Central to art was once its relationship the imaginative interior of artist. The legacy romanticism and sublime has been systematically eroded throughout 20th 21st centuries. ...

Over the past decade, cloud services emerged as one of the most promising technologies in IT. Since cloud computing allows improving the quality of software and, at the same time, aims at reducing costs of operating software and hardware, more and more software is delivered as a service in the cloud. However, moving existing software applications to the cloud and making them behave as software ...

This chapter introduces the fundamentals of ARTIST (an acronym for Artificial Intelligence-aided Synthesis Tool). ARTIST is a prototype system for sound synthesis that allows composition of sounds thought of in terms of qualitative descriptions (e.g. words in English) and intuitive operations rather than low level computer programming. My research work is looking for (a) plausible strategies to...

The amateur tattoo can be done by any sharp object like a needle or a sharp piece of bone. The professional tattooing technique depends on the country where the tattoo is performed. In Japan, the artist usually uses needles put together into a wooden handle, called hari, while for the Polynesian technique uses a sharp rake held by a handle that the artist will tap using a rigid piece of bamboo....

This work documents a design-led process of discovery for artistic development of real time 3D animations functioning as a visual extension to a live music performance. Musical dynamics, patterns, and themes are transposed into a visual form that develops over time through a carefully orchestrated process driven by the artist and the computer. Historical animations by Fischinger, Whitney, and “...

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

We demonstrate the artist detection component of Minnowmatch, a machine listening and music retrieval engine. Minnowmatch (Mima) automatically determines various metadata and makes classifications concerning a piece of audio using neural networks and support vector machines. The technologies developed in Minnowmatch may be used to create audio information retrieval systems, copyright protection...