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Människan i skogen, skogen i människan : Miun Research Exhibition
- 2021
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- Med utställningen Människan i skogen, skogen i människan vill projektet belysa ett antal aktuella och viktiga frågor för vår region och samtid, samlade under ett tema: skog och hållbar utveckling. I utställningen får besökaren möta kunskap och perspektiv från fem forskare och forskargrupper vid Mittuniversitetet. Forskarna är verksamma inom biologi, ekoteknik, historia, litteraturvetenskap respektive turismvetenskap. Forskningens olika perspektiv länkas i utställningen samman genom sina förhållningssätt till tid, såsom avgörande för förståelse, kunskap och handling. De olika forskningsinriktningarna visar också fram spänningar mellan olika synsätt på skog och kan tillsammans ge flera svar och berättelser om skogens värden. En arbetsgrupp vid Universitetsbiblioteket står för gestaltning och produktion av utställningen.
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- Posch, Josefina
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EP9 Starlight Reserves
- 2023
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Ingår i: Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård, GIBCA Extended, 2023-08-19.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The sculpture EP9 Starlight Reserves was installed in Amerikadammen in Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård and part of GIBCA Extended 2023. This work is situated in the expanded field of sculpture, where the negotiation with a specific situation plays a central role in material investigations of environmental and sustainability concerns. The shape and title of the sculpture derive from the container of old batteries, "Exposed Pallet 9," which the International Space Station launched into space in 2021 to circulate around the Earth for 2-4 years before entering the Earth's atmosphere and hopefully burn up. [1] Commercial interests, colonization, and tourism led by rich nations and private companies contribute to the increase of space debris. The main inquiry of this research project is how artistic work, through visualization in sculptural form, can draw attention to scientific observations and advocacy in establishing international environmental space law concerning space debris. By using recycled plastic from electronic scrap for the large-scale IRBAM printing of the sculpture, the work highlights the potential for sustainable and ephemeral materials in sculptural production to promote environmental awareness and question the validity of the standard requirement for "permanence" in public sculpture. 3D printing in collaboration with Samuel Johansson and Woodrow Wiest RISE – AM center in Mölndal, Sweden with in-kind funding. Supported by Göteborgs Stad Kultur och Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård. [1] Mike Wall, “Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard. It will stay in orbit for years.”, space.com, accessed January 3, 2024, https://www.space.com/space-station-jettisons-huge-space-junk-pallet
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- Berríos-Negrón, Luis
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Manners, Parameters and the Gay Sciences : Realities from the Paramannerist Treatise
- 2013
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Ingår i: Space Matters. - Vienna : Ambra Verlag. - 9783990435632 - 9783990435762 ; , s. 120-137
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper I aim to remind a brief projection about the inseparable difference between mental and physical space. This projection intends to thicken the aesthetics of sustainability by rejecting social Darwinism as the normalization of chaos and the irrational by way of evolutionary teleology and technocratic domination. To do so, I describe a mannerist recurrence in cultural production and how I hope it may inform a revitalized movement beyond an age of mass industrialization, beyond claims of Parametricism. I argue that this move can be activated by revising Charles Peirce’s Infinite Community of Inquiry, and Gerald Raunig’s notion of Abstract Machines, as vehicles for anthropocentric cybernetics and contemporary ecology. This is not about metaphorical relations between the visual arts and the hard sciences, but to set forth a topological heuristic, an ongoing inquiry to further categorize aspects between the human and non-human worlds, reflecting through Nietzsche's idea of 'gay science.'
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- Worbin, Linda
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Designing dynamic textile patterns
- 2010
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Designing Dynamic Textile Patterns Progress in chemistry, fibres and polymers technology provides textile designers with new expressive materials, making it possible to design dynamic textile patterns, where several different expressions are inherent in the same textile, textiles that, for example, could alternate between a striped and checkered pattern. Textiles are traditionally designed and produced to keep a given, static expression during their life cycle; a striped pattern is supposed to keep its stripes. In the same way textile designers are trained to design for static expressions, where patterns and decorations are meant to last in a specific manner. However, things are changing. The textile designer now deals also with a new raw material, a dynamic textile, ready to be further designed, developed and/or programmed, depending on functional context. This transformation in practice is not an easy one for the designers. Designers need to learn how to design with these new materials and their specific qualities, to be able to develop the full expressional potential inherent in “smart textiles design”. The aim of this thesis is to display, and discuss, a methodology for designing dynamic textile patterns. So far, something that mainly has been seen in different experimental and conceptual prototypes, in artistic expressions and for commercial efforts etc. In terms of basic experimental research this thesis explores the turn in textile design practice through a series of design experiments with focus on contributing to identifying and characterizing new design variables, new design methods and new design techniques as a foundation for dynamic textile patterns.
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- Balgi, Sourabh, 1991-, et al.
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Deep Learning With DAGs
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Social science theories often postulate causal relationships among a set of variables or events. Although directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are increasingly used to represent these theories, their full potential has not yet been realized in practice. As non-parametric causal models, DAGs require no assumptions about the functional form of the hypothesized relationships. Nevertheless, to simplify the task of empirical evaluation, researchers tend to invoke such assumptions anyway, even though they are typically arbitrary and do not reflect any theoretical content or prior knowledge. Moreover, functional form assumptions can engender bias, whenever they fail to accurately capture the complexity of the causal system under investigation. In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs. Unlike conventional approaches, cGNFs model the full joint distribution of the data according to a DAG supplied by the analyst, without relying on stringent assumptions about functional form. In this way, the method allows for flexible, semi-parametric estimation of any causal estimand that can be identified from the DAG, including total effects, conditional effects, direct and indirect effects, and path-specific effects. We illustrate the method with a reanalysis of Blau and Duncan’s (1967) model of status attainment and Zhou’s (2019) model of conditional versus controlled mobility. To facilitate adoption, we provide open-source software together with a series of online tutorials for implementing cGNFs. The article concludes with a discussion of current limitations and directions for future development.
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- Bergengren, Anna, 1989-, et al.
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Trollberg : Äventyret på Billingen
- 2019
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- En geopark är ett område med geologi av internationell betydelse – alltså något som är unikt i världen. Inom geoparken arbetar vi aktivt för att sprida kunskap om geologi och sambanden mellan geologi, biologi och kulturhistoria till barn och unga. Platåbergens Geopark är ett samverkansprojekt mellan de nio kommunerna Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Grästorp, Lidköping, Skara, Götene, Mariestad, Skövde och Falköping. Grästorps kommun är projektägare. Under hösten 2019 lämnas en ansökan in till Unesco, om att bli en Unesco Global Geopark. Serietidningen Trollberg är ett samarbete mellan Platåbergens Geopark och projektet KASTiS – Kulturarv och spelteknologi i Skaraborg. KASTiS finansieras av Skaraborgs kommunalförbund och Högskolan i Skövde. Med den här serietidningen vill vi skapa nyfikenhet kring geologi och särskilt då för platser som finns inom Platåbergens Geopark. Efter att du läst serietidningen kan du be en vuxen ladda ner Platåbergens Geoparks app och sedan kan ni bege er ut tillsammans på upptäcksfärd och besöka de olika platserna. Är du redo att upptäcka platåbergslandskapet?
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- Posch, Josefina
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[Prussian] BLUESHIFT – Space Debris 2551
- 2022
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Ingår i: Stora Alvaret, Öland, Sweden, The Swedish Sculptors´ Association, 2022-06-11.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The sculpture [Prussian] BLUESHIFT - Space Debris 2551 takes its shape from the satellite Cosmos 2551. One of the biggest fragmentation events in space took place in 2009 when the abandoned satellite Cosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 collided, leading to the destruction of both satellites. To this day, over 1000 catalogued space debris objects from the collision circulate around the Earth and one of the orbits passes right over Öland. When an object in space moves towards us, the light from the object is called blueshift, which describes the change in the frequency of a light wave. The color of the sculpture is Prussian blue, which is on the World Health Organisation's list of essential medicines and is used as an antidote to certain heavy metals and radioactivity. The artistic research work questions ownership and responsibility for the pollution caused by colonisation and space tourism. Led by wealthy nations and private companies, this reflects the colonisation of the Earth whose negative impact on the environment and cultures we have yet to come to terms with. The sculpture is mostly created from recycled material from discarded student projects from the HDK-Valand art school and the Gothenburg Opera's metal textiles set design from the climate-smart production of The Ring of the Nibelung.
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- Posch, Josefina
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”Sipping Cosmic Latte in the Milky Way, waiting for The Big Crunch” and ”We are taking great pains to make sure there’s not an orbital debris issue”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Rovaniemi Finland, Arktikum Science Centre and Museum, 2022-12-02.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The two sculptures in the exhibition encompasses, discarded materials from the Arktikum Science Centre, the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design workshops and the Gothenburg Opera. The sculpture ”We are taking great pains to make sure there’s not an orbital debris issue” includes images from her collaborations with the artificial intelligence bot Midjourney, based upon the Elon Musk statement which is also the title of the work [1] regarding the SpaceX expansion. In my artistic research practice I explore questions of ownership and responsibility for the (light) pollution caused by colonization, space tourism and commercial space tech companies. Led by wealthy nations and private companies, this reflects the colonization of the Earth whose negative impact on the environment and cultures we have yet to come to terms with. It is estimated that there is already more than 200 000 kg of artificial material on the Moon, and the number of large pieces of debris in space is about 20 000. The starry sky we look upon nowadays is actually scattered with artificial lights which impossible for the bare eye to tell the difference. The sculpture ”Sipping Cosmic Latte in the Milky Way, waiting for The Big Crunch” is a reference to the color of the Universe as defined by scientists Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry, named Cosmic Latte for its creamy yellowish white hue. The Big Crunch is a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the expansion of the universe eventually reverses and the universe recollapses. [3] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/spacex-satellites-starlink/590269 [2]https://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/~ikb/Cosmic-Spectrum.html [3]https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/big-crunch-theory
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- Granmo, Tobias, 1972, et al.
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Seminarieserien "De fyra elementen-Eld "
- 2023
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Ingår i: Jonsereds Herrgård den 23 november 2023.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- En värld bestämd av ett fåtal urämnen – jord, vatten, eld och luft? Med idén om de fyra elementen förklarade antikens människa ett kosmos styrt av gudarnas nyckfullhet. En kosmologisk väv som senare separerades i sinnligt och andligt, fysiskt och metafysiskt. Hur påverkar eld och människors föreställningar om eld verkligheten idag? Från rening, passion och kärlekens låga till förstörelse, offerriter och transformation. Människors föreställningar om eld är många. I mytologin brinner Fågel Fenix upp och återföds ur egen aska, och Prometheus stjäl gudarnas eld och ger till människorna som i sin tur får kunskap och makt. Människor värmer sig och bränner sig genom historien, från att laga mat över elden till att smälta metaller till vapen, från egna eldstäder till svårsläckta bränder i klimatförändringarnas tid. Följ med på en eldexkursion från idéernas historia till vetenskapens och konstens samtid.Duo Granmo/Berg utforskar begreppet eld utifrån det musikaliska perspektivet samt diskuterar och samtalar med en inbjuden skara specialister från olika områden.
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- Neiß (Neiss), Michael, 1977-, et al.
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New applications of 3D modeling in artefact analysis : three case studies in Viking Age brooches
- 2016
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Ingår i: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. - Springer : Berlin. - 1866-9557 .- 1866-9565. ; 8:4, s. 651-662
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning is a nondestructive and versatile technique that provides archaeologists with 3D models of archaeological and ethnographic objects. We have previously shown that 3D models facilitate shape analysis of archaeological bones and stone tools, due to the high measurement accuracy inherent in the latest generation of 3D laser scanners. Here, we explore the utility of 3D modeling as a tool for analyzing Viking Age metal artefacts with complex morphologies. Four highly ornate Viking Age brooches from Scandinavia and Russia were digitized with a portable laser scanner, and the resulting 3D models were used in three case studies of (a) artefact reconstruction, (b) tool mark analysis, and (c) motif documentation. The results revealed both strengths and limitations of the employed techniques. 3D modeling proved to be very well suited for artefact reconstruction and was helpful also in the stylistic and motif analysis. The tool mark analysis was only partially successful, due to the resolution limits of the laser scanner used. 3D-based motif analysis of a grandiose Scandinavian-style brooch from Yelets, Russia, identified an anthropomorphic figure with a bird-like body that previously has been overlooked. This figure may be a Rurikid coat of arms, possibly linking the object to a princely household and providing further evidence for a connection between Scandinavia and the Rurikids. As 3D technology keeps improving, we expect that additional applications for 3D modeling in archaeology will be developed, likely leading to many new findings when old objects are re-analyzed with modern techniques. However, our results indicate that 3D modeling cannot completely replace traditional artefact analysis—instead, we argue that the two approaches are best used in combination.
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