In contemporary America, beauty sometimes arrives in the dock accused of carrying an old accomplice: power.
The argument has a history. Standards called beautiful — in faces, bodies, buildings, painting and language — were often established when Western institutions were overwhelmingly European. What one generation
called proportion, harmony or refinement, another may therefore suspect of being merely preference hardened into authority.
But this leaves a larger question unanswered. Abuse of a standard does not prove that standards are impossible. Nor does the history of exclusion establish that beauty itself excludes.
A cathedral, a garden, a melody or a well-made room can move people who share neither ancestry nor politics.
Perhaps beauty is troublesome precisely because it makes a larger claim: that amid our differences, some things may still be worth admiring together.
The term “lively arts” is attributed to American writer and poet James Thurber. It was popularized in the mid-20th century as a way to describe various forms of performing arts, such as theater, dance, music, and other creative expressions.
“What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist.
It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap”
— Marcel Duchamp
Today we refresh our understanding of the literature that guides the safety and sustainability goals of lively art events in educational settlements. Consortia have evolved quickly in recent years, leading and lagging changes in the content creation and delivery domain. With this evolution a professional discipline has emerged that requires training and certification in the electrotechnologies that contribute to “event safety”; among them:
ASHRAE International
Standard 62.1: This standard establishes minimum ventilation rates and indoor air quality requirements for commercial buildings, including theaters and auditoriums.
Standard 55: This standard specifies thermal comfort conditions for occupants in indoor environments, which can have an impact on air quality.
RP-16-17 Lighting for Theatrical Productions: This standard provides guidance on the design and implementation of lighting systems for theatrical productions. It includes information on the use of color, light direction, and light intensity to create different moods and effects.
RP-30-15 Recommended Practice for the Design of Theatres and Auditoriums: This standard provides guidance on the design of theaters and auditoriums, including lighting systems. It covers topics such as seating layout, stage design, and acoustics, as well as lighting design considerations.
DG-24-19 Design Guide for Color and Illumination: This guide provides information on the use of color in lighting design, including color temperature, color rendering, and color mixing. It is relevant to theater lighting design as well as other applications.
Dance and Athletic Floor Product Standards: ASTM F2118, EN 14904, DIN 18032-2
Incumbent standards-setting organizations such as ASHRAE, ASTM, ICC, IEEE, NFPA have also discovered, integrated and promulgated event safety and sustainability concepts into their catalog of best practice titles; many already incorporated by reference into public safety law. We explore relevant research on crowd management and spectator safety.
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In addition to the astonishing size of the global garment industry, risk aggregations in the facilities that support the education and training of young professionals for careers in this field are among the most complex. Not only have we moved this topic from our Saturday stream (which has run about four years now) but starting 2023 we move it into our weekday curriculum further breaking the coverage down further. Join us today at 16:00 UTC as we begin organizing these topics separately.
We start with titles on our Fine Arts syllabus; putting aside the arguable difference between style and fashion which is largely outside our area of expertise. Keeping these spaces safe and sustainable is.
Design Considerations
Everyone would basically be 50% happier if everyone dressed a little better. Clothes are everywhere. Everyone doesn’t have to be a clothes hound, but if the girls looked pretty and the guys looked nice, people would be happier and even more optimistic about the future. pic.twitter.com/iQcNPL1cMl
This year’s Annual Fashion Show features 171 looks from 42 designers. Collections and single-submission garments were chosen by a panel of industry critics and jurors. The pieces include evening wear, market-ready, universal design and more. https://t.co/3shpSI9LdV
The School of Fashion had the pleasure of hosting students from Streetsboro Middle School. Students got the chance to gain a better understanding of fashion, design and knitwear by participating in a variety of educational activities.
Education communities in every nation provide a locus for community cultural art production, enjoyment and instruction. It is both a consumer and producer; with the expansion of massive open online curricula drawing from the best practices conveyed from the visual arts.
One of the first names in this domain is the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers that support the technical framework and global professional community that makes motion picture, television and professional media available for all humanity to enjoy for artistic, educational and social purposes. The landing pages for its standards development enterprise are linked below:
We maintain SMPTE titles on the standing agenda of our Lively Arts, Power, Fine Art and Infotech colloquia. We also collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets 4 times monthly in European and American time zones. See our CALENDAR for the next online meetings; open to everyone.
Issue: [Various]
Category: Academics, Seven Lively Arts Facilities, Electrical, Telecommunication
Contact: Mike Anthony, Sanne Clare Anthony, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
Large Language Models have propelled the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, greatly expanding the boundaries of machine intelligence. Global tech giants and innovative enterprises are intensively deploying strategies around LLMs. As products based on LLMs are continuously launched and iterated, the evaluation of their capabilities has gradually become the focus of the industry. However, how to conduct a systematic, comprehensive evaluation and quantification of LLMs through unified evaluation criteria still requires in-depth exploration. Some enterprises and institutions have established relevant evaluation benchmarks and rankings for general large models in fields such as education and finance but there is still a lack of guidance for LLMs in the electric power industry.
The electric power industry, a key sector related to the global economy and people’s livelihood, is rich in professional knowledge and business logic. The evaluation of LLMs in this sector should focus on issues such as what power-specific capabilities large language models should possess, the level these capabilities should reach, how to construct industry evaluation datasets, and how to conduct objective evaluations, so as to form evaluation guidelines.
The aim is to use these guidelines to provide comprehensive, professional, objective, and scientific evaluation results for LLMs in the electric power sector, understand the boundaries of their professional capabilities, and guide the research, development, optimization, and application of LLMs. However, the existing evaluation standards for general LLMs are difficult to assess the capabilities of LLMs in the electric power sector comprehensively and thoroughly. Therefore, it is necessary to construct an evaluation system for LLMs in the electric power sector , tailored to industry-specific characteristics, and to formulate corresponding evaluation guide.
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New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwBpic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
