This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible cultural heritage, from music and storytelling to dance, theatre and martial arts. Cases of digital technology interventions are provided from different geographical and cultural settings, from Europe to Asia and the Americas. Together, the collection reflects on the implications that digital interventions have on intangible cultural heritage engagements, its curation and transmission in diverse localities. The volume is a valuable resource for discovering the multiple ways in which cultural heritage is mediated through digital technologies, and engages with audiences, artists, users and researchers.

An author wakes in the morning to find that his printer worked through the night. He tells us of a story from the view of an AI program who must get the help of its creator to defeat another tyrannical AI. The writer who findsthe story makes no effort to change it, because it isn't his. He publishes it hoping the real author comes forward to claim it, but is the story really fiction?

This book systematically introduces readers to laser imaging target detection principles and techniques. It covers the fundamentals of laser imaging and presents an extensive, up-to-date analysis of how to best use laser imaging to detect targets. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of laser imaging target detection principles, laser imaging generation, and target detection methods. The book offers an invaluable resource for researchers, especially those who are engaged in the fields including target detection based on a laser imaging system, target detection and identification, remote sensing imaging and image processing. Additionally, it can be used as a reference book for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates of relevant majors.

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To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK filmmaking landscape? What impact is this having upon filmmaking professionals? The business of conventional feature filmmaking is like no other, in that it assembles a huge company of people from a range of disciplines on a temporary basis, all to engage in the collaborative endeavour of producing a unique, one-off piece of work. By focusing on the pivotal year of 2012, and by considering the input of every single contributor to the process, this book illuminates how this period of analogue to digital transition is impacting upon working practices, cultures, opportunities and structures in the industry, and examines the various causative forces behind their adoptions and resistances. With an in-depth case study of Sally Potter's 2012 film 'Ginger & Rosa', and drawing upon interviews with international film industry practitioners, 'From Film Practice to Data Process' is a groundbreaking examination of film production in its totality, in a moment of profound change.

An expanded and illustrated second edition.

"Echoes of Eternity: Guardians Unbound" invites you to embark on a spellbinding journey through the realms of imagination, where echoes of heroes and echoes of villains clash in a symphony of echoes that reverberate across the multiverse. In this riveting installment of the series, the Guardians of Cosmic Unity return with renewed determination and boundless potential, as they confront echoes of challenges that transcend dimensions and echoes of adversaries that defy understanding. As echoes of the cosmic tapestry unfold, "Guardians Unbound" explores the echoes of deeper bonds between the Guardians, their echoes of growth and transformation, and their echoes of unyielding dedication to preserving echoes of harmony within the multiverse. The echoes of Elden's leadership, Zephyr's foresight