This paper presents the case for extending programming languages to support digital artists engaged in technologically-innovative work. The anticipated result is an “environment for building environments”, which will need to satisfy certain technological requirements according to the areas in which digital artists most need creative support. A review of these areas is undertaken, and a proposal...

texture, one of the important elements in visual arts, is produced in different ways. whereas each painting is a multilayered object, any separate layer can have its own distinct texture. texture can be resulted of inherent nature of artist's depicted materials, such as canvas or support, and it can be, also, produced in the ground or paint layers. in addition, by using of different materi...

Introduction Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists. Considering many female Irish artists were coming of age in the 1990s, as part of a newly enlightened media-aware generation, conscious of feminist ideas and changing attitudes towards women both in Ireland and intern...

We present a novel approach in categorizing artists into subjective categories such as genre. We base our method on co-occurrences on the web, found with the Google search engine. A direct mapping between artists and categories proved to be unreliable. We use the categories mapped to closely related artists to obtain a more reliable mapping. The method is tested on a genre classification test s...

Digitization has drastically lowered the costs of replicating and distributing music, enabling piracy on the demand side, as well as supply side re-use and recontextualization. This paper examines cumulative creativity and re-use through the release of derivative works in the popular music industry. Combining novel data on “digital sampling” and cover songs with a new proprietary Spotify data-s...

We focus on the development of artificial art critics. These systems analyze artworks, extracting relevant features, and produce an evaluation of the perceived pieces. The ability to perform aesthetic judgments is a desirable characteristic in an evolutionary artificial artist. As such, the inclusion of artificial art critics in these systems may improve their artistic abilities. We propose art...