The Scalable City: aesthetic and conceptual goals. The Scalable City[1] is a series of artworks by Sheldon Brown and his Experimental Game Lab. Members of this lab have included Alex Dragelescu, Mike Caloud, Joey Hammer, Erik Hill, Carl Burton, Kristen Kho, Kwangyoon Lee, Daniel Tracy and William Huber. The artworks of The Scalable City consist of prints on paper and canvas, computer animated v...

Introduction The catalogue raisonné, or reasoned catalogue, has long been a standard tool for representing large art collections. A typical catalogue raisonné includes images of artworks along with descriptive metadata, commentary, and background information (often a biography of the artist) about the collection. More recently, technological and infrastructural advances (in particular, cheaper ...

In this paper, we define reusable inference steps (realize, classification by concepts, classification by instances and retrieve) for content-based recommender systems applied on semantically-enriched collections. In our case, we use the enriched museum collection. The core steps: (i) Classification by concepts brings explicitly related concepts via artwork features and semantic relations betwe...

Abstract To hold that artworks are valuable for their own sake—regardless of whatever secondary value they may have, such as entertainment, formation, education, or a pleasurable experience—is to final worth is not derived from external ends. I call this collective set views the end-in-itself view (or EI view). Nicholas Stang recently leveled twofold charge reductio ad absurdum and operating do...

objects have accidental intrinsic properties as long as the properties’ supervenience base is contingently configured too. What does the type-creationist take to be the supervenience base for repeatable artworks? The creative acts of artists are obviously part of it, but also relevant are the type’s embodiments, including the patterns of (re)production and modification. But given that these cre...

The revolution in art practices has led Malaysian artists to discover greater possibilities art, especially terms of media exploration. In this paper, the researchers conducted a study hybrid among artworks selected artists. research objective paper is identify and trace, artworks, as way creating artworks. applied direct observation extracted artists’ statements for documentation. results show...

Advocates of interactionism in the ethical criticism art argue that value impacts aesthetic value. The debate is concerned with “the intrinsic question”: question whether flaws/merits artworks’ manifested attitudes affect their (Gaut 2007: 9). This paper argues assumption artworks have problematic at least regards to a significant subset works: fictional artworks. I that, insofar as emerges onl...

Museums must balance the amount of information given on individual pieces or exhibitions in order to provide sufficient information to aid visitor understanding. At the same time they must avoid cluttering the environment and reducing the enjoyment of the exhibit. Moreover, each visitor has different interests and each might prefer more (or less) information on different artworks depending on t...