Vigo y la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (CAV-ITDT, 1969) como materialización del intercambio. Posibilidades del concretismo

El epígrafe de Romero Brest (1969) expresa la incertidumbre respecto de la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (1969, CAV-ITDT). ¿Por qué este desconcierto ante el contenido de la exposición? ¿Qué circunstancias en esos años hacen viable la experimentación, incluyendo poesía concreta? ¿Cómo ingresa ésta en el circuito institucional? ¿Qué formas de positividad (Foucault, 1990) adquieren los términos experimentación, concretismo, vanguardia? Las conexiones de la Expo con el concretismo se producen a partir del sistema de intercambios que genera Vigo con artistas de otros países; dejan entrever las fricciones con el modo de entender la vanguardia y las inscripciones de sentido del internacionalismo

Vigo y la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (CAV-ITDT, 1969) como materialización del intercambio. Posibilidades del concretismo

El epígrafe de Romero Brest (1969) expresa la incertidumbre respecto de la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (1969, CAV-ITDT). ¿Por qué este desconcierto ante el contenido de la exposición? ¿Qué circunstancias en esos años hacen viable la experimentación, incluyendo poesía concreta? ¿Cómo ingresa ésta en el circuito institucional? ¿Qué formas de positividad (Foucault, 1990) adquieren los términos experimentación, concretismo, vanguardia? Las conexiones de la Expo con el concretismo se producen a partir del sistema de intercambios que genera Vigo con artistas de otros países; dejan entrever las fricciones con el modo de entender la vanguardia y las inscripciones de sentido del internacionalismo

Vigo y la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (CAV-ITDT, 1969) como materialización del intercambio. Posibilidades del concretismo

El epígrafe de Romero Brest (1969) expresa la incertidumbre respecto de la Expo Internacional Novísima Poesía/69 (1969, CAV-ITDT). ¿Por qué este desconcierto ante el contenido de la exposición? ¿Qué circunstancias en esos años hacen viable la experimentación, incluyendo poesía concreta? ¿Cómo ingresa ésta en el circuito institucional? ¿Qué formas de positividad (Foucault, 1990) adquieren los términos experimentación, concretismo, vanguardia? Las conexiones de la Expo con el concretismo se producen a partir del sistema de intercambios que genera Vigo con artistas de otros países; dejan entrever las fricciones con el modo de entender la vanguardia y las inscripciones de sentido del internacionalismo

Spanish Pavilion, Expo Milano 2015

PERFORANDO LAS NUBES. En colaboración con Studio Melesi

Pabellón alemán: EXPO'67, Montreal (Canadá): Frei Otto, Rolf Gutbrod: arquitectura textil, análisis del edificio

Pabellón alemán: EXPO'67, Montreal (Canadá): Frei Otto, Rolf Gutbrod: arquitectura textil, análisis del edificio

El moro expósito,

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Palazzo Italia Expo: soluzioni costruttive innovative poste al vaglio di un'analisi critica

A partire da un’analisi complessiva della struttura di Palazzo Italia Expo, è stata approfondita nel dettaglio la realizzazione del rivestimento. Sono emerse soluzioni costruttive fortemente innovative, dettate da necessità architettoniche ben precise: si è cercato di conciliare il concept della foresta urbana con le esigenze funzionali che il palazzo doveva soddisfare. Nella scelta del materiale da rivestimento si è optato per un “cemento biodinamico” brevettato per l’occasione da ItalCementi, e studiato anch’esso con obiettivi ben definiti: ricercare una brillantezza e purezza del colore durevole nel tempo, e avvicinarsi sempre più all’esigenza di sostenibilità ambientale delle strutture. Si è cercato di analizzare l'effettiva capacità di questo cemento di soddisfare i requisiti prefissati nel corso tempo, anche attraverso un'analisi comparativa con il cemento utilizzato nella chiesa Dives in Misericordia a Roma di Richard Meier.

An effective model of using negative relevance feedback for information filtering

Over the years, people have often held the hypothesis that negative feedback should be very useful for largely improving the performance of information filtering systems; however, we have not obtained very effective models to support this hypothesis. This paper, proposes an effective model that use negative relevance feedback based on a pattern mining approach to improve extracted features. This study focuses on two main issues of using negative relevance feedback: the selection of constructive negative examples to reduce the space of negative examples; and the revision of existing features based on the selected negative examples. The former selects some offender documents, where offender documents are negative documents that are most likely to be classified in the positive group. The later groups the extracted features into three groups: the positive specific category, general category and negative specific category to easily update the weight. An iterative algorithm is also proposed to implement this approach on RCV1 data collections, and substantial experiments show that the proposed approach achieves encouraging performance.

XCFS - a novel approach for clustering XML documents using both the structure and the content

XML document clustering is essential for many document handling applications such as information storage, retrieval, integration and transformation. An XML clustering algorithm should process both the structural and the content information of XML documents in order to improve the accuracy and meaning of the clustering solution. However, the inclusion of both kinds of information in the clustering process results in a huge overhead for the underlying clustering algorithm because of the high dimensionality of the data. This paper introduces a novel approach that first determines the structural similarity in the form of frequent subtrees and then uses these frequent subtrees to represent the constrained content of the XML documents in order to determine the content similarity. The proposed method reduces the high dimensionality of input data by using only the structure-constrained content. The empirical analysis reveals that the proposed method can effectively cluster even very large XML datasets and outperform other existing methods.

Sodium removal from Maramarua CSG waters using Ngakuru zeolites

Coal seam gas (CSG) waters are a by-product of natural gas extraction from un derground coal seams. The main issue with these waters is their elevated sodium content, which in conjunction with their low calcium and magnesium concentrations can generate soil infiltration problems in the long run , as well as short term toxicity effects in plants due to the sodium ion itself. Zeolites are minerals having a porous structure, crystalline characteristics, and an alumino-silicate configuration resulting in an overall negative charge which is balanced by loosely held cations. In New Zealand, Ngakuru zeolites have been mined for commercial use in wastewater treatment applications, cosmetics, and pet litter. This research focuses on assessing the capacity of Ngakuru zeolites to reduce sodium concentrations of CSG waters from Maramarua. Batch and column test (flow through) experiments revealed that Ngakuru zeolites are capable of sorbing sodium cations from concentrated solutions of sodium. In b atch tests, the sodium adsorption capacity ranged from 5.0 to 34.3meq/100g depending on the solution concentration and on the number of times the zeolite had been regenerated. Regeneration with CaCl2 was foun d to be effective. The calculated sodium adsorption capacity of Ngakuru zeolites under flow-through conditions ranged from 11 to 42meq/100g depending on the strength of the solution being treated and on w hether the zeolites had been previously regenerated. The slow kinetics and low cost of the zeolities, coupled with potentially remote sites for gas extraction, could make semi-batch operational processes without regeneration more favourable than in more industrial ion exchange situations.

Toward a more robust facial expression recognition in occluded images using randomly sampled Gabor based templates

Occlusion is a big challenge for facial expression recognition (FER) in real-world situations. Previous FER efforts to address occlusion suffer from loss of appearance features and are largely limited to a few occlusion types and single testing strategy. This paper presents a robust approach for FER in occluded images and addresses these issues. A set of Gabor based templates is extracted from images in the gallery using a Monte Carlo algorithm. These templates are converted into distance features using template matching. The resulting feature vectors are robust to occlusion. Occluded eyes and mouth regions and randomly places occlusion patches are used for testing. Two testing strategies analyze the effects of these occlusions on the overall recognition performance as well as each facial expression. Experimental results on the Cohn-Kanade database confirm the high robustness of our approach and provide useful insights about the effects of occlusion on FER. Performance is also compared with previous approaches.