Death Aesthetization in Contemporary Artistic Practices

Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s Poetics, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surrounding the depiction of death, particularly with regard to the ultimate use of the human corpse as an artistic resource. Avoiding any kind of ethical approach or questioning of the limits of the artistic production, is meant to highlight the phenomenon through the examples brought out by the work of some contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl, Damien Hirst, Von Hagens, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin and Teresa Margolles: From those who use the corpse in and turn it in something aesthetically pleasant, to others who turn human corpses in sculptures of scientific value, and further other kind of artists who assume the morbid and dramatic life of the corpse in their art production as something structural.

Radical interiors: Cindy Sherman's ‘Sex pictures’ and Kathy Acker's 'My mother: demonology'

In 1989, the American visual artist Cindy Sherman produced her ‘Sex Pictures’, a number of photographic images of two medical mannequins whose bodies had been dismembered and reconstructed to form abstract configurations that alluded to pornographic poses. Sherman's series was a response to the National Endowment for the Arts controversy, in which American artists such as Andres Serrano and the late Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work was considered obscene by the Republican Congress, were censored. Many artists in the culture-war period had their grants rescinded. The American avant-garde writer Kathy Acker published My Mother: Demonology in 1993. A prominent concern of Acker's in the work is what she termed her ‘writing freedom’ in a climate of cultural expurgation by the Republican elite. In particular, Acker was worried that she was ‘internalizing certain censorships’. This article addresses Sherman's and Acker's work in a comparative context to explore, through the theoretical work of Julia Kristeva, the ways in which their responses to a climate of political censorship can be read as forms of intimate revolt. Kristeva's notion of ejection—the act of placing something beyond the scope of the possible—transpires as ‘a condition of art's creation’ in Sherman's and Acker's work. Acker and Sherman use the pornographic reference in their work to disrupt and dislocate the narrative and image from convention in order to de-eroticize the body, against heteronormativity's terms, and empower the female sex organs. Eversion—that is, in Sherman's and Acker's works, the act of turning the institutional and maternal body inside out—emerges as a mode of resistance to the danger of the writer and the artist internalizing cultural restrictions. The everted body creates a site of radical interiority which becomes the (impossible) site for the radical (re-)embodiment of the feminine subject.

Le boulevard des allongés : la représentation de la morgue au cinéma et dans les autres arts

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Feliz memoria de los siete principes de los Angeles Assistentes al throno de Dios, y estimulo â su vtilissima devocion : Miguel, Gabriel, Rafael, Sealtiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel /

Contien con port. propia: "Sermón panegyrico en la dedicacion de una capilla a los Santos siete principes ... /que predicó ... Don Joseph de Altamirano, y Cervantes ..." y "Sermon en la dedicacion de las misma capilla ... /que predicó el ... Padre Andres Serrano"

Deposition of Intrinsic a-Si:H by ECR-CVD to Passivate the Crystalline Silicon Heterointerface in HIT Solar Cells

We have deposited intrinsic amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) using the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) chemical vapor deposition technique in order to analyze the a-Si:H/c-Si heterointerface and assess the possible application in heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells. Physical characterization of the deposited films shows that the hydrogen content is in the 15-30% range, depending on deposition temperature. The optical bandgap value is always comprised within the range 1.9- 2.2 eV. Minority carrier lifetime measurements performed on the heterostructures reach high values up to 1.3 ms, indicating a well-passivated a-Si:H/c-Si heterointerface for deposition temperatures as low as 100°C. In addition, we prove that the metal-oxide- semiconductor conductance method to obtain interface trap distribution can be applied to the a-Si:H/c-Si heterointerface, since the intrinsic a-Si:H layer behaves as an insulator at low or negative bias. Values for the minimum of D_it as low as 8 × 10^10 cm^2 · eV^-1 were obtained for our samples, pointing to good surface passivation properties of ECR-deposited a-Si:H for HIT solar cell applications.

Limitations of high pressure sputtering for amorphous silicon deposition

Amorphous silicon thin films were deposited using the high pressure sputtering (HPS) technique to study the influence of deposition parameters on film composition, presence of impurities, atomic bonding characteristics and optical properties. An optical emission spectroscopy (OES) system has been used to identify the different species present in the plasma in order to obtain appropriate conditions to deposit high purity films. Composition measurements in agreement with the OES information showed impurities which critically depend on the deposition rate and on the gas pressure. We prove that films deposited at the highest RF power and 3.4 × 10^−2 mbar, exhibit properties as good as the ones of the films deposited by other more standard techniques.

Analisis de la dirección estratégica de los Recursos Humanos en una burocracia profesional. Escuela de Musica Andres Isasi.

[ES] En las últimas décadas la importancia de los Recursos Humanos en las empresas se ha ido incrementando, llegado al punto que si se dan las condiciones, hasta la Dirección de Recursos Humanos se puede considerar Estratégica. Esto permite a las empresas mediante una Dirección adecuada generar ventaja competitiva sostenible a través de las personas. Hay que añadir el punto de interés que supone una burocracia profesional, donde las características diferentes de los profesionales influyen en la Dirección de Recursos Humanos. Mediante un adecuado análisis, tanto externo como interno, desde la perspectiva de los Recursos Humanos, se podrán plantear objetivos y estrategias acordes con la organización de estudio, la Escuela de Música Andrés Isasi, que le permitirán mejorar en esta área.

Naceu lá na serra uma linda flor: a fundação do Império Serrano (1947-1952)

As escolas de samba no Rio de Janeiro se constituíram como espaços privilegiados para atuação política dos moradores das comunidades e assim extrapolaram sua função primeira de promover o lazer para o carnaval em direção à visibilidade das comunidades a elas ligadas. Neste contexto, enfocam-se o Morro da Serrinha e a fundação da Escola de Samba Império Serrano, em uma ação que remonta as redes de relações sociais baseadas em laços familiares. a memória da história da escola vincula-se à memória das famílias locais, elementos centrais de produção e reprodução de um discurso legitimador para a agremiação na região. Através de uma espécie de discurso vencedor, desde os motivos para a fundação de uma nova escola para a região até os carnavais vencedores, a identidade local foi estabelecida em um movimento dialético, pois o lugar passou a ser identificado pela escola de samba, e esta e seus moradores pelo lugar. Assim foi possível identificar na rede familiar do Morro da Serrinha projetos próprios que, através da escola de samba, transpuseram barreiras sociais e angariaram benefícios para a região.