Advocating for digital projects in the arts: UC San Diego Visual Arts and Architecture Digital Collections

Analysis of Visual Arts Collections

In this paper, we introduce a projection technique that aims to place points representing individual images in a two-dimensional visualization space so that proximity in this space reflects some sort of similarity between the images. This visualization technique enables users to employ their visual ability to evaluate the significance of metadata as well as the characteristics of classification...

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Phorigami: Visualization of Digital Photo Collections by Origami Arts

Issues about navigation of large photo collections have been studied for years. Associated interfaces tend to provide a single usage to deal with all kinds of photos and an integrated interface is rarely addressed. As the everyman photo collection consists of photos of various contexts, we advocate browsing different types of photos by different interaction techniques and presentation models. W...

Using Digital Portfolios for High-stakes Assessment in Visual Arts

The collection and scoring of student artwork, for high-stakes assessment, across a large jurisdiction such as Western Australia is challenging. An alternative approach would be to submit digital representations of the artworks online for assessing. However, to give a valid and reliable measure the representations would need to be of adequate quality. Further, judgements of artworks are necessa...

Constraints and Creativity in the Digital Arts

When we refer to constraints in daily life we usually mean something that limits what we want to do or places boundaries around our choices. In the world of creative endeavour, the word has many interpretations. We think of constraints in creativity as both limiting and liberating. In our personal practice, they are used to impose boundaries upon the creative space we occupy and, at the same ti...