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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Cybernetic-Existentialism and Being-Towards-Death in Contemporary Art and Performance
Prof Steve Dixon
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Ideas and themes central to both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy converge in the work of some of the world's most celebrated contemporary artists. Utilizing little or no technology, these artists nonetheless employ "systems" approaches and proto-cybernetic models, while simultaneously exploring themes directly related to existentialism....
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Dixon, Steve. "Cybernetic-Existentialism and Being-Towards-Death in Contemporary Art and Performance." TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 61, no. 3, 2017, pp. 36-55.
Managing Design IP in the UK - Does the End Justify the Means?
Matthias Hillner
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This paper discusses the value of design rights using the example of UK's most high-profile case of design right litigation: Trunki, a ride-on travel case for children. Rob Law MBE invented Trunki in 1996. He registered it as a design in 2002 in the UK, and in 2003 with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), now EUIPO. The design has since been emulated by competitors in countries across the globe....
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Hillner, Matthias. "Managing Design IP in the UK - Does the End Justify the Means?" Conference proceedings of the Design Management Academy, vol. X, 2017, pp. 539-562, doi:10.21606/dma.2017.45.
Design IP Legislation in the UK - an Opportunity to Innovate?
Matthias Hillner
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This paper constitutes a critical and detailed review of an investigation into design right infringement in the UK. The original mixed-method study was commissioned by the UK IPO in 2015/2016 and led by the author throughout the first three of four project stages. This paper focuses specifically on the results obtained in relation to registered design right infringement....
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Hillner, Matthias. "Design IP Legislation in the UK - an Opportunity to Innovate?" Conference proceedings of the Design Management Academy, vol. X, 2017, pp. 563-593, doi:10.21606/dma.2017.46.
Idiosyncrasy as Strategy in the Age of Epistemic Violence
Dr Natasha Lushetich
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One of the first principles of capitalism is, undeniably, instrumentalisation; the subjection of one thing to another with the speculative aim of producing some future ‘value’, regardless of how dubious – or even noxious this ‘value’ may be....
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Lushetich, Natasha. "Idiosyncrasy as Strategy in the Age of Epistemic Violence." Artnodes Journal of Art, Science and Technology, no. 20, 2017, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i20.3149.
The Art of Being Elsewhere: Neoliberal Institutions of Care
Dr Natasha Lushetich
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The being of human beings and, in particular, their wellbeing is profoundly spatial and temporal. We feel well in dramaturgically stimulating, sheltered, yet expansive spaces that lend themselves to daydreaming, much like we feel well in “thick” time that, like a complex melody, textures our existence aurally, kinesthetically, and propriocentrically (influencing our body’s sense of balance)....
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Lushetich, Natasha. "The Art of Being Elsewhere: Neoliberal Institutions of Care." The Journal of Somaesthetics, vol. 3, no. 1&2, 2017, pp. 68-92
Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality Games from Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond
Dr Natasha Lushetich
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For Foucault, discipline was a subtle form of power that coerced the body in order to control its movements, attitudes, and moods. For McKenzie, it is oppressive-excessive performance that takes the place of overt disciplinarity in the twenty-first century....
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Lushetich, Natasha. "Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality Games from Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond." Inter Views in Performance Philosophy, edited by Anna Street et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 107-116.
Search Box Bed
Dr Darryl Whetter
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There is no history of poetry without love poetry, and there is no history of media without pornography. After his first collection of poems received a starred review from Quill & Quire, Darryl Whetter turned his attention from evolution in the natural world to the co-evolution of love, sex and media....
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Whetter, Darryl. Search Box Bed. Palimpsest Press, 2017.
Digital Oxymorons: From Ordinary to Expressive Objects Using Tiny Wireless IMUs
Andreas Schlegel (co-author)
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In this paper, we discuss the potential of ordinary objects acting as human computer interfaces with an Inertial Measurement Unit, the Twiz, to capture a body’s orientation and acceleration. The motivation behind this research is to develop a toolkit that enables end users to quickly prototype custom interfaces for artistic expressions through movement....
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Schlegel, Andreas, and Cedric Honnet. “Digital Oxymorons: From Ordinary to Expressive Objects Using Tiny Wireless IMUs.” 4th International Conference on Movement Computing, 28-30 June 2017, New York, edited by Kiona Niehaus, Association for Computing Machineries, 2017, doi: 10.1145/3077981.3078040.