During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger, 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st-century post-media condition, a process ...

This paper explores the implications of postmodernism upon a historically modern institution by articulating and applying three components of postmodernity to the academic library: the rise of local narratives, the performativity of knowledge, and the notion of the cyborg, a humanmachine hybrid inhabited, in many ways, by the academic librarian. In his 1999 article “Towards a Postmodern Context...

Early in their evolution, perhaps during their transition from Agnatha (jawless fish) to Gnathostomata (jawed animals), vertebrates committed as much as 1% of their proteinencoding genome to a new system of defense against parasites (1). Central to this anticipatory (adaptive) immune system (2) are three types of antigen receptor—immunoglobulin (Ig), T cell receptor (Tcr), and major histocompat...

Computational Creativity is the AI subfield in which we study how to build computational models of creative thought in science and the arts. From an engineering perspective, it is desirable to have concrete measures for assessing the progress made from one version of a program to another, or for comparing and contrasting different software systems for the same creative task. We describe the Tur...

expressionism in painting, existentialism in philosophy, the final forms of representation in the novel, the films of the great auteurs, or the modernist school of poetry (as institutionalized and canonized in the works of Wallace Stevens): all these are now seen as the final, extraordinary flowering of a high modernist impulse which is spent and exhausted with them. . . . the younger generatio...

This paper presents an overview of the field of Interconnected Musical Networks – live performance systems that allow players to influence, share, and shape each other’s music in real-time. Informed by social and biological systems , these networks are designed to allow a group of performers to interdependently collaborate in creating dynamic and evolving musical compositions. The paper starts ...

Individuals learn, or try to learn, about other people from observing them and analogizing what they see to their own bodily or kinesic knowledge. We watch (for example) the position of limbs and the movement of eyes. We react to evidence of different states of muscle tension. Artists make use of their own kinesic knowledge and count on our understanding of it. But body language does not always...

IR systems are purposively designed to fulfill “information needs.” Yet there seems to be a dilemma between system modelers unreflective participation in traditional science’s empirical efforts of exposing a priori reality and reliance on relativistic, perhaps contradictory, user-based relevancy judgments of true facts. Adding information visualization techniques adds a layer of interpretative ...

The concept of limited access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity; reflecting the ever increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of individuals from communities (cf. Simmel, Tönnies). Separation from contact with the landscape and its effect on space-time relationships creates a new spatiality (see Augé, 1995). While laying concrete across the country...