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\"Explores silence in 20th and 21st century art and films, including works by Joseph Beuys, Maya Deren, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Doris Salcedo\"-- Provided by publisher.

It is rare when you car draw a lire around a thing and call it a history. Often obstructions, like cloudy recollection and unanticipated complexity, rise up to impair your efforts. The history of video art is a special case because it exists within living memory. Younger than many of its practitioners, we assume video art to be in its infancy, perhaps in its adolescence, but, hoping for a long life, certainly not in its dotage. So the question arises: what can we learn from video art's earliest moments that will help us better understand its present state-something of a theory of child development applied to an art form.

Seid examines the lessons that can be learned from the history of video art that will allow for a better understanding of its present state. The infusion of funds into the video art community has created inflated expectations, something that might backfire when the subsidies stop coming.

The skill of precipitation forecasts from global prediction systems has a strong regional and seasonal dependence. Quantifying the skill of models for different regions and time scales is important, not only to improve forecast skill, but to enhance the effective uptake of forecast information. The Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction project (S2S) database contains near-real-time forecasts and reforecasts from 11 operational centers and provides a great opportunity to evaluate and compare the skill of operational S2S systems. This study evaluates the skill of these state-of-the-art global prediction systems in predicting monthly precipitation over the Greater Horn of Africa. This comprehensive evaluation was performed using deterministic and probabilistic forecast verification metrics. Results from the analysis showed that the prediction skill varies with months and region. Generally, the models show high prediction skill during the start of the rainfall season in March and lower prediction skill during the peak of the rainfall in April. ECCC, ECMWF, KMA, NCEP, and UKMO show better prediction skill over the region for most of the months compared with the rest of the models. Conversely, BoM, CMA, HMCR, and ISAC show poor prediction skill over the region. Overall, the ECMWF model performs best over the region among the 11 models analyzed. Importantly, this study serves as a baseline skill assessment with the findings helping to inform how a subset of models could be selected to construct an objectively consolidated multimodel ensemble of S2S forecast products for the Greater Horn of Africa region, as recommended by the World Meteorological Organization.

Living guidelines contain continually updated, and potentially changing, clinical recommendations. The implications of living guidelines for consumers (eg, patients, carers, and people with lived experience) - particularly how living guidelines should be developed and disseminated – are yet to be established. The objective of this study was to explore consumers’ views about how best to support the use and usefulness of living guidelines to consumers. This study used a qualitative (online survey) design. We invited consumers who were familiar with guidelines (living or conventional) to participate in the study. The survey was distributed globally. Recruitment was conducted via the Australian and international networks of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration. The 5–10 minute survey collected demographic data then, after introducing the living guidelines concept, asked questions about what living guidelines mean for consumers, how we might make them easy for consumers to find and use, and potential challenges to their use. We analyzed the data using inductive thematic analysis. Forty-five people (71% women) from 12 countries completed the survey. Participants were enthusiastic about the concept of living guidelines and what they might mean for consumers' ability to make informed health-care decisions and receive best care. They also identified potential challenges related to living guideline dissemination, such as low public awareness of guidelines and confusion about updated recommendations. Participants described practical strategies to support consumers’ awareness and use of, and access to, living guidelines. These included: meaningful involvement of consumers in the development and dissemination of living guidelines; raising awareness by promoting the guidelines widely through trusted health information sources and on social media; and using user-centered formatting and design principles (eg, considering accessibility needs, and publishing lay summaries with plain and culturally-appropriate language). Consumers suggested a comprehensive range of dissemination strategies to support the use and usefulness of living guidelines to consumers, which largely reflect best practice in conventional guideline dissemination. Promoting and explaining the living nature of guideline recommendations might support their use by consumers. There should also be a close link between the living guidelines and any versions or additional content created for both consumers and clinicians. •Consumers are enthusiastic that living guidelines will help to improve their care.•Low awareness of guideline updates may restrict the usefulness of living guidelines.•Living guidelines would benefit from the meaningful involvement of consumers.