Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Margolius'

The Periodicity theorem of Hopkins and Smith tells us that any finite spectrum supports a $v_n$-map for some $n$. We are interested in finding finite $2$-local spectra that both support a $v_2$-map with a low power of $v_2$ and have few cells. Following the process outlined in Palmieri-Sadofsky, we study a related class of self-maps, known as $u_2$-maps, between stably finite spectra. We construct examples of spectra that might be expected to support $u_2^1$-maps, and then we use Margolis homology and homological algebra computations to show that they do not support $u_2^1$-maps. We also show that one example does not support a $u_2^2$-map. The nonexistence of $u_2$-maps on these spectra eliminates certain examples from consideration by this technique.

The artist Teresa Margolles, Mexico's foremost proponent of corpse art, is based in Mexico City and exhibits her work across the world. Her central obsessions are death, the dead body, and violence, themes which are manifested in her exploration of `la vida del cadaver' (`the life of the corpse'). For the early part of her career during the 1990s, Margolles worked as part of the SEMEFO collective, and she has subsequently maintained her artistic career on a solo basis. She works with the bodies of individuals who were socially and economically disadvantaged during life, and has used body parts and residues such as blood and fat in her works, as well as objects from the morgue that have come into contact with corpses. The corpse itself, however, is not often revealed; rather its presence is suggested by raw materials such as air and water. The artist employs deceptively subtle means of representation that operate on multiple sensory planes in order to draw the spectator into contemplation of the unsettling realities of social inequality and violence in her native Mexico, which sometimes occurs through direct physical contact between the viewer and the raw materials used by Margolles in her art works. The boundaries between life and death, and the inside and the outside of the body, are transgressed. A selection of works taken from different points in the artist's career will be explored from a range of theoretical perspectives including the sociology of the body, the sociology of death, philosophical approaches to the experience of contemplating death and the corpse, and the history of the exploration of these themes in visual culture. In this way, the artist uses an artistic language that may be interpreted across borders, to address a specifically local set of circumstances.

Che cos'è un'opera d'arte? È con un rinnovato interesse ontologico, in un epoca in cui l'ontologia sembrava tramontare, che la filosofia analitica ha guardato ai fenomeni estetici e culturali. La risposta che dagli anni '60 del '900 fino ai primi 2000 ha mantenuto un'egemonia incontrastata rispetto ad ipotesi alternative si fonda sulla classificazione degli artefatti come occorrenze di tipi. Attraverso questa tesi, dapprima analizzo le teorie dei filosofi che per primi hanno seguito questo approccio: Joseph Margolis e Richard Wollheim. Avanzo quindi alcune critiche al modello dominante sulla base di ciò che gli artisti hanno concretamente prodotto negli ultimi quarant'anni, individuando alcuni controesempi in particolare nelle cosiddette appropriation art e post-internet art. Infine, avvalendomi delle posizioni recentemente espresse da Guy Rohrbaugh, propongo una impostazione della risposta più attenta alla pragmatica e alla genealogia, tale da identificare gli oggetti d'arte come singolarità.

This essay came about as a result of the desire to study and collect the guitar music of Franco Margola. Franco Margola composed over 450 works for guitar, most of which are unpublished and virtually all of which are unknown to most guitarists. This essay focuses on Margola's chamber works with guitar, which include some of his best compositions. The study contains historical background information, an ample biography, as well as an overview of the currently published works for solo guitar. The main portion of the essay consists of an outline and an annotated catalog of all of Margola's chamber works with guitar, including the unedited works. The purpose of this project is to promote Margola's guitar music by providing current information on its quality, availability, condition, length, and difficulty level.

La presente investigación realiza un estudio a profundidad de la obra de Santiago Sierra y Teresa Margolles, quienes han trabajado en México desde el inicio de la década de los 90, y que ocupan hoy un destacado lugar en el circuito artístico internacional. Suele argumentarse que la importancia de su obra radica en visibilizar los increíbles niveles de violencia y polarización de la riqueza existentes en nuestra sociedad, constituyendo no sólo una denuncia sino un llamado a la reflexión ya la toma de postura crítica. Este trabajo cuestiona estos argumentos y enuncia que en la obra de ambos productores visuales existe una clara discordancia entre el discurso que las valida y las estrategias concretas seguidas para su realización. Pone particular atención a las prácticas de denigración y maltrato, así como a las dinámicas de objetualización y comercialización de los sujetos. ¿Nos encontramos frente a un arte de denuncia o simplemente somos testigos de un ejercicio de violencia perpetrándose dos veces sobre el mismo cuerpo? La hipótesis que se pretende demostrar es que su obra se articula a partir de la reproducciónde algunas de las lógicas más brutales del sistema económico y político vigente en México. La investigación establece diversos puntos de coincidencia entre el trabajo de Santiago Sierra y Teresa Margolles, plantea la existencia de una línea de continuidad en su obra y ubica la genealogía de sus propuestas en el periodo de instauración del neoliberalismo en México. Se realiza por tanto una reconstrucción de la serie de cambios experimentados por el circuito artístico mexicano durante aquél periodo, advirtiendo cómo las modificaciones suscitadas en el terreno político fueron acompañadas de una profunda transformación en la manera de entender el sentido y los límites del quehacer artístico. Se analiza la insistencia de ambos productores visuales (muy acorde al discurso de importantes sectores de la comunidad artística mexicana a inicios de la década de los 90) en afirmar la impotencia del arte, y se recuperan diversas declaraciones en las que queda de manifiesto su abierto desinterés por incidir en la realidad social. ¿Qué sentido parece tener entonces su trabajo? Si entendemos el arte como estrategia reflexiva, como herramienta para cuestionarnos sobre nuestra realidad, su quehacer no podría limitarse a la enunciación de lo existente sino que debería dirigirse a proponer mundos posibles.La reflexión se encuentra inexorablemente ligada a la posibilidad de creación, al deseo de incidir en la realidad (que puede aparecer como algo remoto o parcial, pero sin duda irrenunciable). La investigación concluye con una reflexión teórica, y una serie de imágenes en torno a la ética como ente capaz de resistirse a la impotencia y el desencanto: es la valoración, el reconocimiento de la humanidad e infinitud del Otro, lo único capaz de poner en marcha el deseo deapostar por la posibilidad de construir realidades compartidas.<br>This is an in-depth study of the work of Santiago Sierra and Teresa Margolles, who have worked in Mexico since the early 90’s and today hold an important position in the international artistic circuit. It is often said that the importance of their work lies in their ability to make visible the unbelievable levels of violence and polarization of wealth which exists in our society, and in the process, not only exposing it, but calling us to reflect on this and to take a critical stance. This work challenges such a view and proposes that the work of both producers presents a clear discrepancy between their validating discourse and the concrete strategies they follow to carry it out. Special attention is placed on the practices of denigration and abuse, as well as the process of objectifying and commercializing their subjects. Is this art of exposure or are we merely witnessing an act of violence being perpetrated twice on the same body? The hypothesis intends to demonstrate that their work does not only fail to question the present economic system, but that it also reproduces some of its most brutal rationale. This research establishes several points of coincidence between the work of Santiago Sierra and Teresa Margolles, it presents the existence of a line of continuity in their work, and it places the genealogy of their proposals at the onset of neoliberalism in Mexico. Therefore, it reconstructs a series of changes observed within the Mexican artistic circuit during this period, remarking on the way in which changes made in the political arena were accompanied by a deep transformation in the way we comprehend the meaning and limitations of artistic creation. This research concludes with a theoretical reflection and a series of drawings around the issue of ethics as an entity which is capable of resisting itself to impotence and disenchantment: the value, the recognition of humanity and the infinite Other, is the only thing capable of setting forth the will to bet on the possibility of building a shared reality.

The artistic project of the Mexican Teresa Margolles is one of the most vast, complex and coherent in the international scene, although there is not a complete catalog, monograph or rigorous study of it. Her focus of interest, her radical post-minimalist aesthetic, her display of ethical conflicts and the political implications that locate her within a post-autonomy art, give her work the highest validity and raise her as one of the leading figures in contemporary art. All her production is crossed by death and violence issues, addressed in a Baroque and visceral way at the beginning of her career in the hands of the artists’ collective SEMEFO, with whom she produced eminently performative works in which the instinctive, the ritual and the sacrificial were essential. Later on, during her solo career, the obsession for the life of the corpse, the fauna that originates in the putrefaction is replaced by a less aesthetically aggressive speech, erected on what she calls the periphery of the body, where she uses the remains of the body to represent death. Her work as a forensic technician at the Mexico City’s morgue leads her to make of this her studio and to consider it as a social thermometer, capable of reflecting the prevailing impunity and injustice. When the levels of violence reached their peak, Margolles moves outside, to the streets and begins to formally clean up her work, as the corpse is understood as a social body, collective. The necrophilia of her beginnings undergoes a displacement to necropolitics, focused on social traces of violence, its urban and demographic consequences. The general aims of this thesis have been to reveal how both philosophy and image emerge as a result of human kind’s concerns over death. In the same way, it is shown that representations of death have been a constant throughout the history of art, and that precisely at the time when the general attitude toward death began to be its denial, a strong trend emerged in contemporary art that insisted upon claiming it. The specific aims of this thesis consist of the outline of the historical, political, social and artistic context in which Teresa Margolles’s project emerges, as well as the conduction of a thorough mapping of its production, analyzing her interests and the different phases, aesthetic and stylistic shifts of her work. My intention is to unravel the complexity of its rhetoric language in order to understand how the tension between ethics and aesthetics, between reality and fiction, between denunciation and reproduction of violence, between emotion and reason; between art and politics are the keys to her project. My methodology is transdisciplinary, because despite placing this thesis within the field of art history, I rely on philosophical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, aesthetic and even political teachings. The conclusions of this study posit that the representation of death is impossible, and that the most appropriate way is through void or absence; that in the contrast of opposites, the tension between form and content – the impossible suture between the beautiful and the sinister, is the essence of Margolles’s project; and that art is a form of philosophy and politics.<br>El proyecto artístico de la mexicana Teresa Margolles es uno de los más vastos, complejos y coherentes del panorama internacional, del que sin embargo no existe ningún catálogo completo, monografía o estudio realmente riguroso. Sus focos de interés, su estética radical posminimalista, los conflictos éticos que despliega, y las implicaciones políticas que la ubican dentro de un arte postautónomo, dotan a su obra de una máxima vigencia y la erigen como una de las figuras más destacadas del arte contemporáneo. Toda su obra está atravesada por la muerte y la violencia, temas que son abordados de una manera barroca y visceral en los comienzos de su carrera artística de la mano del colectivo SEMEFO, con el que produjo obras de carácter eminentemente performativo en las que lo instintivo, lo ritual y lo sacrificial eran imprescindibles. Más tarde, ya en solitario, la fijación por la vida del cadáver, esa fauna que se origina en la putrefacción, va siendo sustituida por un discurso menos agresivo estéticamente, erigido sobre lo que ella denomina la periferia del cadáver, momento en el que se sirve de los restos del cuerpo para representar la muerte. Su labor como técnico forense en la morgue de México D.F. le lleva a hacer de ésta su estudio y a considerarla como un termómetro social, capaz de reflejar la impunidad e injusticia reinantes. Cuando los niveles de violencia alcanzan sus máximas cotas Margolles se traslada al exterior, a la calle, y comienza a depurar formalmente su trabajo, a la vez que el cadáver es entendido como un cuerpo social, colectivo. La necrofilia de sus comienzos sufre un desplazamiento hasta posicionarse en una necropolítica, centrada en las huellas sociales de la violencia, sus consecuencias urbanísticas y demográficas. Los objetivos generales de esta tesis han consistido en revelar cómo tanto la Filosofía como la imagen surgen como resultado de las preocupaciones del hombre por la muerte. Del mismo modo se demuestra que las representaciones de la muerte han sido una constante a lo largo de la historia del arte, y que precisamente en el momento en el que la actitud generalizada hacia la muerte comenzaba a ser la de negarla, surgió una fuerte tendencia dentro del arte contemporáneo que insistía en reivindicarla. Los objetivos específicos han supuesto el esbozo del contexto histórico, político, social y artístico en el que surge el proyecto de Teresa Margolles, así como la realización de una exhaustiva cartografía de su producción, analizando la deriva de sus intereses, las diferentes fases de su trabajo y sus fluctuaciones estéticas y estilísticas. La intención aquí ha sido desentrañar la complejidad retórica de su lenguaje para entender cómo la tensión entre ética y estética, entre realidad y ficción, entre denuncia y reproducción de la violencia, entre emoción y razón; entre arte y política son las claves de su proyecto. La metodología empleada es de carácter transdisciplinar, pues aún ubicando este tesis dentro del ámbito de la historia del arte, me apoyo en enseñanzas filosóficas, antropológicas, sociológicas, culturales, estéticas e incluso políticas. Las conclusiones de este estudio se concretan en que la representación de la muerte es un imposible, y que la forma más apropiada de hacerlo es mediante el vacío o la ausencia; que en el contraste de opuestos, la tensión entre forma y contenido –la sutura imposible entre lo bello y lo siniestro–, está la esencia del proyecto de Margolles; y que el arte es una forma de filosofar y de hacer política.

Through the analysis of aspects such as experience, vocal expression, improvisatory techniques and teaching approach of two jazz vocalists from different social, educational and musical backgrounds in the United States of America, the hope is to achieve a greater understanding of and confirm the factors which play important roles in the vocalist's improvement of effective, authentic jazz improvisation. The focus is on the effect which experience, mentors and musical training have on the two vocalists' approach to teaching and performing jazz styles. This study also investigates the possibility that emotional, educational and physiological factors holistically influence the contemporary jazz vocalist's experience of using the body as a medium of expression via production of sound from the vocal chords.

Arthur C. Danto è una delle figure più autorevoli e discusse nel panorama della filosofia dell'arte contemporanea poiché ha elaborato una teoria che vuole individuare le caratteristiche necessarie a qualche cosa perché essa sia considerata oggi un'opera d'arte. La sua teoria non solo ha animato un lungo e fecondo dibattito, ma ha anche causato dei fraintendimenti che hanno portato autori come George Dickie a elaborare nuove teorie in stretta connessione con la sua. Nella prima parte di questa tesi ricostruirò la filosofia dell'arte di Danto a partire dal saggio "The Artworld" del 1964 fino ad arrivare alla sua opera più sistematica del 1981, "La Trasfigurazione del banale", tenendo conto anche conto della produzione filosofica precedente al saggio del 1964. Insieme alla teoria di Danto ricostruirò anche uno dei suoi più importanti fraintendimenti, costituito dalla "Teoria istituzionale dell'arte" di Dickie, mostrando infine la sua relazione con la teoria dalla quale deriva. In seguito rivolgerò l'attenzione ai rapporti tra la filosofia dell'arte di Danto e quella di Hegel, dalla quale il primo trae la tesi fondamentale della fine dell'arte, e tenterò di far emergere la complessità del problema filosofico di fondo. Infine mi occuperò di alcuni modi in cui è possibile criticare la filosofia di Danto grazie, da un lato, al contributo fondamentale di J. Margolis e, dall'altro lato, ad alcune intuizioni che derivano dalla teoria istituzionale.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T23:30:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_10997_MONICA_CONTRERAS_DISERTACAO.pdf: 7122957 bytes, checksum: 41ace7668ab273d20c22b737a707af3d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-09<br>Esta dissertação tem por objetivo trazer a tona uma reflexão sobre a produção artística contemporânea em três artistas latino-americanas, especificamente Janine Antoni (Bahamas, 1962- ), Teresa Margolles (México,1963- ) e Dóris Salcedo (Colômbia 1958- ), artistas que procuram uma exploração da noção de corporalidade por meio da análise de alguns processos esculturais-objetuais em produções artísticas que parecem trabalhar de maneira a repetir ou sugerir fatos, embora evitam a representação realista e que têm um interesse como obra de protesto. As três artistas utilizam a presença corporal em sua relação com o real apresentado. A repetição ou impressão é o que retorna, não é o fato original, mas sim, à sua sombra, sua memória. É no encontro com ela que se produz no sujeito um estranhamento, uma ansiedade e angústia traumática que parecem permitir sair do cotidiano e cogitar outras possibilidades de viver no mundo. Os resultados revelam as obras como testemunhas de processos vivenciais que permitem uma revisão de diferentes estados da poética corporal envolvida com a problemática de índole política. Palavras chave: Arte corpo, Janine Antoni, Teresa Margolles, Dóris Salcedo, memória, materialidade.

To facilitate the design of efficient simulation experiments, Schruben and Margolin (1978) recommend a correlation induction strategy for orthogonally blockable experimental designs. The objective of such experiments is to estimate a general linear regression model on the basis of a quantitative response variable generated by the simulation model. Nozari, Arnold, and Pegden (1987) develop optimal statistical procedures for analyzing simulation experiments performed under the Schruben-Margolin correlation induction strategy. Formulas are given for parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence interval estimation. The validity of this statistical analysis procedure is contingent upon the presence of a pure error component in the response. The goal of this thesis is to provide an appropriate statistical analysis technique for simulation experiments conducted under the Schruben-Margolin correlation induction strategy in the absence of pure error, and to identify conditions under which the pure error component is absent. Often, in order to construct valid inferences on the responses from a simulation experiment, the technique used to execute the simulation experiment must be properly identified. For purposes of this research, the identification problem takes the form of ensuring that the hypothesized metamodel is appropriate for the number of random number streams used to induce correlations between responses across design points.<br>Master of Science

No autorizada por la autora para ser publicada a texto completo en el repositorio institucional.<br>Magíster en artes con mención en teoría e historia del arte<br>La presente tesis trata sobre la problemática de la deslocalización de la violencia política presentes en la producción artístico-visual en dos de las artistas más influyentes en el devenir del arte político- crítico latinoamericano contemporáneo, la colombiana Doris Salcedo y la mexicana Teresa Margolles. Se trata de un análisis y diálogo entre sus obras trabajadas principalmente entre los años 2000 - 2012, las cuales tanto por su complejidad histórica como representacional desbordan los códigos heredados de la institución, logrando poner en cuestión lo que la realidad actual tiene de inédito, la cotidianeidad de la violencia, situación que surge precisamente como consecuencia de los fenómenos sociales y económicos de la mundialización y la globalización desarrollados e instalados a nivel internacional desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX hasta comienzos del siglo XXI los cuales denotan la inminente crisis de los Estados Nacionales Desde este contexto es que este análisis es abordado tanto desde el plano histórico cultural particular de Colombia y México como desde la proyección que como obras alcanzan estas en relación con el nuevo arte latinoamericano y su internacionalización , dentro de estos mismos puntos se buscará discutir y responder la forma en cómo el discurso artístico de corte político- crítico que ambas artistas exponen en sus obras transita y dialoga con y desde los nuevos espacios del arte, es decir, el espacio galerístico, museal y público en la escena internacional, propiciando con ello, cuestionar y expandir el problema de la violencia política local a nivel mundial, para el desarrollo de lo anterior se recurrirán a determinados conceptos filosóficos y sociológicos de Jacques Ranciére y de Roberto Esposito(autonomía del arte y arte político del primero) , (lo impolítico del segundo) como también antropológicos y sociológicos (violencia política, Julio Aróstegui narcoterrorismo entre otros) los cuales irán relacionados a la mirada de otros autores vinculados siempre desde la reflexión artística y social contemporánea.

La presente investigación propone una lectura amplificada sobre la obra de la artista Teresa Margolles. Su trabajo ha sido investigado en relación con el cadáver y con la muerte violenta, aspectos que se consideran importantes pero insuficientes. Se propone hacer una presentación de su obra de modo que abarque la totalidad de su trabajo que incluye el cuerpo vivo y la señalización del problema social de marginación, segregación y precarización de la vida en el contexto político, económico y social de México contemporáneo. Se ha planteado una ruta interpretativa que mediante el análisis de un corpus de obras seleccionado y ordenado estratégicamente demuestre la construcción de una necropolítica situada y específica en su obra, así como la incorporación del cuerpo vivo como parte de una tarea crítica de señalización de las causas sociales y políticas de la violencia para el caso de México. Para ello se ha aplicado diversas teorías filosóficas de poder que han permitido evidenciar la relevancia política y de crítica social del trabajo de Teresa Margolles. Asimismo se ha propuesto el análisis de teorías de arte y de crítica institucional que permitieron demostrar que el trabajo de la artista también ha implicado la crítica al aparato institucional del arte contemporáneo. Así, se ha puesto énfasis en su rol y agencia como artista que realiza una suerte de desmontaje de un mapa social establecido para revelarlo en crisis.<br>Tesis

Articular cartilage is a complex structure with an architecture in which fluid-swollen proteoglycans constrained within a 3D network of collagen fibrils. Because of the complexity of the cartilage structure, the relationship between its mechanical behaviours at the macroscale level and its components at the micro-scale level are not completely understood. The research objective in this thesis is to create a new model of articular cartilage that can be used to simulate and obtain insight into the micro-macro-interaction and mechanisms underlying its mechanical responses during physiological function. The new model of articular cartilage has two characteristics, namely: i) not use fibre-reinforced composite material idealization ii) Provide a framework for that it does probing the micro mechanism of the fluid-solid interaction underlying the deformation of articular cartilage using simple rules of repartition instead of constitutive / physical laws and intuitive curve-fitting. Even though there are various microstructural and mechanical behaviours that can be studied, the scope of this thesis is limited to osmotic pressure formation and distribution and their influence on cartilage fluid diffusion and percolation, which in turn governs the deformation of the compression-loaded tissue. The study can be divided into two stages. In the first stage, the distributions and concentrations of proteoglycans, collagen and water were investigated using histological protocols. Based on this, the structure of cartilage was conceptualised as microscopic osmotic units that consist of these constituents that were distributed according to histological results. These units were repeated three-dimensionally to form the structural model of articular cartilage. In the second stage, cellular automata were incorporated into the resulting matrix (lattice) to simulate the osmotic pressure of the fluid and the movement of water within and out of the matrix; following the osmotic pressure gradient in accordance with the chosen rule of repartition of the pressure. The outcome of this study is the new model of articular cartilage that can be used to simulate and study the micromechanical behaviours of cartilage under different conditions of health and loading. These behaviours are illuminated at the microscale level using the socalled neighbourhood rules developed in the thesis in accordance with the typical requirements of cellular automata modelling. Using these rules and relevant Boundary Conditions to simulate pressure distribution and related fluid motion produced significant results that provided the following insight into the relationships between osmotic pressure gradient and associated fluid micromovement, and the deformation of the matrix. For example, it could be concluded that: 1. It is possible to model articular cartilage with the agent-based model of cellular automata and the Margolus neighbourhood rule. 2. The concept of 3D inter connected osmotic units is a viable structural model for the extracellular matrix of articular cartilage. 3. Different rules of osmotic pressure advection lead to different patterns of deformation in the cartilage matrix, enabling an insight into how this micromechanism influences macromechanical deformation. 4. When features such as transition coefficient were changed, permeability (representing change) is altered due to the change in concentrations of collagen, proteoglycans (i.e. degenerative conditions), the deformation process is impacted. 5. The boundary conditions also influence the relationship between osmotic pressure gradient and fluid movement at the micro-scale level. The outcomes are important to cartilage research since we can use these to study the microscale damage in the cartilage matrix. From this, we are able to monitor related diseases and their progression leading to potential insight into drug-cartilage interaction for treatment. This innovative model is an incremental progress on attempts at creating further computational modelling approaches to cartilage research and other fluid-saturated tissues and material systems.

This research explores the application of Viewpoints and Composition training with a cast of high school students to measure changes in the social cognitive development (SCD) of individuals and the collective group. The research centers on the writing of Michael F. Mascolo and Deborah Margolis, which takes a coactive approach to the relationship between one's social cognitive development and how it is manifested in his or her actions within a social group. Using this framework, the researcher assesses the personality types within the cast and analyzes how utilizing Viewpoints training creates shifts within these personalities. The researcher approaches this study from both a theoretical standpoint as a student during a two-week intensive training course for adults with SITI Company, and a practical standpoint in the direction of a fully mounted production with high school actors. The objective of the research is to propose a method to implement advanced Viewpoints training within a high school ensemble in order to cultivate ensemble and ultimately aid the social cognitive development of the individual actors.<br>M.F.A.<br>Department of Theatre<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Theatre MFA

Mgr. Klára Soukupová Autobiography in the Context of the Positioning Theory Abstract This doctoral thesis is a theoretical and an interpretative study that deals with the genre of autobiography, its position in the contemporary literary theory and problems related to an interpretation of autobiographical texts. Autobiography as a genre of non-fictional literature refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work of art, a verbal construct in which the representation of reality is subject to the intentions of the author and to the rules of construction, that are close to the compositional techniques of fictional texts. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the theory of autobiography and its interdisciplinary context. It summarizes the development of theory of autobiography from the late 19th century to the present. Also, the concepts of the memory studies (especially the concept of collective memory) and the problem of distinguishing fiction and non-fiction (discussed in philosophy of history in 1970s and 1980s, fictional worlds theory, pragmatics of fiction, etc.) are taken into account. The theoretical chapter critically reflects P. Lejeune's definition of autobiography, based on the concept of the autobiographical pact. In relation with the problem of how to define...

While the work of contemporary Mexican artist Teresa Margolles and her collaborators in the death-metal band and performance group SEMEFO is often contextualized within a national framework or within specific artistic developments of the 1990s, meager writing exists to explore how the artist and the audience experience the work. This thesis examines the work of Margolles and SEMEFO to contextualize their work with dead bodies and animal carcasses within a historical moment in Mexico City, but also to relate it to its many venues and audiences. In it, I study the work's relationship to affect, narratives of personal experience, and to the intimate ways in which artist and audience view the dead. Studying how Margolles and her collaborators change their presentation of corpses over time and in different spaces allows readings of the artists' relationship to their underground death-metal community, their urban independent artistic community, and their international museum-based community. Through these communities, we can understand Margolles' work as part of a more specific history based on intimate interactions and expressions of mourning.

This report outlines the conceptual, procedural and formal descriptions of the artistic development I have acquired over the course of the past three years. The current violent events caused by the War on Drugs in México –my home country- led me to this research. Beginning with the idea of erasure as language, I concentrated on the use of processes that are reductive in nature to create the bodies of work mentioned in this report. Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in México; by using metaphors and visual metonymies to tie together process and subject matter I explore the idea of perception, memory and transformation. I believe my work is derived from a need to find meaning in these brutal events that repositions the corpse in our field of vision, reminding us that our physical existence is finite.<br>text

In order to identify the ethical responsabilities of the design process, it is a priority to develop this dissertation. It seeks to understand the importance of design from the point of view of a producer of “material culture”, and the need to introduce ethics in the process of design. Also, by implementing ethical responsabilities in the design process, it generates the development of objects that have ethical commitment, and increases critical thinking in the designer. The design as a process, activity, and profession in the service of the humans; is capable of transforming the current reality with environmental and social problems, to achieve well-being in many aspects not only for present but future generations. This thesis contextualizes both ethical responsabilities and the design process; the design itself and its importance through the Culture of Design; and ethics through philosophical thinking, to establish a bond and a common purpose. Not only that, but also talks about the theory and concept of design and ethics, through the analysis of the proposals that have been published on the subject. Additionally, this research helps find the places in wich ethical responsabilities influences design. In order to obtain these findings; we elaborated a synthesis of the problem, what is necessary, and the function of three different fields: design, ethics and the social and environmmental context, each one of them to submit a formal proposal. The proposal was defined in three areas: Design Responsibilities, Responsibilities of the Design project and Designer Responsibilities, each one of these areas to define the priorities of the designers. We propose these three areas, because the design is the material result of the process, the designer is the person that develops the object by the process and the design project is the process itself. To evaluate our proposal, we publish surveys that helped us to categorized the priorities and add suggestions to complement our work. The responses obtained, ratified both tendencies of authors such as our thinking

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Desenho), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2016<br>A presente tese teórico-prática tem como questão central de investigação o modo como o desenho, entendido em sentido lato, edifica um mapa do quotidiano, que antecipa o território antes de coincidir com ele, em termos temporais e espaciais. Neste sentido, o desenho, enquanto médium, fixa o gesto, regista e situa o quotidiano, dando a ver a minha circunstância privada, entendida como ponto notável desse mapa. A vertente teórica da investigação aborda, no primeiro capítulo, conceitos fundadores, como os de rotinas táticas e estratégicas, apoiados nas análises de Michel de Certeau; o de repetição, contemplando acasos e desvios, que introduzem a deslocalização do quotidiano e a diferença criativa, enunciada por Gilles Deleuze; e o desenho como operação cartográfica, abstrata, mental e intuitiva, operacionalizada a partir das qualidades de númen e tenor, teorizadas por Philip Rawson. O segundo capítulo é dedicado ao trabalho da artista brasileira Fernanda Gomes, como caso de estudo que informa os conceitos de casa como matéria-prima do projeto artístico, de modus vivendi como modus operandi e de objet trouvé, enquanto elementos estruturantes na edificação do mapa referido, presente no meu projeto artístico. O projeto artístico Mapas Para Efetivar o Quotidiano, alicerça-se nestes conceitos para refletir sobre a domesticidade, a repetição e os automatismos diários, materializados nas obras Caderno Diário e Reunião. Do mesmo modo, articulando o branco do papel como superfície geradora e a autenticidade dos gestos ou a solidez dos objetos, constrói o mapa do meu quotidiano, fazendo do dia a dia a matéria-prima, assunto e programa do projeto artístico.<br>This theoretical and practical thesis has as its central research question the way drawing, understood in a broad sense, edifies a map of the everyday life, which anticipates the territory before coinciding with it, in spacial and temporal terms. In this sense drawing, as medium, holds the gesture, records and locates the everyday, making visible my own private circumstance, understood as a notable point of that map. The theoretical side of this research focuses, in the first chapter, on key concepts such as tactical and strategic routines, supported by the work of Michel de Certeau; repetition, contemplating chance and detours which introduce the relocation of the everyday and the creative difference, as enunciated by Gilles Deleuze; and drawing as cartographic operation, abstract, mental and intuitive, operationalised from the qualities of númen and tenor, theorised by Philip Rawson. The second chapter is devoted to the work of Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes as case study informing the concepts of home as the artistic project’s raw material, of modus vivendi as modus operandi, and of objet trouvé as structuring elements in constructing the mentioned map, present in my artistic project. The project Mapas Para Efetivar o Quotidiano builds on these concepts to reflect on domesticity, repetition and daily automatisms, materialised in the works Caderno Diário and Reunião. Similarly, articulating the white of the paper as generating surface and the authenticity of the gestures and solidity of the objects, it builds the map of my everyday life, making the day-to-day the raw material, subject and program of the artistic project.