Australasian artists. As such, it is a significant issue if an artist wants or deserves to be considered, a contemporary artist. In a more progressive sense, if we are to understand why few if any know much about Australian formalist art making and, its unique history, we need to think about why it has been so poorly promoted since its an apogee in the late 1960s. What is most important is to u...

Intuitively, it might not be easy to understand that the creative process of an artist is also an explorative one. But, bringing something into existence requires being able to imagine experiencing it first. In this instance, the imagination serves as an unmapped territory for the artist to explore. The objects residing in this territory are often familiar. Yet, the artists exploration of their...

Transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS) is a powerful approach for deciphering genetic requirements for bacterial growth in different conditions, as it enables simultaneous genome-wide analysis of the fitness of thousands of mutants. However, current methods for comparative analysis of TIS data do not adjust for stochastic experimental variation between datasets and are limited to interrogation o...

To maintain a healthy balanced loyalty, whether to art or society, posits a debatable issue. The artist is always on the look out for the potential tension between those two realms. Therefore, one of the most painful dilemmas the artist finds is how to function in a society without sacrificing the aesthetic values of his/her work. In other words, the life-long awareness of failure which derives...

Starting from a singular ‘methodological’ note 1992 by Fred Licht on the Altersstil of American painter William Congdon and later art exhibition, article sheds light relevant aspects late manner protagonist Abstract Expressionism. The suggests possible start date background dense critical debate, spanning Clement Greenberg to beginning twenty-first century, relying scholars such as Giovanni Tes...

This paper is a psychoanalytic literary study of the online performance Domestic Tension (2007) by Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal. Fundamentally built on theories Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva’s theory abjection well suited to be critical tool analyse Tension. questions as manifestation that espouses Bilal’s anti-Iraq War stance, exposing killing thousands Iraqis US drones....

The artist M.C. Escher was the first artist to create patterns in the hyperbolic plane. He used both the Poincaré disk model and the Poincaré half-plane model of hyperbolic geometry. We discuss some of the theory of hyperbolic patterns and show Escher-inspired designs in both of these models.