This is part of the process of creating an abstract painting, acrylic, part of a series of three parts. The techniques used are mainly the mixing and gout. I also show some other parts in a similar style and technique, my work completed in 2009. Please visit my web site for buying information: www. MF-fine-art. com E-mail me with questions or purchase information: mfallini @ yahoo. com Credit card payments are welcome. Thank you for your support and have a year very happy and prosperous 2010! Monica Fallin
Artist: R. Lloyd Ming Category: Sculpture Title: One Billion Tongues, Yet No Voice Event: Solo Show in New YorK City March 2009 Info: www. RLloydming. com For his March 2009 show R. Lloyd Ming created the sculpture “1 Billion Tongues, Yet No Voice”. It is a work made from the bust of a Buddha with its head cut off and in the place of its head an antique horn speaker. “The horn speaker is actually bigger than the Buddha”, says R. Lloyd Ming. “It looks like it would make lots of noise yet it does not work. For all its size it is unable to make a sound. This represents the censorship of Chinese people under communist rule. However it is similar to the type of censorship that America exists under.
Google Tech Talk July 31, 2009 ABSTRACT Google Faculty Summit 2009: Global Connection: Inform and Empower Open Data Kit, presented by Gaetano Borriello. Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though our Faculty Summit program. Faculty Summits are designed to provide researchers with a chance to learn more about what Google does in each region and how we support university programs, as well as provide valuable networking time for academics and engineers.
Google Tech Talk October 21, 2009 ABSTRACT Achieving Web Test Automation with a Mixed-Skills Team. Presented by Mark Micallef, BBC Future Media and Technology, at the 4th Annual Google Test Automation Conference, October 21st, 22nd, 2009, Zurich, CH Test automation is commonly perceived as a technical job, which should be done by technical people. In reality however, a considerable amount of non-technical activities contribute to the creation and maintenance of an automated test suite. Whilst test engineers are arguably competent at non-technical testing tasks, they may not be as competent or even as motivated as people who come from a manual testing background. Furthermore, in the context of most systems, especially web-based systems, automated testing would also benefit from people with primary skills outside of testing. These include developers, information architects, business analysts, customers and so on. This talk explores ways of harnessing the experience and skills of people with different backgrounds and channeling them towards the effective test automation of web-based systems. Bio: Mark Micallef has worked in software quality assurance and test automation for 8 years. Having spent time working in the security and finance sectors, he moved to London last year to lead a team of testers responsible for the BBC’s News, Sport and Weather websites.
Google Tech Talk July 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Google Faculty Summit 2009: Global Connection: Inform and Empower Google Founder Larry Page addresses the Faculty Summit audience. Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though our Faculty Summit program. Faculty Summits are designed to provide researchers with a chance to learn more about what Google does in each region and how we support university programs, as well as provide valuable networking time for academics and engineers.
Google Tech Talk July 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Google Faculty Summit 2009: Global Connection: Inform and Empower Google Wave, presented by Lars Rasmussen. Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though our Faculty Summit program. Faculty Summits are designed to provide researchers with a chance to learn more about what Google does in each region and how we support university programs, as well as provide valuable networking time for academics and engineers.
www. egs. edu French theorist Jacques Ranciere speaking at the European Graduate School (EGS) in August, 2009 on the relation between cinema, movement and truth, or more precisely between the cinematographic deployment of appearances and classical narrative logic. Examining several films, especially Hitchcock’s Vertigo as a paragonistic example of the medium, Ranciere works through the shifting play between truth and Aristotelian plot. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Jacques Ranciere. Jacques Ranciere is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Paris (St. Denis). He first came to prominence under the tutelage of Louis Althusser when he co-authored with his mentor Reading Capital. After the calamitous events of May 1968 however, he broke with Althusser over his teachers reluctance to allow for spontaneous resistance within the revolution. Ranciere is known for his sometimes remote position in contemporary French thought; operating from the humble motto that the cobbler and the university dean are equally intelligent, Ranciere has freely compared the works of such known luminaries as Plato, Aristotle, Deleuze and others with relatively unknown thinkers like Joseph Jacototy and Gabriel Gauny. The idea of equal intelligence shines, for Ranciere, a light on the status of political equality; ordinary people should have a presumption of . . .
