ion Abstraction has been heralded as the hallmark of mathematics and computer science, but it is important to isolate abstraction for its fundamental properties, which appear to often be confused with the material which goes into making signs. The concept of abstraction can surface as a reason not to employ more extravagant forms. However, abstraction cannot completely come to the rescue becaus...

ALTERNE (Alternative Realities in Networked Environments) platform aims at providing a high level of integration between various techniques supporting mixed reality, graphics, interaction and behavioral models. This paper focuses on two collaborative aspects the platform provides. First, it contains a virtual object repository, which allows artists to share their ideas and support collaboration...

Why and how do artists engage in activities that likely lead to gentrification, despite their awareness of its effects they will possibly be among the displaced groups? I highlight a missing link existing literature explaining recurring patterns art scenes gentrification US cities– cyclicality artistic careers trajectories scenes’ spatiality. The study shows shifted reputation neighborhood earl...

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...

This work presents, through its study and annotated edition, the documents relating to José de Cañizares kept in Archives of Parish San Martín Madrid General Archive Royal Palace. These present reasons that led poet playwright from abandon his military career 1694 and, by providing information on beginnings as a writer sacred poetry for Crown, shed light key moment life, thus allowing significa...

The expression of artistic language is one the most important conditions in creation oil paintings. Good works are not limited to subject matter, technique and composition, but more importantly, artist's conversion his works. Only through art logic summed up practice unique system established by ourselves can we create excellent art. Today, with rapid changes, paintings only presented museums g...

The following fairy tale is the creative output from an arts-based autoethnographic inquiry created in partial fulfillment for my Master of Arts degree. Inspired by doctoral work Lindsay Eales (2018), main research objective was to challenge, (re)imagine, and transform conventional dance spaces into that were more accessible Mad bodyminds. I used artistic processes such as painting, dancing, jo...