Vehicle fetishism is a near-ubiquitous cultural attitude in theorizing about the arts. It commonly occurs as a background assumption, if not an explicit belief, that the physical vehicles, by means of which the artistic meaning or content of artworks is communicated, must somehow themselves be integral parts of the relevant artworks. Of course, such a primitivist or magical view about the power...

From art portraits, the observer may derive at least two different hedonic values: The attractiveness of the depicted person and the artistic beauty of the image that relates to the way of presentation. We argue that attractiveness is a property that is predominantly driven by perceptual processes, while the perception of artistic beauty is based predominantly on cognitive processing. To test t...

There has been a lack of discussion concerning virtual reality as an expressive medium. It is essential to emphasise the aesthetic dimension of virtual reality in order to develop the medium as a powerful artistic mode of expression. This thesis examines how head-mounted display-based virtual reality can be used for artistic expression, focussing on the aesthetic pleasures of the medium. Pionee...

Artistic image understanding is an interdisciplinary research field of increasing importance for the computer vision and the art history communities. For computer vision scientists, this problem offers challenges where new techniques can be developed; and for the art history community new automatic art analysis tools can be developed. On the positive side, artistic images are generally constrai...

While artists demonstrate their individual styles through paintings and drawings, how to describe such artistic styles well selected visual features towards computerized analysis of the arts remains to be a challenging research problem. In this paper, we propose an integrated feature-based artistic descriptor with Monte Carlo Convex Hull (MCCH) feature selection model and support vector machine...

GestureCloud is an art collaboration founded by Beijing-based artist Fei Jun and Toronto-based artist Judith Doyle. At the ISEA2013 Creators Session, GestureCloud discussed its collaborative research-creation methodology and gave a demonstration of its Xbox Kinect 3D depth camera modified for motion capture. In addition to describing past and current artistic projects, this text expands on the ...

Research seeking a scientific foundation for the theory of art appreciation has raised controversies at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences. Though equally relevant to a scientific inquiry into art appreciation, psychological and historical approaches to art developed independently and lack a common core of theoretical principles. Historicists argue that psychological and brai...

Intervening in the revitalization and development of art villages is one ways to build regional brands rural areas, fit with contemporary aesthetics, meet needs modern people for diversified life. At same time, it not limited by artistry itself, but a comprehensive artistic activity modernity, industrial linkage, sustainability. This paper uses HPR (Hestenes–Powell–Rockafellar) multiplier metho...

New methodologies and approaches are required nowadays in order to facilitate non-technically trained users to access, browse and retrieve content from relational databases. This paper presents the methodology developed for the scope, definition, real implementation and visualization of a domain ontology for content generation based on cultural databases. This ontology has been implemented with...