MusicSun is a graphical user interface to discover artists. Artists are recommended based on one or more artists selected by the user. The recommendations are computed by combining 3 different aspects of similarity. The users can change the impact of each of these aspects. In addition words are displayed which describe the artists selected by the user. The user can select one of these words to ...

OBJECTIVE Artwork and psychiatric disorders are often linked. Accomplished artists with psychiatric disorders express themselves and their emotional distress through their works, and art therapists use the visual arts to help clients understand their problems and cope with them. There have been a number of psychiatric patients with no previous art training who produced artwork that many conside...

The aim of this research is to develop a system to support video artists. Design rationales of software for artists should be obtained through investigating artists' practice. In this study, we have analysed the process of making a video sequence in collaboration with an experienced video artist. Based on this analysis we identified design rationales for a system to support the process of makin...

In this paper we present a method for automatically assigning tags to music artists in the Web 2.0 radio Last.fm. Starting with the reference list of Last.fm user-defined tags, our method mines Wikipedia music artist abstracts for new tag candidates. Tag candidates are ranked using an heuristic weighting function. We evaluate the top ranked tag suggestion for about 31,000 artists by (i) perform...

This paper presents findings from a grounded theory study of the social and technical roles of programmers in art-technology collaborations. Combined with a review of the roles of technology with respect to helping artists engage with the computing medium, we show that programmers can play several roles in such collaborations, both supportive of and obstructive to the requirements of artists, b...

Traditional portrait artists use a specific but open human vision methodology to create a painterly portrait of a live or photographed sitter. Portrait artists attempt to simplify, compose and leave out what’s irrelevant, emphasizing what’s important. While seemingly a qualitative pursuit, artists use known but open techniques such as relying on source tone over colour to indirect into a colour...

As part of the Linking Open Data initiative many (community) platforms have made their data freely available in recent years. In these systems valuable information from the music domain can be found. We use this data for contentbased music recommendations thus not requiring expensive metadata annotations from domain experts. In this demo paper we present a system that uses data from the Freebas...

A piece of art, if analyzed comprehensively, is built with the amalgamation its formal and conceptual facets. These aspects are intertwined so intimately that one cannot exist without other. Since time immemorial, 'Women' most acclaimed concepts in Indian art. Female body has been represented identified through various forms shift space. The present research paper an analytical study those tran...

While most design firms, professional artists, and educational programs continue to use conventional graphic modalities to communicate design intent and aesthetic expression, recent developments in computer graphics promise to revolutionize attitudes artists and designers now hold toward their work. Artists and designers will have to adopt new attitudes regarding the information utility of opti...