Alison Hilton. Russian Folk Art

Pixel Patchwork: a Digital Folk Art?

This paper is about a novel form of grassroots playful performance on the Internet. In a channel (chatroom) called “rainbow” on IRC (Internet Relay Chat), participants communicate in real time mainly via images created from letters and other computer keyboard symbols. Images are “tokens for interaction,” both “art” and “communication.” The paper reports on six years of participant observation o...

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

Hierarchical Modular Systems with Elements of Folk Art

Hierarchical modular systems are composed of identical elements assembled by systematic rules based on rotational group. The systems are characterized by hierarchical symmetries and their regular outlines defined by the last rules. To introduce fundamental an element of Japanese folk art into an initial module of our system, we can form various hierarchical symmetric patterns composed of identi...

Alison Cawsey

Alison Cawsey passed away in June 2009. She was a remarkable person and her death is a profound professional and personal loss. Born in 1963, Alison grew up in the south of England and, from 1981 to 1984, studied Natural Sciences at Jesus College Cambridge. During this period she met her life partner Richard. Alison always excelled academically but not always in the sporting arena; however, at ...

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