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As a Colombian scholar and artist, the author of this essay interrogates feminist aesthetics artistic practice in choreographic mode; improvising to see where movement takes her. This first impulse creates space for performing writing opening creation. The starts at home, immersed everydayness, aided by poetry analysis work three other contemporary artists who also start home their practice. He...

This paper presents MusicWeb, a novel platform for music discovery by linking music artists within a web-based application. MusicWeb provides a browsing experience using connections that are either extra-musical or tangential to music, such as the artists’ political a liation or social influence, or intra-musical, such as the artists’ main instrument or most favoured musical key. The platform i...

In this paper we present RAMA (Relational Artist MAps), a simple yet efficient interface to navigate through networks of music artists. RAMA is built upon a dataset of artist similarity and user-defined tags regarding 583.000 artists gathered from Last.fm. This third-party, publicly available, data about artists similarity and artists tags is used to produce a visualization of artists relations...

Digital-altered photographs are now popular among artists due to advancements in digital technology. Manipulating or gathering pieces of images and combining them into one in computers, artists who produce digital-altered photographs not only deliver impressive technological effects for shock value, but also, and perhaps more importantly, capitalize on the style’s ability to express their parti...

Art historians, artists, psychologists, and neuroscientists have long asserted that artists perceive the world differently than nonartists. Although empirical research on the nature and correlates of skilled drawing is limited, the available evidence supports this view: artists outperform nonartists on visual analysis and form recognition tasks and their perceptual advantages are correlated wit...

This paper aims at completing traditional explanations of the origins of the deficit of performing arts institutions. Based on the study of early music revival in France, it shows that the usual ways to explain the transmission of “costs disease” are not sufficient. A model is proposed to complement Baumol’s law, combining two hypothesis: the growing deficit of music ensembles follows their pro...

Intersubjectivity experiences established between adults and infants are partially determined by the particular ways in which adults are active in front of babies. An important amount of research focuses on the "musicality" of infant-directed speech (defined melodic contours, tonal and rhythm variations, etc.) and its role in linguistic enculturation. However, researchers have recently suggeste...