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31	The Future of Arabic Music: No sound without silence Khodier, Nesma Magdy, VCUQ 01 January 2016 (has links) For centuries, Arabic music has been intrinsically linked to Arab culture and by extension bonded to the environmental landscape of the region, reflecting their emotions, moods, and behaviors. Numerous technological advancements in the latter half of the twentieth century, have greatly affected the rich legacy of Arabic music, significantly impacting the natural progression of traditional Arabic musical genres, scales, and instrumentation. This thesis serves as an introduction to generative methods of music production, specifically music generated through gestures. Through generative music, and its unique ability to map gestures to different musical parameters, music can be produced using computer algorithms. The outcome of this thesis aims to demystify the intricacies of recent technological advancements to enable the musician and the audience to incorporate responsive technology into their ensembles. This approach aims to further evolve Arabic music, using the concepts of Arabic music creativity while addressing international accessibility through integration. The intention of this thesis is to bridge between the contemporary and the traditional Arabic audiences and provides insight into a possible future of Arabic music based on its own fundamental principles. Oud/Kanun Design Arabic Music Future Responsive Technology Instrument Archaeological Anthropology Art and Materials Conservation Audio Arts and Acoustics Communication Technology and New Media Critical and Cultural Studies Ethnomusicology Folklore Industrial and Product Design Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Leisure Studies Musicology Music Practice Music Theory Near and Middle Eastern Studies Regional Sociology Science and Technology Studies Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Media Social Work Sociology of Culture
32	Assessing the state of implementation of the National Archives and Records Management act at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique Pereira, Renato Augusto 09 1900 (has links) Archival legislation is a crucial tool for the public sector to ensure the management, preservation and access of a country’s national documentary heritage. In Mozambique, archival legislation has been enacted which sets the scene for records appraisal and disposition, as well as classification schemes and retention schedules for administrative records of governmental bodies falling under the auspices of the Act. As a result, public agencies in Mozambique are required by the archival legislation to adopt a systematic and organized approach to the management of their records from creation to disposal. Despite this, the records management processes of many public entities in Mozambique have remained ineffective and inefficient. This study utilized the record life cycle concept as a framework to assess the state of implementation of the National Archives and Records Management Act at Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Mozambique. The study applied a quantitative research approach with triangulation of data collection tools, namely, questionnaire and document analysis. The study revealed that EMU has only established one central records appraisal and disposal committee for its directorate units, which has not coped with the records management demands from other academic units such as faculties, schools and research centers. In most of the academic units the records management staff were not involved in the training, records appraisal and disposal processes, as well as in the destruction and/or transfer of records to the Mozambique Historical Archives (MHA), as required by legislation. The study concludes that most EMU units do not comply with archival legislation resulting in few provisions of the Act being implemented. The study therefore recommends that the records management function at EMU should put in place the basic procedures of control for records management systems with the leadership taking a proative role in the strategic planning, budgeting and monitoring. A further empirical study on the assessment of the state of implementation of the National Archives and Records Management Act throughout the entire public sector in Mozambique is recommended. / Information Science / M. Inf. (Archival Science) Archives Archives management Archives legislation Eduardo Mondlane University Mozambique Public sector Records management Records Management Act 025.8096790723
33	A Spectacle and Nothing Strange King, Taylor Z 01 January 2019 (has links) Working through methods of abstraction and comedic mimicry I choreograph awkwardly balanced sculpture with objects of adornment as a means to defuse personal sensitivities surrounding my experiences of gender, desire, and home. The research that follows is concerned with the adjacent, the in between, above and underneath, because I feel that this kind of looking means that you are, to some degree, aware of what lies at the edges. Maybe this is what Gertrude Stein means to act as though there is no use in a center—because this concerns a way of relating, though there are many things in the room. ‘A spectacle and nothing strange’ is an arrangement of gestures, of made difference, of kinships, of orientations and possible futures, sustained tension, coded adornment, big dyke energy, shifts in hardness, leaning softness, much more than flowers, ...and in any case there is sweetness and some of that. lesbian queer orientation adornment sculpture art Art and Materials Conservation Art Practice Ceramic Arts Esthetics Feminist Philosophy Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Fine Arts Furniture Design History of Gender Interior Design Metal and Jewelry Arts Painting Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind Poetry Printmaking Sculpture
34	An archival collecting framework for the records generated by South Africa's Portuguese community-based organisations in Gauteng Da Silva Rodrigues, Antonio 11 1900 (has links) South African institutions of preservation, such as archives, have often focused their collecting efforts on records of national significance and documenting the perspectives of the more dominant communities that represent power and government. This has resulted in the underrepresentation of certain communities in the archival heritage of the nation, such as the South African Portuguese community, whose contemporary history and experiences have not been adequately reflected in the country’s archival collections, including in those of government and other mainstream archival institutions and non-public institutions. Since South Africa has a number of Portuguese community-based organisations - and because the records they have created may be a potential resource for safeguarding the social history of this under-documented group - this study aimed to investigate the management of these records with a view of proposing a best practice model that would assist in their future management and guide their inclusion in any intended archival collection initiatives. Utilising a generic interpretive qualitative research design, the study revealed that the selected study population, namely the Portuguese community-based organisations in Gauteng, create and hold diverse types of records that may show important aspects of the community’s history that are worthy of systematic management and preservation. However, it became evident from the empirical findings that the recordkeeping practices of these organisations were performed inadequately, with records often being misplaced or discarded after their administrative use had expired. The findings also showed that, although these organisations had never thought of establishing an archival programme for themselves or depositing their records in any mainstream archives, they were willing to contribute their records to a planned archival collecting initiative of the community. Based on these findings, recommendations were made with regard to these organisational records in order to improve their management and to facilitate their potential inclusion in an archival collecting plan. The study also suggested an archival collecting framework and a model for these records. The proposed model followed an integrated approach, taking into account the community’s divergent collecting and custody preferences, such as the mainstream institutional acquisition of these records or these being preserved within community structures. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information Science) Under-documented communities Community Archiving Immigrant Archives Ethnic Archives Archives Management Records Management South African-Portuguese community Cmmunity-based organisations Multiculturalism 025.84096822 Portuguese -- South Africa Ethnology -- Portuguese Archives -- Administration Archives -- Management Archives -- Processing
35	The Passing Show Fanelli, Kathryn 01 February 2021 (has links) The Passing Show, examines the interface between contemplative practices and the destabilizing effect of the carnivalesque. A repurposed early 20th century merry-go- round is reconfigured as a conceptual vehicle for renewing our attention to removing hindrances. The site-specific installation, titled Vimoksha, is viewed through the lens of the radical imaginary, investigating notions of karmic inheritance through a heuristic approach to material processes, personal history, kinetics and sound. Contemplative Art Carnivalesque Destabilize Liberation Reimagine Meditation Art and Design Art and Materials Conservation Art Education Art Practice Arts and Humanities Buddhist Studies Contemporary Art Fine Arts Industrial and Product Design Interactive Arts Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Metal and Jewelry Arts Modern Art and Architecture Painting Philosophy Sculpture Theory and Criticism
36	Cumulative Grief Pham, Xuan 18 December 2020 (has links) (PDF) A written thesis to accompany the M.F.A. Exhibition Cumulative Grief, in which the artist's personal and familial narrative explores the complexity and nuances of racial grief. Racial Melancholia Psychoanalysis Grief Immigration Plants Hy-Bi Art and Design Art and Materials Conservation Arts and Humanities Asian American Studies Asian History Ceramic Arts Environmental Studies Fine Arts History Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Migration Studies Multicultural Psychology Psychology Race and Ethnicity Sculpture Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Theory and Philosophy
37	SPEED AND RESOLUTION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY TAYLOR, SHAWN 01 January 2015 (has links) The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, a YouTube clip from Jurassic park, and the super bowl halftime show. A search engines assistance with biographic memory helps our bodies survive new atmospheres and weigh the gravities that exist around the versions of an objects materiality. Communication has moved from our vocal chords, to swipes and taps of our thumbs on a screen that predicts the weather, accesses the hidden, invisible, and withdrawn information from the objects around us, and still ducks up what we are trying to say. This txt was written on a tablet returned to stock settings and embedded with content to mine the experience in which mediated technology creates, communicates and obscures new forms of language. Life in a new event horizon — a dimensional dualism that finds us competing for genetic and mimetic survival — we are now functioning as different types of humans. SCULPTURE FINE ARTS GRAND CANYON DIGITAL OBJECTS SEMIOTIC American Art and Architecture American Literature American Material Culture American Popular Culture Architectural Technology Art and Materials Conservation Art Practice Atmospheric Sciences Audio Arts and Acoustics Biotechnology Construction Engineering Contemporary Art Continental Philosophy Desert Ecology Entomology Environmental Design Environmental Monitoring Esthetics Evolution Fiction Fine Arts Graphic Design Historic Preservation and Conservation Integrative Biology Interactive Arts Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Landscape Architecture Modern Languages Modern Literature Natural Resources and Conservation Nonfiction Other Architecture Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Other English Language and Literature Other Environmental Sciences Reading and Language Theory and Criticism

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