Tracks of small animals are important in environmental surveillance, where pattern recognition algorithms allow species identification of the individuals creating tracks. These individuals can also be seen as artists, presented in their natural environments with a canvas upon which they can make prints. We present tracks of small mammals and reptiles which have been collected for identification...

There is a wide variety of work being done by artists working both in conventional genres such as Music, Dance and Theatre as well as newly emergent hybrid and innovative forms such as real-time animation and physically distributed and telematic performance. I want to build up a picture both of what technical resources artists are employing – and to what effect technology is being used; what th...

The entertainment industry is undergoing significant transformation and growth. The goal of the entertainment agency is to establish and manage the careers of individual artists. This research develops an approach to evaluate the potential of entertainment artists and construct individualized career maps. Data mining techniques are used to correlate the entertainment news on the Internet with t...

What can we learn about aesthetics by studying the creative process of art-making? Much research has focused on the viewer’s relationship with the art-object. Analyzing this experience provides a quantitative approach, but such an approach, as Chatterjee (2011) describes, runs the risk of “looking for the dropped coin under the lamp because that is where things are visible. . . ” In this paper,...

Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller's evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had m...

The five contributions of this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the panel Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual, and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult, hosted by the 8th Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, June 25-28, 2014. The call for papers had a dual purpose, which I could figuratively resume as «zooming in» on the fine-grained linguistic and pragm...

We present an efficient unsupervised approach in finding subjective artist meta-data on the world wide web. Since we are interested in the collective knowledge on artists as available on the web, our method is based on the extraction of information from multiple web pages. We use co-occurrences of pairs of artists on the web to identify similarity between artists. To determine the applicability...