This paper, based on doctoral research carried out from January 2003 through July 2005, addresses the interpretation and representation of non-Western religious material culture in Western museums and offers a comprehensive view of the way traditional religious Yorùbá objects are displayed in contemporary museums in Britain. Museum exhibitions can be conceived as a visual narrative, which absor...

A team of staff and students at the Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media came together to research the potential for interactive multimedia in museum programs to contribute to community regeneration. The project was part of the exhibition Play Up Pompey! which celebrates the centenary year of Portsmouth Football Club. The School's contribution was The Team in the Stand, a visitor-authored...

form-centered reading is a trend which has existed among muslim critics long ago and been reflected further as “formalist” in modern era. such type of view about a textinvestigates it as a linguistic innovation. from formalists' point of view, a literary text contains a fundamental elementcalled text literature which a literate can achieve it through different mechanisms which itself gives...

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), as well as Property Specification Language (PSL) are linear temporal logics based on LTL [14], extended with regular expressions and local variables. In [6] Bustan and Havlicek show that the local variable extensions, as well as regular expressions with intersection, render the verification problem of SVA and PSL formulae EXPSPACE-complete. In this paper we show ...

How did Persian artists self-represent themselves within paintings in the absence of a tradition self-portraiture? beholders engage with style painting past? By addressing these fundamental questions study painting, The Making Artist Late Timurid Painting examines performative and self-representational abilities through detailed examination Cairo Bustan, earliest surviving illustrated...

The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the iconic instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages. It allowed a multitude of operations of practical astronomy which were otherwise cumbersome to perform in an epoch when mathematics had apparently almost been forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a few hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today and ar...