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A Beginner's Guide to Swedish Academia
- 2022
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- As new to the Swedish research system, one is faced with a series of questions, about what applies to qualifications, what the networks look like, but also practical issues. To make things easier, YAS has developed a guide for international researchers, to help navigate Swedish academia and remove time-consuming obstacles.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Marita, et al.
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Automated recognition of geographical named entities in titles of Ukiyo-e prints
- 2021
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In: Journal of the ACM / Association for Computing Machinery. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 0004-5411. ; , s. 70-77
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the application of Natural Language Processing as a means to study the relationship between topography and its visual renderings in early modern Japanese ukiyo-e landscape prints. We introduce a new dataset with titles of landscape prints that have been annotated by an art historian for any included place-names. The prints are hosted by the digital database of the Art Research Center at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, one of the hubs of Digital Humanities in Japan. By applying, calibrating and assessing a Named Entity Recognition (NER) tool, we argue that ‘distant viewing’ or macroanalysis of visual datasets can be facilitated, which is needed to assist art historical studies of this rich, complex and diverse research material. Experimental results indicated that the performance of NER can be improved by 30% and reach 50% precision, by using part of the introduced dataset.
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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan : A Transdisciplinary Perspective
- 2018
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affected, and were affected by, the production and consumption of art. Special attention is paid to the changes in consumption practices and environmental consciousness among the Japanese public that have occurred since the 1990s and in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011.
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- Ewa, Machotka, 1974-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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In: Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789462980631
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Ewa, Machotka, 1974-
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Introduction to Too Pretty to Throw Away
- 2016
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In: Too Pretty to Throw Away. - Krakow : Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha. - 9788362096565
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Jaramillo, Fernando, et al.
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Priorities and Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Focus on Wetlands
- 2019
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In: Water. - : MDPI. - 2073-4441. ; 11:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country’s natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis was based on the information and perceptions on 45 wetlandscapes worldwide by 49 wetland researchers of the Global Wetland Ecohydrological Network (GWEN). We identified three 2030 Agenda targets of high priority across the wetlandscapes needed to achieve sustainable development: Target 6.3—“Improve water quality”; 2.4—“Sustainable food production”; and 12.2—“Sustainable management of resources”. Moreover, we found specific feedback mechanisms and synergies between SDG targets in the context of wetlands. The most consistent reinforcing interactions were the influence of Target 12.2 on 8.4—“Efficient resource consumption”; and that of Target 6.3 on 12.2. The wetlandscapes could be differentiated in four bundles of distinctive priority SDG-targets: “Basic human needs”, “Sustainable tourism”, “Environmental impact in urban wetlands”, and “Improving and conserving environment”. In general, we find that the SDG groups, targets, and interactions stress that maintaining good water quality and a “wise use” of wetlandscapes are vital to attaining sustainable development within these sensitive ecosystems.
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- Lagkiou, Konstantina, et al.
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Distant Viewing of Ukiyo-e Prints
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. - Marseilles : European Language Resources Association. ; , s. 5879-5888
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper contributes to studying relationships between Japanese topography and places featured in early modern landscape prints, so-called ukiyo-e or ‘pictures of the floating world’. The printed inscriptions on these images feature diverse place-names, both man-made and natural formations. However, due to the corpus’s richness and diversity, the precise nature of artistic mediation of the depicted places remains little understood. In this paper, we explored a new analytical approach based on the macroanalysis of images facilitated by Natural Language Processing technologies. This paper presents a small dataset with inscriptions on prints that have been annotated by an art historian for included place-name entities. Our dataset is released for public use. By fine-tuning and applying a Japanese BERT-based Name Entity Recogniser, we provide a use-case of a macroanalysis of a visual dataset that is hosted by the digital database of the Art Research Center at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Our work studies the relationship between topography and its visual renderings in early modern Japanese ukiyo-e landscape prints, demonstrating how an art historian’s work can be improved with Natural Language Processing toward distant viewing of visual datasets.
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- Machotka, Ewa, 1974-
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Exhibiting the Return to terroir : Art and the Politics of Nature in Post-Bubble Japan
- 2018
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In: Rethinking Nature in Post-Fukushima Japan. - Venezia : Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. - 9788869692895 - 9788869692642 ; , s. 133-153
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In his seminal work on landscape David Cosgrove observed that ‘nature’ as a socio-cultural construct has always functioned as one of the favorite focuses of cultures when humanity is in crisis. Taking this thesis as a theoretical point of departure, this study explores a contemporary art exhibition Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Tarō, Kuribayashi Takashi. Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature, staged in 2010 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The study investi-gates the strategies used in contemporary exhibiting practices to establish alternative sources of collective identification, and the role of the notion of ‘nature’ in these processes. It explores the recent shift from the perception of the world as the globe into the national terroir as discussed by Bruno Latour and exposed in the conceptual design of Sensing Nature, which returns to the nation-specific notion of “the Japanese perception of nature”. This maneuver demonstrates both the role of art in building social and ecological resilience; and the ambivalent potential of culture in the politics of nature.
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- Machotka, Ewa, et al.
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Method in interdisciplinary research: data science for digital art history
- 2019
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In: International Journal for Digital Art History. - 2363-5398 .- 2363-5401. ; :4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper creates a conceptual frame and explanatory point of reference for the collection of papers presented at the exploratory workshop “Data Science for Digital Art History: Tackling Big Data Challenges, Algorithms, and Systems” organized at the KDD 2018 Conference in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery held in London in August 2018. The goal of the workshop was to probe the field and to build a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue between two research areas: Data Science and Art History. The workshop’s chairs and the authors of this paper share the conviction that Data Science can enrich art studies while analysis of visual data can have a positive impact on Data Science. Thus, the research initiative tried to critically reflect on the interdisciplinary collaboration between diverse research communities and its epistemological and ontological effects.
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- Machotka, Ewa, 1974-
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The Geopolitics of Ecological Art : Contemporary Art Projects in Japan and South Korea
- 2018
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In: Mutual images. - : Mutual Images. - 2496-1868. ; 5, s. 105-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The notion of ‘affinity with nature’ functions as a powerful political concept employed in the national identification of different cultural regions of East Asia including Japan and South Korea. Both countries have much in common. They share the myths of a ‘love of nature’ and a comparable history of post-war economic miracles followed by an ecological crisis and the subsequent development of environmentalism. They also host highly recognised contemporary art events guided by an environmentalist agenda: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT), established in the depopulated countryside of Niigata Prefecture in 2000 by the Art Front Gallery, a commercial gallery from Tokyo; and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, initiated by the Korean Nature Art Association (Yatoo), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and first held in 2004 in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province.Guided by ecological thought, both art events aim to induce harmonious interaction between human and non-human realms, while questioning established modes of artistic interaction with ‘nature’ related to modern Western art discourses. Satoyama (lit. village mountain), an agricultural site based on harmonious human-nature interactions, the foundational concept of the ETAT, challenges the notion of gaze that defines the modern Western notion of landscape and its relationships with power. The ‘nature art’ practiced in Gongju, which involves simple interventions in the environment that are spontaneous and impermanent, questions the paradigms of Land Art. While responding to concrete environmental issues pertinent to the operation of social-ecological systems, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale both attempt to create localised alternatives to dominant epistemologies associated with global (Western) art discourses. But the question is if these practices are capable of challenging the established geopolitics of ecological art and conventional hierarchies of power between the local and the global embodied by the institutional framework of the eco-art biennale.
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