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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Half-Naked yet Empowered? : Spartacus (2010-) (Ancient) Gender Equality in Contemporary Television
- 2013
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Ingår i: 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. - Honolulu Hawaii.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spartacus is attested in several ancient sources (Plutarch, Appian, and Florus) as the leader of a rebellion against the Roman Republic (73 to 71 BC). Despite that none of Spartacus' historical representations overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming Roman society by abolishing slavery and promoting equality, he has inspired a number of intellectuals across times and cultures as a egalitarian leader. Marx, in the Manchester letter to Engels (1861), considered him a real representative of the ancient 'proletariat’ and members of the German Spartacus League, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. In contemporary popular culture, the most recent reception of the tale of Spartacus is the US Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premiered on Starz in: 2010- followed by a late prequel and a sequel), where he is also portrayed as a just and egalitarian leader.In this paper, I will discuss how Spartacus (2010-) promotes social and gender equality as an ancient virtue within a contemporary context. Unlike Spartacus’ historical and other cinematic representations, women play a major role in the 2010- TV series either as slaves that join the rebellion, inspired by the egalitarian Thracian slave-leader, or wealthy Romans who oppose him. Despite incidental nudity, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, a TV MA rating for graphic violence, and strong sexual content in overexposed video stylization, I will show that female characters evolve from the older sexualized and objectified females of gladiatorial Sword and Sandals (e.g. Warrior and the Slave Girl: 1958) to strong and brave action heroines. Finally, I will discuss how the 2010- TV series reflects upon the impact of equality and feminism in the portrayal of the ancient world in our contemporary popular culture.
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- Holmberg, Ingrid Martins, 1964, et al.
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Offentlig kulturarvssektors kännedom om romers och resandes historiska platser
- 2014
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Ingår i: Vägskälens kulturarv – kulturarv vid vägskäl. Om att skapa plats förromer och resande i kulturarvet. En rapport från forskningsprojektet Rörligare kulturarv. - Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170611650 ; , s. 127-181
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980
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Towards a vocabulary of limitations: the translation of a painted goddess into a symbol of classical education
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 18:1, s. 18-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how ties with society are accumulated and interpreted as the ‘culture’ of an artefact. Following the reinterpretation of a painted statue into a white museum artefact, I argue that the rules we have to follow in approaching an artefact create a series of unrelated socio-cultural connotations which shape our perception of the object. The culture of the artefact is therefore largely the culture of the context through which it is presented. Hence, by distancing an artefact from an established context you also distance it from the networks that make up a large part of its cultural value. To discuss this process I draw on the works of Michael Callon and Bruno Latour, describing the presentation as a ‘translation’ – a process where the artefact is reinterpreted from one state into another. As a method to describe values sprung from the presentation of the artefact, I propose, and exemplify, a vocabulary of limitations for mapping the ties between society and artefact in different contexts. This vocabulary – developed for this article – helps us identify deeper connections between artefact, context and society by focusing on how interaction has been shaped around the artefact.
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- Andersson, Anders-Petter, 1969-, et al.
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Musical interaction for health improvement
- 2014
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Ingår i: Oxford handbook of interactive audio. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199797226 ; , s. 247-262
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the past decade, tangible sensor technologies have matured and become less expensive and easier to use, leading to an explosion of innovative musical designs within video games, smartphone applications, and interactive art installations. Interactive audio has become an important design quality in commercially successful games like Guitar Hero , and a range of mobile phone applications motivating people to interact, play, dance, and collaborate with music. Parallel to the game, phone, and art scenes, an area of music and health research has grown, showing the positive results of using music to promote health and wellbeing in everyday situations and for a broad range of people, from children and elderly to people with psychological and physiological disabilities. Both quantitative medical and ecological humanistic research show that interaction with music can improve health, through music’s ability to evoke feelings, motivate people to interact, master, and cope with difficult situations, create social relations and experience shared meaning. Only recently, however, the music and health field has started to take interest in interactive audio, based on computer-mediated technologies’ potential for health improvement. Here, we show the potential of using interactive audio in what we call interactive musicking in the computer-based interactive environment Wave. Interactive musicking is based on musicologist Christopher Small’s concept “musicking”, meaning any form of relation-building that occurs between people, and people and things, related to activities that include music. For instance, musicking includes dancing, listening, and playing with music (in professional contexts and in amateur, everyday contexts). We have adapted the concept of "musicking" on the design of computer-based musical devices. The context for this chapter is the research project RHYME. RHYME is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Centre for Music and Health at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), and Informatics at the University of Oslo. Our target group is families with children with severe disabilities. Our goal is to improve health and wellbeing in the families through everyday musicking activities in interactive environments. Our research approach is to use knowledge from music and health research, musical composition and improvisation, musical action research, musicology, music sociology, and soundscape studies, when designing the tangible interactive environments. Our focus here is interaction design and composition strategies, following research-by-design methodology, creating interactive musicking environments. We describe the research and design of the interactive musicking environment Wave, based on video documentation, during a sequence of actions. Our findings suggest some interactive audio design strategies to improve health. We base the design strategies on musical actions performed while playing an instrument, such as impulsive or iterative hitting, or sustainable stroking of an instrument. Musical actions like these can also be used for musicking in everyday contexts, creating direct sound responses to evoke feelings that create expectations and confirm interactions. In opposition to a more control-oriented, instrument and interface perspective, we argue that musical variation and narrative models can be used to design interactive audio, where the audio is seen as an actor taking many different roles, as instrument, co-musician, toy, etc. In this way, the audio and the interactive musicking environments will change over time, answering with direct response, as well as nose-thumbing and changing response, motivating creation, play, and social interaction. Musical variation can also be used to design musical backgrounds and soundscapes that can be used for creating layers of ambience. These models create a safe environment and contribute to shared meaning.
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- Camnitzer, Gabo
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Open Lecture by Gabo Camnitzer
- 2014
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Ingår i: Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, 3/3/14.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lecture by artist Gabo Camnitzer.
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- Cappelen, Birgitta, 1962-, et al.
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Co-created staging : situating installations
- 2011
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Ingår i: Interactive Media Arts Conference, IMAC2011, Re-new digital arts festival. - Copenhagen.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Staging is the creative act of showing something to an audience.When staging, the artist choose and create the context, situationand structure of the presented object, play or installation. The chosen context and situation provide background for the audience interpretations. Meaning is co-created between the artist and audience, based on the cultural and individual understanding of the context and situation. The term installation is open, ambiguous and undefined. One does not completely know what to expect and where to find an installation. It is open towards many interpretations. In this paper we present how we worked with staging of two interactive installations in different exhibition situations, to provoke and motivate different interpretations, expectations and interactions. We argue for staging as a communicative strategy to attract and motivate diverse audiences and user groups to collaborate and co-create through interpretation and interaction. Further we argue that installations have to be open to many possible structures, interpretations, interaction forms and roles the user can take, and shift betweendynamically. When the user dynamically restructure, shift rolesand thereby re-situate the installation, the user is a co-creator in the staging act. We call this dynamic staging.
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- Ciszuk, Martin
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Silk Weaving in Sweden During the 19th Century : Textiles and texts - An evaluation of the source material
- 2012
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Silk-weaving in Sweden during the 19th century. Textiles and texts - An evaluation of the source material. With the rich material available, 19th century silk-weaving invites to studies on industrialisation processes. The purpose of this licentiate thesis is to present and discuss an empirical material regarding silk production in Sweden in the 19th century, to examine the possibilities and problems of different kinds of materials when used as source materials, and to describe how this material can be systematized and analysed in relation to the perspective of a textile scientific interpretation. The introductory sections of the thesis provide a background to textile research and the subject of textile science. This is followed by an overview of previous research on silk-weaving in Sweden and a historical overview of silk-weaving in Sweden, the Jacquard machine, and the K.A. Almgren Sidenväveri, where large parts of the source material have been preserved. After these overviews, the research material is described and systematized: first the main materials, textiles, machines and other objects, and then the various written sources. By way of conclusion, the empirical material is summarized in a critical discussion where the various groups of materials are evaluated in comparison to one another. A discussion on theory and methodology regarding objects as sources and the use of experience-based knowledge in academic research is developed in connection to the critical discussion. Finally, the potential of the material is demonstrated through a textile example. The presentation is an introduction to the cultural-historical analysis that will follow in the PhD thesis. Here, the empirical material will be analysed through the use of knowledge in handicrafts, which may create new dimensions of silk production in Sweden and the complexity of the industrialisation process.
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- Cool, Alison, et al.
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Swedish consensus politics: between technocracy and public participation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Design and displacement: social studies of science and technology, p. 124. Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. Copenhagen, Denmark October 17-20..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden, with its long history of consensus politics, offers an intriguing context for re-examining science-based controversies. While Danish models of “consensusing” valorize the lay person as the epitome of unbiased knowledge, Swedish styles of deliberation--and their emphasis on expert knowledge--raise different questions about the boundaries of legitimate participation in science-related issues. Swedish democratic forms are often described as open, deliberative, and inclusive of multiple forums for public participation, yet at the same time characterized by a highly rationalistic approach to social policy. We explore the implications of this tension between inclusion and expertise/rationalism for public participation in two sciencerelated controversies that played out in Swedish popular media. In the debate over the Metropolitan study (Metropolit) in the late 1980s and early 90s, and the so-called Gillberg affair over the DAMP diagnosis in the late 1990s and early 2000s, traditional expertise and its boundaries were challenged. Formal decisionmaking procedures were side-stepped, as stakeholders found other public platforms to raise questions about the appropriate boundaries of democratic participation in science-related matters. We argue that alternative and informal public forums have opened a space for interested actors to “re-politicize” scientific matters as social concerns, even as the strong legacy of Swedish social engineering continues to inform attempts to frame ideological problems in technical terms, thus making them amenable to scientific solutions. As a result, forms of political and scientific expertise are often indistinguishable in practice, as science and politics converge into a single articulation of institutionalized elite rationalism.
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