Journal & Book Publications
A collection of publications by LASALLE staff, published during their service in the College, is accessible through the Ngee Ann Kongsi Library at the McNally campus.
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Performance Art: Actualizing Science Fiction
Prof Steve Dixon
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The article examines examples of live performance art that explore themes related to the genre of science fiction, and argues that in significant ways they make concrete and actualize the narratives of sci-fi....
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Dixon, Steve. "Performance Art: Actualizing Science Fiction." The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, edited by Rob Latham, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 263-276.
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The Music of T.S. Eliot's Poetry: Integrating Text, Live Performance, Sound Design and Video in a Multimedia Theatre Production of 'the Waste Land'
Prof Steve Dixon
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The article examines the interactions between the various modalities - poetic text, live stage performance, sound design and video projection - in a 2013 theatrical production of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922). It particularly focuses on the creation of the sound design for the performance and how this relates to the themes and sensibilities of the poem, its inherent sonorities, and what Eliot called "The Music of Poetry" (1942)....
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Dixon, Steve and Joyce Beetuan Koh. "The Music of T.S. Eliot's Poetry: Integrating Text, Live Performance, Sound Design and Video in a Multimedia Theatre Production of 'the Waste Land'." eContact! Online Journal for Electroacoustic Practices, vol. 16, no. 2 - Special Edition: Sound Art and Interactivity in Singapore, 2014.
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Cultural Policy Frameworks: (Re)constructing National and Supranational Identities: The Balkans and the European Union
Dr Aleksandar Brkić
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During a time when the idea of Europe, and the EU in particular, is tainted with economic crisis and democratic decline, Aleksandar Brkić's analysis of the role of cultural networks in helping Europe serve people is both a wake-up call for European authorities which support cultural networks and a tool for cultural networks themselves to check that they are fulfilling their European and intercultural remit as well as they should.
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The Art of Sukumar Bose: Reflections on South and Southeast Asia
Dr Venka Purushothaman
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The Art of Sukumar Bose (1912-1986) undertakes an incisive look at the artist, his works and context of his art production in South and Southeast Asia. The first of its kind to document and give a critical overview of Bose who was curator of paintings at Rhastrapati Bhavan (President's Home) in India through British Raj to post-independent India, the book engages through essays by various eminent scholars to place his work within art history....
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Purushothaman, Venka, Author & Editor. The Art of Sukumar Bose: Reflections on South and Southeast Asia. ISEAS Publishing, 2013
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Hybrid Culture: Japanese Media Arts in Dialogue with the West
Prof Yvonne Spielmann
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This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005–2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art―which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual media applications in the 1990s....
Spielmann describes the innovative technology context in Japan, in which developers, engineers, and artists collaborate, and traces the Japanese fondness for precision and functionality to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and detail. She examines work by artists including Masaki Fujihata, whose art is both formally and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who build special devices for a new sense of human-machine interaction; Toshio Iwai, who connects traditional media forms with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED artwork in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann views hybridity as a positive aesthetic value―perhaps the defining aesthetic of a global culture. Hybridity offers a conceptual approach for considering the ambivalent linkages of contradictory elements; its dynamic and fluid characteristics are neither conclusive nor categorical but are meant to stimulate fusions.
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Spielmann, Yvonne. Hybrid Culture: Japanese Media Arts in Dialogue with the West. MIT Press, 2013.
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The Philosophy and Psychology of the Scenographic House in Multimedia Theatre.
Prof Steve Dixon
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The full-scale house has a long history in theatrical set design, and the addition of video projections and digital effects in recent multimedia theatre has resulted in some extraordinary productions that compress or reconfigure ideas of time, space and place, and interrogate the close interrelationships between the macro and micro, and the real and the unreal....
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Dixon, Steve. "The Philosophy and Psychology of the Scenographic House in Multimedia Theatre." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 7-24, doi:10.1386/padm.6.1.7_1.
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No|w|here. Scenographies for SomePlaceElse
Dr Wolfgang Muench
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Despite Manovich’s claim that there is ‘no space in cyberspace’ (Manovich, 2001), spatial metaphors and representations are omnipresent in digital technology. Blessed with unreliable machinery, unfocussed theoretical discourses and unprecedented opportunities, twentieth century media art struggled with a coherent concept of space for a post-industrialised, post-modern modernity....
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Muench, Wolfgang. "No|w|here: Scenographies for SomePlaceElse." Space and Desire: Monitoring Scenography 03, edited by Thea Brejzek et al., ZHdK. With support of: Swiss National Science Foundation, 2010, pp. 154-167.