Academic literature on the topic 'Jon Rafman'

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Adam Ciołkosz, Aleksander Bregman, Korespondencja z lat 1952–1975, Wstęp Rafał Habielski, opracowanie Kamila Kamińska-Chełminiak, Piotr Swacha, t. II, Wydawnictwo Ossolineum, Wrocław 2018, ss. 659.

Zjawisko alkoholizmu w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym było jednym z najważniejszych problemów społecznych, które spowodowały degradację Polaków. Polacy próbowali walczyć na wiele sposobów. Podjęto szereg inicjatyw mających na celu ograniczenie picia. Znani i szanowani Polacy w latach 1918–1939 podjęli szereg działań mających na celu ograniczenie pijaństwa. W tekstach publikacji świeckich i trzeźwości podkreślali ważną rolę abstynencji w polskim społeczeństwie i ostrzegali przed konsekwencjami intensywnego picia. Propagatorami idei abstynencji w latach 1918–1939 byli: Paweł Gantkowski, Rafał Radziłłowicz, księża Jan Kapica i Michał Sopoćko.

The neural systems underlying visual attention have been well-documented in adults through studies examining the effects of brain lesions on specific attentional operations (Posner, Cohen, & Rafal, 1982). The questions of how this attentional system develops and how it is affected by disruption during development are only beginning to be addressed. In the present study, a covert orienting task (Posner et al., 1982) was administered to 33 children with bilateral perinatal injury to anterior, posterior, or diffuse brain regions and 36 normal children to determine the effects of such injury on visual attention. Children with bilateral anterior lesions showed lateralized impairment indicating compromise of left hemisphere early attentional processes. In contrast, children with posterior lesions that typically disrupt attention in adults showed only general slowing, with no differences in right or left visual field performance or deficits in specific attentional operations. These results suggest that anterior brain regions play an important role in the development of visual attention, and that left hemisphere attentional processes are particularly affected by disruption of anterior function.

The aim of the paper is to present these events and experiences whose occurrence in the life of a noble family in late‑medieval Poland was the consequence of the death of husband and father. This was achieved by means of reconstructing the life story of Elżbieta, the fourth wife of the Kalisz‑district chamberlain Rafał of Gołuchowo from the Wieniawa family, as well as that of his sons and daughter (Iwan, Rafał, Jan, Andrzej, and Cherubin, and their sister Barbara), after his death. This reconstruction essentially provided insight into such activities undertaken by them or with their participation as taking ownership of the property left to the widow, establishing custody of the children that had not yet come of age and of their assets, establishing guardianship of the as yet unmarried daughter and regulating the payment of her part of the family money in the form of a monetary dowry, and, in time, dividing the family estate between the brothers. These actions were, in a way, a natural consequence of the death of husband and father, and were a part of the life of most families living in those times. An analysis of their realisation in social practice based on relevant records in court’s registers allow to understand the underlying legal customs, only partly reflected in the norms of the written law, as well as the events and experiences which resulted from the death of husband and father for his wife and children, and the role played by their relatives in this period of their lives.

In this study, I will be applying Art historian Wolfgang Kemp’s theory of the aesthetics of reception as described in the article The Work of Art and Its Beholder: The Methodology of the Aesthetic of Reception (1998) to the Jon Rafman solo exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection in London (2015). A close study has been carried out on a selection of exhibition objects, as well as the exhibition space, to investigate how they address and interact with the beholder. An examination of Rafman’s art practice will also be disclosed. Throughout the study I will answer the following questions; How are the influences that inspired the exhibition, presented in the exhibition?, How do Jon Rafman’s installations at Zabludowicz Collection engage the beholder? And, how can the composition of the exhibition space be described?

Latin America and the Caribbean, unlike other regions, is still quite young demographically: people over age 60 make up around 11% of the total population. However, the region is expected to experience the fastest rate of population aging in the world over the coming decades. This projected growth of the elderly population raises challenges related to pensions, health, and long-term care. At the same time, it opens up numerous business opportunities in different sectorshousing, tourism, care, and transportation, for examplethat could generate millions of new jobs. These opportunities are termed the “silver economy,” which has the potential to be one of the drivers of post-pandemic economic recovery. Importantly, women play key roles in many areas of this market, as noted in the first report published by the IDB on this subject (Okumura et al., 2020). This report maps the actors whose products or services are intended for older people and examines silver economy trends in the region by sector: health, long-term care, finance, housing, transportation, job market, education, entertainment, and digitization. The mapping identified 245 actors whose products or services are intended for older people, and it yielded three main findings. The first is that the majority of the actors (40%) operate in the health and care sectors. The prevalence of these sectors could be due to the fact that they are made up of many small players, and it could also suggest a still limited role of older people in active consumption, investment, and the job market in the region. The second finding is that 90% of the silver economy actors identified by the study operate exclusively in their countries of origin, and that Mexico has the most actors (47), followed by the Southern Cone countriesBrazil, Chile, and Argentinawhich have the regions highest rates of population aging. The third finding is that private investment dominates the silver economy ecosystem, as nearly 3 out of every 4 actors offering services to the elderly population are for-profit enterprises. The sectors and markets of the silver economy differ in size and degree of maturity. For example, the long-term care sector, which includes residential care settings, is the oldest and has the largest number of actors, while sectors like digital, home automation, and cohousing are still emerging. Across all sectors, however, there are innovative initiatives that hold great potential for growth. This report examines the main development trends of the silver economy in the region and presents examples of initiatives that are already underway. The health sector has a wealth of initiatives designed to make managing chronic diseases easier and to prevent and reduce the impact of functional limitations through practices that encourage active aging. In the area of long term careone of the most powerful drivers of job creationinitiatives to train human resources and offer home care services are flourishing. The financial sector is beginning to meet a wide range of demands from older people by offering unique services such as remittances or property management, in addition to more traditional pensions, savings, and investment services. The housing sector is adapting rapidly to the changes resulting from population aging. This shift can be seen, for example, in developments in the area of cohousing or collaborative housing, and in the rise of smart homes, which are emerging as potential solutions. In the area of transportation, specific solutions are being developed to meet the unique mobility needs of older people, whose economic and social participation is on the rise. The job market offers older people opportunities to continue contributing to society, either by sharing their experience or by earning income. The education sector is developing solutions that promote active aging and the ongoing participation of older people in the regions economic and social life. Entertainment services for older people are expanding, with the emergence of multiple online services. Lastly, digitization is a cross-cutting and fundamental challenge for the silver economy, and various initiatives in the region that directly address this issue were identified. Additionally, in several sectors we identified actors with a clear focus on gender, and these primarily provide support to women. Of a total of 245 actors identified by the mapping exercise, we take a closer look at 11 different stories of the development of the silver economy in the region. The featured organizations are RAFAM Internacional (Argentina), TeleDx (Chile), Bonanza Asistencia (Costa Rica), NudaProp (Uruguay), Contraticos (Costa Rica), Maturi (Brazil), Someone Somewhere (Mexico), CONAPE (Dominican Republic), Fundación Saldarriaga Concha (Colombia), Plan Ibirapitá (Uruguay), and Canitas (Mexico). These organizations were chosen based on criteria such as how innovative their business models are, the current size and growth potential of their initiatives, and their impact on society. This study is a first step towards mapping the silver economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the hope is to broaden the scope of this mapping exercise through future research and through the creation of a community of actors to promote the regional integration of initiatives in this field.

En 2007 Google lanzó el proyecto Google Street View que consistió en crear un archivo visual de todas las vías transitables del planeta. Aunque su finalidad es proporcionar la información de orientación en el espacio a los usuarios de Google Maps, este archivo fotográfico tiene muchas más utilidades potenciales. Así, artistas como Jon Rafman, Paolo Cirio o Joachim Schmid se han interesado por esta plataforma informática como fuente de la inspiración creativa. Además, dado que este software nos permite pasear por cualquier parte del mundo que ha sido registrada por los automóviles Google, para un inmigrante representa la posibilidad de realizar un viaje virtual a su tierra. Es importante mencionar que el territorio constituye parte del contexto en que se desarrolla la subjetividad del individuo, ofreciéndole un referente de identificación simbólica (Valera, 1997; Zapiain Aizpuru, 2011). A su vez, el paisaje es la percepción personal del territorio que depende de las experiencias vinculadas al mismo (Giménez, 2001; Montejano y Sierra, 2014). El cambio del país de residencia no sólo expone al inmigrante a una cultura diferente, también lo priva del contacto con los lugares que guardan recuerdos de los acontecimientos de su pasado. Esta relación íntima entre la memoria, la identidad y el paisaje, dota a las imágenes que retratan estos espacios significativos de una carga emocional muy potente, y permite al inmigrante contar su historia a partir de los escenarios de su actuación pasada. De modo que crear un relato visual compuesto por las fotografías de Google Street View, reinventando así la idea del álbum familiar, permite reconstruir la narrativa subjetiva a partir de estas imágenes vinculadas al espacio y a una persona en concreto. Por tanto, nuestra hipótesis tratará de demostrar cómo la plataforma Google Street View puede servir como herramienta para la mediación artística con el colectivo inmigrante. Para ello, primeramente haremos un breve recorrido por los estudios desarrollados en distintos ámbitos que darán fundamento a nuestra tesis. Seguidamente, esbozaremos una propuesta de taller, cuya metodología se basará en las premisas marcadas en el estudio de Moreno (2010) sobre la mediación artística para la intervención social. Los participantes realizarán un viaje virtual a su tierra natal y crearán un álbum de recuerdos “prestados”, apropiándose de algunas imágenes mediante captura de pantalla y, así, poder rememorar su lugar de origen a través del paisaje fotográfico. Se trata de una tentativa de restablecer la continuidad del relato personal, interrumpido por la experiencia del desplazamiento. El momento clave de la experiencia sería la presentación de los resultados individuales ante el grupo, acompañando el relato visual con una narración de las vivencias personales vinculadas a los lugares registrados. Este intercambio permitirá compartir el duelo del desarraigo y sentir el reconocimiento y la aceptación por parte de los compañeros. Así, la persona desplazada tendría la oportunidad de reestructurar su narrativa subjetiva y construir nuevos lazos afectivos con el entorno de acogida. De esta manera, en esta investigación definiremos el planteamiento general de la propuesta de taller.