For centuries, the plague caused fear and panic. The term “bubonic plague” relates to ulcerated lymph nodes (the buboes) observed in the groin, armpit, or neck of the infected person. The plague was transmitted from rodent to rodent—and to humans— by fleas. Today, bubonic plague is treatable if diagnosed early, but the pulmonary (pneumonic) form of the infection still carries a very high risk o...

F rom Impressionism and Pop Art to phosphorylation sites and interacting atom pairs, the realm of curation has been expanded. The recent growth of bioinformatics, driven by exponentially growing data, advanced computing techniques, and increased funding from private and governmental organizations, has created the need for novel strategies to adequately capture, store, and analyze the multitude ...

The advance of modern technology and computing instruments has made the plastic art of materials and tools in various dimensions possible. In activities of plastic art, the graphic design is called the two-dimensional art, suggesting the artistic activities happen in a 2D space, while the stereoscopic design implies that the artistic form exists in a 3D space. In this case, if the timeline is a...

E since the appearance of Meyer Schapiro's essay on ~... "Courbet and Popular Imagery" in 1941, we have been expanding our awareness of the popular arts as a formal and iconographic influence upon French painting of the second half of the 19th century.' During the past four decades, the interconnected contributions of cheaply printed colored woodcuts, fashion plates, photography, Japanese print...

Machine modes of representation are sometimes thought of as being supremely abstract. In practice, these modes counterpose abstraction and realism, artifice and naturalism, in ways that have problematized the artistic debate, destabilizing traditional and conventional ways of seeing and thinking. Similarly, the body has been positioned at the intersection of many discourses – cultural, scientif...

In his paper, "Empathy versus Abstraction in Twentieth-Century German and Russian Aesthetics," Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that Alexander Koyré has shown how the crisis of belief incited by Bacon, Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes made that "man lost his place in the world." The German term Einfühlung (empathy) played an important role in the transformation of the relationship between the per...

We approach the challenging problem of discovering influences between painters based on their fine-art paintings. In this work, we focus on comparing paintings of two painters in terms of visual similarity. This comparison is fully automatic and based on computer vision approaches and machine learning. We investigated different visual features and similarity measurements based on two different ...

We approach the challenging problem of discovering influences between painters based on their fine-art paintings. In this work, we focus on comparing paintings of two painters in terms of visual similarity. This comparison is fully automatic and based on computer vision approaches and machine learning. We investigated different visual features and similarity measurements based on two different ...

Depending on your perspective, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artworks are inaugurating an exciting new chapter in the history of art, or a dangerous online market bubbles. NFTs index artworks, and typically strings characters stored blockchain such as Ethereum. not exclusively used to have been range collectibles, but it is sale associated with that has launched phenomenon into public consciousness....

The ESP Game, like other Games With A Purpose (GWAP), tends to generate “surface semantics” tags. This article first discusses why this is the case, then proposes two approaches called “squaring” and “scripting” to collecting “deep semantics” tags that both consist in deploying the ESP Game in unconventional manners. It also reports on a very positive first experimental evaluation of the two ap...