Making it New: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain
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Title: Rethinking the Dissension between Software and Generative ArtAuthors: De Souza, PaulineAbstract: Definitions of software art and generative art have changed in the last ten years. This is...
View Article“Mama Africa”: HIV/AIDS and national identity in South African choreography
Title: “Mama Africa”: HIV/AIDS and national identity in South African choreography Authors: Castelyn, SarahleighAbstract: Choreography articulates the body’s somatic and cultural identity, and a...
View ArticleVirginia Woolf and Visual Culture
Title: Virginia Woolf and Visual CultureAuthors: Humm, MaggieAbstract: Virginia Woolf’s work is shaped by her knowledge of, and fascination with, visual cultures. Orlando, Flush, and Three Guineas all...
View ArticleMy Own Ghost Met Me: Woolf’s 1930s Photographs, Death and Freud’s Acropolis
Title: My Own Ghost Met Me: Woolf’s 1930s Photographs, Death and Freud’s Acropolis Authors: Humm, MaggieAbstract: In this book chapter, originally presented as a plenary paper at the 14th Annual...
View ArticleCorporeality and the Metropolis: Dissolving the Body in Paul Auster’s The New...
Title: Corporeality and the Metropolis: Dissolving the Body in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy Authors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: This article deals with the theme of the shattering of the body in...
View Article‘Novel’: Between photographing and writing the city
Title: ‘Novel’: Between photographing and writing the city Authors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: This paper looks at the history of a half-photography, half-fiction, project, whilst it contemplates the...
View Article‘An Avenue that Looks Like Me’: Re-presenting the Modern Cityscape
Title: ‘An Avenue that Looks Like Me’: Re-presenting the Modern Cityscape Authors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: This article looks at the representation of an Athenian avenue as it appears in a...
View ArticleArchitecture as image-space-text
Title: Architecture as image-space-textAuthors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: A poem by Sylvia Plath provides a basis for contemplation on the inetrtwining relations between ‘space’, ‘image’ and ‘text’ and...
View ArticleParticipation Cartography: The Presentation of Self in Spatio-Temporal Terms
Title: Participation Cartography: The Presentation of Self in Spatio-Temporal TermsAuthors: Sotelo-Castro, Luis CarlosAbstract: In this paper, I focus on disclosures by one participant as enabled by a...
View Article'Wort oder Ton'? Reading the Libretto in Contemporary Opera
Title: 'Wort oder Ton'? Reading the Libretto in Contemporary OperaAuthors: Blake, AndrewAbstract: This article considers adaptations of existing works in contemporary opera. The author considers the...
View ArticleWithout You
Title: Without YouAuthors: Leonardi, PaolaAbstract: The series "without you" by Paola Leonardi acts as both a document of, and an emotional farewell to a dying grandmother. Through images of her room...
View ArticleUndrawn Hours
Title: Undrawn HoursAuthors: Leonardi, PaolaAbstract: Paola Leonardi’s series “Undrawn Hours” was created at NES Artist Residency in Skagastrond, northen Iceland, during February-March 2010; this work...
View ArticleGlass Cities
Title: Glass CitiesAuthors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: Short film inspired by the literary work 'Cities of Glass' by Paul Auster designed as an installation.Description: ‘Glass Cities’ (mini DV, digital...
View ArticleHouse Diaries
Title: House DiariesAuthors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: Short film/video art (mini DV 2’.10’’) featuring urban landscapes and domestic housing previously displayed as part of the 2nd Athens Video Art...
View ArticleOne Way Street
Title: One Way StreetAuthors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: Film stills from the short film 'One Way Street' shown as an installation at the 2005 ‘Take 291’ exhibition in the 291 Gallery, London and at the...
View ArticleThe Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of “The War on Terror”: Steven Spielberg’s...
Title: The Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of “The War on Terror”: Steven Spielberg’s Munich Authors: Loshitzky, YosefaAbstract: As a film about “terror” spilling over from its local context (the...
View ArticleThe street is a state of mind: urban politics, literature and subjectivity
Title: The street is a state of mind: urban politics, literature and subjectivityAuthors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: Starting with a play on R. E. Park’s claim “The city is a state of mind”i, this paper...
View ArticleFilm as Architectural Critique: the ‘city-in-pieces’ by three British...
Title: Film as Architectural Critique: the ‘city-in-pieces’ by three British avant-garde filmmakers Authors: Nigianni, BettyAbstract: This paper argues that film practice can operate as architectural...
View ArticleAnticapitalism and culture: radical theory and popular politics
Title: Anticapitalism and culture: radical theory and popular politicsAuthors: Gilbert, JeremyAbstract: Anticapitalism and Culture argues that there is a strong relationship between the radical...
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