Art as Inner Knowledge: Dino Valls

Dino P. Christenson

Previous scholarship argues that House members’ partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate? Analyzing the allocation of more than $8.5 trillion of federal grants across the states from 1984 to 2008, we show that presi...

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

Luca Anderlini Dino Gerardi Roger Lagunoff

To keep notation usage down, during the proof of this step we let mt̄−1 = m and mt̄−1 = m ′. Suppose that for some t ≥ 0 there is a pair of sequences s = (st̄, . . . , st̄+t) and γ t̄,t̄+t = (γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) such that: (a) at̄+τ (m, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1)> at̄+τ (m′, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1) for every τ ≤ t, and (b) at̄+t+1(m, st̄, . . . , st̄+t, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) ≤ at̄+t+...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Emotional agent in serious game (DINO)

In this paper, we introduce an novel emotional agent system in 3D virtual world based on OCC (Ortony, Clore and Collins) theory, FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map) and GoalNet. The agent system is designed based on Goal Net model. Emotional modeling and decision making are based on OCC and FCM inference. Emotions modeled by the OCC model are incorporated into FCM inference. It has been shown emotion has...