Introduction: Connecting Art Histories

Introduction: Surface Histories.

The first section of this issue brings together four essays on “surfaces” – a subject matter which might seem conspicuous or, indeed, palpable enough. Just think of the sheets of paper, window panes, and haptic interfaces surrounding you: the world, evidently, is diffused with surfaces, membranes, and boundaries of all sorts. Some of these things have been salient, for obvious reasons in fields...

ICT&ART Connect: Connecting ICT & Art Communities - Early Outcomes

This paper will discuss the progress of the project, which will have been completed for a couple months and all the analysis and reports on outcomes will be delivered, and discuss its findings and the outcomes of the project events and collaborative residencies. I discuss in depth a few selected supported collaborations as case studies and the different models of collaborations observed, as wel...

Introduction – Generative Art and Rules-Based Art

scores for free interpretation present systems of abstract symbols without a intended or predefined mapping into a multidimensional qualia space. The live performer invents a mapping from the abstract symbols into a property such as pitch, or color, or energy level, and then performs the score. Needless to say, some of these mappings will be more improvisational than others. Earle Brown (Beyond...

Tilting the Word: Histories of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

Introduction: histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland

This paper introduces a special issue on 'Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland', situating the papers that follow in an outline historiography of work in this field. Using Allan Beveridge's claims in 1993 about the relative lack of research on the history of psychiatry in Scotland, the paper reviews a range of contributions that have emerged since then, loosely distinguishi...