According to surveys of art books and exhibitions, artists prefer poses showing the left side of the face when composing a portrait and the right side when composing a self-portrait. However, it is presently not known whether similar biases can be observed in individuals that lack formal artistic training. We collected self-portraits by naïve photographers who used the iPhone™ front camera, and...

Objective: To examine time trends in the portrayal of smoking in a national collection of portraiture and to compare this with the similar trends for television and film. Methods: A compact disc produced by the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, was systematically searched for artworks produced in the years 1950 to 1999. A ‘‘smoking portrayal’’ in an artwork was defined as having a cigare...

Ludmilla Jordanova set herself a daunting task in writing this book. She has endeavoured to blend three distinct elements or disciplines into a single product. First, modern approaches to science and medicine which look at these disciplines not only as forms of knowledge but also as forms of work. Such approaches also look to the changing social place of doctors and scientists and to the extent...

David Hockney’s recent book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters argues that 15thcentury painters employed optical devices to achieve realistic portraiture. A reexamination of the history of optical projection techniques raises problems for Hockney’s provoc-

We overview our interdisciplinary work building parameterized knowledge domains and their authoring tools that allow for expression systems which move through a space of painterly portraiture. With new computational systems it is possible to conceptually dance, compose and paint in higher level conceptual spaces. We are interested in building art systems that support exploring these spaces and ...

Damian Schofield Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Computer Science State University of New York [email protected] Katharina Lorenz Digital Humanities Centre Dept. of Classics University of Nottingham [email protected] Stephanie Davy-Jow Morsani College of Medicine Dept. of Radiology University of South Florida Matthew Anderson Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Compute...