We here analyze the paintings and films of several visual artists, who suffered from a well-defined neuropsychological deficit, visuo-spatial hemineglect, following vascular stroke to the right brain. In our analysis we focus in particular on the oeuvre of Lovis Corinth and Luchino Visconti as both major artists continued to be highly productive over many years after their right brain damage. W...

We analyze the existence of community structures in two different social networks using data obtained from similarity and collaborative features between musical artists. Our analysis reveals some characteristic organizational patterns and provides information about the driving forces behind the growth of the networks. In the similarity network, we find a strong correlation between clusters of a...

Practising arts has been linked to lowering stress, anxiety and blood pressure. These mechanisms are all known to affect the ageing process. Therefore, we examine the relation between long-term involvement in arts and life expectancy at age 50 (LE50), in a cohort of 12,159 male acoustic, literary and visual artists, who were born between 1700 and 1899 in the Low Countries. We compared the life ...

In this work we describe a recommendation system based upon user-generated description (tags) of content. In particular, we describe an experimental system (GaMuSo) that consists of more than 140.000 user-defined tags for over 400.000 artists. From this data we constructed a bipartite graph, linking artists via tags to other artists. On the resulting graph we compute related artists for an init...

The user-generated content platforms like MySpace, YouTube or Flickr produce emergent sociability patterns and behaviors, which are well observed in various studies. Few of them deal with the nature of the reputation in these large social networks. In this work, we extract a sample of MySpace Music by parsing the artists’ pages and following the “best friend” links. The study of the network sho...

In this paper we introduce MusicianMap, a web-based interactive tool for visualizing relationships among popular musicians who have released recordings since 1950. MusicianMap accepts search terms from the user, and in turn uses these terms to retrieve data from MusicBrainz.org and AudioScrobbler.net, and visualizes the results. MusicianMap visualizes relationships of various kinds between musi...

This handsomely printed and profusely illustrated book provides insight into the complex processes involved in illustrating British periodicals of " The Sixties " —that is, the period roughly from 1855 to the mid-1870s. Published to entertain and instruct middle-class readers, periodicals of this period contained serialized novels along with historical pieces, poetry, and articles of general in...

I quantify the relationship between private–network file sharing activity and album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of 2,109 albums’ U.S. sales and file sharing downloads during 2008. Exogenous shocks to file sharing capacity address the simultaneity problem. In theory, piracy could crowd out sales by building file sharing capacity or increase them through word of mouth. I find eviden...

We provide a new perspective on the impact of unauthorized copying and copy levies on artistic creation. Our analysis emphasizes three important aspects of artistic markets: the predominance of superstars, the dynamics of talent sorting, and the importance of promotion expenditures. In the short run, piracy reduces superstars’ earnings and market share, and increases the number of niche and you...