This article explores the potential and limits of popular satire theatre Kotéba in transporting critical narratives into Malian public sphere. It investigates how can be perceived as a means contestation. Through accounts two cultural agents who were actively implicated creating plays censorship-processes during Moussa Traoré regime (1968-1991), author traces Kotéba’s development social functio...

Our aim is to develop a gesture follower for performing arts, which indicates in real-time the time correspondences between an observed gesture sequence and a fixed reference gesture sequence (or in other words to time warp in real-time the observed sequence to the learned sequence). Applications concern for example choreography or (composed) music. The possibility to continuously establish cor...

Export base theory, which posits that overall regional growth is a function of external sales of locally produced goods and services, dominates economic development practice. But the consumption base can also serve as a growth driver, especially in small towns and rural areas. Local investments may induce residents to divert expenditures into local purchases, attract new and footloose residents...

The CASPAR project is an European project devoted to the preservation of digitally encoded information. In the course of the project, the contemporary arts testbed aims at building a preservation framework for contemporary arts using electronic devices, and particularly for performing arts (music, dance, video installations...). The project addresses very specific issues as digital rights, or a...

The purpose of the present investigation was to analyse interviews of highly regarded Finnish magicians. Social network analysis (N = 120) was used to identify Finland's most highly regarded magicians (N = 16). The selected participants' careers in professional magic and various aspects of their professional conduct were examined by relying on semi-structured interviews. The results revealed th...