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Journal articles on the topic "Site-specific art"
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Kurg, Regina-Nino. "Aesthetic consciousness of site-specific art." South African Journal of Philosophy 32, no. 4 (October 2, 2013): 349–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2013.865098.
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Tanyildizi, Seda Ozen. "Scale: New Strategies in Site-Specific Art." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 11 (December 28, 2017): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i11.2864.
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Today, one of the crucial issues for discussions on site-specific art is scale. The journey of site-specific art, starting with a quite minimal insertion into an empty gallery space is now institutionalised according to utterly different aims, sometimes involving enormous dimensions. However, to discuss the subject of ‘site-specific art’ only with regard to high-budget projects of major institutions would mean ignoring the large group of artists who work outside these controversial circumstances, employ physical features of a site as a tool to convey their artistic approaches, and do not make compromises in the face of institutional pressure. This study analyses new alternatives regarding site-specific art today and reviews these examples through the recent popular issue of scale, considering the necessity for artists to make compromises in line with the demands of institutions or viewers. The data were collected via questionnaires and interviews, with artists who live and work in Berlin. Keywords: Site-specific art, scale, public art.
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Kim, Jong Ryeol. "A study on the ‘Site-Specific Art’." Korea Institute of Design Research Society 4, no. 4 (December 30, 2019): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.46248/kidrs.2019.4.9.
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Krilov, I. A. "SITE-SPECIFIC ART-PRACTICE AS AN ALTERNATIVE FORMAT OF THEATRE ART." Arts education and science 1, no. 4 (2021): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202104006.
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The author of the article attempts to identify and distinguish traditional and alternative formats of theatre art established by the early 20s in the space of home theatre. The author considers the determinants of the emergence and spread of art practices in the domestic theatre art and refers them to the alternative formats of theatre art. The culture of complicity (participation), producer strategies of postdramatism and digitalization of daily occurrence are presented as fundamental grounds for the emergence of such a non-classical creative model as a site-specific art practice in the landscape of Russian theatre art of the XXIst century. The unstable dynamics of the attractiveness of the non-classical creative model in the Russian theatre space is caused by a number of reasons explicitly presented in the article. The accumulated home theatre experience is developing and being realized by the early 20s in traditional and alternative formats of theatre art, which simultaneously influence each other. The actualization of site-specific art practice is evaluated by the author as a positive phenomenon that allows to update and to expand the arsenal of producer strategies, to discover an innovative approach to creating an aesthetic event, to transform the audience participation within the framework of home theatre art and the culture of participation.
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MacDonald, Shana. "On Resonance in Contemporary Site-Specific Projection Art." Performance Research 19, no. 6 (November 2, 2014): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2014.985101.
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Johnston, D. "Legal I: Site-specific art and changing circumstances." Museum Management and Curatorship 7, no. 3 (September 1988): 298–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0260-4779(88)90040-4.
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Hawthorne, Lucy. "When the Walls Aren’t White: Site-specific Art in Non-art Museums." International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 3, no. 2 (2010): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v03i02/44328.
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Bernier, Michelle. "Fred Astaire’s site-specific choreography: High art for the low-art consumer." Studies in Musical Theatre 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2015): 255–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.9.3.255_1.
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Hayes, Lauren. "From Site-specific to Site-responsive: Sound art performances as participatory milieu." Organised Sound 22, no. 1 (March 7, 2017): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771816000364.
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This article concerns context-based live electronic music, specifically performances which occur in response to a particular location or space. I outline a set of practices which can be more accurately described as site-responsive, rather than site-specific. I develop a methodological framework for site-responsive live electronic music in three stages. First, I discuss the ambiguity of the termsite-specificby drawing on its origins within the visual arts and providing examples of how it has been used within sound art. I then suggest that site-responsive performance might be a more helpful way of describing this type of activity. I argue that it affords an opportunity for music to mediate the social, drawing on Small’s idea of music as sets of third-order relationships, and Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics. Third, I suggest that with the current renewed trend for performances occurring outside of cultural institutions, it is important to be mindful of the identity of a particular site, and those who have a cultural connection to it. I make reference to a series of works within my own creative practice which have explored these ideas.
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Протас, Марина. "ЗАХІДНОЄВРОПЕЙСЬКА КРИТИКА АРТ-ЕПІСТЕМИ SITE-SPECIFIC." Grail of Science, no. 29 (July 19, 2023): 418–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/grail-of-science.07.07.2023.071.
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Від 1960-х років модерністська епістема «medium specific», яку обстоював Климент Грінберг, використовуючи маркером передового артизму в контексті автономної естетичної цінності новітнього мистецтва, була витиснена іншою епістемою «site-specific art», яку підтримали колишні мінімалісти й постмодерністські адепти соціополітичного активізму. Конфлікт епістемологічних цінностей спровокував активне обговорювання змін культурних парадигм як з боку незалежних аналітиків, так з боку ангажованої культуріндустрією «інтерпретаційної спільноти», примушуючи західноєвропейських науковців шукати додаткові шляхи вирішення конфронтації діатриби.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Site-specific art"
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Lu, Shih-Yun. "Site specific interventions in contemporary art." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/691/.
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Site-specific interventions in contemporary art are still a relatively new area of study. The relevant disciplines include site-specific art, cyberspace, new media art and interdisciplinary art, and installation art. In addition to practical experimentation the work draws upon literature and practice from these disciplines in order to create a theoretical framework. In response to the emerging practical and theoretical framework, site-specific installation works were created in contrasting locations that presented both internal and outdoor spaces. The frameworks created through theoretical investigation have been used to analyse both the creative process and the art work itself in relation to both physical space and cyberspace. An experimental art method approach was used in order to gain a deeper understanding of the issues relating to spatial concepts. The analysis uses a wide range of documentary material such as video and photographic recording, as well as the visual interpretation of the art work through exhibition and creative practices. This investigation explored site-specificity in both physical and virtual space in three distinct parts; projects in physical and virtual site-specificity, projects in physical site specificity, and Net art projects. These projects have been analysed from the perspective of spatial concepts theories and Zen philosophy within the framework provided by the four elements - space, time, media and practice. This research examined the value of site-specificity in both physical and virtual sites through the results of the creation of art work in `interdisciplinary art'. This led to the principal conclusion from this research: namely, that physical sites can be duplicated and documented by using emerging digital technology and then be transmitted as a particular mix of physical and virtual sites using the Internet as a medium. This research is an exploration of the under-examined area of site-specificity within contemporary art.
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Lyons, Shannon Jade. "Challenging Placelessness: Site-Specific Art within the Gallery." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2172.
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This practice-led research project investigates ways of challenging contemporary notions of placelessness through the production and installation of site-specific artworks within art gallery spaces. By focusing on the material, architectural, atmospheric and institutional conditions specific to art gallery spaces, and producing artworks that may reveal, expose and illuminate these conditions, the project aims to explore alternatives to the production of artwork in one place and its exhibition in another, and to the use of the art gallery as a ‘non-place’.
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Morais, Fabio dos Santos. "Site specific : um romance." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2013. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/688.
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The goal of this research has been to encircle the term literarture with a number of possible definitions. The idea was less to coin a new term than to apply in writing what I perceived to surface already in various texts cited in this research in order to produce the literartistic piece Site Specific, a Romance. Its production consisted of delving into pieces I believe to be examples of literarture, and from the cross-referential dialogue established between them within the textual tissue of Site Specific, a Romance, I trust to have insinuated a definition to the term. Site Specific, a Romance is a text that fuses art praxis and academic dissertation in one single body. Always suspicious that the act of defining is foreign to any practice in the field of art especially to an artist the will of defining literarture was nevertheless satisfied in producing a text where I could experiment with it: it is my belief that every work of art (re) defines in itself the genre(s) to which it belongs. As such, Site Specific, a Romance is my experimentation and the only possible means I have to express what I think to be, or feel to be, literarture.
O objetivo desta pesquisa de mestrado foi cercar de possíveis definições o termo ¿literartura¿ - um termo que, mais que querer cunhar, percebo na leitura de vários textos citados na pesquisa - e, a partir dele, produzir a obra literartística Site Specific, um Romance. Para isso, foram pesquisadas obras que creio serem exemplos de literartura e, através desses exemplos, penso ter se insinuado uma definição. Estas obras formam um diálogo entrecruzado no próprio tecido textual de Site Specific, um Romance, texto que funde obra prática e dissertação de mestrado num só corpo. Sempre desconfiando de que definir seja estranho a qualquer prática no campo da arte, sobretudo para um artista, esta vontade de definir o termo ¿literartura¿ me foi satisfeita ao produzir um texto onde pude experimentá-la: é minha crença de que cada obra (re) define em si o(s) gênero(s) a que pertence. Assim, Site Specific, um Romance é minha experimentação e meu único modo possível de expressar o que penso, e sinto, ser literartura.
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Spinks, Tansy. "Associating places : strategies for live, site specific, sound art performance." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8752/.
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Claims for originality in this thesis lie in bringing together many different disciplines in art, music, sound studies and performance. The methodology, contextually indebted to the dialogues of site specific art, performance, and sound improvisation, has emerged as a multi-disciplinary one, informed in part by the study of those artists from the 1960s onwards who actively sought to resist the gallery system. The practice has driven the thesis in developing and continuously testing the requirement to respond uniquely to chosen sites. By using relevant references, instruments, and sonified materials, a compulsion to convey something of the particularity of the site’s associations through sound, is performed on site. In the course of considering the wider implications of a site through both the sound performances and the critical writing, I propose that there are essentially three aspects to identify when working with sound on site. I define these as: the actual the activated the associative The first aspect describes what is essentially inherent to the place, the second what can be encouraged to be ‘sounded’ through physical intervention, and the third outlines and forms what I have coined as the wider material of the site. This term draws on any relevant aspects of the social, physical, historical, anecdotal, and aural associations that a site may proffer. However, it is the notion of the associative that primarily informs the research by providing a methodology for the practice and in proposing a new paradigm of a live, site specific, performed, sound art work. The twenty or so works in the portfolio undertaken hitherto have existed not only as live performances but also in virtual and physical documentation, critical 4 analyses, and in the potential possibilities brought to the form by the response of others. By addressing this new taxonomy of approach in defining the actual, the activated and the associative as a kind of aural ground to the site (borrowing a term from painting), significant live sound art works have been developed to temporarily inhabit a space by exploring this latent material of the site.
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Christouli, Vasiliki. "Site-specific art as an exploration of spatial and temporal limitations." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/12037/.
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This practice-based thesis examines the relationship between space, time and the human presence. It is concerned with the dialectic exchanges between my work and the places in which its meaning is defined. Oppositions between space/place, place/non-place, and immobility/movement, articulate the spatial and temporal limitations that delineate my site-specific practice and its experience. The exploration of the relationship between the notion of time and my practice has profoundly affected my research, which has itself endured for an extended period of time. This is described in chronological sequence: 1)initial site-specific installations, 2) site-writing: the thesis and photographic documentation of the installations, 3) installation of the documentation of the initial site-specific installations on the occasion of my viva. My thesis emphasises the role of the viewer’s presence, including the moment in time and the presence of other people in experiencing the site-specific work. The question posed is whether the ‘literality’ of site-specific art can encompass antithetical notions of site as they appear in contemporary life. The hypothesis advanced is that by adjusting the limits between the double experience of the fluidities and continuities of space and time, on the one hand,and their ruptures and disconnections, on the other, site-specific art may allow viewers to think and experience apparent contradictions as sustaining relations. My thesis looks at three works: 'Central Corridor' (2003), 'Seven Windows Divided by Two' (2004) and 'In Site Compression' (2007). Their documentations emphasise the paradox of representing site-specific work on the page. Another set of documentation will be exhibited at the viva, comprising the material of anew situation with its own spatio-temporal relationships (other than those of the initial installations), and will require anew the physical participation of the viewer to be perceived.
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Cohen, Oreen. "Between Myself and the Context: Navigating a Site-Specific Art Practice." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2018. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/139.
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The culminating work of my thesis, “Between a Stone and a Shrine,” presented in April 2014 at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, is contextualized with two of my prior works, “Between You Me and the Wall,” and “Between Icarus and a Phoenix.” These works are further contextualized with relevant autobiographical information. Inspiration is drawn from Walter De Maria’s ideas of meaningless work, and its contrast with Francis Alÿs and his meaningful gestures in public space. My works are then analyzed and compared to Janine Antoni’s bodily relationship to media through physical labor in site-specific practice. By using storyboarding and editing techniques developed by the film directors Federico Fellini and Yael Bartana, immersive installations are refined to create awareness, acceptance and adaptation to entropy in the built environment.
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Di, Lecce Claudia. "Art et imaginaire des lieux : valorisation symbolique 'site-specific' à Berlin." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST1181.
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S'il est désormais acquis que les communautés d'artistes et plus généralement le système de l'art contemporain jouent un rôle majeur dans le changement urbain, il reste encore plusieurs aspects à éclaircir en ce qui concerne la spécificité de cette contribution. Dans le contexte des quartiers en voie de régénération en particulier, les artistes ont un impact sur le capital symbolique qui se transmet des communautés qui y habitent ou y travaillent, à l'espace ; un processus que l'on pourrait qualifier de « spatialisation du capital symbolique ». Ces hypothèses ont été développées à travers l'exploration d'un ensemble d'éléments artistiques ayant agi dans le processus de régénération urbaine, au sein du cadre spécifique du Berlin des années 1990.Afin de donner des réponses nouvelles à ces questions, il a fallu élargir le champ de l'analyse en associant aux dimensions sociologiques, géographiques, économiques et urbaines la considération des activités artistiques qui appartiennent à la sphère plus proprement esthétique. L'hypothèse étant que les œuvres d'art – qui ne sont pas nécessairement des objets – sont des « configurations signifiantes à partir desquelles il est possible d'exercer un jugement rationnel » parce que dans l'expérience esthétique qu'elles engendrent, se produisent des effets d'ordre « normatif, cognitif et pragmatique ». Le rôle crucial de l'espace urbain dans l'évolution de l'art depuis la fin du XIXe siècle étaye l'hypothèse d'un ensemble d'interactions spécifiques, sur le plan esthétique, entre expression artistique et espace urbain. On ne se réfère pas aux recherches artistiques qui trouvent dans la ville un sujet à représenter, mais à des expériences plus radicales qui ont pu choisir l'urbain comme espace d'intervention, substrat des œuvres et lieu où établir des relations plus directes avec le public et le monde réel. La compréhension de l'émergence d'une approche site-specific dans l'art du XXe siècle peut servir à comprendre les racines symboliques du rôle croissant du système artistique dans le changement urbain. Pour aborder une question intrinsèquement transdisciplinaire nous avons dû avoir recours à des instruments variés et hétérogènes. Ainsi cette recherche s'appuie sur une variété de sources : des fonds d'archives concernant les programmes publics et les initiatives institutionnelles ; des recherches anthropologiques visant à reconstruire des histoires de vie et des expériences racontées par leurs protagonistes ; des sources bibliographiques importantes sur le cadre historique et théorique. Le degré d'indépendance des acteurs artistiques dans la détermination de ces changements démontre une profonde ambivalence qu'on ne peut réduire à des formules synthétiques. Les résultats des actions artistiques peuvent être analysés soit comme une exploitation de la valeur symbolique produite par les acteurs institutionnels de la ville, soit au contraire comme la préservation et le développement d'une alternative urbaine et politique. Par rapport aux exemples observés à Berlin, nous avons essayé de retracer les liens qui unissent ces expériences à des phénomènes antérieurs similaires – et à d'autres encore en évolution dans le présent – cela nous a permis de les considérer ceux-ci comme l'expression d'une tradition constamment renouvelée. En ce sens, les acteurs artistiques dont nous nous sommes occupés peuvent être considérés comme les interprètes de besoins et de désirs latents du corps social et urbain qui reviendraient de façon cyclique et qui pourraient jouer un rôle dans le développement de la ville dans le future aussi. L'analyse approfondie des deux cas d'étude, au-delà de leur intérêt individuel, s'offre comme une exploration à l'intérieur d'un champ dans lequel les études sont encore limitées et souvent très circonscrites. Notre recherche se veut comme la tentative de formuler des concepts, des instruments et des stratégies d'analyse qui pourront par la suite être appliqués à d'autres contextesThe key role played in urban change by artist communities, and more generally the art system has been widely recognized, yet the specific characteristics of this contribution are still to be explored. In the context of regenerating neighborhoods in particular, artist communities are able to produce a symbolic value that is subsequently transferred to the space they inhabit and work into, in a process that we could define as a ‘spatialisation of symbolic value'. Our thesis is focused on a series of artistic elements and events that were able to interact with the urban regeneration process that took place in post-wall Berlin in the 1990s.To fully understand such process, it is necessary to broaden the scope of the analysis in order to associate to sociological, geographical, economic and urban aspects the consideration of those artistic activities that belong to the aesthetic sphere. Our hypothesis being that works of art – which are not necessarily objects – may be regarded as significant configurations whose consideration allows a rational judgment as the aesthetic experience they determine encompasses prescriptive, cognitive and pragmatic effects. The crucial role of urban space in the evolution of art since the end of the XIX century supports the hypothesis of the existence of specific interactions between artistic expressions and the urban environment. We are not referring to those art works that find in the city an object to represent, but to more radical researches that choose the urban dimension as a site of intervention, the foundation of the work of art and the place where a more direct relationship with the public and the real world may be established. The consideration of the ‘site-specific' approach that appeared in the art of the XX century has helped us to understand the symbolic nature of the role increasingly played by the art system in urban change. In order to deal with a question that pertains to urban and cultural geography, urbanism, history as well as art history, we had to rely on a set of heterogeneous tools and sources: archival material concerning public programs and institutional initiatives; anthropological enquiries concerned with ‘life histories' and experiences reconstructed through the direct testimony of their protagonists; extensive bibliographic sources used to analyze the broader context of more specific case studies. As a result of our analysis, the degree of independence of artistic actors in the determination of such changes is marked by deep ambiguity that cannot be reduced to synthetic formulas. At times the symbolic value produced may be subsequently commodified and exploited by the institutional players of the city, in other cases art interventions prove as the expression of an alternative vision for urban development and its politics. In the specific context of Post-wall Berlin, we have tried to explore the relationship that connects specific experiences of the time to similar ones occurring in the past – as well as others currently taking place. This effort has brought us to consider the events of the 1990s as the expression of needs and desires periodically reappearing at the surface of the urban and social body, forces that may still play an important role in the future development of the city. Besides its intrinsic interest, in depth analysis of two case studies appears as a further inquiry in a field where research is still lacking and often focused on specific perspectives. Our contribution is intended as an attempt to develop concepts, tools and analytical strategies that may in the future be applied to other contexts
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Rapp, Karen M. ""Not the romantic west" : site-specific art, globalization, and contemporary landscapes /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Mello, Paulo Cezar Barbosa. "Site Specificity na arte contemporânea: Inhotim." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27160/tde-29062015-151300/.
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O estudo a seguir desdobra as questões de site specificity na arte contemporânea e suas modificações nas três últimas décadas. A compreensão do espaço em arte tomou novas formas não só em função dos espaços e dos discursos artísticos, mas também em função dos novos meios e linguagens. Essas mudanças demandaram alguns acompanhamentos por parte dos espaços expositivos, bem como um novo olhar sobre o que se entende por site specific art. Com base, principalmente nas propostas de Miwon Kwon, o presente material compara as obras de arte contemporânea, tecendo diálogos com as mudanças vistas. Espaços institucionalizados, como Inhotim, dialogam com a noção de site specificic arts, demonstrando as observações sobre site specificity. A pesquisa apresenta esta jornada e fornece subsídios para vislumbrar o espaço da arte contemporânea na segunda década do século XXI.The following research unfolds site specificity matters on contemporary art and its changes for the last three decades. The comprehension of the space in art had reached new standards, not only due to artistic spaces and discourses, but also for new media and languages. Theses changes demanded some accomplishments at the exhibition spaces as well as new looks over what one understands as site specific art. Upon Miwon Kown premisses this study compares contemporary art works creating dialogs with the modifications already achieved. Institutionalized spaces, such as Inhotim, converse with site specific arts, what reinforces the need for a site specificity stare. The probe validates the jouney and endorses a fresh look over contemporary art on the second decade of the 21st century
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Goldman, Sasha Bianca. "This Is Not A Joke: Maurizio Cattelan's Site Specific Practice." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/261339.
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Little attention has been given to studying the important nuances and contributions of individual works by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. Since beginning his career as an "art world outsider," the artist has consistently resisted categorization of his work, be it stylistic, nationalistic or ideological. This has made an approach based on examining his social and political context in relation to individual works rather difficult. Instead, the scholarship surrounding his art has most frequently been in the form of a survey, using his earlier conceptual pieces to contextualize later installations and sculptures, an approach that limits a fuller understanding of Cattelan's art. Rather than reading specific works in the context of their individual exhibition history, critics place them in the trajectory of Cattelan's overall practice. Furthermore, much of the existing scholarship has relied on the artist's own discussions of his oeuvre, providing a superficial understanding of both his work and words. Thus, Cattelan has been generally understood and labeled the art-world "joker," and his artwork is seen as a series of "one-liners," limiting the reading of his work. I propose, instead, an in-depth study of specific sculptures, which will lead to a richer understanding of the artist's overall practice within a historical and contextual period. In my opinion, Cattelan's work has been overlooked in relation to notions of site specificity. Through a close reading of Cattelan's most pivotal work, La Nona Ora, I will argue that this artistic paradigm will prove a much more effective lens through which to view his practice.
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Books on the topic "Site-specific art"
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Giuliano, Gori, ed. Dani Karavan archiscultore: Una vita "site specific" = site specific life. Pistoia: Gli ori, 2008.
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Site-specific art: Performance, place, and documentation. London: Routledge, 2000.
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Nolte, Marcia, Julie Miracle, and Tony Ellwood. We Make Carpets: Site-specific work. Eindhoven: Lecturis, 2020.
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Hiddemann, Frank. Site-specific art im Kirchenraum: Eine Praxistheorie. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2007.
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Marion, Ackermann, Holzwarth Hans Werner, Cork Richard, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, eds. Moon mirror : site-specific installations, 1982-2005. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
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Piraz, Giacomo. Site specific Museum_ONE: Parthenon, David, Accademia. Pistoia: Gli ori, 2011.
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Bellis, Vincenzo De. Qui, ora e altrove: Site-specific e dintorni = Here, now and elsewhere : site-specific and thereabouts. Edited by Fondazione La Triennale di Milano. Milano: Mousse Publishing, 2015.
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Sangregorio, Giancarlo. La pietra levitante. Verona: Edizioni dell'Aurora, 2000.
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Pencréac'h, Stéphane. Le bunker de Stéphane Pencréac'h: Fécamp, Régis Bocquel. Montreuil-sous-Bois: Lienart, 2010.
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Inc, Creative Time, ed. The plain of heaven. New York, NY: Creative Time, 2005.
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Stone, Sally. "Site Specific Art." In UnDoing Buildings, 53–72. New York : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315397221-4.
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Levin, Laura. "Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism." In Performance and the City, 240–57. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-30521-2_14.
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Zhang, Yun, and Cheeyong Kim. "The Research Landscape of Site-Specific Art in Public Art Map Quantification Based on Citespace." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 247–61. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46311-2_21.
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Wang, Pei, and Xinqun Feng. "Research on Transition Design of Site-Specific Art Based on Aesthetic Empathy." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 392–403. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35572-1_26.
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Roms, Heike, and Rebecca Edwards. "Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales." In Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History, 171–91. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230339774_9.
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Mueller, John. "Hoplolaimus columbus: a prime candidate for site-specific management in cotton and soybean production." In Integrated nematode management: state-of-the-art and visions for the future, 80–86. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247541.0012.
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Abstract This paper focuses on the economic importance, host range, geographical distribution, damage symptoms and biology and life cycle of Hoplolaimus columbusinfesting cotton and soyabean in South Carolina, USA. Information on this pest to other nematodes and pathogens, the efficacy and optimization of some recommended integrated nematode management strategies and future outlook and research requirements in nematode control are also presented.
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Plumblee, Michael T., and John D. Mueller. "Implementing precision agriculture concepts and technologies into crop production and site-specific management of nematodes." In Integrated nematode management: state-of-the-art and visions for the future, 421–27. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247541.0059.
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Abstract Precision agriculture is defined as a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyses temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and sustainability of agricultural production. This includes a wide range of technologies, many of which are linked to geographic information system technologies used to analyse spatial location and organize layers of on-farm data. Southern root-knot (Meloidogyne incognita), reniform (Rotylenchulus reniformis), Columbia lance (Hoplolaimus columbus) and sting (Belonolaimus longicaudatus) nematodes are significant problems on cotton in the US. Granular and fumigant nematicides have provided control when applied at uniform rates across fields pre-plant in-furrow or at-plant in-furrow at costs of US$148 and US$74 per hectare, respectively. Site-specific variable-rate (SSVR) technologies offer producers the potential to move away from uniform application rates and apply nematicides only to specific management zones in a field. The goal is to sustain yield levels while minimizing nematicide applications and thus increasing economic returns. This chapter discusses strategies for the development of management zones, evolution of application technologies needed for SSVR applications, assessment of nematode damage from multispectral images, and field experiences with site-specific nematode management. The economic importance of precision agriculture technology and future research requirements are also mentioned.
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van de Vall, Renée, and Vivian van Saaze. "Introduction to the Volume." In Conservation of Contemporary Art, 1–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42357-4_1.
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AbstractFor several decades, the conservation of contemporary art has constituted a dynamic field of research and reflection. At first, in the 1990s, this research field consisted primarily of conservation professionals working in or with museums and other heritage organizations. In those years, the condition of many experimental artworks dating from the 1960s and 1970s in museum collections became a concern, while conservators were often at a loss as to what to do with them. Organic materials used in sculptures or installations, like fat, chocolate or wax, were prone to decay; plastics became brittle or discoloured; media devices which grew technologically outdated would soon prove difficult to repair. Conservation of these works often meant intervening in the original materials to a degree that was difficult to justify in terms of prevalent conservation ethics. Conceptual, site specific and performance artworks complicated the focus of conservation efforts on the preservation of a material object in various ways. As a result, practical conservation problems called for technical and theoretical research and reflection, while, in turn, technical and theoretical research and reflection made it possible to frame practical problems of conservation in new ways.
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Desaeger, Johan, Richard A. Sikora, and Leendert P. G. Molendijk. "Outlook: a vision of the future of integrated nematode management." In Integrated nematode management: state-of-the-art and visions for the future, 475–83. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247541.0065.
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Abstract Integrated nematode management (INM) employs a diversity of management practices and focuses on key concepts such as targeted rotations, intercropping, advanced genetics for resistance breeding, remote sensing to monitor nematode distribution and densities, precision agriculture to target control treatments and molecular tools to measure soil suppressiveness. This chapter further discusses new building blocks of INM that could improve the future of nematode management. Outlooks on chemical control in the future; the growth of biological control; the need for resistance breeding; suppressive soil and its antagonistic potential for nematode management; climate change adaption; regional and site-specific approach in nematode management; loss of applied nematology positions at universities and plant protection agencies; and recommended INM programmes are described. For INM to become a reality, applied nematology needs to be at the forefront of the science of nematology again, and funded accordingly.
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Bouma, J., J. Verhagen, J. Brouwer, and J. M. Powell. "Using systems approaches for targeting site-specific management on field level." In Applications of Systems Approaches at the Field Level, 25–36. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0754-1_2.
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Clondir, Razvan. "SURROUNDINGS, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY AS ART - USING TECH-NOLOGY FOR SITE - SPECIFIC OPEN ARTWORK." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.4/s13.090.
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Yan, Huan, Xiangning Chen, Chen Gao, Yong Li, and Depeng Jin. "DeepAPF: Deep Attentive Probabilistic Factorization for Multi-site Video Recommendation." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/202.
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Existing web video systems recommend videos according to users' viewing history from its own website. However, since many users watch videos in multiple websites, this approach fails to capture these users' interests across sites. In this paper, we investigate the user viewing behavior in multiple sites based on a large scale real dataset. We find that user interests are comprised of cross-site consistent part and site-specific part with different degrees of the importance. Existing linear matrix factorization recommendation model has limitation in modeling such complicated interactions. Thus, we propose a model of Deep Attentive Probabilistic Factorization (DeepAPF) to exploit deep learning method to approximate such complex user-video interaction. DeepAPF captures both cross-site common interests and site-specific interests with non-uniform importance weights learned by the attentional network. Extensive experiments show that our proposed model outperforms by 17.62%, 7.9% and 8.1% with the comparison of three state-of-the-art baselines. Our study provides insight to integrate user viewing records from multiple sites via the trusted third party, which gains mutual benefits in video recommendation.
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Perry, Philip A., James A. Van Laar, George Touchton, and Stanley E. Pace. "Application of State-of-the-Art Power Plant (SOAPP) Workstation for Combustion Turbine Emissions Control." In ASME 1993 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/93-gt-217.
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been conducting a broad research and development effort over the last ten years to provide better designs and materials for fossil fuel power plants. To facilitate transferring this advanced design and technology knowledge to the power industry for the next generation of power plants, EPRI and Sargent & Lundy (S&L) are creating the State-of-the-Art Power Plant (SOAPP) Workstation. The SOAPP Workstation will be available to the industry as a powerful tool that can be used to screen advanced technologies for appropriateness to specific sites; obtain design guidelines for advanced technologies; and generate site-specific conceptual designs, including conceptual design drawings, heat balances, cost estimates, and schedules. The technology transfer components of this project are a series of individual software modules that will be integrated into the SOAPP Workstation. This paper discusses two software modules that have recently been developed for combustion turbine power plant emission control. The Combustion Turbine Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Combustor Control Strategies technology module presents state-of-the-art technologies that are commercially available to reduce NOx emissions during combustion, including water injection, steam injection, and dry low NOx combustors. The second technology module, Combustion Turbine Postcombustion NOx/CO Control Strategies, examines selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation technologies for reducing postcombustion NOx and CO emissions. These two technology modules, operating within the SOAPP Workstation, will allow appropriate decisions to be made concerning combustion turbine emission control.
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Alvis, Roger, and Ron Kelley. "Site-Specific, Wide Field-of-View Cross-Sectional Sample Preparation, Imaging and Analysis in a Plasma Ion Source Helios DualBeam™ Microscope." In ISTFA 2014. ASM International, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2014p0255.
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Abstract A Plasma-source focused ion beam (Helios PFIB) DualBeam™ microscope with sub-nanometer 1kV SEM resolution was used to investigate the structure of a state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The capability of the Helios PFIB to produce and manipulate millimeter-scale samples for wide field-of-view crosssectional SEM analyses was demonstrated by lifting out a 570μm long by 40μm wide x 10μm deep and mounting it on a copper half-grid. An angled face was cut into the chunk and high-resolution back-scattered SEM tiles across the entire exposed face were automatically acquired within a modular automated processing system (MAPS).
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Sment, Jeremy, Alexander Zolan, and Guangdong Zhu. "Status Quo of Heliostat Field Deployment Processes." In ASME 2023 17th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2023 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2023-107501.
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Abstract Deployment of the solar field of a concentrating solar power plant is one of many factors that are integral to the success of a project. Knowledge transfer from outside the industry is limited due to the unique nature of heliostats, which redirect sunlight to a receiver with high precision while maintaining a high level of reflectivity. Moreover, learning from project to project can be limited due to the site-specific nature of projects, as the market includes several developers, each with their own unique design. In this paper, we discuss the state of the art in heliostat field deployment. We cover all the key aspects of deployment from project assessment to a fully functioning system, which include site selection, layout development, supply chain, assembly, site preparation and construction, calibration, and operations and maintenance.
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Malinina, Elena. "Contemporary Art Culture as a Creator of Publicity New Forms: Experience of Perm Theatrical Community." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-13.
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This article covers some new forms of publicness in the field of art culture of the Russian city of Perm, e.g. dramatics as a performance in a street environment, and synthetic museum-theatrical form under the conditions of a stage box. The study was accomplished mainly via culturological method. At one time theatre left the urban environment, but in the 21st century theatrical forms have begun to permeate urban space again, the statement primarily concerns site-specific theatre. This is equivalent to the birth of new theatrical-city publicity, a new modality of the interpenetration of the public and the private. One of the best-known theatrical projects in this field is ‘Remote X’ (‘Rimini Protokoll’ band). Here, the close co-existence habitual to city dwellers turns into a social substrate, and a way to implement interpersonal artistic communication, thereby largely changing the disposition of the former, and transforming itself. Another new form of relationship between collective and individual aspects in the public sphere is the synthetic museum-theatre form, on the example of immersion dramatics ‘Permian Pantheon’ (Perm Academic Theatre, stager Dmitry Volkostrelov). The natural ‘calendar-seasonal’ tempo-rhythm of the dramatics creates a triple semantic effect risen from artistic reality. It immerses the viewer into the process of traditional subsistence in whole (actualisation of the cultural collective unconscious), represents cultural phenomena (which corresponds to the culture-focused paradigm of artistic consciousness of the second half of the 20th century to the early 21st century), reaches the level of worldview values, the philosophical generalisation of cultural-existential reality. Thus, on the example of two Perm theatrical plays the author can speak about the origin of new forms of publicness in contemporary culture to entail new relationships between publicity and privacy in the current realities.
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Schols, Victor, Theo Klaver, Mark Pettitt, Chris Ubuan, Sape Miedema, Kas Hemmes, and W. J. Vlasblom. "A Feasibility Study on the Application of Fuel Cells in Oil and Gas Surface Production Facilities." In ASME 2006 4th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fuelcell2006-97183.
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This paper presents the results of a study to evaluate the feasibility of deploying fuel cells in hydrocarbon producing facilities. For the majority of hydrocarbon production facilities, electric power is generated on-site, most often, by the combustion of some of the produced hydrocarbons. To optimize its performance, Shell is continuously looking at applying new technologies, which can increase the availability of her production facilities and/or reduced lifecycle costs and/or improve safety and environmental performance. Shell has identified fuel cell technology as being capable of delivering some of these benefits because of its potential to achieve high availability, reliability and fuel efficiency when compared to conventional technologies. An inventory has been made of the specific design specifications and the state-of-the-art of commercially available fuel cell systems. Most of the required capacities fall in the range of 1kW to 1 MW, which is compatible with state of the art fuel cell developments or it can be achieved in the near future. A software-screening tool has been constructed to evaluate the various options with respect to conventional technologies. The specific design specifications can vary from production site to site, but in general availability and low maintenance are two of the main criteria to be considered and most favorable for fuel cells. Depending on the specific requirements for a particular hydrocarbon production facility a polymer fuel cell, MCFC or SOFC system are considered suitable alternatives to conventional technology. The screening tool has been applied and evaluated in a case study of one of the unmanned production facilities of Shell. A 20 kW SOFC system was found to score higher than a commercially available gas engine of 25 kW on eight of the most important of several criteria. However, SOFC system lifecycle costs are still 15 to 20% higher due to the development costs needed for this ‘prototype’ SOFC system to make it suitable for use in hydrocarbon producing facility. When applied in more surface production facilities the SOFC system also becomes costs competitive with conventional technologies.
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Windt, C., N. Goseberg, S. Schimmels, M. Kudella, R. Shanmugasundaram, H. Rusche, B. M. Sumer, et al. "Numerical Modelling of Liquefaction Around Marine Structures - Progress and Recent Developments." In ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2022-79821.
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Abstract The liquefaction around marine structures can lead to severe structural failure and the susceptibility of seabed soil to liquefaction at a specific installation site of, e.g., floating offshore wind turbines should be included within the design process and site evaluation. To that end, advanced prediction tools based on numerical modelling can provide valuable insight into the hydro-geotechnical processes. However, due to the complex interaction of the underlying physics, developing a holistic modelling framework for seabed liquefaction is a challenging task. The NuLIMAS research project (Numerical modelling of seabed liquefaction around marine structures) aims at the development of such a numerical model of seabed liquefaction implemented in the OpenFOAM® framework. This paper provides an overview of the NuLIMAS project, laying out the current state of the art of experimental and numerical modelling approaches for seabed liquefaction and presenting some initial results.
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Jiang, Xiaomo, and Craig Foster. "Remote Thermal Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics: Turning Data Into Knowledge." In ASME 2013 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2013-98246.
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Gas turbine simple or combined cycle plants are built and operated with higher availability, reliability, and performance in order to provide the customer with sufficient operating revenues and reduced fuel costs meanwhile enhancing customer dispatch competitiveness. A tremendous amount of operational data is usually collected from the everyday operation of a power plant. It has become an increasingly important but challenging issue about how to turn this data into knowledge and further solutions via developing advanced state-of-the-art analytics. This paper presents an integrated system and methodology to pursue this purpose by automating multi-level, multi-paradigm, multi-facet performance monitoring and anomaly detection for heavy duty gas turbines. The system provides an intelligent platform to drive site-specific performance improvements, mitigate outage risk, rationalize operational pattern, and enhance maintenance schedule and service offerings via taking appropriate proactive actions. In addition, the paper also presents the components in the system, including data sensing, hardware, and operational anomaly detection, expertise proactive act of company, site specific degradation assessment, and water wash effectiveness monitoring and analytics. As demonstrated in two examples, this remote performance monitoring aims to improve equipment efficiency by converting data into knowledge and solutions in order to drive value for customers including lowering operating fuel cost and increasing customer power sales and life cycle value.
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Czachorski, Marek, John Kelly, and Kevin Olsen. "Heat Recovery From Commercial On-Site Power Generation System: Desiccant Dehumidification vs. Absorption Cooling." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-42576.
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As commercial building on-site power generation technologies mature to the point of becoming “off-the-shelf” products, the importance of effective heat recovery is demonstrated time and time again in applications where three to six year paybacks typically are necessary to convince building owners to purchase and install these new technologies. This paper explores the effectiveness and economic benefit of different methods of utilizing recoverable heat from on-site power generation equipment in commercial buildings (Cooling, Heating and Power systems – CHP). An optimal configuration of heat recovery options is explored based on analysis of heat recovery from microturbine(s) exhaust to support commercial building heating and cooling/dehumidification needs. Benefits of recovering heat for space heating/domestic hot water production and to support desiccant dehumidification vs. absorption cooling are studied in five different building types (large supermarket, large retail store, medium size office building, full service restaurant and quick service restaurant). Buildings are evaluated at four different geographical locations, allowing additional study of the climatic conditions on the optimum heat recovery system configuration for specific building types. A sophisticated model, incorporating performance algorithms of state-of-the-art power generation, dehumidification and absorption cooling equipment, is used for calculating annual energy/cost savings for CHP systems and optimization of basic parameters, such as generator size/number and heat recovery equipment selection.
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Norelli, John L., Moshe Flaishman, Herb Aldwinckle, and David Gidoni. Regulated expression of site-specific DNA recombination for precision genetic engineering of apple. United States Department of Agriculture, March 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2005.7587214.bard.
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Objectives: The original objectives of this project were to: 1) evaluate inducible promoters for the expression of recombinase in apple (USDA-ARS); 2) develop alternative selectable markers for use in apple to facilitate the positive selection of gene excision by recombinase (Cornell University); 3) compare the activity of three different recombinase systems (Cre/lox, FLP/FRT, and R/RS)in apple using a rapid transient assay (ARO); and 4) evaluate the use of recombinase systems in apple using the best promoters, selectable markers and recombinase systems identified in 1, 2 and 3 above (Collaboratively). Objective 2 was revised from the development alternative selectable markers, to the development of a marker-free selection system for apple. This change in approach was taken due to the inefficiency of the alternative markers initially evaluated in apple, phosphomannose-isomerase and 2-deoxyglucose-6-phosphate phosphatase, and the regulatory advantages of a marker-free system. Objective 3 was revised to focus primarily on the FLP/FRT recombinase system, due to the initial success obtained with this recombinase system. Based upon cooperation between researchers (see Achievements below), research to evaluate the use of the FLP recombinase system under light-inducible expression in apple was then conducted at the ARO (Objective 4). Background: Genomic research and genetic engineering have tremendous potential to enhance crop performance, improve food quality and increase farm profits. However, implementing the knowledge of genomics through genetically engineered fruit crops has many hurdles to be overcome before it can become a reality in the orchard. Among the most important hurdles are consumer concerns regarding the safety of transgenics and the impact this may have on marketing. The goal of this project was to develop plant transformation technologies to mitigate these concerns. Major achievements: Our results indicate activity of the FLP\FRTsite-specific recombination system for the first time in apple, and additionally, we show light- inducible activation of the recombinase in trees. Initial selection of apple transformation events is conducted under dark conditions, and tissue cultures are then moved to light conditions to promote marker excision and plant development. As trees are perennial and - cross-fertilization is not practical, the light-induced FLP-mediated recombination approach shown here provides an alternative to previously reported chemically induced recombinase approaches. In addition, a method was developed to transform apple without the use of herbicide or antibiotic resistance marker genes (marker free). Both light and chemically inducible promoters were developed to allow controlled gene expression in fruit crops. Implications: The research supported by this grant has demonstrated the feasibility of "marker excision" and "marker free" transformation technologies in apple. The use of these safer technologies for the genetic enhancement of apple varieties and rootstocks for various traits will serve to mitigate many of the consumer and environmental concerns facing the commercialization of these improved varieties.
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Stewart, Jonathan, Grace Parker, Joseph Harmon, Gail Atkinson, David Boore, Robert Darragh, Walter Silva, and Youssef Hashash. Expert Panel Recommendations for Ergodic Site Amplification in Central and Eastern North America. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.55461/tzsy8988.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) national seismic hazard maps have historically been produced for a reference site condition of VS30 = 760 m/sec (where VS30 is time averaged shear wave velocity in the upper 30 m of the site). The resulting ground motions are modified for five site classes (A-E) using site amplification factors for peak acceleration and ranges of short- and long-oscillator periods. As a result of Project 17 recommendations, this practice is being revised: (1) maps will be produced for a range of site conditions (as represented by VS30 ) instead of a single reference condition; and (2) the use of site factors for period ranges is being replaced with period-specific factors over the period range of interest (approximately 0.1 to 10 sec). Since the development of the current framework for site amplification factors in 1992, the technical basis for the site factors used in conjunction with the USGS hazard maps has remained essentially unchanged, with only one modification (in 2014). The approach has been to constrain site amplification for low-to-moderate levels of ground shaking using inference from observed ground motions (approximately linear site response), and to use ground response simulations (recently combined with observations) to constrain nonlinear site response. Both the linear and nonlinear site response has been based on data and geologic conditions in the western U.S. (an active tectonic region). This project and a large amount of previous and contemporaneous related research (e.g., NGA-East Geotechnical Working Group for site response) has sought to provide an improved basis for the evaluation of ergodic site amplification in central and eastern North America (CENA). The term ‘ergodic’ in this context refers to regionally-appropriate, but not site-specific, site amplification models (i.e., models are appropriate for CENA generally, but would be expected to have bias for any particular site). The specific scope of this project was to review and synthesize relevant research results so as to provide recommendations to the USGS for the modeling of ergodic site amplification in CENA for application in the next version of USGS maps. The panel assembled for this project recommends a model provided as three terms that are additive in natural logarithmic units. Two describe linear site amplification. One of these describes VS30-scaling relative to a 760 m/sec reference, is largely empirical, and has several distinct attributes relative to models for active tectonic regions. The second linear term adjusts iv site amplification from the 760 m/sec reference to the CENA reference condition (used with NGA-East ground motion models) of VS =3000 m/sec; this second term is simulation-based. The panel is also recommending a nonlinear model, which is described in a companion report [Hashash et al. 2017a]. All median model components are accompanied by models for epistemic uncertainty. The models provided in this report are recommended for application by the USGS and other entities. The models are considered applicable for VS30 = 200–2000 m/sec site conditions and oscillator periods of 0.08–5 sec. Finally, it should be understood that as ergodic models, they lack attributes that may be important for specific sites, such as resonances at site periods. Site-specific analyses are recommended to capture such effects for significant projects and for any site condition with VS30 < 200 m/sec. We recommend that future site response models for hazard applications consider a two-parameter formulation that includes a measure of site period in addition to site stiffness.
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Price, Roz. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) – What are They and What are the Barriers and Enablers to Their Use? Institute of Development Studies (IDS), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.098.
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This rapid review examines literature around Nature-based Solutions (NbS), what are NbS, the pros and cons of NbS, design and implementation issues (including governance, indigenous knowledge), finance and the enabling environment. The breadth of NbS and the evidence base means that this rapid review only provides a snapshot of the information available, and therefore does not consider all types of NbS, nor all sectors that they have been used in. Considering this limited scope, this report highlights many issues, some of which are that Covid-19 has highlighted the importance of NbS, Pros of NbS include the low cost compared to infrastructure alternatives; the flexibility in addressing multiple climate challenges; potential co-benefits such as better water quality, improved health, cultural benefits, biodiversity conservation. The literature also notes the cons of NbS including slow adaptation or co-benefits, very context specific making effectiveness difficult to measure and many of the benefits are non-monetary and hard to measure. The literature consulted suggest a number of knowledge gaps in the evidence base for NbS effectiveness including lack of: robust and impartial assessments of current NbS experiences; site specific knowledge of field deployment of NbS; timescales over which benefits are seen and experienced; cost-effectiveness of interventions compared to or in conjunction with alternative solutions; and integrated assessments considering broader social and ecological outcomes
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Budzich, Jeffrey. PR-685-184506-R09 Improve Upon Existing Tools to Estimate Hydrotechnical Concerns. Chantilly, Virginia: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55274/r0012249.
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Evaluating risks for hydrotechnical threats at pipeline waterway crossings is important to maintaining pipeline integrity. Establishing standards and best practices for evaluating the risks associated with scour, bank erosion, and channel avulsion is essential to developing a consistent process that can be applied across a network of pipeline crossings and provide data to make decisions about prioritizing mitigation and monitoring. A specific detailed multi-step process with support from improved evaluation tools, including a pilot platform, that incorporates inventory, screening, desktop analysis, and site inspections can be applied to compile regional and local data from existing sources as well as site-specific information that informs risk assessment and identification of appropriate monitoring approaches and mitigation measures
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Abrahamson, Norman, and Zeynep Gülerce. Regionalized Ground-Motion Models for Subduction Earthquakes Based on the NGA-SUB Database. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.55461/ssxe9861.
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A set of global and region-specific ground-motion models (GMMs) for subduction zone earthquakes is developed based on the database compiled by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Next Generation Attenuation - Subduction (NGA-SUB) project. The subset of the NGA-SUB database used to develop the GMMs includes 3914 recordings from 113 subduction interface earthquakes with magnitudes varying between 5 and 9.2 and 4850 recordings from 89 intraslab events with magnitudes varying between 5 and 7.8. Recordings in the back-arc region are excluded, except for the Cascadia region. The functional form of the model accommodates the differences in the magnitude, distance, and depth scaling for interface and intraslab earthquakes. The magnitude scaling and geometrical spreading terms of the global model are used for all regions, with the exception of the Taiwan region which has a region-specific geometrical spreading scaling. Region-specific terms are included for the large distance (linear R) scaling, VS30 scaling, Z2.5 scaling, and the constant term. The nonlinear site amplification factors used in Abrahamson et al. (2016) subduction GMM are adopted. The between-event standard deviation piece of the aleatory variability model is region and distance independent; whereas, the within-event standard deviations are both region and distance dependent. Region-specific GMMs are developed for seven regions: Alaska, Cascadia, Central America, Japan, New Zealand, South America, and Taiwan. These region-specific GMMs are judged to be applicable to sites in the fore-arc region at distances up to 500 km, magnitudes of 5.0 to 9.5, and periods from 0 to 10 sec. For the Cascadia region, the region-specific model is applicable to distances of 800 km including the back-arc region. For the sites that are not in one of the seven regions, the global GMM combined with the epistemic uncertainty computed from the range of the regional GMMs should be used.
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Budzich, Jeffrey. PR-685-184506-R04 Potential Monitoring Techniques and Technologies for Real Time Rainfall and Flooding. Chantilly, Virginia: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.55274/r0011663.
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Systems to alert pipeline operators of existing or impending flood events of concern are important tools as operators work to protect infrastructure at crossings of concern. A critical return period flood alert allows operators to take pre-emptive actions that may reduce consequences involved in major flood events. Gages are valuable tools for collecting data and information about discharge. Physical in-waterway gages include reference gages, crest stage gages, and recording stage gages. For recording stage gages, data can be transmitted electronically and limit the need for site visits. Online, or 'virtual' gages, such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's high-resolution National Water Model and the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, are an alternative to using gages to collect data, as they cover larger areas and are typically less expensive than installing, maintaining and operating site-specific gages. This is D1 on the PHMSA table
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Budzich, Jeffrey. PR-685-184506-R01 Development of Risk Assessment Procedures and Tools. Chantilly, Virginia: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.55274/r0011668.
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Evaluating risks for hydrotechnical threats at pipeline waterway crossings is important to maintaining pipeline integrity. Establishing standards and best practices for evaluating the risks associated with scour, bank erosion, and channel avulsion is essential to developing a consistent process that can be applied across a network of pipeline crossings and provide data to make decisions about prioritizing mitigation and monitoring. A multi-step process including inventory, screening, desktop analysis, and site visit can be applied to compile regional and local data from existing sources as well as site-specific information that informs risk assessment and identification of mitigation measures and monitoring approach.
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Burns, Malcom, and Gavin Nixon. Literature review on analytical methods for the detection of precision bred products. Food Standards Agency, September 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.ney927.
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The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act (England) aims to develop a science-based process for the regulation and authorisation of precision bred organisms (PBOs). PBOs are created by genetic technologies but exhibit changes which could have occurred through traditional processes. This current review, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), aims to clarify existing terminologies, explore viable methods for the detection, identification, and quantification of products of precision breeding techniques, address and identify potential solutions to the analytical challenges presented, and provide recommendations for working towards an infrastructure to support detection of precision bred products in the future. The review includes a summary of the terminology in relation to analytical approaches for detection of precision bred products. A harmonised set of terminology contributes towards promoting further understanding of the common terms used in genome editing. A review of the current state of the art of potential methods for the detection, identification and quantification of precision bred products in the UK, has been provided. Parallels are drawn with the evolution of synergistic analytical approaches for the detection of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), where molecular biology techniques are used to detect DNA sequence changes in an organism’s genome. The scope and limitations of targeted and untargeted methods are summarised. Current scientific opinion supports that modern molecular biology techniques (i.e., quantitative real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR), digital PCR (dPCR) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)) have the technical capability to detect small alterations in an organism’s genome, given specific prerequisites of a priori information on the DNA sequence of interest and of the associated flanking regions. These techniques also provide the best infra-structure for developing potential approaches for detection of PBOs. Should sufficient information be known regarding a sequence alteration and confidence can be attributed to this being specific to a PBO line, then detection, identification and quantification can potentially be achieved. Genome editing and new mutagenesis techniques are umbrella terms, incorporating a plethora of approaches with diverse modes of action and resultant mutational changes. Generalisations regarding techniques and methods for detection for all PBO products are not appropriate, and each genome edited product may have to be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The application of modern molecular biology techniques, in isolation and by targeting just a single alteration, are unlikely to provide unequivocal evidence to the source of that variation, be that as a result of precision breeding or as a result of traditional processes. In specific instances, detection and identification may be technically possible, if enough additional information is available in order to prove that a DNA sequence or sequences are unique to a specific genome edited line (e.g., following certain types of Site-Directed Nucelase-3 (SDN-3) based approaches). The scope, gaps, and limitations associated with traceability of PBO products were examined, to identify current and future challenges. Alongside these, recommendations were made to provide the infrastructure for working towards a toolkit for the design, development and implementation of analytical methods for detection of PBO products. Recognition is given that fully effective methods for PBO detection have yet to be realised, so these recommendations have been made as a tool for progressing the current state-of-the-art for research into such methods. Recommendations for the following five main challenges were identified. Firstly, PBOs submitted for authorisation should be assessed on a case-by-case basis in terms of the extent, type and number of genetic changes, to make an informed decision on the likelihood of a molecular biology method being developed for unequivocal identification of that specific PBO. The second recommendation is that a specialist review be conducted, potentially informed by UK and EU governmental departments, to monitor those PBOs destined for the authorisation process, and actively assess the extent of the genetic variability and mutations, to make an informed decision on the type and complexity of detection methods that need to be developed. This could be further informed as part of the authorisation process and augmented via a publicly available register or database. Thirdly, further specialist research and development, allied with laboratory-based evidence, is required to evaluate the potential of using a weight of evidence approach for the design and development of detection methods for PBOs. This concept centres on using other indicators, aside from the single mutation of interest, to increase the likelihood of providing a unique signature or footprint. This includes consideration of the genetic background, flanking regions, off-target mutations, potential CRISPR/Cas activity, feasibility of heritable epigenetic and epitranscriptomic changes, as well as supplementary material from supplier, origin, pedigree and other documentation. Fourthly, additional work is recommended, evaluating the extent/type/nature of the genetic changes, and assessing the feasibility of applying threshold limits associated with these genetic changes to make any distinction on how they may have occurred. Such a probabilistic approach, supported with bioinformatics, to determine the likelihood of particular changes occurring through genome editing or traditional processes, could facilitate rapid classification and pragmatic labelling of products and organisms containing specific mutations more readily. Finally, several scientific publications on detection of genome edited products have been based on theoretical principles. It is recommended to further qualify these using evidenced based practical experimental work in the laboratory environment. Additional challenges and recommendations regarding the design, development and implementation of potential detection methods were also identified. Modern molecular biology-based techniques, inclusive of qPCR, dPCR, and NGS, in combination with appropriate bioinformatics pipelines, continue to offer the best analytical potential for developing methods for detecting PBOs. dPCR and NGS may offer the best technical potential, but qPCR remains the most practicable option as it is embedded in most analytical laboratories. Traditional screening approaches, similar to those for conventional transgenic GMOs, cannot easily be used for PBOs due to the deficit in common control elements incorporated into the host genome. However, some limited screening may be appropriate for PBOs as part of a triage system, should a priori information be known regarding the sequences of interest. The current deficit of suitable methods to detect and identify PBOs precludes accurate PBO quantification. Development of suitable reference materials to aid in the traceability of PBOs remains an issue, particularly for those PBOs which house on- and off-target mutations which can segregate. Off-target mutations may provide an additional tool to augment methods for detection, but unless these exhibit complete genetic linkage to the sequence of interest, these can also segregate out in resulting generations. Further research should be conducted regarding the likelihood of multiple mutations segregating out in a PBO, to help inform the development of appropriate PBO reference materials, as well as the potential of using off-target mutations as an additional tool for PBO traceability. Whilst recognising the technical challenges of developing and maintaining pan-genomic databases, this report recommends that the UK continues to consider development of such a resource, either as a UK centric version, or ideally through engagement in parallel EU and international activities to better achieve harmonisation and shared responsibilities. Such databases would be an invaluable resource in the design of reliable detection methods, as well as for confirming that a mutation is as a result of genome editing. PBOs and their products show great potential within the agri-food sector, necessitating a science-based analytical framework to support UK legislation, business and consumers. Differentiating between PBOs generated through genome editing compared to organisms which exhibit the same mutational change through traditional processes remains analytically challenging, but a broad set of diagnostic technologies (e.g., qPCR, NGS, dPCR) coupled with pan-genomic databases and bioinformatics approaches may help contribute to filling this analytical gap, and support the safety, transparency, proportionality, traceability and consumer confidence associated with the UK food chain.
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Theiling, Charles, Eric Hanson, Daniel Adams, and Burton Suedel. Rolling Prairie, Minnesota, beneficial use area : a 100-year plan for multiuse land management and restoration using dredged sediment. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), May 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48511.
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Inland waterway dredged sediment management is challenged by a lack of capacity in existing dredged material confined disposal facilities (CDFs) and a lack of available land to place sediment near frequently dredged navigation channels. Navigation operation and maintenance (O&M) dredging, material management, and coordination costs are increasing, and alternative long-term solutions are required. In response, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Paul District has addressed the challenge by investigating regional sediment management and beneficial use of dredged material when updating navigation pool–specific dredged material management plans (DMMP). The recently completed Pool 5 DMMP planning identified a 950 acre (384 ha)* placement site consisting of several land parcels available from willing sellers that will accommodate a “100-year plan” for dredged material management (USACE 2019). This technical note describes the multiple-use site plan that creates sand prairie and wetland habitat, provides public access to sand stockpiles, and implements agriculture studies with the University of Minnesota to evaluate the benefits of dredged material (i.e., sand) amendments in alluvial cropland soils, which has not been widely investigated. The Rolling Prairie site will demonstrate benefits of “distributed DMMPs” in which thin-layer placement on agricultural land near dredging locations can supplement traditional disposal methods. It also shows the advantage of having a large placement site to achieve multiple objectives.
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Robbins, Bryant, and Maureen Corcoran. Calculation of levee-breach widening rates. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/44163.
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Inundation modeling is often conducted for levee systems to understand current flood risks. The extent of inundation caused by a breach in the levee is highly influenced by the widening rate of the levee breach. This study presents an approach for calculating levee-breach widening rates based on average flow velocity through the breach, embankment height, and erosion characteristics of the soil. Estimates of soil erodibility are derived through an analysis of the measurements of soil erodibility presented in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 915 database. Levee-breach widening rate curves are calculated based on these erosion properties to demonstrate the approach, and default curves are presented for typical levees built from coarse-grained soils and fine-grained soils. While the most accurate approach for a site is to calculate site-specific widening rate curves based on estimates of local soil erodibility, the default curves presented provide a suitable starting point for initial inundation modeling.