive studies, live archive, psychogeography, object-ontology.

#TRACES#FEMINISM

Author(s): Agata Szuba / Language(s): English / Issue: 1 (25)/2018

Agata Szuba #tropy#feminizm The contemporary media message can be perceived in two perspec- tives: an active one, in which women perform a role of journalists and editors, and a passive perspective, in which they become a part of media message. The latter aspect is the most controversial for many reasons. Walter Lippmann defines a stereotype as an image created in the mind which allows a subordination of a certain fragment of reality a priori. The media’s visible, negative influence on women has them create a reality beyond the boundaries of acceptance, presenting it in a way the audi- ence expects. A new kind of feminism appears, i.e. one which answers the receiver’s needs (succumbing to the expectations and exposing to the look), and a question appears – whether in the time of the feminist legacy, thereby changes resulting from the development of the media, feminists should gain their own unique style? In a way this is beginning to happen. Due to the development of the media, women gained an unrestricted possibility to express their views, and the reception and availability of the media lifts the restrictions and causes an inconspicuous person to please and sweep the crowd and his or her voice to be impossible to be ignored in the discourse.

3D принтирането – производство на бъдещето

Author(s): Nezabravka, St. Popova-Nedyalkova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2014

A Comparative Study of the Chinese and Russian Presentations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the Perspective of Intercultural Theatre

Author(s): Yu Sun,Longhai Zhang / Language(s): English / Issue: 7/2018

In 2017, one of the most famous Shakespeare tragedies, Macbeth, directed respectively by China’s first-class director Chen Dalian and one of the leading European directors Luk Perceval, gained new forms in exotic countries and yet still displayed its eternal charisma and magnificent power. The two interpretations gave the Chinese audience an unprecedented experience due to their strong visual impact. The Chinese version marked a new level in the creation and performance of modern Chinese drama and was widely acclaimed. However, the Russian version seemed an “over-experimental” play to the Chinese audience, so it could not be fully understood and accepted. This paper compares the Chinese experimental interpretation of Macbeth with the Russian one from the perspective of intercultural theatre by using theories proposed by many international theatre critics, such as Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba and Richard Schechner, analyzing the stage design, directing concepts and performing skills. It then elaborates on the inner connections of the two adaptations by the two directors from China and Russia by analyzing the complexity of the relationship between audience and performance in intercultural theatre, and the transformation and reception of the cross-cultural adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays in China and Russia.

A DIALOGUE ON THE ROMANIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT OF TOTAL THEATRE: ION SAVA AND THE ROUND THEATRE (1944)

Author(s): Cristian Rusu,Ştefana Pop-Curşeu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Lecturer PhD Cristian Rusu (1972) is a stage designer at the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre and a visual artist. He teaches art history and stage design at the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. He holds a PhD from Babeș-Bolyai University with a thesis on The Project of Total Theatre 1919-1970 (2015). As a stage designer, he is the co-author of several highly acclaimed, award-winning theatre productions in national and international theater festivals. As a visual artist, he is represented by Galeria Plan B Berlin.

A Hungarian Painter in Yorkshire. György Gordon (1924–2005)

Author(s): James Hamilton / Language(s): English / Issue: 198/2010

György Gordon was, through and through, a Hungarian painter. This is despite the fact that he spent the greater part of his working life in the small English city of Wakefield, in the industrial heartland of West Yorkshire, 260 km from London. There, from the early 1960s until his death, Gordon became a greatly loved teacher of painting to generations of Foundation students at Wakefield College of Art, and grew to become a landscape, figure and portrait painter of considerable importance in Britain. A retrospective exhibition of his portraits was held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1995.

A Plea for Vaszary

Author(s): Ilona Sármány-Parsons / Language(s): English / Issue: 189/2008

János Vaszary (1867–1939). A Retrospective Exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery, 18 October 2007–17 February 2008. Vaszary János 1867–1939. Catalogue. Budapest, MNG, 2007, 444 pp. + Appendix, 55 pp.

A Rhino Remembered

On the 500th Anniversary of a Shipwreck

Author(s): István Orosz / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2016

In vain would we prefer to behold beauty in our rhinoceros, or at least to appreciate its positive aspects, for the innocent beast somehow invariably ended up on the dark side as a symbol of terror. As early as in 1593, Cesare Ripa in his Iconology recommended a blind woman with the head of a rhinoceros as the most fitting allegory to represent fury. The French revolutionaries saw it as the emblem of absolutism; the rhinoceros Louis XVI kept at his palace in Versailles met the fate of his master shortly after he was executed.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTER USE AT FACULTY OF PHYSICS – UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Mircea Victor Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

For physicists computing is a main activity. Starting from devising an experiment to problem solving with computer, from using mathematical tables to other aids to computation, physics has grown its strength by using each step the numerical computation. So, computing for researches as well as education was used and steadily improved by us, starting from first minicomputers to the last generation of computers and algorithms. In this presentation we will follow, in short, the evolution of computing, hard and soft, in physics at our faculty. We selected here the main field of interests that was connected with problems showing: programmed solutions, simulations and modeling, computer application and software during the time. Such a time recollection is interesting and surprises me as how diverse and far such activity was done. Examples will be from computation in tradition physics, to biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine to data processing and visualization, data management, to create our own educational software and so on. The fields as nonlinear dynamics, complexity, chaos and fractals, as well as fluid dynamics, atomic, molecular or nuclear physics, earth or stellar physics, connected to improvement of the experiments and devices via artificial intelligence are some of our topics which will be exemplified here.

A Subversive Potpourri: Concrete Revolutio or When the Phantasmagoria Turns Political

Author(s): Luiza Maria Filimon / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The present study analyses an anime series entitled Concrete Revolutio: Chōjin Gensō (Superhuman Phantasmagoria), produced by Studio Bones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Shō Aikawa, which ran in two split cours between 2015 and 2016. Concrete Revolutio is a series removed from the arche- typal trope often plaguing the cinematic and animation landscape, namely that of a logocentric worldview constrained by binary oppositions. From a methodological standpoint, the study applies a multi-layered approach to the study of anime, in order to address the socio-political implications of a series that uses idiosyncratic characters of all shapes and sizes – from superheroes to demons, from aliens to Godzilla-like monsters – to provide a meta-critique not only of Japanese postwar history but of militarism, late stage capitalism, globalization, or exploitation to name but a few.

A Treasure-House of Applied Arts

Author(s): György Fekete / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

A survey of Hungarian industrial or applied arts is guided by historical factors, the practice of the craft , and social, political, and cultural movements. Th is survey can be divided logically into two parts, the first period lasting from the conquest of Hungary to the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, and the second from that time to our day. The first period, lasting about 900 years, included the whole Carpathian Basin as unifi ed geographical area. We shall focus our att ention on the 100 years of development that are in direct contact with our day. Th is period describes the time that the signifi cance of Hungarian applied arts within the applied arts of Europe and the world became stabilized.

About Forms and Symbolic Configurations (I)

Author(s): Georgeta Merişor Dominte / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2011

About Forms and Symbolic Configurations (I) is elaborated with initials and derivative assertions, having informative and formative intentions at the same time. They propose, especially for the support of the apprenticeship stages, an overall and a detailed view, visually polarized between the macrocosmic and the microscopic, over some primary and derivative forms, organic and angular, natural and artistically created by the human being. Intending to make some inductions, which give the possibility for manifesting a creative continuum, for the emitter as well as for the receptors, I have thus conceived a wide corollary of some various visual ideas and expressions, for some symbolic configurations, which can be continued and developed on their specific coordinates, in a theoretical and applicative sense.

About the Project „Beethoven – Metamorphosis”

Author(s): Piotr Kucia / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2014

The aim of this paper is to describe the theoretical assumptions and the effects of the realisation of the project entitled “Beethoven – metamorphosis”. The project was the practical part of the PhD program and seems to be a good example of an author’s creation of reality.

Accesoriile costumului de teatru

Author(s): Maria-Alexandra Ivan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2020

The concept of accessorizing the theatre costume is often discussed in the world of scenography. We can consider the accessories as important as the costume itself. Accessorization can be seen as a descriptive means of completing the theatre costume. It has a descriptive but also aesthetic purpose, thus achieving the perfect melange between the symbol loaded with meaning and the visual. I wish that my research in the field of accessorization could provide my fellow scenographers with complex information about the main accessories used in the composition of a costume. Another goal that I intend to achieve is to identify the essence and specificity of the theatre costume. I wish to identify the quintessence of the theatre costume, compared to the film costume, the fashion or editorial costume.

Adapting to Survive: The Cultural Regeneration of Doctor Who

Author(s): Andrew Cooper / Language(s): English / Issue: 11 (18)/2012

Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television show in history and this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. This paper will explore two key elements which can be attributed to the shows survival; its ability to reflect cultural demands and its ability to adapt works for television from other mediums. In John Tulloch and Manuel Alvarado’s Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text it is stated that the show had to shift ‘its ground in response to social and professional pressures’ (3). This can best be seen in classic monsters which have returned in the new series, most notably the Cybermen and the Daleks. ‘Every writer of the first new season had written Doctor Who material before, (Marlow, 49) in varying forms, such as novels published during the ‘dark years’ when the show was not running, to the Big Finish Audio Drama’s. The writers managed to dwell on the shows rich fan based adventures, such as Robert Sherman’s 40th anniversary CD Jubilee, which became the new series episode Dalek, Paul Cornel’s seventh Doctor book became Human Nature and Stephen Moffat’s short story was broadcast as Blink. It will be argued that without being able to adapt and reflect cultural needs, as well as satisfying the needs of its fans, Doctor Who would not have survived five decades.

ADVERTISING GRAPHICS IN THE STRUCTURE OF INTEGRATED ART DISCIPLINE "DESIGN OF ADVERTISING"

Author(s): Svitlana Valeriyivna Pryshchenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

Purpose of the research. The thematic focus in this article combines the author's concept of studying Advertising Graphics as a form of sociocultural communications with the analysis of stylistic tendencies, problems of figurative visualization of ideas and aesthetics of advertising appeals. Methodology of the research uses the system-structural, sociocultural and comparative methods of the analysis of postmodern visual language of Advertising. Scientific originality consists in comprehensive study of the tasks of Advertising Graphics and its relevancy and weighty place in the structure of the integrated art discipline "Design of Advertising" in high school. For more 10 years, the author has been lecturing her own concept-course for designers in Kyiv. There are no ready-made advertising ideas that are trying to attract beginners to business – every advertising idea depends on the product and the economic, social and cultural factors. Projecting the original and effective advertising is difficult even for professionals, as the advertisement has to be the final product of complex researches. Base components of the competencies of a designer in Advertising have been selected taking into account the requirements of modern market: graphic design-foundation, sociocultural and marketing constituents. Besides, stylistics and art-aesthetic problems of modern Advertising in the communicative sphere, including displays of Kitsch and Eclecticism are analyzed. Recently, creative advertising ideas are actively searched because of the monotony and primitivism of images, so-called visual standards overload huge advertising in Media. Special attention is paid to the problems of professional terminology, in particular, the content of illustrated glossary "Design and Advertising", presented as a lexicographic resource for design-education. Conclusions. Advertising Graphics is meaningful content block that takes into account the sociocultural and marketing aspects of visual designing of promotional products. In near future, it is necessary to shift to more subtle approaches to the consumers: more individual, more correct and more aesthetic.

ALTERITIES OF SIGHT. BENCHMARKS OF MEDIATIC RE-VIEWING THE READING OF REALITY

Author(s): Mihaiela Ilea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Television and new media construct a type of trade with theiconic sign. To the image is assigned an effervescent power, so that itcan, under the pretext of illustrating, create a new perspective of theinformation-formation-seduction triad. The subjectivity of the image,caught between the liberty of re-seeing the collective show of societyand the responsibility of sight, can only be overcome through keeping abalance between the one who proposes the typology of the message (thejournalist) and the one who is decoding it (the viewer). The two areunited by the experience of seeing the same sample of reality and areseparated by the role of phenomenology of communication means andthe reception of visual language.

Amateur Biographies: Attempting to Fill Archival Gaps

Author(s): Eileen Curley / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2022

The biography of nineteenth-century amateur performers defies typical biographical formulae due to the paucity of information available about these performers and their productions. The story of the Lawrence sisters added another layer of challenge: determining how to contextualize an ephemeral art form within the biographical history of two women when one of them left an autobiography that, interestingly, attempts to follow typical biographical structure and yet, upon deeper analysis, only introduces yet more unverifiable knowledge gaps. By acknowledging and analyzing those gaps and the challenges they present, an organic narrative can develop—a narrative which speaks to the complexities of this work and the challenges of telling the lives of those whom history might otherwise neglect. The biography becomes, thus, the story of women whose history is imperfectly recorded and a vehicle for a discussion of a popular art form which does not readily lend itself to being archived, while also providing a narrative of the historiographical and historical possibilities that the past presents through its gaps.

Ameryka

Rewizje wizualnej mitologii Stanów Zjednoczonych

Author(s): Filip Lipiński / Language(s): Polish

The book Ameryka. Rewizje wizualnej mitologii Stanów Zjednoczonych [America. Revisions of the Visual Mythology of the United States] is a critical analysis of the formation and the subsequent revisions of what the author describes as American visual myths. These myths are embedded in the vast field of visuality, models of vision, images, art and other objects of visual culture, such as film. Ameryka was written, first of all, from the perspective of an art historian, but also an Americanist, hence it offers an interdisciplinary scholarly proposition combining reflections in the fields of art history, visual culture studies and American studies. Following an extensive theoretical introduction, all the chapters are separate but correlated with the book as a whole: there are case studies of the creation of myth-images, particularly in the 19th century, in their diverse forms and media and, more importantly, of how they were revised in art and visual culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Throughout the book, the author draws an important distinction between the United States and America, which is understood as a symbolic-imaginary field or screen within which American mythology is formed, primarily to neutralize difference and unify the heterogenous American nation. The extensive analyses of artworks, popular images and films demonstrate the way American mythology was gradually deconstructed, especially from the mid-20th century, as a result of the awakening of political consciousness of the marginalized groups, the surge of civil rights struggle and changes within the broader social-cultural landscape of the United States. At the same time, despite these internal interventions and the subsiding economic and cultural hegemony of the USA on the global scene during recent decades, by referring to specific cases and issues of American visuality, the author claims that the basic coordinates of the myth continue to serve as a lasting frame of reference.

Antreprenoriatul muzical și cyperspațiul / Music Entrepreneurship and the Cyberspace

Author(s): Oana-Mihaela Bălan-Budoiu / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 1/2020

Musicians must be aware of the role they play in educating the audience. The future survival of cultural productions will depend greatly on their degree of attractiveness and usefulness in relationship to society. This paper presents the impact of technological progress on the contemporary society and musical entrepreneurship, stressing important aspects stemming from statistics dedicated to classical art consumption. The mutations generated by the online environment, that the current situation is related to, are sharply perceived in the classical music. The impasse in which we find ourselves in searching for modern methods to attract the audience into the concert halls and to sell music events is already resolved by the virtual reality.