In 2019, Pepperdine Libraries acquired two virtual reality artworks by filmmaker and artist Paisley Smith: Homestay Unceded Territories. To bring awareness to these pieces, added works the library catalog, creating bibliographic records for both films. There were many challenges considerations in cataloging art, including factors such as nature of work, limits found Resource Description Access ...

the art of qajar period includes many unique features and themes. one of the most exceptional features of qajar artworks (painting on tiles) is women motifs depicted at semiprivate and private spaces, at houses of nobilities, and palaces. qajar women in these paintings interact with foreign women’s identity and they have shown a new face of iranian women. the archi-myth of qajar period is inclu...

How do artworks contribute to a more inclusive public sphere? Artworks the inclusiveness of sphere in that they help us consider previous objects as acting subjects, and thus entities deserving membership sphere. In addition, typically attract public, generating necessary recognition for additional subjects. We propose typology categorizes artworks’ contribution an The is based on two axes: (a)...

Staging a (fictional) encounter between two artworks, work on paper by Indian artist Nalini Malani and the novel No Friend but Mountains Iranian-Kuridsh writer Behrouz Boochani, text—an essay, rather than traditional scholarly article—peruses paradoxes of representing what cannot must be (re-)presented. Issues such as required modesty in face suffering others, irrepresentability trauma intermed...

Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to the memories of my beloved grandfather, Fengzhi Wu, who passed away in the year 2000. He was an outstanding artist in Chinese calligraphy. His righteous and generous personality as also demonstrated in his artworks affected me and numerous others. He was an honorable man and a lovely grandfather.

This workshop proposal explores a concept for engaging AI in a non-deterministic manner in order to collaboratively produce physical artworks with a digital system. It draws from a lineage of “games” played by artists, from Surrealists to Situationists, that were targeted towards automatism and creative exploration as opposed to the expression of a preconceived idea.

We argue that the emerging technology of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can make a unique contribution to make in creativity on a mass scale. In this position paper, we briefly review four artworks/installations, built in Taiwan that use WSNs, show how WSNs can support new forms of creative interaction and learning on a large scale, and discuss future applications.