Since the 1990s, Internet communications technologies have influenced human activity. Over the last 15 years, a phenomenon called virality—i.e., when content circulates via Internet among an increasingly broad audience at an exponentially rapid rate—has been especially impactful. Only some information achieves virality, so the phenomenon invites reflection. Yet, scholars have failed to adequate...

This article discusses how materialist philosopher Manuel Delanda’s “assemblage theory” could be of use for art studies. I begin by situating what term studies in relation to history and comment on the differences. After a selective presentation social ontology assemblages, turn following A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, relate his theory concept assemblage, its origin e...

variable data printing, custom publishing, color printing, visual performance The words in a document are often supported, illustrated, and enriched by visuals. When color is used, some of it is used to define the document’s identity and is therefore strictly controlled in the design process. The result of this design process is a “color specification sheet,” which must be created for every bac...

The aim of this paper is to predict where Australian Aboriginal artwork may be found. We know where some rock art exists and we take this as the example of where we might find more such artwork. With these examples we use the terrain characteristics of the Mount Yengo National Park to model the probable locations of other such paintings. Similarity maps are produced to show where more artwork m...

In this paper we describe a set of interactive tools that we have built as an extension to our image-based stereoscopic non-photorealistic rendering system. The base system is capable of automatically turning stereoscopic input images to stereoscopic pictures that resemble artwork, including concept drawings, cartoons and paintings. The tools described here aim to complement the traditional ste...

The power and significance of artwork in shaping human cognition is self-evident. The starting point for our empirical investigations is the view that the task of neuroscience is to integrate itself with other forms of knowledge, rather than to seek to supplant them. In our recent work, we examined a particular aspect of the appreciation of artwork using present-day functional magnetic resonanc...