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Humanities and Arts

Ulysses Was Born in Trieste


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"Ulysses Was Born in Trieste" by Dora García explores the intersection of literature, psychoanalysis, and performance art. This narrative revolves around the enigmatic legacy of James Joyce, with particular focus on his connections to Trieste, Italo Svevo, and the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan. The article recounts a work...
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Humanities and Arts

You are Variations


"You Are Variations" by Christina Della Giustina investigates the intersection of art, science, and ecology through an innovative approach to understanding tree life cycles. The project transforms eco-physiological data into sensory experiences, using scores and performances to reimagine trees as dynamic entities within the planetary ecosystem. Combining scientific collaboration with aesthetic pra...
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Humanities and Arts

A Literary Montage


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"A Literary Montage" by Peter Weibel examines the intersections of observation, experimentation, and artistic expression. Inspired by the experimental methods outlined by Claude Bernard and Émile Zola, Weibel explores how science and art share methodologies that challenge perceptions and reveal deeper truths. The essay underscores t...
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Humanities and Arts

Universal Noise


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In this conversation, artist Tiong Ang discusses his project "The Second Hands," developed for the 9th Bucharest Biennial 2020–21. The work is a collective enterprise under the name Tiong Ang & Company, involving a core team of approximately 15 people, with expansions including dancers and extras for certain parts. "The Second Hand...
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Humanities and Arts

Experimentality


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"Experimentality" by Henk Slager, published in MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research in 2016, examines the evolving role of experimentation within contemporary art, particularly in the context of artistic research. Slager discusses how the integration of research methodologies into art practices has redefined traditional notions of ...
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Humanities and Arts

Speculation and Counter-Speculation


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"Speculation and Counter-Speculation" by Joshua Simon, published in MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research in 2019, examines how financial speculation and disruption have become defining traits in contemporary artistic and political imagination. Simon discusses the shift from value to price, labor to debt, and revolution to dis...
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Social Science

Network science for museums


This paper introduces network science to museum studies. The spatial structure of the museum and the exhibit display largely determine what visitors see and in which order, thereby shaping their visit experience. Despite the importance of spatial properties in museum studies, few scientific tools have been developed to analyze and compare the results across museums. This paper introduces the six h...
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Humanities and Arts

“Wings of Freedom”: Petr Miturich and Aero-Constructivism


The article focuses on the aerodynamic experiments of Petr Vasil’evich Miturich (1887–1956), in particular his so-called letun, a project comparable to Vladimir Tatlin’s Letatlin, but less familiar. Miturich became interested in flight during the First World War, elaborating his first flying apparatus in 1918 before constructing a prototype and undertaking a test flight on 27 December 1921...
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Humanities and Arts

Mountains and Waters of No-Mind A Transcultural Approach to Moments of Heightened Awareness and Non-Substantialist Ontology in Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder


This article explores the epic poem Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) by Gary Snyder and a Song/Chin dynasty Chinese landscape painting. I illustrate how the poem and the painting, together with Henry David Thoreau’s autobiographical narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums (1958), form a complex web of intertextual and intermedial re...
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Humanities and Arts

The Creative Revolution: The "New York in 1960" Experimental Era of Art and Design


Welcome to New York in the 1960s! “Art and Design in 1960s New York,” a key component of Amanda Gluibizzi’s Doctor of Philosophy research at the “Graduate School of The Ohio State University,” has been first published in the UK and USA in 2021 by Anthem Press, and the book is now available to acquire on major websites. Anthem Press is a leading independent academic, professional, and tra...
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