This essay is in two parts. The first part specifically about colonial era amateur film, a large amount of which I had worked on as my research for the Colonial Film: Moving Images British Empire project.11 www.colonialfilm.org.uk second attempts to think some fundamental properties film such, and indicate problems that arise from consideration or private material. During Film project, came be ...

stories, myths and tales can make ideas a part of popular culture. rea at religious figures have taught with parables; we use fables and fairy tales to teach our children about life; and it has been argued that even the ancient Greek myths might have been deliberate devices for organizing and transmitting information about the natural world to non-scientifically oriented people [I]. Once an ide...

This paper addresses the identification of creative criteria to support the development of innovative systems. In idea generation, criteria that characterise creative ideas are: fluency, variety, innovativeness and usefulness. Creative criteria have been defined at a very generic level, and we have found very little indication of how in particular, the concept of innovativeness is operationalis...

Giorgio Vasari argued that the polyvalent term disegno in the Cinquecento should unite the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture in the Accademia del Disegno. The nature of invention, or invenzione in the united arts, was not as united; it was not the same for architecture as it was for painting. Alberti, as is well known, argued for the status of painting to be a liberal art modelled on...

Emotional states might selectively modulate components of cognitive control. To test this hypothesis, 152 undergraduates (equal numbers male and female) were randomly assigned to watch short videos intended to induce emotional states (approach, neutral, withdrawal). Each video was followed by a computerized 2-back working memory task (spatial or verbal, equated for difficulty and appearance). S...