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Featuring approximately 40 artists and artist groups, the first Asia Society Triennial reflects the diversity of contemporary art from Asia and the diaspora Produced for the inaugural edition of the Triennial, this fully illustrated catalog documents the exhibition in stunning detail through critical essays and works by over 40 contemporary Asian and Asian American artists and artist groups spanning Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.Launched in 2020 by Asia Society, the Triennial is a festival of art, ideas and innovation. The first initiative of its kind in the United States, the Asia Society Triennial is an ambitious recurring multivenue, multimedia initiative across New York City with an exhibition of contemporary arts at its center.The catalog provides a unique forum for engagement with the rich tapestry of Asian cultures that make up a significant, yet historically underexplored and underrepresented demographic within New York City.

The thesis describes the development of receiver technologies for sub-millimetre astronomy instruments, focusing on high performance coherent cryogenic detectors operating close to the superconductor gap frequency. The mixer chip which comprises the SIS devices, fed by a unilateral finline and matching planar circuits was fabricated on 15 micron silicon substrate using the recently developed Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology. This offered broadband IF and RF performance, with fully integrated on-chip planar circuits resulting in an easily reproducible mixer chip and a simple mixer block. An important consequence of this design is that it can be extended to the supra-THz region and making the fabrication of multi-pixel heterodyne arrays feasible. The extension of the operation of major telescopes such as ALMA, APEX and the GLT from single pixel to large format arrays is the subject of extensive research at present time since it will allow fast mapping combined with high resolution of the submillimetre sky. The technology described in this thesis makes a major contribution to this effort.