Yoruba Traditional Art: Symbolism and Interpretation

Prolonging life: a traditional interpretation.

Music, Recording, and the Art of Interpretation

For millennia, music has been a performance-based artform open to continuous variation and reinterpretation. More recently however, industrialisation has allowed for the mass-production of sound recordings, in turn bringing conjecture about the changed nature of music reception in society. This article reflects on related practice-based work by its authors and examines aspects of music producti...

Interactive Art, HCI and Hermeneutic Interpretation

Recent CHI publications and workshops have indicated an interest in the relationship between interactive art and HCI. This year’s conference theme of art.science.balance also creates an opening for discussion between the two disciplines. This paper contributes to this discussion by presenting some challenges to dialogue between interactive art and HCI. I then illustrate by way of example affini...

Statistical Image Properties in Large Subsets of Traditional Art, Bad Art, and Abstract Art

Several statistical image properties have been associated with large subsets of traditional visual artworks. Here, we investigate some of these properties in three categories of art that differ in artistic claim and prestige: (1) Traditional art of different cultural origin from established museums and art collections (oil paintings and graphic art of Western provenance, Islamic book illustrati...

Rethinking Symbolism

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