scholarly journals Trends and Anti-Trends in Techno-Art Scholarship: The Legacy of the Arts “Machine” Special Issues

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Bessette ◽  
Fol Leymarie ◽  
Smith
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
John James Audubon ◽  
Professional Artist ◽  
Unique Ability

With the goal of casting a spotlight on the posture of the creative community at this crucial moment in human technological history, we present herein a thematic overview of the 23 articles published in the recent Arts Special Issues “The Machine as Art (in the 20th Century)” and “The Machine as Artist (for the 21st Century)”. Surprisingly, several of the themes that had been suggested in our two introductory essays as representing shared and positive points of departure—in particular, (a) the visual arts as a longstanding touchstone of human culture, (b) the visual arts (with the example of John James Audubon) as having a unique ability to rally the public to the environmental cause, and (c) computer and robotic proficiency in the arts as leading to a friendlier artificial intelligence—received less than the expected amount of attention. Instead, it was another of the suggested themes (albeit also of a positive and forward-looking nature) around which our authors coalesced, as expressed in the following phrase: the “vast expansion of the creative sphere” which technology has made possible, or in other words, the idea that technology is not only providing new horizons for the professional artist but is also providing new avenues for the non-professional to discover his or her creative potential. In light, furthermore, of the marked enthusiasm for this theme, we suggest in our conclusion the need for a corresponding expansion of the venues available to both professional and non-professional techno-art practitioners.

Art and Its Publics, c. 1800

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Art World ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter begins by sketching the principal ingredients of what Paul Kristeller called ‘the modern system of the arts’: the concept of art itself; art as created by an artist; and art as public. It then examines the condition of the visual arts at the beginning of the nineteenth century, that is, in the middle of the great revolutionary era that began in 1789. In talking about the arts, a Tocquevillian sense of continuity between old regime and revolution is wholly appropriate. The revolution changed the modern art world in several important ways. Three of these changes are discussed. The first has to do with the social setting of art and artists, and especially with artists' changing relationship to patrons and the public. The second concerns the geographical location of art, particularly the shift in the visual arts' centre of gravity away from Italy to Paris, which would remain the artistic capital of Europe for the next century. The third theme is about the complex relationship of national values and national themes to European art, especially painting.

Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Angela Vanhaelen
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Central Claim

This chapter considers the seeming impossibility of reconciling Reformed interdictions with a burgeoning of the arts. Pictures proliferated in post-Reformation Europe. In spite—or perhaps because—of Reformed Protestant prohibitions, the visual arts flourished even in places that embraced Calvinism, with its noted distrust of the image. In the Dutch Republic, for instance, the Reformed faith was adopted as the public confession, yet a lively and prosperous art market was a dominant feature of the so-called Golden Age of cultural and economic vibrancy. The central claim of this chapter is that Calvinism generated an art of evasion and, in so doing, it brought about significant—and often unanticipated—changes to cultural life.

“How-To” Make Art in Communist China: Professionalizing Amateur Artists

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-247
Author(s):  
Vivian Y. Li
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Institutional Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
Ideological Tensions

This article explores the prominent role of the amateur artist in the conception of communist visual culture in China during the Maoist years (1949–1976). Focusing on two groups of amateur art manuals for the promotion of producing visual arts and meishuzi by the nonartists of the general public, this study reveals the dynamic process of changing authorship and the public nature of the amateur arts in the People’s Republic. In offering detailed explanations of core artistic concepts, techniques, and model examples, the manuals reflect an institutional management of the amateur artists and their creative impulses. Authored by professional artists, but intended for amateurs, the manuals speak of ideological tensions at play in the communist effort of bringing the arts to the people.

Cheering Artificial Intelligence Leader: Creative Writing and Materializing Design Fiction

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Hannah Star Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Design Fiction ◽  
Analytical Practice

Bringing together science and literature for purposes of casting these knowledge areas into relief is a well-established analytical practice. Rather less studied is the turn toward material practice as it has unfolded across science studies and the arts. However, this trend has the potential to open up new methods for thinking about science and literature and new forms of public engagement. This paper explores one possibility for combining creative writing in the form of sports cheers. It posits a materialized future scenario designed to encourage the public to consider potential futures and explore their individual ideas about a particular technological development (in this case artificial intelligence) in a fun and imaginative way.

scholarly journals Respons Seniman Malaysia Dekad 1970-an terhadap Dasar Kebudayaan Kebangsaan: Satu Analisis Awal Pameran "Towards a Mystical Reality" (1974) dan "Rupa dan Jiwa" (1979)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Balqis Abdul Halim ◽  
◽  
Sarena Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Art Activities ◽  
Definition Of

Art exhibitions play an important role in developing and supporting art activities in Malaysia and are often used as platforms to showcase works of the visual arts to the public. The National Cultural Policy (NCP) (1971) had a profound impact on the development of the visual arts in Malaysia. This policy is the country’s official attempt to establish a Malaysian identity, especially in the arts. Indirectly, it also challenged the boundaries of the definition of art in terms of philosophy, sociology, and aesthetics, in the context of exhibition practices. This paper discusses two local art exhibitions— Towards a Mystical Reality (TMR) (1974) and Rupa dan Jiwa (1979). This paper discusses both exhibitions in the contexts of the NCP, particularly by focusing on the aspect of (Malay) nativism, and through the introduction of new ideas and concepts with an intellectual component.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

Gerak Tari Baris Tunggal dalam Fotografi Ekspresi Menggunakan Teknik Strobo Light

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Candra Yana*
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
Strobe Light ◽  
Creative Idea ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Art Photography ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

Dance  photography  is  a  photo  shoot  on a  dance  movement  which  has  a  characteristic as  it  shows  on  a  particular  movement  with unique costumes. The arts of dance photography specifically describes through a specific thematic effect  with  an  aesthetic  and  creative  oncoming. Based on the photographer experience to capture the  light  together  with  his  aesthetic  expression on  movement  photography,  he  finally  presented the  visual  arts  on  Baris  Tunggal  Dance  in  art photography expressions using strobe light. Basically,  the  creative  works  focused on  the  dancer  movements  and  transformed  into photography  expression  which  blended  with aesthetic  and  creative  idea  (ideational)  also  the technical photo shoot capability (technical) of the photographer. The photo shoots technique chosen through a variety of consideration which oriented on practical implementations possibilities, resulting photographs  in  freeze,  blurred,  and  multiple-images  as  art  photography.  The  art  photograph includes  extrinsic  and  intrinsic  aesthetic  values through photo presentation. With the presence of this photography art works it was not only present Gerak Tari Baris Tunggal dalam Fotografi Ekspresi Menggunakan Teknik Strobo Light in the form of mere documentation but it was the art photography expression on creative and aesthetic level. Keywords:  movements,  Baris  Tunggal  Dance, photography expression, strobo-light * Dosen ISI Denpasar

Towards a Customized¬ Awareness Campaign to Educate the Public about COVID-19: Development and Validation of a Messaging Campaign to Promote Precautionary Behavior Using Geospatial Intelligence in Saudi Arabia (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayda Alrige ◽  
Hind Bitar Bitar ◽  
Maram Meccawi ◽  
Balakrishnan Mullachery
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technique ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Infection ◽  
Local Map ◽  
The City ◽  
Intelligence Technique

BACKGROUND Designing a health promotion campaign is never an easy task, especially during a pandemic of a highly infectious disease, such as Covid-19. In Saudi Arabia, many attempts have been made toward raising the public awareness about Covid-19 infection-level and its precautionary health measures that have to be taken. Although this is useful, most of the health information delivered through the national dashboard and the awareness campaign are very generic and not necessarily make the impact we like to see on individuals’ behavior. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to build and validate a customized awareness campaign to promote precautionary health behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The customization is realized by utilizing a geospatial artificial intelligence technique called Space-Time Cube (STC) technique. METHODS This research has been conducted in two sequential phases. In the first phase, an initial library of thirty-two messages was developed and validated to promote precautionary messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. This phase was guided by the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM) for behavior change. In phase 2, we applied STC as a Geospatial Artificial Intelligence technique to create a local map for one city representing three different profiles for the city districts. The model was built using COVID-19 clinical data. RESULTS Thirty-two messages were developed based on resources from the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia. The enumerated content validity of the messages was established through the utilization of Content Validity Index (CVI). Thirty-two messages were found to have acceptable content validity (I-CVI=.87). The geospatial intelligence technique that we used showed three profiles for the districts of Jeddah city: one for high infection, another for moderate infection, and the third for low infection. Combining the results from the first and second phases, a customized awareness campaign was created. This awareness campaign would be used to educate the public regarding the precautionary health behaviors that should be taken, and hence help in reducing the number of positive cases in the city of Jeddah. CONCLUSIONS This research delineates the two main phases to developing a health awareness messaging campaign. The messaging campaign, grounded in FBM, was customized by utilizing Geospatial Artificial Intelligence to create a local map with three district profiles: high-infection, moderate-infection, and low-infection. Locals of each district will be targeted by the campaign based on the level of infection in their district as well as other shared characteristics. Customizing health messages is very prominent in health communication research. This research provides a legitimate approach to customize health messages during the pandemic of COVID-19.

Living machines in our cultural imagination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Szollosy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The Human Condition

Public perceptions of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—both positive and negative—are hopelessly misinformed, based far too much on science fiction rather than science fact. However, these fictions can be instructive, and reveal to us important anxieties that exist in the public imagination, both towards robots and AI and about the human condition more generally. These anxieties are based on little-understood processes (such as anthropomorphization and projection), but cannot be dismissed merely as inaccuracies in need of correction. Our demonization of robots and AI illustrate two-hundred-year-old fears about the consequences of the Enlightenment and industrialization. Idealistic hopes projected onto robots and AI, in contrast, reveal other anxieties, about our mortality—and the transhumanist desire to transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—and about the future of our species. This chapter reviews these issues and considers some of their broader implications for our future lives with living machines.

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