Intellect - Böcker

Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the ...

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Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasing...

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This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power, community...

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In 1976 the British band Throbbing Gristle emerged from the radical arts collective COUM Transmissions through core members Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, joined by Hipgnosis photographer Peter Christopherson and electronics specialist C...

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Last Artist Standing shares the essays of the lives of 31 artists over the age of 50, how they have sustained their creative lives, what paths they have led, showing who contemporary artists are today. They are mentors to other artists, having lea...

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Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound¿experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the¿intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, pe...

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Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound¿experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the¿intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, pe...

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Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II¿is the story of clothing use when manufacturing for civilians nearly stopped and raw materials and workers across the globe were shifted to war work. Governments mandated ration...

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Increasingly, choreographic process is examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives and seminars provide opportunities fo...

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The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. Working around four pervasive themes found i...

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If people from different fields are going to work together on projects, then they need to begin to understand each other. They can be separated by the words they use, the ways they work and how they think. However, in many fields there is common g...

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This volume contains chapters by investigators of issues in the human factors of computing systems. Issues include social factors of computing systems, the overall view of the system by users, how users learn about complex systems, the influence o...

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This volume reviews mid-1980s research in the development of computer systems that employ advanced technology to meet the needs of an expanding user population, while remaining sensitive to human requirements. Contributions from researchers in suc...

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The contributions to this volume describe important existing applications in artificial intelligence and the prospects for the next years. Areas of applications include: expert or knowledge-based systems, natural language interfaces, robotics, and...

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The author uses this series to try to fight the information overload experienced during the 1980s and 1990s. Its concentration is on surveying important areas, providing an overview of recent advancements, and surveying interesting specific design...

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The volumes in this series contain studies in computational vision or "image understanding", and explain the computations that underlie the extraction and use of visual information by both biological and artificial systems. Reprints of seminal stu...

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The volumes in this series contain studies in computational vision or "image understanding", and explain the computations that underlie the extraction and use of visual information by both biological and artificial systems. Reprints of seminal stu...

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This volume is intended for researchers, practitioners, and members of the business community interested in the shape of data management in the years to come. The volume is both retrospective and future oriented and the chapters recapitulate curre...

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Describing research undertaken in eight organizations in five countries, this text determines the impact of computer-based information systems on organizations and management. Results at several levels of analysis support the conclusion that few c...

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Robotics has come to attract the attention of mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists to a rapidly increasing degree. Initial investigations have shown that robotics is a rich source of deep theoretical problems, which range over comput...

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This is a completely revised and updated edition of this text designed to introduce students to the historical, intellectual and social context of computers. Although the majority of the chapters in this edition are new, the original criteria for ...

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This volume discusses "online" communities, where work is mediated and supported by a computer network. How do people react to spending much of their life online? What impacts does it have on the organization for productivity? The text a...

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This volume studies programmers to gain insights to facilitate improved productivity and quality software. The chapters cover a range of topics including cognitive models of programming; measuring program complexity; the effects of program style a...

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This volume covers wide areas of interest such as life cycle costing, microcomputers, common-cause failures and space computers. Every effort is made to present difficult material with the aid of an example along with its solution. The material co...

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The author uses this series to try to fight the information overload experienced during the 1980s and 1990s. Its concentration is on surveying important areas, providing an overview of recent advancements, and surveying interesting specific design...

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The articles here combine breadth of perspectives with a focus on the field's two major areas of work: learning environments and tutoring systems. The section on learning environments addresses issues of cognitive style, metatheoretic objectives, ...

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The future development of artificial intelligences is dependent on a clearer understanding of all aspects of animal and manufactured cognition. This book puts forward a variety of views, all based on research in the field, on what exactly is meant...

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This volume provides an outlet for semi-tutorial articles dealing with issues and results in the technology of MRI. It concentrates on those aspects of the technology MRI, both instrumentation and algorithms, that deal with the diverse application...

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