Digital media and networked, two-way communication channels are rapidly transforming our access to knowledge, our inventions, and our artistic messages. In the past, artistic practice focused on the construction of fixed, static "expressive objects" which stood as intermediaries between the artist and her audience. Today, technology allows us to make computerassisted artworks "with a sense of t...

A short account of the contributions of Donald E. Knuth to the eld of computer science is given, with emphasis on his classical text The Art of Computer Programming. Also discussed are his development of the T E X typesetting system, the LR parser and attribute grammar.

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at...

The creative process can be described as a continuous feedback loop between the material and an artist’s decision making process. A skill can be described as knowledge of a material that allows making more informed decisions and more controlled interactions. As the artist attains a deeper knowledge of a material, the cognitive process involved in creation diverges from technical considerations ...

Kandinsky proposed a fundamental correspondence between primary colors and elementary forms: yellow – triangle, red – square, and blue – circle. This theory evoked a strong opposition among artists, design experts, and researchers. This theory was tested in two experiments. In Experiment 1 non-artist university students (N = 284) were directly asked about the color-form assignment using a modif...

Beginning in December 2007, UMLCAR is conducting a network-wide upgrade of the Automatic Real-Time Ionogram Scaler with True height (ARTIST), the ionogram autoscaling software developed for Digisondes. The new ARTIST Version 5 revamps classic, well-seasoned ARTIST 4 techniques for the modern computers and programming environments. It also implements new approaches developed to strengthen the AR...