Reclaiming Artistic Research – First Thoughts…

FIRST MOVEMENT : Artistic Design

A support environment for audio-related artistic design is described. The rst part of the paper identiies requirements for artistic design support through an analysis of music composition activities, and presents an artistic design system object model adapted from the more conventional engineering design system technology. The second part examines the problems of representation, visualisation a...

First thoughts

Abstract: Jean Mandler proposes an original and richly detailed theory of how concepts relate to sensory and motor capacities. I focus on her claims about conceptual representations and the processes that produce them. On her view, concepts are declarative representations of object kind information. First, I argue that since sensorimotor representations may be declarative, there is no bar to pe...

Rejecting, revitalizing, and reclaiming: First Nations work to set the direction of research and policy development.

BACKGROUND The history and legacy of Western, colonial research methodologies and policy frameworks continue to create and maintain dichotomies of superior/inferior, and valued/not valued between Western and First Nations cultures, peoples and knowledge. METHODS This article was written to awaken discussion on how First Nations are working to shape the direction of research and policy develop...

Musealia - an artistic and documentary research project

Thoughts on Pharmaceutical Research Coordination

Futurologists continue to tell us (Naisbit 1982, Diebold 1984, Porter 1985, Skinner 1985, Toffler 1990) that we are entering an information age, in which intellectual property and the ability to translate it into flexible productive systems will be the principal competitive advantage available to corporations. Exploiting information systems for this purpose in the pharmaceutical industry is a d...