Eating Local as Public Art

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...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Interactive Public Sound Art: a case study

Physically situated public art poses significant challenges for the design and realization of interactive, electronic sound works. Consideration of diverse audiences, environmental sensitivity, exhibition conditions, and logistics must guide the artwork. We describe our work in this area, using a recently installed public piece, Transition Soundings, as a case study that reveals a specialized i...

Attractiveness of an Interactive Public Art Installation

Interaction experiences with public art installations are becoming ubiquitous recently, however, interaction is usually unidirectional and the actual experience not very rich. This work reports on an interactive public art installation aiming at increasing the level of social connectedness among visitors, and the results of evaluating the attractiveness of the installation. By connecting visito...

Geometric Abstract Art and Public Health Data

n his " Composition in White, Red, and Yellow, " Dutch artist Piet Mondrian illustrated geometric abstraction. He accomplished this effect via two primary-colored units embedded in a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines that draw viewers to a flat-structured polished web. Mondrian distilled direction to perpendicular columns and rows, color to bright red and yellow and neutral white and ...