This paper is an investigation of theoretical issues pertaining to art and design graduates as they embark upon their training as teachers. The expressive, ‘confessional’ nature of selected forum posts in their virtual learning environment are analysed in relation to the students’ identity transformation into teachers. This transition is profound in the case of artist teachers, for whom the con...

Users in different countries may have different music preferences, possibly due to geographical, economic, linguistic, and cultural factors. Revealing the relationship between music preference and cultural socio-economic differences across countries is of great importance for music information retrieval in a cross-country or cross-cultural context. Existing works are usually based on small samp...

Takahiro Yamaguchi,a1 Dong Yeon Lee,b Akio Miyao,c Hikohiko Hirochika,c Gynheung An,b and Hiro-Yuki Hiranoad2 a Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan b Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea c National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai...

This paper presents a system searching for semantic relations between web resources, in our case historical persons. The system is based on the ULAN metadata of some 100,000 persons and organizations.

In this paper, we analyze various methods used for semantic annotation and search in a collection of art and architecture images. We discuss the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, WordNet, ULAN and Iconclass ontology. Systems for searching and retrieval art and architecture image collections are presented. We explore if the MPEG 7 descriptors are useful for art and architecture image annotations. ...

In audio based music recommendation, a well known effect is the dominance of songs from the same artist as the query song in recommendation lists. We verify that this effect also exists in a very large data set at the scale of the world wide web (> 250000). Since our data set contains multiple albums from individual artists, we can also show that the album effect is relatively bigger than the a...

We discuss tools for calculating divergence-free fields for artistic particle simulations. We introduce a simple, fast divergence-free noise function which can be used for turbulence. We also describe how the interpolation technique used by the noise function can be used for calculating artist-controlled divergence-free fields. The artist can create realistic unbounded flow fields without the c...

Sir—Drawing ability could be disrupted by many neurological disorders, of which graphic neglect after unilateral brain damage (generally of right parietal cortex) is most frequent. In this disorder, patients draw preferentially on the right side of the paper, omit and deform objects on the left side, but judge their drawings to be complete. Graphic neglect can become especially evident in the w...

Here, we and others describe an unusual neurorobotic project, a merging of art and science called MEART, the semi-living artist. We built a pneumatically actuated robotic arm to create drawings, as controlled by a living network of neurons from rat cortex grown on a multi-electrode array (MEA). Such embodied cultured networks formed a real-time closed-loop system which could now behave and rece...

Current advances in music recommendation underline the importance of multimodal and user-centric approaches in order to transcend limits imposed by methods that solely use audio, web, or collaborative filtering data. We propose several hybrid music recommendation algorithms that combine information on the music content, the music context, and the user context, in particular integrating geospati...