Art performance as research, friction and deed

Advocacy in word as well as deed.

S ince the early days of the profession, occupational therapists have endorsed a humanistic philosophy that values individual choice, engagement in productive activity, and the right to self-fulfillment and equal opportunity for each individual. These values are evident in occupational therapy s rvices and in the multiple advocacy roles that therapists assume. Many therapists have been strong a...

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

Art and music research

In taxonomies of Western knowledge, ‘art’ and ‘music’ are grouped conventionally within a cluster of disciplines labeled ‘humanities’. Research on art and music, however, encompasses a wider array of disciplines and interdisciplinary fi elds. Music research also spans natural sciences (e.g. acoustics, physiology), formal sciences (mathematics, computing), and social sciences (psychology, sociol...

Performance Art/Life Art/ Mediafication

www.soka.ac.jp GA2011 – XIV Generative Art Conference Paper: SBArt4 as Automatic Art and Live Performance Tool

References: [1] Tatsuo Unemi, “A Breeding Tool for Abstract Animations and Its Applications”, 13 Generative Art Conference, 451-458, Milan, Italy, 2010 [2] www.intlab.soka.ac.jp/ ~unemi/sbart/4/ Abstract: SBArt4 is originally a breeding tool to produce abstract images and animations [1]. This paper describes a newly implemented functionality of automated evolution using some types of computatio...