Précis de Art as Performance

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...

Précis of implicit nationalism.

While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, and Russian flags were primed (or not, in the control conditions) and their eff...

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...

Précis of Objects and Persons

There are no statues or chairs or rocks or planets. But there are microscopic objects. Let’s call them—whatever they may turn out to be—‘atoms’. And although there are no statues, there are atoms “arranged statuewise.” There are also atoms arranged chairwise, atoms arranged rockwise, and atoms arranged planetwise. I “eliminate” many familiar composite macroscopic objects. But I say there are at...