across the Internet is entirely abstract and intangible. But in 1995, artist Natalie Jeremijenko quite literally tapped into the bit stream coursing through the local network at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), transforming the flow of data into a physically perceptible phenomenon. Her installation, titled Dangling String, consists of a long plastic fiber that is attached to an electric ...

This article considers a pilot research project that examines the successes, failures, and best practice approaches for delivering online performing arts education experiences to young people around Australia. In conversation with 15 teaching artists 18 youth-based organisations nationally, it evaluates challenges innovations in live experienced during COVID-19 pivot. doing so pedagogies foregr...

Many artists find themselves in the role of an entrepreneur and small business owner as they manage multiple overlapping jobs while engaging a portfolio career. This research investigates how visual performing construct meaningful careers if career model minimizes risk. The findings reveal that majority respondents view less secure than full-time job, but also prefer A significant amount their ...

We are interested in automatically calculating music similarity based on the visual appearance of artists. By collecting a large set of promotional photographs featuring artists and using a state-of-the-art image annotation system, we show that we can successfully annotate artists with a large set of (genre) tags. This suggests that we can learn some notion of artist similarity based on visual ...

We present a novel approach in categorizing artists into subjective categories such as genre. We base our method on co-occurrences on the web, found with the Google search engine. A direct mapping between artists and categories proved to be unreliable. We use the categories mapped to closely related artists to obtain a more reliable mapping. The method is tested on a genre classification test s...

When artists portray human faces, they generally endow their portraits with properties that render the faces esthetically more pleasing. To obtain insight into the changes introduced by artists, we compared Fourier power spectra in photographs of faces and in portraits by artists. Our analysis was restricted to a large set of monochrome or lightly colored portraits from various Western cultures...

Digitization has drastically lowered the costs of replicating and distributing music, enabling piracy on the demand side, as well as supply side re-use and recontextualization. This paper examines cumulative creativity and re-use through the release of derivative works in the popular music industry. Combining novel data on “digital sampling” and cover songs with a new proprietary Spotify data-s...

Introduction Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists. Considering many female Irish artists were coming of age in the 1990s, as part of a newly enlightened media-aware generation, conscious of feminist ideas and changing attitudes towards women both in Ireland and intern...

In 2008, Lesley University Professors Geoffrey Koetsch and Ellen Schön conducted an informal survey of New England artists to ascertain the degree to which recent work in neuroscience had impacted the visual arts. The two curators mounted an exhibition (MINDmatters May-June, 2008) at the Laconia Gallery in Boston in which they showcased the work of artists who had chosen mental processes as the...