bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Disrupters, This is Disrupter X: Mashing up the archive
Authors: Sunstrum Pamela Phatsimo , Nkosi Thenjiwe Niki 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article reflects on the conceptual and aesthetic practices engaged in the development of a performance work by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum titled DISRUPTERS, THIS IS DISRUPTER X. Nkosi/Sunstrum liberally describe this multimedia performance work as an ‘anti-opera’. In 2014, the Iwalewahaus African Art Archive at the University of Bayreuth invited Nkosi and Sunstrum to make further developments to an anti-opera they had been conceiving since 2013. The invitation formed part of ‘Mashup The Archive’, an artist residency encouraging contemporary artists from Africa to engage with the Iwalewahaus Archive. The resulting performance was presented at the Schokofabrik, Bayreuth and was a tour through a ‘maquette’ of the anti-opera. It was a ‘living maquette’ in which audiences (termed ‘Safarists’) travelled through stations illustrating sketches of scenes, histories of characters, and other fragments of narrative exposition. The artists illustrated these stations using both ‘relics’ from the Iwalewahaus Archive, and newly generated digital and analogue content. Using a common tactic found in electronic music known as ‘sampling’, Nkosi/Sunstrum recontextualized and reinvented these artefacts to form part of the anti-opera narrative. The world of the anti-opera was created by video projections, sound streamed live to Bayreuth from Johannesburg, handmade replicas of archival objects, original music created from archival instruments, live performers and a professional opera singer. South African literary theorists Delphi Carstens and Mer Roberts suggest that the sci-fi genre ‘offers a potential vehicle for expressing the African oral mythical mode and a (re)writing of the continent’s marginalized oral histories in the mythopoeic mode’.1 Nkosi/Sunstrum are interested in the radical implications of this view and are using sci-fi as a tactic for imagining and ‘occupying’ new African futures.
Jozi Rhythmanalogues: Measures of sense and nonsense in Johannesburg’s automatic writing
Authors: van Veuren Mocke Jansen 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The city of Johannesburg pulsates with rhythms that are driven by some of its most fundamental characteristics: pressured economic activity, the mingling and movement of bodies, commuting, and a history of race and class segregation. The collaborative Jozi Rhythmanalogues project attempts to make sense of these rhythms by employing sensory experience as a process of explorative thought. In the course of this project, public spaces are documented over long periods through time-lapse films, which are analysed to reveal patterns of movement. The resulting graphs, representing a kind of ‘automatic writing’ of the city’s rhythms, are interpreted as a graphic score by musical ensembles, producing music, sound and noise. This article reflects on the explorations of spaces, methods and concerns that has led to the development of the Jozi Rhythmanalogues project’s different manifestations, and looks at the ways in which two very different ensembles have interpreted the graphic score. The key questions that emerge relate to the nature of the information that is captured or ‘written’ in the graphs, and what it means to attempt, over and over, to make sense of this information. The idea of ‘sensory thought’ is critical here, as the project in its entirety is concerned with the work of the senses as a thinking process. This phenomenological angle is complicated by the flirtation with abstract data in the measurements that comprise the production of the graphs, revealing a question of movement between poetic and analytical modes of apprehension.
Hybrid Constitution/Melez Anayasa: An artwork as a text as an artwork
Authors: Monico Francesco 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The Hybrid Constitution/Melez Anayasa defines the principles upon which a Hybrid Constitution between nature and technology is based. This is an artistic task, because nature and technology cannot inscribe their Magisteria as beings and rights inside a ‘Constitution’, but a beginning for a new utopic non-human-centred vision. The Hybrid Constitution is based on the assumption that best constitution is a mixed system, including human, nature, and low- and high-tech elements. This constitution distinguishes between human citizens, who had the right to participate in the state, and non-citizens and Others, who had the right to be represented. The otherness. The Hybrid Constitution/Melez Anayasa is an artwork presented at the Amber Festival in Istanbul in 2011 and the argument of an essay published in the AUT AUT issue 361/2014 and titled La condizione postumana.
Capturing Gaddafi: Narrative as system currency
Authors: Derr Diane 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article explores the construction of narrative through multiple vehicles and its function as currency in systems of representation and communication. Information derived from events and sets of relational events configured through their production and dissemination in the network model of communication challenges the existing theoretical frameworks of narrative construction. This article considers the capture of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi as a mechanism to examine the role of the network model of communication in the construction of narrative through the lens of cognitive narratology and radical constructivism. In doing so, it considers the event-indexing situation model (EISM) as a possible instrument for enabling a cognitive construction of narrative stemming from event information produced and disseminated within the network model of communication.
Empathy beyond the human: Interactivity and kinetic art in the context of a global crisis
Authors: Gauld Quanta 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article explores the use of interactive and kinetic technologies in contemporary art practice as a means by which artists engage with conditions of social and ecological crisis. In a context in which the perpetual exploitation of human and natural resources threatens the sustainability of the planet and all earthy life, the language of interactivity provides perspective into the interconnectivity of organisms and the interdependence of biological, social, economic and political systems. The interactive, kinetic work affords a distilled set of relationships and movements that rely on connection and participation and, as such, serve as simple and relatable models of complex and interrelated systems. By engendering a sense of fragile suspension between sustainability and collapse – a felt experience of the present ecological crisis – the artists discussed incite affective responses through their works that are argued to be distinctly empathic in nature. Contemporary environmental theory provides insight into a shifting relationship between human and ‘nature’ that dissolves the previously instated binary in favour of an empathic consciousness, at the core of which is a recognition of the interdependence of living organisms. Art historical insight of interactivity as a means of production reveals a notable link between interactive art, destruction and trauma. The affective response engendered in contemporary works that grapple with concepts of transience and mortality relies on the very human knowledge of the body as a relatable site of experience, particularly pain and trauma. The idea of empathy as prefigured by violence and loss is particularly resonant in relation to contemporary ecological trauma. Works by artists including Rebecca Horn, Theo Jansen, Natalie Jeremijenko, Alan Rath, Lygia Clark, Alexandra Karakashian and Robert Krishner are discussed in terms of interactivity and kineticism as prompting empathic engagement in the context of environmental entropy.
Liminality and the emergence of an integrated being
Authors: Domagalska Blanka 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Our culture is engaged in a process of dismantling the traditional processes of producing individuations and meaning. The borders between the engineered and organic, human and technological are dissolving as the individual reaches for the integrated experience. Liminality is the present state of dissolution of the self as a subject and a stage leading towards a new kind of individuation. There is a potential in developing a new language centred in the experience of the sensing body in order to move beyond the dialectical world-view initiated in an era marking the beginning of scientific progress. In this article, I will provide an overview of the processes that shaped the idea of a subject as an ontological entity. These processes will be viewed through the lens of scientific and aesthetic pursuits. I will follow with a short introduction of object-oriented ontology, which arose with the development and popularization of computers. I will then explore the border between the two ontologies and a possibility for crossing over through the use of the sensing body or bare life. In effect, I am arguing for aesthetics as a new form of language capable of bridging the different manifestations of being in the technological and biological life.
Parasite in the system: Self-reflexivity in emerging network culture
Authors: Reddiar Wayne 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article aims to provide an account of self-reflexivity through recent debates that pertain to thinking about contemporary network culture. It focuses on the shifts from the mechanistic to the organic, and then towards the post-organic, pertaining particularly to current debates around an understanding of systems and structures. Although it employs a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy to mathematics, this article traces the lineage from modern art towards thinking about systems. This work is part of an ongoing research objective that is directed towards practice-based research, particularly aimed at art practice that seeks to intersect with emerging network thinking and culture. One of the intentions of this article is to consider the account of self-reflexivity towards the implication of a ‘system as the medium’ in contemporary art practice, which is found in the writing of Francis Halsall. The research is part of an agenda that seeks to explore the conditions of production in contemporary culture, as a supplement to practice-based research. This article frames the debates around self-reflexivity through the chapter entitled ‘Strange loops’ by Mark C. Taylor, which is found in his book The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (2001). It traces the lineage that Francis Halsall provides in his book Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory (2008), and seeks to provide an account of self-reflexivity towards his consideration of the system as medium, found in the chapter entitled ‘Systems aesthetics and the system as medium’. In this chapter, Halsall provides an inclusive account of the medium that arguably covers the extent of contemporary art practices, through his contribution to system aesthetics.
The account of self-reflexivity introduced in this article follows a parallel pathway to some of the major points in Halsall’s development of the system as medium. These include the ontologically stable modernist art object; the impact of cybernetics and information theory on art practice and discourse; and art that seeks to intersect with the environment.
Reflections on art, nature and technology: The role of technology, algorithm, nature, psyche and imagination in the aspiration of an aesthetic experience
Authors: Lopreiato Paola 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
There is something frustrating in the concept of algorithm that can even worry: its limitations. An algorithm does not need the time to define itself, it possesses in its structure everything that defines it and can work exclusively in a site, such as a computer, which is itself another finite system. Whenever a particular algorithm will be executed it will always be inexorably equal to itself because the number of possible states is finite. A logical­mathematical algorithm is essentially very different from a living being that reveals its being only in the passage of time, in the relationship with the environment, in the happening of events. On the contrary there is a strong relationship between living things and the art, since art essentially needs time to express itself. The art has a time dimension, if for no other reason, because the purpose of art is reaching human beings. But art, through technology, can also broaden its horizons. Art can make use of the technology and can do exactly as the man whose expression is, to grow, to expand, to discover new identities, to conduct an investigation in those distant places, on the border with the irrational.
No nature on Spaceship Earth
Authors: Pothier Benjamin 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
As the post-digital organic landscape evolves through the rapid hybridization of ­practices, from genetic engineering to the creative use of nano technologies and syncretic approaches that are made easier by an always growing number of ­planetary connected telematic networks, and as we face, as a species, increasing environmental problems that more and more people and organizations plan to fix through geoengineering and terraforming solutions, the divide between the engineered and the organic tends to blur… At the same time various contemporary intellectual trends and path of research in philosophy, anthropology, or even archeology and geology lead to reconsider the place of human in the Universe, the anthropocentred perspective or even the concept of Nature itself. Be it through concepts as diverse as Next nature, Anthropocene, Spaceship Earth, the Laboratory Planet or symmetrical archeology. Through the democratization of access to various tools like 3D printers, bio experiment kits or free software communities, the number of transdisciplinary experiments and research projects is growing, which by feedback is accelerating the processes of merging between disciplines. Those different factors are accelerating the hybridization of disciplines and intellectual trends the same way the re-engineering of nature from the nano to the geno level are blending the border between natural and artificial. How are those technoetic approaches and their interconnection a game changer of the geo-eco-nano-politico-philosophico-spiritual landscape on Earth in the twenty-first century? I will discuss these questions in this article while showing the differences and similarities between some of the main philosophical concepts that are currently applied to those questions. By recontextualizing those various philosophical approaches maybe we can draw a map of the future evolutions and mutations that will influence learning, research and creativity in the coming years and decades.
Gender dan Pengembangan Pemikiran Pendidikan Islam
Authors: Yatazaka Yu’timaalahu 
Published: February 2015

Artikel ini berisi penjelasan tentang diskursus gender dalam pengembangan pemikiran pendidikan Islam, dan dijumpai banyak problem ketidakadilan, yang diperlukan solusi untuk mengatasinya. Problem fundamental gender pada level epistemologis-metodologis untuk mengembangkan pendidikan Islam berbasis gender ini ialah direkonstruksinya aspek epistemologi pendidikan Islam. Para pendidik dan peserta didik juga perlu mengubah paradigma dan mindset pada sensitif gender. Artikel ini juga berisi penjelasan tentang metodologi pendidikan Islam berbasis gender dengan pendekatan integrasi, normatif, historis dan intuitif untuk merespon isu-isu gender dalam praktik pendidikan Islam
Ulama Perempuan di Panggung Pendidikan: Menelursuri Kiprah Nyai Hj. Nok Yam Suyami Temanggung
Authors: Indriati Anisah 
Published: February 2015

Istilah ulama, seringkali dikaitkan dengan kaum laki-laki.Padahal tidak bisa disangkal adanya figur agama perempuan dalam sejarah Islam. Karena itu, usaha mengungkap sisi ke-ulama-an perempuan menjadi kajian yang patut dikembangkan. Artikel ini membahas tentang pemikiran Ny. Hj. Nok Suyami dan kiprahnya di masyarakat. Penelitian kualitatif ini termasuk penelitian life story yang sumber datanya diperoleh melalui wawancara dengan analisis domain di Temanggung. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa Sosok Hj. Nok Suyami memenuhi syarat untuk disebut sebagai ulama’ dikarenakan beberapa hal mendasar yang melekat dalam dirinya. Yaitu: (1) kapasitas keilmuan agama yang mumpuni, (2) progresifitas akademik, (3) jiwa sosial kemanusiaan yang tinggi, (4) kemampuan beradaptasi dengan masyarakat yang baik dan (5) ketokohan yang diakui oleh masyarakat umum.
Pendidikan dan Emansipasi wanita dalam Pandangan Abbas Mahmud al-’Aqqad (Nadlariyah Abbas Mahmud 'Aqqad fi Tarbiyatil Mar'ati wa Tahririha)
Authors: Saidah Nur 
Published: February 2015

The issue of women is still a serious discourse for discussion, both about the identity, The issue of women is still a serious discourse for discussion, both about the identity, position and role, even to the character and intellect. This article discusses the theory of education and emancipation of women in view of Abbas Mahmud al - 'Aqqad, an Egyptian thinker, poet, philosopher and journalist scholars in the late - 19th and early 20th century. According to al - 'Aqqad, women have equal footing with men in education and all social roles. But the natural differences between women and men demanding the division of different roles, so that the relationship of women and men should be a partnership. Conservative viewsof ' Aqqad theory based on the Koran, the Hadith position and role, even to the character and intellect. This article discusses the theory of education and emancipation of women in view of Abbas Mahmud al-‘Aqqad, an Egyptian thinker, poet, philosopher and journalist scholars in the late - 19th and early 20th century. According to Him, women have equal footing with men in education and all social roles. But the natural differences between women and men demanding the division of different roles, so that the relationship of women and men should be a partnership. Conservative viewsof ‘ Aqqad theory based on the Koran, the Hadith and the research on the female characters. This theory is in line with structuralist functionalist theory. Structuralist theory gravitate to sociology, while learning functionalist psychological theory, but they have same conclusion, that the relationship of women and men is the preservation of harmony, not competition. ‘Aqqad’stheory could be a solution to the issue of family crisis and child neglect that often occurs as a result of the division of the marital partnership roles are less than ideal. and the research on the female characters. 'Aqqad’stheory could be a solution to the issue of family crisis and child neglect that often occurs as a result of the division of the marital partnership roles are less than ideal.
Influence of selected environmental factors on
macroinvertebrates in mountain streams
Authors: Lewin Iga , Szoszkiewicz Krzysztof , Jusik Szymon , Ławniczak Agnieszka E. 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The objectives of our survey were: to analyze the
structure of macroinvetebrate communities in mountain
streams in national parks and Biosphere Reserves (Poland,
the Slovak Republic), to determine the environmental
factors that influence the structure of macroinvertebrate
communities and to assess the stream habitats including
the bank and channel features, any modifications, land
use and channel vegetation. Our results showed that
in addition to the conductivity, the altitude, stream
gradient and the values of the HQA index that reflected
more natural features in the channel and river corridor
were most important. The River Habitat Survey (RHS)
method reflects not only the morphology but also the
relationships between habitat features and the structure
of macroinvertebrate communities and it provides a
more holistic approach to assessing the health condition
of stream ecosystems. Headwater streams support
unique macroinvertebrate taxa that are found nowhere
else in a catchment and may also constitute refuges for
in-stream biota. Some of the least water pollution-tolerant
macroinvertebrate taxa were recorded.
Optimization of Data Acquisition and Sample
Preparation Methods for LC-MS Urine
Metabolomic Analysis
Authors: Skibiński Robert , Komsta Łukasz 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Nowadays, chromatographic methods coupled
with mass spectrometry are the most commonly used tools
in metabolomics studies. These methods are currently
being developed and various techniques and strategies are
proposed for the profiling analysis of biological samples.
However, the most important thing used to maximize
the number of entities in the recorded profiles is the
optimization of sample preparation procedure and the data
acquisition method. Therefore, ultra high performance
liquid chromatography coupled with accurate quadrupoletime-
of-flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometry was used for the
comparison of urine metabolomic profiles obtained by
the use of various spectral data acquisition methods. The
most often used method of registration of metabolomics
data acquisition – TOF (MS) was compared with the fast
polarity switching MS and auto MS/MS methods with the
use of multivariate chemometric analysis (PCA). In all the
cases both ionization mode (positive and negative) were
studied and the number of the identified compounds was
compared. Additionally, various urine sample preparation
procedures were tested and it was found that the addition
of organic solvents to the sample noticeably reduces the
number of entities in the registered profiles. It was also
noticed that the auto MS/MS method is the least efficient
way to register metabolomic profiles.
An ERP Study in English Relative Clause Processing by Chinese-English Bilinguals
Authors: Wang Huili , Ma Liwen , Wang Youyou , Troyer Melissa , Li Qiang 
Published: February 2015

AbstractThe processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subject relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses are preferred universally. A large body of literature provides theories related to sentence processing mechanisms for native speakers but leaves one area relatively untouched: how bilinguals process sentences. This study is designed to examine the case where the individuals with a Chinese L1 language background process subject-extracted subject relative clauses (SS) and subject-extracted object relative clauses (SO) by using eventrelated potentials (ERPs) to probe into the real-time language processing and presents a direct manifestation of brain activity. The findings from this study support the subject relative clause preference due to the strong influence of English relative clause markedness and bilinguals’ relative lower working memory capacity.