Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller's evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had m...

In the paper we present the findings of the empirical research study whose purpose was to monitor creativity abilities of seventh grade pupils in Slovenian elementary schools. More concretely, we monitored the levels of artistic-creative and artistic-formative development. The research sample consisted of 247 seventh graders in various elementary schools. We examined creativity abilities from t...

Vast amounts of artistic data is scattered on-line from both museums and art applications. Collecting, processing and studying it with respect to all accompanying attributes is an expensive process. With a motivation to speed up and improve the quality of categorical analysis in the artistic domain, in this paper we propose an efficient and accurate method for multi-task learning with a shared ...

The artistic style of a painting is a subtle aesthetic judgment used by art historians for grouping and classifying artwork. The recently introduced ‘neural-style’ algorithm substantially succeeds in merging the perceived artistic style of one image or set of images with the perceived content of another. In light of this and other recent developments in image analysis via convolutional neural n...

Facebook has established itself as one of the major players in social networking, claiming that it helps members connect and share with the people in their lives. But what if the people you want to connect and share with are your artistic collaborators? Can Facebook be used creatively, as a collaborative artistic environment? This paper explores the creative use of Facebook as a tool for creati...

Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University and Extempo Systems Inc. In contemplating the possibility of interactive story systems, I begin with two premises, an artistic premise and a technical premise. My artistic premise is that we should strive for an interactive story experience that achieves for the participant the same artistic goals achieved by the great works of fiction in the traditional ...

According to R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art, art is the expression of emotion--a much-criticized view. I attempt to provide some groundwork for a defensible modern version of such a theory via some novel further criticisms of Collingwood, including the exposure of multiple ambiguities in his main concept of expression of emotion, and a demonstration that, surprisingly enough, his vi...

We have shown that it is possible to achieve artistic style transfer within a purely image processing paradigm. This is in contrast to previous work that utilized deep neural networks to learn the difference between “style” and “content” in a painting. We leverage the work by Kwatra et. al. on texture synthesis to accomplish “style synthesis” from our given style images, building off the work o...

Accuracy and individual fairness are both crucial for trustworthy machine learning, but these two aspects often incompatible with each other so that enhancing one aspect may sacrifice the inevitably side effects of true bias or false fairness. We propose in this paper a new criterion, accurate fairness, to align accuracy. Informally, it requires treatments an individual's similar counterparts c...