Your cultural fantasy: Seattle’s artistic community

Creative Space and Interdisciplinary Practice in Digital Fashion Performance: An Artistic Reflection on "Beyond Fantasy"

An Image Retrieval System for Artistic Database on Cultural Heritage

In this work an image retrieval system based on dominant colors is presented. A novel similarity function based on membership values of the Fuzzy c-means theory is introduced in order to using the information contained in the image descriptor vector like coordinates in a conceptual space. The principal characteristic of this system is quickness on retrieval phase due to light computations, easy...

Croatian Cultural Tradition and Children ’ s Artistic Creativity

Croatian Cultural Tradition and Children’s Artistic Creativity generates examples of good teaching practice and authentically portrays and reflects the synergy of children’s creativity, because as can be seen in the presented projects, various media in the hands of children are always formed in an original way thus developing children’s individuality, passion, self-confidence, optimism, confide...

ANDASA: A Web Environment for Artistic and Cultural Data Representation

ANDASA is a knowledge management platform for the capitalization of knowledge and cultural assets for the artistic and cultural sectors. It was built based on the priorities expressed by the participating artists. Through mapping artistic activities and specificities, it enables to highlight various aspects of the artistic research and production. Such instrument will contribute to create netwo...

From Fantasy to Imagination: A Cultural History and a Moral for Cultural Psychology

By doing history of psychology, we occasionally find areas of inquiry that have been forgotten in contemporary psychological language. One of these themes is fantasy. In this lecture I present some major contributions to fantasy before the establishment of scientific psychology. The exploration will begin with J.W. Goethe’s (1810) fourfold conception of the human soul: fantasy [Einbildungskraft...