The experience of art emerges from the interaction of various cognitive and affective processes. The unfolding of these processes in time and their relation with viewing behavior, however, is still poorly understood. Here we examined the effect of context on the relation between the experience of art and viewing time, the most basic indicator of viewing behavior. Two groups of participants view...

This article describes the architecture of the "Museum of Pure Form", a virtual reality system where the user can interact, through the senses of touch and sight, with digital models of 3D art forms and sculptures. Two different realizations of "Museum of Pure Form" systems are currently being developed at PERCRO, Pisa, Italy. In one realization “The Museum of Pure Form” is conceived as a syste...

MICHAEL P. HAMMER, MARK ADAMS & RALPH FOSTER 1 Natural Sciences, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646 Darwin NT 0810, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Ichthyology Section, South Australian Museum, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: ralph.fo...

This research is going to demonstrate a virtual museum via second life, the visitors can have the chance to more profoundly experience the masterpieces. By extending 2D paintings to 3D world, users can be not only more adaptively perceive the expression of painting but also intuitively interact with the 2D famous painting in 3D world. Also this kind of art appreciation can play a profound contr...

Art museums have always been educating institutions. The meaning of this concept has changed over timeand increasingly has come to includethe use of media both within the museum and beyond the museum walls. Interactbe media are forms of publication that can significantly enhance the museum experience by making an exhibttion more accessible both to those who visa the museum and to those who wish...

Historical and cultural themes as a source of inspiration in postmodernism are structuring factor the organization communication between designers consumers. The boundaries being gradually erased not only different forms art, mass elite cultures, but also such opposite fields human activity fashion religion. article is devoted to semantic aspects one most interesting events recent time–the exhi...

General References on Northwest Coast and Eskimo Art Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings, 1970-76. Introduction by Bernadette Driscoll. (Exhibition catalog, February 27-April 17, 1983.) Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982. Boas, Franz. Primitive Art. Peter Smith, 1962. Collins, Henry B., Frederica De Laguna, Edmund Carpenter, and Peter Stone. The Far North: 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art. (...