Framing 'Islamic Art' for Aesthetic Interiors: Revisiting the 1878 Paris Exhibition

Collaborative virtual environments art exhibition

This panel presentation will exhibit artwork developed in CAVEs and discuss how art methodologies enhance the science of VR through collaboration, interaction and aesthetics. Artists and scientists work alongside one another to expand scientific research and artistic expression and are motivated by exhibiting collaborative virtual environments. Looking towards the arts, such as painting and scu...

Symmetry and Islamic Art

Islamic art is unique because its form and function permeate both distance and time. Since the birth of Islam, Muslim artists around the world have created pieces of art that share an uncanny resemblance to pieces created by other Muslim artists through common themes, appearances, and applications. These similarities include calligraphic elements, exaggerated depictions of plants and animals, a...

Art History and the "Blockbuster" Exhibition

Digital Islamic Art: The use of digital technologies in contemporary Islamic art in the UK

In this paper, I provide a brief introduction to my artistic practice combining the use of digital technologies with traditional methods for producing Islamic art. Looking at further examples of Islamic artworks by artists in the UK I describe how in some cases, the artworks are digital in themselves, using digital technologies as a medium and in other cases, the digital plays a part in the cre...

Framing Artistic Visualization: Aesthetic Object as Evidence

This paper identifies several meta or high level assumptions from art history about how to interpret the artifacts produced by creative processes, and shows how these assumptions influence our approaches to understanding new aesthetic technologies like Artistic Information Visualizations.