Medicine is facing wide-ranging challenges concerning the so-called medically unexplained disorders. The epidemiology is confusing, different medical specialties claim ownership of their unexplained territory and the unexplained conditions are themselves promoted through a highly complicated and sophisticated use of language. Confronting the outcome, i.e. numerous medical acronyms, we reflect u...

Moving Boundary Problem is a multi-channel, interactive live electronic work for two performers. The piece has developed around a gestural language that explores the sonic and expressive capabilities of a pair of hybrid acoustic / electronic instruments. Utilizing a wide range of human / computer interfaces and signal processing techniques, these composed instruments extend acoustic sound sourc...

This paper proposes an aesthetic and formal analysis of the work Forma del respiro by the Italian composer Michelangelo Lupone. Written in 1993 at the CRM – Centre for Musical Research, Rome, the piece for magnetic tape is an exploration of the expressive potential of the granular synthesis technique, and it submits to analysis a high number of parameters (timbre, frequency, dynamics, temporal ...

Outsider Art (art brut) is defined as a mode of original artistic expression which thrives on its independence, shunning the public sphere and the art market. Such art can be highly idiosyncratic and secretive, and reflects the individual creator's attempt to construct a coherent, albeit strange, private world. Certain practitioners of what may be termed autistic art are examined in the light o...

In artistic fields such as western music performance of the past 200 years, individuality is highly valued as a performer’s expression of his or her aesthetic concepts. Yet characterizations of individual performance qualities have largely remained on a descriptive level. In this opinion article, it is argued that if researchers aim at quantifying individuality, then the only feasible approach ...

There has been a lack of discussion concerning virtual reality as an expressive medium. It is essential to emphasise the aesthetic dimension of virtual reality in order to develop the medium as a powerful artistic mode of expression. This thesis examines how head-mounted display-based virtual reality can be used for artistic expression, focussing on the aesthetic pleasures of the medium. Pionee...

What role does the aesthetics of bodily movement play in the understanding of attention among children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? This article animates a phenomenological approach to attention and embodiment with a special focus on the relation between aesthetic or expressive bodily movement and behavioral awareness in children diagnosed with ADHD. However, ...

To study the beautification of art design and analyze application visual perception in design, this paper proposes an image processing technique based on multiple chromatic aberration compensation illumination. The will then investigate task classifying styles, genres, artists deep learning methods fine images. proposed method automatically classifies images with significant improvements classi...