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Max Lamb : Exercises in seating
\"One of the most exciting designers working today, Max Lamb (b. 1980) has received international acclaim for his innovative experiments with materials, craft, and technology. Drawn to the form of the chair and its relationship to the human body, Lamb has explored many different inventive outcomes in his ever-evolving Exercises in Seating project. This book investigates over a decade of creative practice with a focus on his interest in seating--from stone thrones to wood chairs and enameled-steel stools. In Lamb's own words, \"A seat is very simple in function, but very complex in the many different characters, forms, and ideas it can express.\" Both retrospective and forward looking, this volume--created in collaboration with the artist--is the most thorough investigation of Lamb's work to date and features an exclusive interview with noted artist Ryan Gander in which the designer discusses his creative processes and goals\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A torrent of ideas on a beautiful day
Typesetting created for the deaf is posed next to a Gander-designed font, printed onto custom Scrabble tiles left amid an unfinished game; a coin that comes from the future is left to be ruined underfoot; personal history, invented symbols, and the artifacts of twenty-first-century life appear as a surfeit of causes and effects, sensations and meanings. A list of short descriptions of elements for a potential exhibition, written in Milliganhand, a typeface the artist invented by commissioning a graphologist to mimic the handwriting of the late comedian Spike Milligan. 14. A Scrabble tile from the artist's collection displaying the letter I rendered in Seusshand, a typeface invented by the artist using the handwriting of the American writer, cartoonist, and neologlst Theodor Seuss Geisel. 15. A vinyl sticker made using Lissonscript, a typeface invented by the artist incorporating the handwriting of twelve artists represented by Lisson Gallery, London, displaying the pangram \"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs,\" originally used for testing space shuttle electronic display equipment.
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Denied Parole: On the art of Ryan Gander
Discusses the work of the British artist Ryan Gander (b. 1976). The author considers the children's book 'The Boy Who Always Looked Up' (2004; col. illus.), made in collaboration with illustrator Sara De Bondt about the Brutalist London icon Trellick Tower designed by Ernö Goldfinger, and the sculpture 'Stumbling Block (Milestone)' (2006; col. illus.) made from concrete fallen from Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, Marseille, France, which both interlace modernist ambitions with their actual manifestations. He discusses his public performances 'Loose Associations' held since 2002 (2004; illus.), comments on his proposal to introduce a new word, mitim, into the English language, and describes his installation 'Is This Guilt in You Too-(Cinema Verso)' (2005; col. illus.). He focuses on his more recent works including 'Ghostwriter Subtext (Towards a Significantly More Plausible Interrobang' (2006; col. illus.), in which curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas are interviewed by an unnamed ghostwriter, and 'Appendix Appendix' (2006), a shooting script for a television series about television which he is developing with typographer Stuart Bailey.
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HAPPENSTANCE
In interview, the British artist Ryan Gander discusses his work. He considers the role of collaboration in much of his work and explores the impact of his studies in interactive art on this element of his practice, charts his collaboration with artists of different disciplines throughout his career, and examines his book works.
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On the Ground: London
Discusses the London art scene in 2007. There are three texts. The curator Catherine Wood notes two art moments of 2007, Tony Blair's speech about new mass audience for the arts in the UK, and the viewing of Damien Hirst's diamond encrusted skull. In this context she considers the exhibition 'The Secret Public' on show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and its emphasis on a DIY aesthetic proposed as an alternative genesis for Young British Artists. She examines the manifestations in London of flourishing networks of 'secret publicness'. The lecturer T. J. Demos focuses on the spiralling art market and the political engagement of contemporary art. The artist Ryan Gander discusses the distancing of new artists from Britart, considers the small circles or sets of artists in London, comments on how London is now too expensive, and proposes an artists' union.
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Diaries of a Young Artist
Sixteen young, thirty-something artists provide diaristic accounts of their daily activities, giving an insight into the lives of those who have achieved a degree of international recognition and who exhibit regularly but whose continued success is by no means assured. The offerings vary in style from conventional day-by-day journal entries to playful cartoons and diary art. ^L
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Immediate neural impact and incomplete compensation after semantic hub disconnection
The human brain extracts meaning using an extensive neural system for semantic knowledge. Whether broadly distributed systems depend on or can compensate after losing a highly interconnected hub is controversial. We report intracranial recordings from two patients during a speech prediction task, obtained minutes before and after neurosurgical treatment requiring disconnection of the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL), a candidate semantic knowledge hub. Informed by modern diaschisis and predictive coding frameworks, we tested hypotheses ranging from solely neural network disruption to complete compensation by the indirectly affected language-related and speech-processing sites. Immediately after ATL disconnection, we observed neurophysiological alterations in the recorded frontal and auditory sites, providing direct evidence for the importance of the ATL as a semantic hub. We also obtained evidence for rapid, albeit incomplete, attempts at neural network compensation, with neural impact largely in the forms stipulated by the predictive coding framework, in specificity, and the modern diaschisis framework, more generally. The overall results validate these frameworks and reveal an immediate impact and capability of the human brain to adjust after losing a brain hub.
The human brain is a distributed system composed of highly interconnected hubs. Here, patients undergoing a rare operation reveal the immediate impact and compensatory brain network changes that occur when a key hub is removed.
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Do Character Strengths-Based Interventions Change Character Strengths? Two Randomized Controlled Intervention Studies
Character strengths-based interventions are effective for increasing well-being. However, whether such interventions also change character strengths has never been tested. In Study 1, we studied the effects of seven different variants of character strengths-based interventions on well-being, ill-being, and character strengths traits and states (i.e., frequency of behavior during one week). We analyzed data of N = 1,163 participants (82.3% women, aged 18 to 78; Md = 45) who were randomized to seven intervention conditions lasting one week; (1) learning about the VIA classification of character strengths, (2) learning about one’s own strengths, using signature strengths (3) in a new way, (4) with a minor challenge, (5) with a larger challenge, (6) for other people, (7) forming a strengths-based habit, or a placebo control condition (early memories). Results showed that using signature strengths in a new way led to increased well-being, social well-being, as well as character strengths states and traits. Forming a strengths-based habit also increased well-being and character strengths states. No effects on ill-being were found. In Study 2, we tested a four-week multi-component program that combined several interventions tested in Study 1 in a sample of N = 254 participants (77.8% women, aged 19 to 87; Md = 42). Compared to a waitlist control group, the intervention condition showed increases in well-being and character strengths states, and reductions in stress and neuroticism. We conclude that character strengths interventions may not only affect well-being but also character strengths states and traits, as well as broader personality traits such as neuroticism.
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