1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996496562903316

Autore

Ma Jean

Titolo

At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators / / Jean Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2022

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-520-38452-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Art and motion pictures

Dreams in motion pictures

Motion picture audiences

Sleep - Psychological aspects

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Turn to Sleep -- 2 Sleep Must Be Protected -- PART I: REGARDING SLEEP -- 3 Into the Dark -- 4 Exiting and Entering Early Cinema -- 5 Somnolent Journeys -- 6 Insensate Intimacies -- PART II: SLEEPING REGARD -- 7 The Regressive Thesis -- 8 Narcotic Reception -- 9 A Little History of Sleeping at the Movies -- 10 Zoning Out -- 11 Circadian Cinemas -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Defined positively, sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. These possibilities



converge in the work of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has explored the subject of sleep systematically throughout his career. In examining Apichatpong’s work, Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors—from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang, Weegee to Warhol—to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299882803321

Autore

Altshuler Yaniv

Titolo

Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search / / by Yaniv Altshuler, Alex Pentland, Alfred M. Bruckstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-63604-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 238 p. 116 illus., 53 illus. in color.)

Collana

Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 729

Disciplina

006.3824

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Swarm Search -- Cooperative “Swarm Cleaning” of Stationary Domains -- Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Lower Bounds -- Swarm Search of Expanding Regions in Grids: Upper Bounds -- The Search Complexity of Collaborative Swarms Expanding Z2 Grid Regions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theory and tools needed for the development of an efficient and robust infrastructure for the design of collaborative patrolling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, focusing on its applications for tactical intelligence drones. It



discusses frameworks for robustly and near-optimally analyzing flocks of semi-autonomous vehicles designed to efficiently perform the ongoing dynamic patrolling and scanning of pre-defined “search regions”. It discusses the theoretical limitations of such systems, as well as the trade-offs between the systems’ various economic and operational parameters. Current UAV systems rely mainly on human operators for the design and adaptation of drones’ flying routes. However, recent technological advances have introduced new systems, comprised of a small number of self-organizing vehicles, manually guided at the swarm level by a human operator. With the growing complexity of such man-supervised architectures, it is becoming increasingly harder to guarantee a pre-defined level of performance. The use of large scale swarms of UAVs as a combat and reconnaissance platform therefore necessitates the development of an efficient optimization mechanism of their utilization, specifically in the design and maintenance of their patrolling routes. The book is intended for researchers and engineers in the fields of swarms systems and autonomous drones. .