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Analisis Manajemen Sumber Daya Pendidikan di Lembaga Pendidikan Islam
Authors: Azhari Virgiawan , Ahmad Baidhowi
Published: June 2024

This research aims to analyze human resource management for educators and education staff at SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah. This research is qualitative research using the case study method. Human resource management, starting from planning, organizing, mobilizing and supervising at SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah Tangerang, can be maintained and even improved. The object of study in this research is Human Resource Management Analysis. The subjects in this research were teachers, school principals and foundation managers. SDIT has advantages in all lines of the education system, from curriculum, management, quality of teachers and students, resources and funds, infrastructure to quality of education. SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah generally has a good Human Resources management system, starting from the recruitment system, competency development, performance assessment to employee compensation, and a good system so that it is well documented and controlled. Starting from the recruitment process having effective and efficient methods, competency development which has productive and superior programs, a variety of employee performance appraisal systems that are continuously improved according to needs and technological developments also have a direct impact on the compensation received.
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Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menanalisis tentang manajemen sumber daya manusia pada pendidik dan tenaga kependidikan di SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan metode case study. manajemen sember daya manusia mulai dari perencanaan, pengorganisasian, penggerakan dan pengawasan di SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah Tangerang, dapat dipertahankan bahkan ditingkatkan lagi. Obyek kajian dalam penelitian ini adalah Analisis Manajemen Sumber Daya Manusia. Adapun yang menjadi subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah guru, kepala sekolah, dan pengelola Yayasan. SDIT memiliki keunggulan pada semua lini sistem pendidikan, baik dari kurikulum, pengelolaan, kualitas guru dan peserta didik, sumber daya dan dana, sarana- prasaraa hingga mutu pendidikan. SDIT Asy-Syukriyyah secara umum telah memiliki sistem manajemen Sumber daya Manusia yang baik, mulai dari sistem rekrutmen, pengembangan kompetensi, penilaian kinerja hingga kompensasi pegawai, dan sistem yang baik sehingga terdokumentasi dengan baik dan terkontrol. Mulai dari proses perekrutan memiliki metode yang efektif dan efesien, pengembangan kompetensi yang memiliki program-program yang produktif dan unggul, sistem penilaian kinerja pegawai yang beragam serta terus diperbaiki sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan perkembangan teknologi juga memiliki dampak secara langsung pada kompensasi yang diterima.
Effect of Corporate Governance on the Performance of Listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria
Authors: Brimah Aminu Nassir , Ahmed Nurudeen Bello , Olayiwola Ghalib Hammed
Published: June 2024

The study examined the impact of corporate governance on the financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study looked at how corporate governance prevailing in commercial banks in Nigeria could signal the effectiveness of governance on financial performance. The study employed a longitudinal data design. It combines the features of cross-sectional and time-series designs in a research study. Judgmental sampling technique was used to collect a convenient sample to effectively represent the population while eliminating potential biases especially in surveys. The FUGAZ Banks, representing five commercial banks, were selected for this study. These include First Bank, Access Bank, Zenith Bank, UBA, and GTCO. Secondary data was utilized in this study and information for 2013 through 2022 were obtained from annual reports, accounts, and certain relevant NSE fact books from the Nigerian sampled companies. The study used panel regression to investigate how financial performance for the period was affected by corporate governance structure. Dynamic Panel data regression was used. The analysis indicates corporate governance i.e board size and audit committee have significant impact on the financial performance of money deposit banks in Nigeria. The study recommends that companies should carefully consider the size and composition of their boards, aiming for a balance between representation and efficiency. Audit committees should consist of independent directors with relevant expertise to effectively oversee financial matters.
Human Development and Technological Innovations: Veritable Tools for Sustainable National Development
Authors: Ijeoma Ene
Published: June 2024

This paper aims to elaborate on the significance of human development and Technological innovations to National Development. The paper holds that science and technology are the focal point of this 21st century as they contribute in no small measure to the economic growth of a nation. It must be stated that development and progress require human resources to succeed. In recognition of the pivotal role played by man in national development, Socrates shifted the focus of philosophy from matter, the physical world to man and the development of society. Human development is the substructure upon which a nation's development is built and strengthened. The first step to development as emphasized by the philosophers is the moral development of its citizenry. Ethics is the normative branch of philosophy that instils ethical values for moral development. The findings of the study showed that the purpose of technology is to alleviate man’s needs and problems. Man is therefore the centre of technology and hence the moral development of man is the development of a nation. It concludes that the synergy between human development and technological innovations begets national development. The philosophical tools of conceptual clarifications and critical analysis are employed.
Determinants of Interprofessional Collaboration Practices at Pidie Regency Regional Hospital, Indonesia
Authors: Azzahra Yuni , Kamil Hajjul , Saputra Irwan
Published: June 2024

Health services in the current global period require health care workers to provide quality services. Collaboration between professionals in a health service system is very essential to provide quality services. However, interprofessional collaboration (IPC) remains uncommon, posing a challenge for hospitals in both middle- and low-income nations, as well as high-income ones. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors related with IPC practices at the Regional General Hospital in Pidie Regency, Indonesia. This quantitative research used a cross-sectional study design, and the sample approach was proportional stratified random sampling, with a total of 187 nurses. The data collecting tool includes two questionnaires: One on the determinants of interprofessional cooperation practices and one on the components of interprofessional collaboration. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistical tests, chi-square, and binary logistic regression utilizing the stepwise technique. The study’s findings indicate that professional role factors (p-value = 0.037), patient factors (p-value = 0.001), interpersonal factors (p-value = 0.000), and organizational factors (p-value = 0.002) are all associated with IPC practices at Pidie District General Hospital in Indonesia. Interpersonal variables had the highest correlation with IPC practices (p-value = 0.000, Odds Ratio = 2.424). Quality health care emphasizes the importance of best IPC practices. According to the findings of this study, these four aspects are the most important priorities that the hospital must address right away, and they necessitate a collaborative effort from professional care providers and management to establish successful IPC procedures.
Electromagnetic Modelling & Experimental Analysis of Weld Tool Coil in Magnetic Pulse Welding
Authors: Siddiqui Obaid , Hijaz Paul Ward Ul , Alam Tabrej
Published: June 2024

Magnetic Pulse Welding (MPW) is a high-velocity, solid-state welding technique utilized to join dissimilar metals through the application of a strong magnetic field. The MPW system comprises a 208 µF capacitor bank and a specialized weld tool coil. In this study, the capacitor bank was charged up to 11 kV, resulting in a discharge current of 100 kA at a frequency of 12.5 kHz through the tool coil. The weld tool coil is designed with six 6-turn copper discs and is integrated with a copper field shaper to enhance the welding process. This paper presents the development of a two-dimensional (2-D) model using COMSOL Multiphysics to analyze the impact of the field shaper on the magnetic field intensity generated by the 6-turn coils. Simulation results revealed that the discharge current of approximately 100 kA at 12.5 kHz produced an average magnetic field intensity of around 29 Tesla (T). The field shaper effectively concentrated the magnetic flux within a smaller, targeted region of the workpieces. The inclusion of the field shaper in the coil's axis led to an approximate fourfold increase in the magnetic field intensity, thereby demonstrating its significant role in enhancing the efficiency of the MPW process.
Korean Hallyu: Parasocial Interaction Study of Teenage K-Popers
Authors: Fitri Dian , Ruwanti Asti , Cahyani Firunika Intan
Published: June 2024

This research aims to examine teenagers' low awareness of the nature of parasocial interactions and time management skills in consuming K-Pop content and social media, and how this can disrupt the balance of teenagers' daily lives. The method used in this research is a descriptive quantitative method, which is known as a traditional method because it has been used for a long time and is common in research. The population of this research is teenage K-Pop fans who actively use social media, using non-probability sampling techniques. The characteristics of the research subjects are teenagers aged between 12 and 22 years who are K-Pop fans and social media users. Data was collected through a questionnaire using a Likert scale to measure parasocial interactions and social media consumption patterns. The results showed that subjects with high social media use had a high level of parasocial interaction. Activities such as scrolling timelines and feeds, enjoying content for fun, and learning Korean from idol posts have a medium level of parasocial interaction. In contrast, activities such as searching for information about idols, watching music videos, voting for idols, and watching concerts and idol content show high to very high levels of parasocial interaction. This research reveals that excessive social media consumption in the K-Pop context can lead to intense parasocial interactions, which have the potential to disrupt the balance of teenagers' daily lives. It is hoped that these findings can become the basis for efforts to increase adolescent awareness regarding time management and healthy social media consumption.
Performance Comparison between SQL and NoSQL in Terms of Use with Big Data
Authors:   Computer Department, College of Science and Technology, Qumins, Aboudoumat Esam. Miftah. Abdulnabi. , Ballam Khalifa. Mohammed. ,   Computer Department, College of Science and Technology, Qumins, Albarki Ashraf. Faraj. Saed ,   Computer Department, College of Arts and Sciences Qumins, University of Benghazi, Bader AbdelAziz. Ibrahim. Radwan. ,   Computer Department, Higher Institute of Engineering Technologies, Benghazi
Published: June 2024

Data nowadays is growing and increasing dramatically, which has become more complex to store and process effectively using traditional database management tools. NoSQL databases have now become highly popular because of their pursuit of improving performance from traditional SQL databases, which has led to the replacement of Traditional database management systems, with NoSQL databases. This paper aims to study NoSQL databases of various types and evaluate them in big data analysis, which helps users of this type of databases obtain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of their various methods to support applications that deal with huge amounts of data and compare traditional SQL databases with NoSQL databases. We developed prototypes for the two systems in the Visual Basic language.net programming language, and we designed the databases, non-relational databases of the MongoDB type to represent the NoSQL database, and relational databases of the SQL Server type were used to represent relational databases, and a data set containing 21,965 related records was used with bank statements. We compared the time of loading data for the two systems and performed the operations of adding, retrieving data, modification, and deletion, to test and evaluate performance and speed of implementation. Keywords: Database, NoSQL, SQL Server, Big Data.
Vocalises sérielles: Séries dodécaphoniques cycliques
Authors: Papillon André
Published: June 2024

Certaines séries dodécaphoniques sont cycliques, c'est-à-dire qu'elles sont basées sur une séquence de 2, 3, 4 ou 6 intervalles, répétée à un intervalle ascendant ou descendant x. Cette étude explore les caractéristiques de ce type de séries, les moyens pour les générer, ainsi que leur nombre.
Tinjauan Terhadap Perkawinan Siri Dalam Prespektif Hukum Islam, Hukum Positif Dan Asasi Manusia Di Kabupaten Kampar
Authors: Salsabillah Rahma Dhiani  , Bela Dianti  , Muhibban
Published: June 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan memahami bagaimana praktik perkawinan siri ditinjau dari hukum perkawinan yang berlaku di Indonesia, serta ditinjau dari fiqih munkahat dan hukum perkawinan yang berlaku di Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode studi Pustaka. Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berupa bahan berupa hukum perimer dan hukum skunder. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa saat ini belum terdapatt definisi yang jelas mengenai perkawinan siri dalam peraturan ketentuan perundang undangan. Fiqih munkahat adalah hukum yang mengatur tata cara perkawinan atau pernikahan dan segala hal yang berkaitan dengannya. Fiqih munkahat harus diikuti dan diamalkan oleh umat muslim sebagai landasan dalam melakukan perkawinan demi mewujudkan pernikahan yang Sakinah, mawadah, warohmah. Perkawinan siri sejatinya tidak bertentangan dengan fikih munkahat namun tidak berlaku dalam hukum di Indonesia. Sehingga tidak mendapat perlindungan hukum negara. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah , nikah siri merupakann pernikahan yang tidak asas legalitas. Dalam arti tidak mempunyai kekuatan hukum.
LUMINÁRIAS LED E SUA RELAÇÃO COM A TEMPERATURA AMBIENTE E UMIDADE RELATIVA DO AR
Authors: Bigoni Silvia
Published: June 2024

O presente artigo apresenta uma análise da degradação de alguns dos principais componentes de luminárias LED utilizadas em instalações comerciais, sem condicionamento do ar, a partir de variáveis ambientais. Os critérios utilizados foram: parâmetro geográfico, a partir da escolha de duas localizações – Cotia - SP e Fortaleza - CE – , com diferentes parâmetros climáticos (variações de temperatura ambiental e umidade relativa do ar); o segundo critério foi a determinação dos períodos de ensaio em campo e em laboratório; o terceiro critério foi a determinação dos objetos de ensaio – luminárias LED com suas características fotométricas e colorimétricas – variações de fluxo luminoso, intensidade luminosa, potência elétrica consumida e eficácia luminosa, levantamento das coordenadas de cromaticidade “x, y”, IRC, Ra, temperatura de cor correlata (TCC), índice de fidelidade (Rf) e índice de Gamut (RG).
Optimising Agrivoltaic Systems: Identifying Suitable Solar Development Sites for Integrated Food and Energy Production
Authors: Tri Nugroho Apri , Pramono Hadi Sasongko , Sutanta Heri , Adikara Ajrin Hyatma
Published: June 2024

This study explores the integration of food and energy systems as a solution to address agricultural challenges in the dryland region of Gunungkidul Regency. Facing water scarcity issues, the region's abundant solar irradiation potential presents an opportunity for co-locating food and energy production, specifically through the implementation of an agrivoltaic system. Seven sub-districts had been designated in the local government regulations for solar energy development sites, including Gedangsari, Nglipar, Ngawen, Purwosari, Saptosari, Tanjungsari, and Tepus. Ten criteria and five constraints were established to assess their suitability for agrivoltaic systems. Utilising map overlay analysis and integrating GIS-MCDA with Fuzzy and AHP methodologies, three sub-districts—Semanu, Wonosari, and Tepus—emerged as the most suitable locations. Each sub-district boasts substantial total areas of 1,779.9 Ha, 1,325.5 Ha, and 1,147.21 Ha, respectively, with Tepus aligning with the local government's solar energy development plan. This comprehensive approach ensures that the selected locations meet both energy development goals and the potential for successful agrivoltaic implementation. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the feasibility of implementing food and energy combinations through an agrivoltaic system in Gunungkidul Regency, providing insights into suitable sub-districts and emphasising the importance of aligning regional energy plans with sustainable agricultural practices on arid land.
doi.org/10.62935/pn6229
Authors: Salazar Campo Maritza , Margarita Livas Selena , Madamba Teresa , Ofili Elizabeth
Published: June 2024

The importance of ethnic and gender representation in academic medicine is of paramount importance. While mentoring effectively attracts and retains underrepresented individuals, scientists from underrepresented groups face barriers to high-quality mentorship. The developmental network model by Higgins and Kram suggests that a variety of people with unique knowledge, connections, and resources can help propel an individual’s career and personal growth. This study experimentally tested the outcomes of a workshop series and mentorship program to assist early-career biomedical investigators from predominantly minority institutions establish and maintain developmental networks. This study provides preliminary insights into the characteristics of these developmental networks for investigators with different funding goals and how these networks evolve, potentially impacting career trajectories.
Mycorrhizal Materialities Positioning the entanglement of human and machine intelligence
Authors: Geck Kate
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. Machine intelligence is increasingly being used in the world with sometimes dramatic effects on human and other-than-human lives through its decision-making capacity. Much artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is built on metaphors that centre extraction, competition and control. These also position AI itself as a resource to be extracted and controlled, paving a troubling path for speculative futures where AI may gain emergent or ambiguous levels of sentience. These metaphors are part of a historical trend where humans place themselves above the other-than-human world, and this has formed the basis of an extractive and one-sided relationship with that world. In light of this, what new metaphors might we employ to platform the relationships between human and machine intelligences?
Thinking through mycorrhizae could be a productive way to foreground the entangled, generative nature of exchange between human and machine intelligences. This paper will briefly explore metaphor in human-computer interaction (HCI) and AI, before making an offering to think about these things through the material of the mycorrhiza, a symbiotic site of exchange between plants and fungi. It will then briefly detail a creative project that has emerged from this mycorrhizal thinking to produce machine imagined textiles and embroideries. It then concludes with a call to embed relational thinking into future practices between human and machine intelligences in order to create more equitable and even mutualistic outcomes.
Generated tools: A Defamiliarizing Approach to Creating ML Art
Authors: McFadden Chloe , Bown Oliver
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. In recent years there has been an increase in the adoption of machine learning (ML) systems that can generate novel images. This increased use may reveal the beginning of a familiarity in which the implications of these emerging technologies are naturalised or made increasingly invisible. Thus, practices which can disrupt familiarity may allow us to create experiences of heightened awareness in which we can consider our engagement with this emerging technology. In this paper, I discuss the outcomes of working with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), using a dataset created from the hand tools section of a popular Australian hardware store. Through this creative practice, I investigate how artists can use ML as mechanisms for creating artworks that disrupt, investigate and defamiliarize the known.
Art, Science and Industry: A symbiotic milieu to rethink visions of the world
Authors: Armand Edwige , Asensio Anne , Foresta Don
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. How do art and science participate in writing a world of signs and symbols? What do these two human faculties and capacities seek and how do they differ radically? Science has progressively freed itself from its purpose (the search for the why) to model, imitate and master a world in an increasingly abstract manner. If science and art are performative, what world do they draw and what do they tell us (in terms of discourse) about the human? As science gradually becomes techno-science and produced by industries, does art have a singular role to play in the interrelation of these two poles, science and industry, in order to re-inhabit the ethical questions and meanings that were originally in these other two creative capacities? Can it and should it?
Motherplants: Mycelium Network and Artistic Research
Authors: Ottavi Julien , Pickett Jenny
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. In 2015, we embarked on an artistic research project involving organic organisms such as plants and fungi, focusing on their role in the processes of recycling of e-waste. Motherplant explores how these systems create feedback audio signal transmission through the interplay of moisture and decomposition of the circuit boards. Specifically, it harnesses the natural decomposition process to transmit audio signals by converting the soil's acidity and electronic compost into electrical signals.
Spectral Plain: A case study for exploring the world-building potential of co-creative systems that combine text generation models with game mechanics
Authors: Legrand Guillemette , Thornhill Vincent , Clarke Isaac
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. This paper describes the game installation ‘Spectral Plain’; introducing a case study of an interactive artwork that intersects algorithmic, sensing, and gaming technologies to explore new forms of generative world-building, which are different from the world-imaginations created by commercial and political narratives. Through this case study, we aim to explore how information technologies might embed specific socio-cultural beliefs. Here, we investigate the imaginaries created and disseminated through dominant representations of information technologies, while simultaneously searching for ways to create new multiscalar imaginaries of the earth through the mobilisation of these technologies. This case study describes how physical and digital interactions can be combined with AI and randomising technologies to foster forms of co-creation with and between humans. It also explores the capacity for AI-integrated game environments to decenter anthropogenic perspectives by creating new symbiotic interrelations with the non-human and the non-living that can impact participants’ perception of their understanding of the world.
For a more symbiotic co-individuation with our technological avatars: how to go, with the Sciences and the Arts, beyond hybridizations?
Authors: Amato Etienne-Armand , Pereny Etienne
Published: June 2024

With interactive computing, the metaphorical use of biological notions of hybridization and symbiosis has become widespread. They refer to the possibilities of mixing as well as to the conditions of emergence of relationships ranging from mutual benefit to instrumentalization between technologies and humans. In order to better understand the relevance of such analogies with the living, this article draws on scientific and artistic research concerning the interactive avatar. These seem particularly instructive on our relationship to technology because this virtual being hybridises the living and the artificial, while constituting the key and the condition of access to digital spaces, to co-evolve with other users, themselves avatarised, or other autonomised agents. The article distinguishes between "cyber" avatars populating persistent universes, video games, virtual realities, i.e., cybermedia environments of simulation and interaction. The "hyper" avatars are those of the Web, online services, 2.0 platforms or socio-numerical networks that are juxtaposed in networked informational and documentary hypermedia. From then on, the challenge is to reinvest the sense and responsibility of their potential for augmentation or simulation, in particular by promoting cooperative interactions through science, art and technology, which are themselves by their very nature synergistic with each other.
Symphony of the Stones: A Research-Creation Exploration on the Animation of Heavy Metal Residues in Contaminated Urban Landscapes
Authors: Ammar-Khodja Brice
Published: June 2024

In the late 1980s, the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned a rail yard on the outskirts of Montreal’s Mile End district. Within a few years, the return of animal and plant species encouraged the citizen community to reinvest this site known as Le Champ des Possibles. Despite community efforts to rehabilitate this site, hydrocarbon and heavy metal pollution persists in the soils and thus requires rethinking the engagement with the imperceptible mutations of ecosystems. Symphony of the Stones was created in response to this context. This research-creation project consists of several urban art installations that activate residual metals in soils by their magnetic characteristics to make these imperceptible pollutants visible. The following paper unfolds the different processes, methodologies and strategies that led to in site interventions blending art installation, collaboration with different communities and associations and leading to a rethinking of art practices in the urban environment.
Human Energetics in an Era of Post-Humanism
Authors: Brunner Christoph , Fritsch Jonas
Published: June 2024

French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon is undoubtedly one of the key figures when it comes to conceptualizing individuation across physical, mental and social strata. In this article, we develop a rather overlooked aspect of Simondon’s work, namely how his ontogenetic project also implies an idea of a “human science” based on a “human energetics,” which—maybe in spite of its name—is an inherently transhumanist project transducing across both disciplinary and experiential fields, with a particular emphasis on the role of technology. We present key concepts in Simondon’s work and relate them to lines of thinking on energies in the arts (Kahn) and post-colonialism (Wynter), exemplified through an analysis of Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga’s video work “Remains of the Green Hill.” Our primary aim with the article is to continue a mobilization of Simondonian concepts and thinking for an experimental, transhumanist exploration in relation to its ethico-aesthetic and artistic potential.
“I’m a virtual assistant so I don’t have pronouns the way people do, thanks for asking”: gender neutrality, diversification and fluidity in AI
Authors: Costa Pedro , Ribas Luísa , Carvalhais Miguel
Published: June 2024

This paper questions how current digital assistants tend to be feminized through their anthropomorphization and humanization, discussing possibilities for countering this phenomenon. It draws on a previous study on the relationship between gender and AI, complemented by an analysis of Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant and Siri. Furthering this discussion, we address the main questions, justifications and suggestions raised by researchers and academics as well as online media coverage when examining the phenomenon. One of the main questions relates to how these assistants evade this topic by claiming to have no gender or to be gender-neutral. Thus, this paper discusses possible approaches to deal with gender attribution in AI, by looking into recent trends that range from gender neutrality and diversification to queering these entities. On the one hand, digital assistants could be more diversified and include male counterparts or alternatives, on the other, we discuss how our understandings of gender are expanding beyond binary conceptions and how digital assistants can accompany more fluid conceptions of gender. Particularly, this paper debates how the development of this technology could be informed by current discussions in queer theory and new media studies, inciting reflection on how digital assistants reflect our social and cultural views back to us.
Welcome to the Metaverse: Hacking Affect in Immersive Documentary to Increase Critical Big Data Literacy
Authors: Gaylor Brett , Hennessy Kate
Published: June 2024

This essay describes the process and background of the augmented reality documentary Welcome To The Metaverse. The authors situate themselves as research-creation practitioners and ethnographers exploring immersive documentaries as a method for increasing critical big data literacy, an emerging public-facing discipline concerned with pedagogical approaches to understanding power structures embedded in artificial intelligence and big data systems. The authors respond to research from critical big data literacy scholars and anthropologists using multimodal practices to foreground the ways that the digital tools used to create these works need further critical reflection. The authors explore how facial recognition and other aspects of augmented reality can be detourned or cultured-jammed in similar ways to media of previous decades, positioning immersive documentary as a method for hacking affect toward greater awareness of the multifarious politics of the Metaverse.
Mytherrella: an interactive installation hallucinating mythological auroral formations
Authors: Cucicov Dorin
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. Up until very recently, mythological tales predominated in the explanation of the polar auroras. Today, we understand that the polar lights are a phenomenon brought on by the solar winds' interaction with the magnetosphere of the Earth leading to precipitation of energetic particles on the topside ionised atmosphere. However, for a long time, this phenomenon inspired vibrant trans-border stories with a profound impact on local communities. In our interactive installation, Mytherrella, we aimed to create a dynamic environment in which scientific data and mythological storytelling unearth new imaginaries about the aurora borealis. The generative video integrated in the installation uses a custom real-time StyleGAN algorithm that continuously samples from a model trained on a large set of all-sky auroral images acquired in Kiruna, Sweden. This method enables live interaction with the generated video, producing novel synthetic auroral formations that are unpredictable while remaining within the bounds of the learned features. By combining the dataset with a relatively small number of alternative-style images, the diversity of the generated content is increased, creating a divergent effect that reinforces the mythological narrative. We share the technique of interactive video generation as well as the research process behind the creation of the work.
A Latin America Network for Art and Cybernetics: The Centre for Art and Communication (CAyC)
Authors: Mariategui Jose-Carlos
Published: June 2024

Towards the end of the 1960s—a period of intense creative, technological and political changes—the Argentinian art critic and entrepreneur Jorge Glusberg founded the CAyC in Buenos Aires. CAyC was an interdisciplinary experimental project that explored the relationship between art, technology and society. It sought to articulate a network of discussions and productions by a new style of Latin American artist, deeply influenced by science, technology and society. Glusberg defined such practice as Systems Art, which appeared in three ways, namely as a system of collective representation; a system of meaning that defied formal categories; and a system of relationships and processes for social inquiry. In doing so, the artist became a researcher who reflected on their social context and the latter’s processes of production. This paper will discuss CAyC’s pioneering work and its global influence through three main initiatives: its exhibitions Art and Cybernetics, Systems Art in Latin America and the International Open Encounters on Video. These events were driven by the revolutionary artistic and experimental promotion of the distinctive ways in which Latin American artists were using technology to respond to local issues at a time when computer systems and cybernetic models for management and organizational practices were being introduced across the region.
The Fall of R’Thea: Digital Fiction
Authors: Polydorou Doros
Published: June 2024

This paper outlines the creative process and the immersive approaches undertaken to create the location-based storytelling experience The Fall of R’Thea. The installation revolves around the theme or Artificial Intelligence, digital humans and artificial life and aims to immerse the users into a hybrid environment of a physical and virtual nature. The experience is told through multiple mediums, and the story needs to be carefully pieced together by the audience. As this experience requires participants to engage in various activities, the immersive qualities shift in type and intensity. The authors, through this paper, aim to share the approaches they chose to immerse the participants into their spaces, as well as highlight the challenges and the lessons they learned.
Black Box versus Black Bloc
Authors: Ridgway Renée
Published: June 2024

With around 5.5 billion requests per day, Google is the most used search engine worldwide. Google Search identifies users online by collecting personal data—including an IP address, yet when using the Tor browser, a users’ IP address remains obscured. Black Box versus Black Bloc employs Alexander Galloway’s eponymous essay to structure the effects of Google Search (The Personalised Subject) compared to that of the Tor Browser (The Anonymous User). Departing from the "data subject," I adopt the internet protocol (IP) address as an organisational hinge to show the effects of search on (us)ers—"subjectivities of search" and "agencies of anonymity," organised into ‘collaborative collectives’ according to degrees of human-algorithmic interaction. The key difference is that I choose to be in the "anonymous Tor collective," trusting my privacy to unknown human actors instead of putting trust in Google that assigns me to particular groups through their non-transparent process of collaborative filtering, without human agency.
Processes, Fabrication and Design with Kombucha Bacterial Cellulose: Mapping Practices
Authors: Roussel Vivien , Haute Lucile , Dhulster Pascal , Teyssier Marc
Published: June 2024

Kombucha is a fermented drink that has been drunk in Asia for centuries and has recently been popularized in Western cultures. The production of the beverage generates a co-product, a biofilm of Bacterial Cellulose (BC). This biofilm is today at the center of a typology of bio-design practices, ranging from initiation workshops to fermentation to practical and plastic research around shaping objects with this living matter. This paper proposes an overview and initial classification of the current design practices that use Kombucha Bacterial Cellulose as the raw material for artifacts. To this extent, we structured a corpus of selected projects in a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) map. We classified 38 projects in the field of design made between 1985 to 2022. Each project is positioned in an orthonormal frame of reference according to its degree of definition of use (from the most unrestricted use to the most defined use) and its scale of manufacture (from single experimentation to industrial production). This map tries to bridge the gap between the communities.
Deeply Listening Through/Out the Deepscape
Authors: Scurto Hugo , Chemla–Romeu-Santos Axel
Published: June 2024

This paper presents early artistic, conceptual and technical work toward practicing and theorising through/out the deepscape. I first introduce the concept of deepscape, which may designate the global flows of media intensively computed by deep learning throughout the Internet, entangled with the material, human and cultural resources they capitalise on throughout corporate infrastructures of artificial intelligence (AI). I then propose to explore deep listening of soundscapes generated by deep learning as a practice to raise awareness of the planetary scale of the deepscape. I relate the diffractive prototyping of a deep generative model of soundscape, based on the multichannel hacking of the Realtime Audio Variational auto Encoder (RAVE), trained on worldwide soundscape data that I transversally recorded over 28 places in late April 2022, using the Locustream online sound map. I argue that listening to the planetary soundscape that continually flows from this deep generative model may reveal the ethico-ontoepistemology of deep learning, by recalling the landscapes that are being exploited by infrastructures of AI, while situating data collection practices and training costs of deep learning. The paper ends by discussing art and science work that might be engaged to reveal and reconfigure the deepscape in depth.
Volume of Voids: Artistic Visualizations of the Disequilibrium
Authors: Zhang Weidi , Su Shaoyu
Published: June 2024

Volume of Voids is a series of art projects that visualize and materialize the voids between different beings under the regulation of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic. It consists of two major artworks: Volume of Voids I, which creates data sculptures that visualize and materialize the voids, and Vol II of Voids, which brings an interactive art experience that emphasizes the mobility of the space-between humans. The purpose of this work is to create an artistic and conceptual response to the impact of a historical pandemic on complex social networking systems by rethinking the space-between. This paper introduces the conceptual background, design methodology, and technical implementation of this series of work, including the discussions of speculative design framework on computational art, experimental data visualization, volumetric capturing, and 3d fabrication.
POBREZA FEMENINA EN CASTILLA Y LEÓN: CAUSAS Y SOLUCIONES
Authors: Álvarez Cuesta Henar
Published: June 2024

La estructura de la población rural de Castilla y León, calificada por baja densidad, dispersión y agudo envejecimiento hacen que el diagnóstico de sus necesidades se convierta en vital a la hora de planificar toda una línea de actuaciones a nivel regional y local ordenadas a revertir la situación: El libro ofrece al lector un análisis detallado de los problemas y propone soluciones atentas a la diferente dimensión de los municipios y las demandas concretas de los distintos colectivos en aspectos relacionados con el catálogo de servicios sociales existentes y el requerido, la sostenibilidad y habitabilidad del entorno y las medidas destinadas a mejorar la atención sanitaria y promover la salud.
CASOS DE ESTUDIO SOBRE METEORITOS ESPAÑOLES. EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES COMO GARANTE DE LA CONSERVACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA ESPAÑOLA
Authors: García Guinea Javier , Nieto Codina Aurelio , Sánchez Muñoz Luis
Published: June 2024

Hace falta una nueva regulación sobre Meteoritos caídos y hallados en España porque nuestro espacio Schengen está abierto libremente a 400 millones de europeos que pueden venir a recoger nuevos meteoritos caídos, darlos de alta en el Meteoritical Bulletin, revalorizar todos los fragmentos y después venderlos por internet. Por otra parte, cuando los investigadores españoles intentan acceder a esos primeros meteoritos de una nueva caída, para poder estudiarla, solo pueden buscar en el campo u ofrecer dinero a particulares y caza-meteoritos sin apoyo institucional alguno. Los Meteoritos tienen un gran valor científico, son mensajeros del tiempo, del Espacio, de la composición del Universo y del origen de la propia Tierra. Los importantes bólidos de Villalbeto (Palencia, 2004) y Traspena (Lugo, 2021) y nuestros grandes sideritos hallados en España de más de 100 kg (Retuerta del Bullaque, Colomera y Zaragoza) nos han enseñado que nuestros escasos meteoritos caídos y hallados en España no deberían ser tratados mercantilmente y vendidos a trozos por internet. El Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) conserva y expone al público una gran colección de meteoritos españoles históricos desde 1773, pero la Ley 16/1985, de 25 de junio, del Patrimonio Histórico Español no facilita el acceso de nuevos Meteoritos Españoles a sus vitrinas. Durante los últimos años el MNCN ha incrementado las técnicas analíticas no destructivas disponibles en sus laboratorios y actualmente se pueden analizar meteoritos internamente evitando riesgos.
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Authors: Casado Casado Belén
Published: June 2024

El cine es una diversión que hay que tomar muy en serio. Un fin que puede, incluso, ser tomado como medio. Los educadores así lo han comprendido desde hace años, y los profesores de Derecho no iban a ser menos. Al cine nada de lo humano le es ajeno, y por eso quienes se dedican a la docencia en el ámbito jurídico son conscientes de que, si se puede gozar con el cine —esa bella arte—, también se puede trabajar con él en el aula. Es necesario, claro está, estar dispuesto a ello, poseer una cultura cinematográfica apropiada y diseñar adecuadamente esta estrategia pedagógica, como se hace con cualquier táctica formativa para que resulte eficaz. Es esencial seleccionar correctamente aquellas películas o escenas que puedan ser útiles en un determinado momento para trabajar en clase, teniendo claro qué se pretende del alumnado con dicho trabajo, además de ilustrar el tratamiento de la cuestión académica que sea. El presente libro es fruto del trabajo desarrollado por un grupo de docentes, principalmente profesores de asignaturas jurídicas de la Universidad de Málaga, miembros de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa titulado «La inserción del cine en la docencia de asignaturas jurídicas: la relevancia de la lengua inglesa» (PIE19-016), coordinado por el Profesor de Derecho Civil Antonio J. Quesada Sánchez. En él se recopilan una serie de fichas de trabajo que describen experiencias individuales puestas en práctica por los docentes con sus respectivos grupos de alumnos, todas conectadas con el cine.
TAREA 2
Authors: Quesada Sánchez Antonio
Published: June 2024

El cine es una diversión que hay que tomar muy en serio. Un fin que puede, incluso, ser tomado como medio. Los educadores así lo han comprendido desde hace años, y los profesores de Derecho no iban a ser menos. Al cine nada de lo humano le es ajeno, y por eso quienes se dedican a la docencia en el ámbito jurídico son conscientes de que, si se puede gozar con el cine —esa bella arte—, también se puede trabajar con él en el aula. Es necesario, claro está, estar dispuesto a ello, poseer una cultura cinematográfica apropiada y diseñar adecuadamente esta estrategia pedagógica, como se hace con cualquier táctica formativa para que resulte eficaz. Es esencial seleccionar correctamente aquellas películas o escenas que puedan ser útiles en un determinado momento para trabajar en clase, teniendo claro qué se pretende del alumnado con dicho trabajo, además de ilustrar el tratamiento de la cuestión académica que sea. El presente libro es fruto del trabajo desarrollado por un grupo de docentes, principalmente profesores de asignaturas jurídicas de la Universidad de Málaga, miembros de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa titulado «La inserción del cine en la docencia de asignaturas jurídicas: la relevancia de la lengua inglesa» (PIE19-016), coordinado por el Profesor de Derecho Civil Antonio J. Quesada Sánchez. En él se recopilan una serie de fichas de trabajo que describen experiencias individuales puestas en práctica por los docentes con sus respectivos grupos de alumnos, todas conectadas con el cine.
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Authors: Arias Díaz María
Published: June 2024

El cine es una diversión que hay que tomar muy en serio. Un fin que puede, incluso, ser tomado como medio. Los educadores así lo han comprendido desde hace años, y los profesores de Derecho no iban a ser menos. Al cine nada de lo humano le es ajeno, y por eso quienes se dedican a la docencia en el ámbito jurídico son conscientes de que, si se puede gozar con el cine —esa bella arte—, también se puede trabajar con él en el aula. Es necesario, claro está, estar dispuesto a ello, poseer una cultura cinematográfica apropiada y diseñar adecuadamente esta estrategia pedagógica, como se hace con cualquier táctica formativa para que resulte eficaz. Es esencial seleccionar correctamente aquellas películas o escenas que puedan ser útiles en un determinado momento para trabajar en clase, teniendo claro qué se pretende del alumnado con dicho trabajo, además de ilustrar el tratamiento de la cuestión académica que sea. El presente libro es fruto del trabajo desarrollado por un grupo de docentes, principalmente profesores de asignaturas jurídicas de la Universidad de Málaga, miembros de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa titulado «La inserción del cine en la docencia de asignaturas jurídicas: la relevancia de la lengua inglesa» (PIE19-016), coordinado por el Profesor de Derecho Civil Antonio J. Quesada Sánchez. En él se recopilan una serie de fichas de trabajo que describen experiencias individuales puestas en práctica por los docentes con sus respectivos grupos de alumnos, todas conectadas con el cine.
TAREA 5
Authors: Meléndez-Valdés Navas Marina
Published: June 2024

El cine es una diversión que hay que tomar muy en serio. Un fin que puede, incluso, ser tomado como medio. Los educadores así lo han comprendido desde hace años, y los profesores de Derecho no iban a ser menos. Al cine nada de lo humano le es ajeno, y por eso quienes se dedican a la docencia en el ámbito jurídico son conscientes de que, si se puede gozar con el cine —esa bella arte—, también se puede trabajar con él en el aula. Es necesario, claro está, estar dispuesto a ello, poseer una cultura cinematográfica apropiada y diseñar adecuadamente esta estrategia pedagógica, como se hace con cualquier táctica formativa para que resulte eficaz. Es esencial seleccionar correctamente aquellas películas o escenas que puedan ser útiles en un determinado momento para trabajar en clase, teniendo claro qué se pretende del alumnado con dicho trabajo, además de ilustrar el tratamiento de la cuestión académica que sea. El presente libro es fruto del trabajo desarrollado por un grupo de docentes, principalmente profesores de asignaturas jurídicas de la Universidad de Málaga, miembros de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa titulado «La inserción del cine en la docencia de asignaturas jurídicas: la relevancia de la lengua inglesa» (PIE19-016), coordinado por el Profesor de Derecho Civil Antonio J. Quesada Sánchez. En él se recopilan una serie de fichas de trabajo que describen experiencias individuales puestas en práctica por los docentes con sus respectivos grupos de alumnos, todas conectadas con el cine.