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Decolonizing Picture Recitation
Authors: Jain Priyanka
Published: January 2022

Picture recitation is the art of storytelling in verse accompanied with a visual prop like a scroll painting or a tapestry. Numerous picture recitation practices were active in India but suffered during colonization by the British in many ways. The subtle Victorian censorship of the theme of erotic expressed in the religious narratives (which formed the bulk of the picture recitation genre), the erasure of orature as primitive, the relegation of picture recitation practices as folk art and the split between picture (object and props that can be displayed in museums) and recitation (performative aspects that could not be easily museumized) while stuffing European museums with colonial artifacts, have inflicted huge damage to the living traditions of picture recitation in India. My practice-led research seeks to decolonize picture recitation to undo these damages. Following Walter Mignolo’s call to delink oneself from western hegemony, I seek to highlight (instead of European notions of beauty and aesthetics) classical Indian theories of affect (from circa 300 CE) that can produce aesthetic pleasure in the viewer. Thus using classical Indian Rasa theory as well as subversion, I create contemporary narratives for picture recitation using empirical facts from scientific research (Neuroscience, Microbiology, Phytochemistry and Meteorology) which are aided with visual props made by amalgamating aesthetics of medieval Indian miniature painting as well as contemporary medical Illustration. A practice-led research is the only method to redeem the practice of picture recitation, just as the contemporary practice of neo-miniatures has rescued the genre of miniature paintings from the classification of oriental kitsch. By investing in erotic subject matter and orature as well as by reuniting picture and recitation, I hope to remove the adverse effects of colonization from some genres of Indian arts. Concretely my practice looks at contemporizing classical erotic Sanskrit poetry which has existed since 1000 BC by composing erotic poetry incorporating scientific research and creating compositions of image and text as was once found in medieval Indian miniatures. The second approach looks at reviving picture recitation using a classical Indian archetype of a female heroine who goes out to meet her lover braving grave dangers and contemporizing it with reading through neuroscientific lenses. Via the practice of picture recitation, I discover my bodily memories surfacing during the performance, the role of breath in voice, how image, text, voice and performance influence each other iteratively and how affect is transfered via the performance to the viewer. Through practice, I establish a wider field for newcomers with greater vigour and validity than simply echoing a theoretical call for decolonization.
Becoming Enviroment_becoming post animist: Life is an Utopia
Authors: Tsuda Carlos Eduardo
Published: January 2022

In this article, I present case studies of the urban interventions, installations and performances for public space of my art series entitled ‘Life is an Utopia’, through the practice of the concept becoming environment and its variation, becoming post animism. ‘Life is an Utopia’ is an artistic research and a series of artworks in which I aim to discuss social-political-environmental-cultural contemporary issues through an aesthetic perspective and poetic practices. I propose a critical exercise in the cross boundaries of sound art, audiovisual performance, performance, installation and urban intervention, that questions the growing devaluation of life in face of the financial market, manifested in the recent environmental catastrophes and the systematic dismantling of social and human rights in Brazil. Based on propositions of counter position between the blunting and the contemplative, in the series I explore the Japanese cultural term ‘Ma’ as an opening to the environment, to everything that surrounds us and we do not control, proposing a critical view of the system through a resilient perspective. For this occasion, I will present the performance for public space entitled ‘ISLAND :: Life is an Utopia’, whose artistic research discusses our relation with nature through a reflection about the importance of water in our lives. In that sense, based in the concept of post-animism or post-modern animism of the Japanese sociologist Shoko Yoneyama, and the cosmological and animist perspectives of the Brazilian indigenous intellectuals Ailton Krenak and Davi Kopenawa, I practice the concepts of becoming environment and becoming post animist as forms of poetic and aesthetic assemblages of public life and its countless socio-political-environmental implications in the relationship between human kind and nature, society and spirituality, body and soul, and community, spirituality and nature. I aim to problematize the discussion about spirituality, coloniality, post animism, Amerindian animism and socio-political-environmental responsibility for the disasters, in order to deepen the understanding concerning the creative process and artistic research of the art series and the artwork ISLAND. In this context, I will draw a line of flight between socio-political-environmental aspects around the Fukushima Nuclear accident and the recent environmental disasters in Brazil, especially the oil stains that hit the northeastern coast and the ruptures of the Mariana and Brumadinho dams, starting from the perspective of silence and Ma as a form of political resistance and resilience
Artificial Chemistry Model as a Language for Artistic Creation
Authors: Jendreiko Christian , Veloz Tomas
Published: January 2022

Artificial Chemistries (AC) represent systems consisting of "species" representing atoms or molecules, that interact according to transformative rules resembling chemical reactions. AC's main field of application is biochemical systems, where it has been extensively applied in relation to the representation of autopoietic systems and the emergence of life. Due to their generative power, AC's have been applied in other areas such as cognitive and social science as well as for artistic creation. Following this idea, we developed a practice-oriented research group over 6 months with students from the Technical University in Dusseldorf, under the direction of the first author and supported by the second author’s research group, whose aim is exploring the bi-directional relationship between the theory of AC and the creation of generative systems in the fields of art and design. Our research project follows the notion of Abraham A. Moles, that every analytical tool can be used as a tool for creation and vice versa. Our current research program is divided into three sub-areas that are interconnected: 1) Investigating the potential of artistic methods to help to deepen the understanding and the intuitive grasp of the structure and the properties of ACs. The central method we are exploring is the method of sonification. 2) Exploring the potential of the concepts of AC as tools to create generative systems in the fields of art and design. Of special interest is the application of concepts in AC to create generative sound systems that are based on man-machine-interactions. 3) Exploring the potential of the concepts in AC as analytic tools to analyze basic structures of the creative design process. We propose that by translating our observations of a creative process into the language of AC both at conceptual and operational levels, we might be able to develop a process of effective formalization towards an artificial intuition.
The moon turns and we must turn with it: Te Maramataka as interactive art installation
Authors: Citizen Joe
Published: January 2022

[Intercultural collaborations between Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā are notoriously difficult for all concerned. What knowledge is and is not, who or what has agency in the world, how and when things happen, and the nature of relationships themselves, are situated within different culturally informed worldviews. Attempting to make a repository of knowledge about Te Maramataka (lunar calendar) through an immersive interactive artwork, means engaging with two distinctively different, but equally valid, knowledge frameworks and their attendant foundational metaphysics. Navigating between and through these knowledge frameworks is to participate in speculative and practice-led approaches that foster relationally emergent phenomena. It is through collaboration at the intercultural hyphen that we deliberately walk into the innovation space, whilst also attempting to be mindful of upholding the mana of existing experts. At present, we represent a partnership between Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa and Wintec rangahau and creative arts research practitioners, each with our own institutionally informed accountabilities. By acknowledging ourselves as a collective rōpū (group) embarking on a shared endeavour, we can place emphasis in the process of learning about our shared whanaungatanga (interconnected relationships) in order to seek mutually acceptable agreements grounded in the useful. This emphasis on process is critical and must take its own time, particularly when Te Maramataka emphasises the influences of the turning moon phases on our own selves, as well as on everything else that is also already going on. In practice, agreeing that that the knowledge of Maramataka experts is situated, embodied and relational within the life context is easy to say, but should the modes of the finished work and the approach itself be representational and/or epistemological? Or if we acknowledge the relationality between things, then we must also acknowledge that knowledge itself is experiential, embodied, and performative – in other words, how we ‘get there’ is part of the destination ‘there’ itself. In the context of deciding which digital technologies to employ in the making of an interactive art installation, contemporary understandings of what art is, how meaning is made and understood, and who or what has agency within the surrounding field of relations, are destabilised. In our practice-led undertaking, turning with the moon means acknowledging the dynamic tensions that exist between tradition with innovation, representation with experiential learning, and the knowable with the hidden, mysterious, and ultimately unknowable. Whether we are talking about rules-based claims of indexicality vis-à-vis digital twins informed by cognitivist frameworks of operational logics, or stateless open-ended AI/pattern recognition paradigms, these must be balanced against the existing knowledge of Maramataka Māori experts and their live, embodied knowledge.]
Atypical Reality: Exploring the narrative potentials of an immersive environment
Authors: Panaita Elena
Published: January 2022

This research considers how a storyteller might employ virtual reality (VR) in the creation of an immersive narrative that communicates an experience of both conscious and atypical consciousness (near-death experience). The study emanates from a post-positivist paradigm and the research design employs autoethnography supported by heuristic inquiry. It explores personal experiences in connection with other people, using self-reflection as a means of understanding a wider range of social, historical, cultural, and political conditions. A near-death experience (NDE) is defined as a profound subjective experience that may occurs after severe health threat and can be described as an atypical state of consciousness in conditions that are usually defined as unconsciousness. People who report NDE may experience a bright light that permeates space; feeling happiness, peace, joy, and a sense of unconditional love; hearing unusual sound; being in a tunnel; seeing deceased relatives or friends; experiencing a life review; seeing their own body from above; and encountering a conscious return back into the body. NDEs are linked to profound and long-lasting changes that can dramatically alter a person’s attitude to life, their beliefs, and values. Not only people who have experienced NDE are affected by it, but also people who hear or read about it may experience similar, positive effects. Initially this project started as a traditional graphic novel and only later moved into VR. This happened as a response to my search for a better way to describe what it might feel like to have a near-death experience. This project uses VR’s inherent disadvantage as an advantage, allowing the viewer to be present in a scene and at the same time not have a physical body. In addition VR is currently changing the way we tell and ‘read’ stories, offering an opportunity for creating more impactful storytelling. In this realm, a viewer can become a witness inside a story, and gain a subjective first-hand perspective, rather than a third-person view. It might be more challenging for creators to direct a viewer’s attention, however this also allows for more authentic interaction with a story as the viewer has a choice of what to focus on, noticing or ignoring certain details of the story, thus creating their own version of it. By using Oculus Quill to produce the visuals I have been able to illustrate and animate material inside virtual space. This approach differs from conventional 3D experiences because work is completely rendered inside VR. The Quill application allows for an organic, hand drawn feel, which was very important for me as stylistically it is closer to the traditional graphic novel medium. The Quill application felt the best choice for me, however with the rapid software development it is possible that a different platform will create even more advanced tools.
Analysis of the production of transmedia content in the 'Sintonia' series
Authors: Belarmino Guilherme , Massarolo Joao
Published: January 2022

The project analyzes how funk, an Afro-Brazilian music style, has been portrayed by the Brazilian audiovisual. It makes a case study of Sintonia (2019), a Netflix/Kondzilla coproduction, focusing on two fundamental aspects: (1) the narrative construction of the series and its characters, an analysis of the plot using Robert Mckee (1997) and Christopher Vogler (1992) as guidelines and (2) the transmedia strategy, based on the concepts of participatory culture, media convergence and collective intelligence by Henry Jenkins (2009). The study uses Jenkins' definition of transmedia storytelling as a process in which the elements of fiction are systematically dispersed across multiple content platforms for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience, in which each medium contributes in a unique way. The analysis also maps the distribution channels used by Sintonia and their contribution to the development of the narrative, of its characters and the fictional universe. The analysis lists strategic transmedia decisions by the producers based on the seven transmedia principles in Jenkins' work: Propagability vs. Depth; Continuity vs. Multiplicity; Immersion vs. Extraction Capacity; Construction of the Fictional Universe; Seriality; Subjectivity and Performance. The hypothesis is that, in narrative terms, Sintonia enshrines the Jornada do Funkeiro in streaming platform. Jornada do Funkeiro or Funker’s Journey is an original term that defines a modern and contemporary story, told thousands of times and in different formats, ubiquitous in the work of Kondzilla, with mythical status in the Brazilian poor neighbourhood. The story is the saga of a poor young man who struggles against financial difficulties, prejudice, lack of support and other adversities to fulfil his dream of becoming a successful MC. Through his path, he earns fame and money and changes his life for the better, obeying a non-negotiable condition: never forget his social roots. The loyalty to this narrative guides the series' transmedia strategy and serves as a code of coherence to the producers while interacting with the public. Sintonia portrays the life and conflicts of three youngsters covering universal themes such as fame, crime, prejudice, inequality, work, family conflicts and faith. The protagonist of the story is MC Doni, a young man from a poor neighbourhood in the city of São Paulo, the largest in Brazil. MC Doni is an active protagonist, he conflicts the world and the people around him to achieve his goal of becoming a successful MC. His internal conflicts include low self-esteem, shyness, the stigma of being a slum dweller, the fear of disappointing his family and, above all, the fear of failing.
Going to the Clay: Exploring Conflicts and Values of the Soil in Valparaiso
Authors: Salgado Cofré Daniela , Mercado Jara Álvaro
Published: January 2022

This proposition presents a design and artistic research focused on the soil that aims to generate active and poetic forms of reflection around the fragile interdependence of human and non-human lives in an increasingly precarious urban environment, emphasised by the current ecological crisis. In order to engage in such reflections, this practice-oriented research —led by designers, architects, artists and educators— collects relational modes of material interdependence in the region of Valparaíso, Chile, by exploring veins and clay pits for pottery making that are relevant and known by artisans and artists of this area. These spaces are threatened by the increasingly precarious environmental conditions that are exacerbated by the monoculture of the land, the reconstitution of the soil by massive urbanisation projects, and the inaccessibility to clay pits due to the replacement of the commons by the privatisation and exploitation of the land. These urban conflicts generate deterritorialisation that contrasts with the significant relevance and values that these spaces hold for artists, artisans, and other groups, that promote their protection and the respectful interaction with the soil. Against this background, this practice-oriented research explores and expects to make visible the transformation of these lands by following the uses of the soil, identifying conflicts and values that emerge around these extraction sites through immersive sensitive experiences. These immersions into different clay pits consist of walking around, observing the ground, sensing the space, collecting clay from the soil together, sensing and manipulating the material to explore its properties. Thus, by examining the materials, voices and artistic expressions —in the form of poems, sound compositions, images, drawings, photos, cartographies and clay objects— co-produced during four immersions into diverse veins of the Valparaíso Region, we expect to bring back to the fore alternative modes of reflexivity around these sites. This sum of collective experiences for exploration and creation in the veins and clay pits of Valparaíso serves to trace other relational ways of inhabiting, valuing and working with the soil. Therefore, we envisage this practice-oriented research project as a poetic alternative to critically question the modern technocratic logics of urbanisation that operate in the region through the commodification and overexploitation of the land.
A design look at heritage silverware. Case study.
Authors: Guerrero Lorena
Published: January 2022

This participation presents the study of a pair of silverware lecterns from Nueva Granada, whose elaboration dates from the second half of the seventeenth century. Throughout the investigation, we made reflections about how the analysis of these artifacts, from the point of view of industrial design, allows us to see aspects that other disciplines study superficially, such as the close relationship between form, function and the production of an object. The objective of the research has been to understand the historical context of a society through the use of its objects, its symbolism and the dynamics of its manufacture. This research was developed in alliance with the Museo Colonial of Bogotá, which allowed direct access to the lecterns, a moment that constitutes a point of exploration; Unlike what can be the investigation of material culture from history or the history of art in its most traditional practices, the starting point is the artifact itself, which provides first-hand information both for its iconography and for its technical traces. Thanks to the iconographic analysis, it is possible to establish the "stories" contained in the pieces, and even their owners and context of use, despite the lack of regulatory colonial markings; Thanks to the observation of technical traces, it is possible to establish its production process and contrast it with current goldsmithing techniques. This contrast was made by the hand of an expert silversmith, which opened another look at the intangible heritage of the current trade of silversmithing in Colombia. Thanks to this study, it was possible to conclude that the role of silversmiths in New Granada was of vital importance for the purposes of the Spanish Crown to expand the Catholic religion throughout the Empire, thanks to its power in representation and capacity to capture the attention of the parishioners, due to the high level of decorative detail influenced by the Baroque movement. One of the most important aspects of the research was the development of different products that allowed the communication of the findings to different types of public: thus, the project had articles and participation in academic events, but also with the production of informative texts, museum material and a digital course in MOOC format, with audiovisual content. Therefore, this research is not only about the case study, but about how design can contribute from its own languages and resources to the recognition of the tangible and intangible heritage of a country.
Aesthetic Experience and Digital Culture: New Flows in The Space of Art Exhibition
Authors: Monteiro Caique Cahon
Published: January 2022

Artistic institutions are traditionally places of cultural and social memory reverberation. Such spaces have a character of institutionalisation of the cultural market. Contemporary works of art and the exhibition format are factors that shape the possibilities of consumption and experience from visitors within these spaces. By taking advantage of the artifices of their time, art and artists appropriate new digital Technologies, digital culture contextualizes this movement, interweaving new paradigms in the exhibition spaces of museums, galleries and cultural centres. It is clear that the artistic production that involves digital media at some level creates increasingly subjective and hybrid paths between machine and human in the processes. This occurs not only in the scope of raw material and in the production of their poetics and narratives, but also in every present social context, of consumption, access, and dissemination of artistic works. In the last 10 years there has been a growing number of public in cultural institutions in Brazil (data from IPEA - Institute for Applied Economic Research), this curve does not resemble any increase in investment in public policies, improvement in education or culture. This rate of increase in visitors to cultural spaces is like the increase in access to mobile devices and use of the internet and social networks, perhaps, at some level, it shows that internet access and digital culture may be enabling an environment of spontaneous dissemination for the artistic market in Brazil. With the advent of smartphones and the constant use of this technology in various moments of leisure and work, the habit of taking a picture from any work of art has become something normalised in institutions. This process can create different media flows that reformulate the visitor's experience in front of the exhibition space. In this way, the traditional and passive spectator subject is mixed with the user subject present in digital culture, with its agency potential and sharing capacity. Although these photographs present themselves in society as a cultural product, their visualisation and distribution extend to a computational level. This master's research project proposes to establish dialogues between the field of communication and the arts, especially digital culture, and aesthetic experience. The object of study is the production of photographic images made by visitors to cultural exhibitions through smartphones and shared on the Instagram social network. Through the use of artificial intelligence, it will be possible to analyse hundreds of images from the Instagram social network that were taken at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Centre, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brazilian institution with the highest number of visitors in the last 5 years). This qualitative and quantitative analysis enables a reflection on the contemporary media character present in art exhibition spaces and the observation of new experiences between public, work, and digital culture.
A random walk in stochastic dance
Authors: Shulman Ami , Soto-Andrade Jorge
Published: January 2022

Stochastic music, developed last century by Xenakis, has older avatars, like Mozart, who showed how to compose minuets by tossing dice, in a similar way that contemporary choreographer Cunningham took apart the structural elements of what was considered to be a cohesive choreographic work (including movement, sound, light, set and costume) and reconstructed them in random ways. We intend to explore an enactive and experiential analogue of stochastic music, in the realm of dance, where the poetry of a choreographic spatial/floor pattern is elicited by a mathematical stochastic process, to wit a random walk – a stochastic dance of sorts. Among many possible random walks, we consider two simple examples, embodied in the following scenarios, proposed to the students/dancers: - a frog, jumping randomly on a row of stones, choosing right and left as if tossing a coin, - a person walking randomly on a square grid, starting a given node, and choosing each time randomly, equally likely N, S, E or W, and walking non-stop along the corresponding edge, up to the next node, and so on.When the dancers encounter these situations, quite natural questions arise for the choreographer, like: Where will the walker/dancer be after a while? Several ideas for a choreography emerge, which are more complex than just having one or more dancers perform the random walk, and which surprisingly turn our random process into a deterministic one!For instance, for the first random walk, 16 dancers start at the same node of a discrete line on the stage, and execute, each one, a different path of the 16 possible 4 – jump paths the frog can follow. They would need to agree first on how to carry this out. Interestingly, they may proceed without a Magister Ludi handing out scripts to every dancer. After arriving to their end node/position, they could try to retrace their steps, to come back all to the starting node.Analogously for the grid random walk, where we may have now 16 dancers enacting the 16 possible 2-edge paths of the walker. The dancers could also enter the stage (the grid or some other geometric pattern to walk around), one by one, sequentially, describing different random paths, or deterministic intertwined paths, in the spirit of Beckett’s Quadrat. Also, the dancers could choose their direction ad libitum, after some spinning, each time, on a grid-free stage, but keeping the same step length, as in statistician Pearson’s model for a mosquito random flight.We are interested in various possible spin-offs of these choreographies, which intertwine dance and mathematical cognition: For instance, when the dancers choose each one a different path, they will notice that their final distribution on the nodes is uneven (interesting shapes emerge). In this way, just by moving, choreographer and dancers can find a quantitative answer to the impossible question: where will the walker/dancer be after a while? Indeed, the percentage of dancers ending up at each node gives the probability of the random walker landing there.
Virtual Reality-Architecture-Neurosciences: Modeling and Evaluation of Immersive And Homeodynamic Hospital Environments at CAISM-UNICAMP
Authors: Zuanon Rachel , Bordini Rogério Augusto
Published: January 2022

Studies have shown that the use of virtual reality devices (VR) as exposure therapy resources tend to produce favorable effects on the homeodynamic balance of patients with different diseases. The sensory and sensory-motor stimuli experienced through interaction with such technologies are able to promote, for instance, relief of pain intensity, stress levels reduction and reduced risks of hypertension syndrome in blood pressure tests. Thus, the emerging body of studies about the design, validation and development procedures of such ambiences is extremely fruitful and relevant, especially regarding their consistent contributions to the biological homeostasis of human beings. In this sense, this research aims to model humanized and homeodynamic hospital VR environments for nursing professionals of the Center for Integral Care to Women (CAISM-UNICAMP), capable of reducing their stress levels resulting from physical and mental overload, to which these professionals are daily exposed in the hospital settings, and further increased by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, the study starts from the mapping and identification of design parameters of humanized hospital environments, both through literature systematic review on transdisciplinary cooperation (e.g. between humanized hospital environments, intelligent biointerfaces and virtual reality), and data collected in field research (e.g. collection of architectural data, design, and observation of professionals’ routine and semi-structured interviews with the healthcare team, before and after the experimental protocol application). The design and conception of these virtual environments are based on the cooperation between the fields of Architecture and Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences, especially subsidized by the concept of Homeodynamic Environments and Products. In addition, the investigation is also based on literature reviews about the use of VR in healthcare; a set of recommendations for conducting clinical studies using VR; exploration of VR soundscapes to reduce stress levels in hospitalized patients; and guidelines for conducting usability assessments for health-related VR applications for patient treatment, rehabilitation, and medical professional training. The tests and validation of the humanized and homeodynamic ambiences modeled are conducted with the nursing professionals of CAISM-UNICAMP, with the organization of participants in experimental and control groups. Such interventions are also associated and synchronized with the performance of intelligent biointerfaces, in order to collect consistent neuropsychophysiological data, performed during the immersion of the research subjects in the simulated environments. Thus, the results of this research aim to contribute to the reduction of stress levels of CAISM-UNICAMP nursing professionals, both in pandemic and post-pandemic context.
Libertarian artistic teaching. A counter-pedagogy?
Authors: Cosentino Anna Carolina
Published: January 2022

The capitalist system maintains the colonial logic in the dialogue between knowledge and ways of life. The accumulation of material wealth, individualism, production of goods and exacerbated consumption have resulted in imbalance, physical and symbolic exhaustion of the planet. The field of arts does not constitute an autonomous system in relation to culture, to the aforementioned cultural modes. In it, the processes of formation of subjects, exclusion and discrimination also result from neoliberalism, which imposes a Promethean education linked to the notion of civility and progress, causing malnutrition of feeling, sensitivity, and imagination. The poetic state is relegated to the background and restricted to literary expression. Artistic practices are inserted in the truth regimes of the hegemonic models that produce them. Building other pedagogies requires thinking about ways to deviate from the totalizing ontologies of the so-called traditional educational thought. The impact of (hegemonic) european theoretical constructions on classroom relationships needs to be considered, as well as racism and the absence of women in the epistemic field. It is in this context that initiatives to rethink the dichotomy between reason and imagination present in westernized culture gain importance. Imagination is an important factor of psychosocial balance, it is through imagination that the whole process of symbolization, signification and de-alienation of human thought takes place. Based on the notion that the imaginary and rationality are not antagonistic psychic spheres, the Pedagogy of the Imaginary proposes the reunion of rational and poetic forms of culture based on the revaluation of the imaginative function and reflection on the purpose and meaning we have given to life and education. This without resorting to a set of teaching techniques or strategies, much less taking the Pedagogy of Imaginary as a discipline whose content deals with the imagination or creativity. This study began with the completion of the discipline Pedagogy of the Imaginary in Visual Arts (2020.2/ UFPE), where the participation of students provided insights into the need to identify forms of resistance to hegemonic cultural modes, in addition to motivating us to think about a Pedagogy of the Imaginary for the Artistic Education. Some questions remain: 1) How can the knowledge about art/ life of students undergoing training in the field of teaching/ learning arts be articulated with studies on decoloniality and the Imaginary?; 2) How can the Pedagogy of the Imaginary be conceived for the field of Artistic Education and how can it be plotted with the debate on decoloniality?; 3) How do undergraduate art students think about the possibilities of deviation within their teacher training and internship practices? The doctoral project “Libertarian artistic education. A counter-pedagogy?” which began its second year in October 2021, at FBAUP, intends to continue this debate.
PID Control to Decrease Fluctuation of Load for Tower Crane
Authors: Nguyen Minh-Tam , Nguyen Minh-Tam , Nguyen Van-Dong-Hai , Pham Xuan-Hoan , Huynh Nhat-Tan , Nguyen Quoc-Hung , Ly Gia-Chan-Hung , Nguyen Thanh-Binh , Nguyen Huy-Hoang
Published: January 2022

Tower crane is a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) under-actuated system which is popularly used in both goods tranfering and constructing. In operating process, the loads ,which are transferred by tower crane, such as goods, material,…, are fluctuated. Fluctuation of load takes part of decreasing performance in goods transferring. In this paper, we propose a structure of PID to control tower crane to avoid this fluctuation of load. Simulation and Experimental results and demonstrate the success of PID algorithm in this research.
NATIONAL SECURITY AND FULFILLED PROMISES? A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF SIEGE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Authors: URS Andreea Bianca
Published: January 2022

Already in the middle of his first term, Felix Tshisekedi has understood that his re-election depends only on the pacification of the eastern region of his deeply damaged country. For over 20 years, informality, corruption, death, trafficking, theft represented a modus vivendi in the North Kivu province. The state of siege implemented on May 6, 2021 is intended to be a major restoration of North Kivu and Ituri provinces. At that time, the provinces fell under the military control of the FARDC (Armed Forces of the DRC), which raises two main questions Is this measure fit to meet the goal established by the President, namely the pacification of the eastern region? Or is it a tool to reinforce the control of the President over the country? However, the State of Siege is more than an exceptional measure: it is a promise of the President to his people. Active, determined and involved in the two territories, with appropriate words addressed to the grieving population, Tshisekedi not only repeats the sensitive elements known worldwide, but he exceeds the usual limits: he desires to remove the “maguilles” from the national army and he wants institutions on which he can rely. Basically, the one who embodies the system is fighting it today. Within this article we aim at exploring if new approach to conflict is prolific and has the potential to succeed at least in its early stages. This study could be performed due to field data provided by Kivu Security Tracker.
PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON THE WESTERN BALKAN STATES' ACCESSION TO THE EU. SOCIAL-CONSTRUCTIVIST INTERPRETATIONS
Authors: HERȚA Laura-M. , POP-FLANJA Delia
Published: January 2022

The purpose of the article is to analyse, form a social constructivist perspective, public perception on the accession of Western Balkan States to the European Union. Public opinion is an important indicator of the current situation in the region, as well as of the level of preparedness, engagement, and availability of the society to the European project and to internalize European values. For a more comprehensive understanding of the evolution and dynamics of public opinion, and whether we can discuss enlargement or accession fatigue, we have made a comparative analysis of polls conducted in 2010 and 2020. Moreover, since general polls are sensitive barometers and cannot be properly understood without placing them in a wider context, we have extended our research to the factors that influence public perception and the exposure to disinformation.
LA BIOGRAPHIE EN HISTOIRE DES IDÉES POLITIQUES, UN OUTIL SOUS-ESTIMÉ ? LE CAS EXEMPLAIRE DE MACHIAVEL
Authors: ROUDIER Jérôme
Published: January 2022

The biography in the history of political ideas, an underestimated tool? The exemplary case of Machiavelli. Writing a biography of Machiavelli, especially an “intellectual” one, orientated towards the history of philosophical thought, is a challenge due to the extent of the documentation available, collected over the centuries. Nevertheless, any analysis of the origins of the Florentine author’s thought using his letters as local government officer, before he was dismissed and wrote the great texts for which he is famous, takes us back to a larger philosophical problem. Indeed, Machiavelli is a precursor of the modern political expert. Such experts are characterized by their classic academic knowledge drawn as much from Antiquity and from Scholasticism as from the everyday political action in which they got literally caught up. From there came the idea of a new way of writing about politics. Machiavelli is the first one to do so, writing in order to give practical, concrete advice to follow in the real world. We define this new way of regarding Machiavelli’s political writing as a “programme”, which his biography helps us to understand more completely.
THE EVOLUTION OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN’S COOPERATION WITH THE EU IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
Authors: BRIE Mircea , GOREAINOV Victoria
Published: January 2022

Since 2009, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been part of the Eastern Partnership Initiative, launched by the European Union. Armenia, with its interest and desire to cooperate with the EU in the Eastern Partnership, has also maintained its openness to Russia. The Eastern Partnership seems appealing as an opportunity for Azerbaijan. Economic openness, the prospect of securing and diversifying export routes for rich energy resources proves to be arguments in favor of fostering relations with the EU.
Synthesis and in Vitro anticancer properties of Cu2–xSe–AIPH nanomaterials
Authors: Lu Juan , Mao Yini , Yang Jun
Published: January 2022

The Cu2–xSe nanoparticles were synthesized by high temperature pyrolysis, modified with aminated polyethylene glycol in aqueous solution and loaded with compound 2,2′–azobis[2–(2–imidazolin–2–yl)propane] dihydrochloride (AIPH). The obtained nanomaterials can induce photothermal effect and use heat to promote the generation of toxic AIPH radicals under the irradiation of near-infrared laser (808 nm), which can effectively kill cancer cells. A series of in vitro experiments can preliminarily prove that Cu2–xSe–AIPH nanomaterials have strong photothermal conversion ability, good biocompatibility and anticancer properties.
Preparation of MOF/Au composite nanoparticles and their SERS properties
Authors: Liu Huihui , Zhao Baichuan , Zhang Congyun
Published: January 2022

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum has the characteristics of fast-detection, high-sensitivity and low-requirements for sample pretreatment. It plays a more and more important role in the detection of organic pollutants. In this study, MIL-101 and Au nanoparticles were prepared by hydrothermal method and aqueous solution reduction method respectively, and MIL-101/Au composite nanoparticles were prepared by electrostatic interaction. The SERS properties of the composite substrate were optimized by adjusting the size of Au nanoparticles and the surface distribution density of MIL-101 nanoparticles. The detection limit of Rhodamine 6G (R6G) for the composite substrate with the optimal ratio was investigated, which was as low as 10–11 M. It is proved that MIL-101/Au composite nanoparticles have high sensitivity to probe molecules. When they are applied to the detection of persistent organic pollutants, the detection limit for fluoranthene can reach 10–9 M and for 3,3’,4,4’-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB-77) can reach 10–5 M.
A Review on Technology-Based Learning Management Innovations During and After The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Authors: Iana Hadr
Published: January 2022

By the end of 2021, it has been almost two years that schools in various parts of the world have not been able to carry out face-to-face learning activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this situation, online learning is considered to be the best solution so that learning activities can continue. However, the continuous implementation of online learning for a long time has resulted in learning loss – the condition of decreasing students' abilities and skills in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects. To prevent the exacerbation of learning loss conditions, educators must continue working together to innovate in utilizing technology in learning activities. The use of digital technology is useful to control the implementation of learning and education management, especially after the emergence of COVID-19. That way technology becomes the most important part in helping the online learning process.
Lev Vygotski et son école : de la « paléontologie du psychisme » à la « psychologie par action »
Authors: Tchougounnikov Serge , Vildanov Evgeny
Published: January 2022

The article explores a number of conceptual parallels in the developments of L. Vygotski and “psychological linguistics” (Humboldt, Steinthal, Potebnia). Ideas from the nineteenth-century psycholinguistic current occupy a very important place in the conceptions of “psychology by action” of the psychological school of L. Vygotski and A. N. Leontiev. Therefore, the true understanding of the psychology of Vygotsky and his school, passes through these founding texts. The concept of "internal form" founds the psychology of Vygotsky and his disciples. The article shows the Humboldian origin of the notion of activity (dejatelnost) by tracing it back to the famous concept of Tätigkeit in Humboldt linguistics.
L’elève des bulletins scolaires : le spectre sémantique d’un modèle utopique
Authors: Monin Isabelle
Published: January 2022

The dichotomy between the good and the bad student seems really outdated today. The method used to summarize academic results and to report about them in writing has changed in a positive manner despite the routines still rooted in teachers’ practices. In this paper, we will analyze the semantic orientation of the word “student” when it is used in school reports’ assessments.

The concordances drawn from a certified body will be compared to the student as modelled in official guidelines and in educational sciences, or as sketched in the representations of the teachers in the field whether they are beginners or veterans. We will demonstrate that the use of this word and its almost systematic collocations in school reports show semantic qualities that betray an underlying definition of the perfect student, who is obviously unattainable since he or she is actually a future individual, the perfect student who is already highly praised. These praises are linked to his or her personality traits more than his or her school work strictly speaking. The perfect student is complimented through afferent semes which paradoxically end up excluding the teacher from this raison d’être although it is necessarily a two-way relationship
The Environmental Kuznets Curve revisited: economic complexity and ecological footprint in the most complex economies of the world
Authors: Neagu Olimpia , Neagu Mădălin-Ioan
Published: January 2022

The paper examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model in the panel of the most complex economies in the world by considering the ecological footprint as an indicator of environmental degradation and economic complexity - as a variable of interest and expression of structural changes in the economy. The study includes the first 48 complex economies in the world, with positive averages of the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) for 1995-2017. The model of cointegrating polynomial regression (CPR) includes also variables with impact on ecological footprints such as globalization, energy intensity and urbanization. The EKC model is validated in the panel of the 48 complex economies, suggesting that these countries have already reached a development stage enabling them to curb the increasing pollution expressed by ecological footprint. Globalization has a mitigating effect while urbanization and energy intensity have an extension effect on ecological footprint. Policy implications are also included.
The German and Austrian Historiography on Russia's Participation in the Holy League War
Authors: Kuznetsov V. I.
Published: January 2022

German and Austrian historiography of the Holy League war is an essential source because German and Austrian historians have analyzed Russia's participation in this war since the 18th century. The discussion revolves around three main questions: about the moment of Russia's accession to the Holy League de jure and de facto; about the qualification of the Holy League as an international anti-Turkish and anti-Crimean alliance; finally, about the peculiarities of social and technological cooperation between the Venetian Republic, the Holy Roman Empire, and Russia. The German and Austrian historiography on Russia's role in the war with the Ottomans began to form at the end of the 17th century when Austrian diplomats started issuing pamphlets spreading the pan-European Christian idea. Leopold I acted in accordance with this idea as the defender of the European order on the Rhine and the defender of the entire Christian civilization from the Islamic Empire and its vassal of the Crimean Khanate. Russia was trying to secure its national interests in dealings with the European partners, which did not fit well with the relations between Vienna and Constantinople, Venice, and Constantinople, as well as the plans of Jan III Sobieski to compensate for the loss of Ukraine at the expense of the Danube lands. The assessments of German and Austrian historiography make sense if we regard Russia as a part of the European Christian civilization, sharing common cultural values and geopolitical challenges.
An Innovative Roadmap to Value Co-Creation in Agriculture
Authors: Cherner N. V.
Published: January 2022

Book review: Campos H. (ed.). 2021. The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture: A Roadmap to Value Creation. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030- 50991-0