For the creation of play 'La Torera', its author, Carmen Elena Jijon, collects fragments Anita Bermeo's life to reconstruct main character play. The proposal is articulated, together with collective imagination, press articles and multiple creations by artists from Republic Ecuador, becoming part a transmedial biography Torera' that goes beyond entire work it circumscribes in an even broader tr...

Sir—Drawing ability could be disrupted by many neurological disorders, of which graphic neglect after unilateral brain damage (generally of right parietal cortex) is most frequent. In this disorder, patients draw preferentially on the right side of the paper, omit and deform objects on the left side, but judge their drawings to be complete. Graphic neglect can become especially evident in the w...

Here, we and others describe an unusual neurorobotic project, a merging of art and science called MEART, the semi-living artist. We built a pneumatically actuated robotic arm to create drawings, as controlled by a living network of neurons from rat cortex grown on a multi-electrode array (MEA). Such embodied cultured networks formed a real-time closed-loop system which could now behave and rece...

Current advances in music recommendation underline the importance of multimodal and user-centric approaches in order to transcend limits imposed by methods that solely use audio, web, or collaborative filtering data. We propose several hybrid music recommendation algorithms that combine information on the music content, the music context, and the user context, in particular integrating geospati...

all forms of creative production born of an intimate and individual urge, often secretive, unbound from the conventional art system rules. Through short descriptions of the Outsider art work of prominent artists and new protagonists often hosted in community mental health services, this section intends to investigate the latest developments of the contemporary art scene, where the distances bet...

We present a graphical user interface that allows an artist to virtually design and visualize net sculptures. Net sculptures consist of net pieces that are seamlessly connected to each other and to fixed rails. They are flexible and hence dynamic under external forces such as gravity and wind. The interface that we describe allows an artist to create net sculptures made up of multiple net piece...

Background: Generative art is created by a system that operates autonomously, or semi-autonomously, rather than directly by the artist. The artist creates the system and establishes parameters that affect the outcome, but the outcome itself emerges from the system rather than from the artist. Generative art systems are frequently computer programs, although biological, social, or other systems ...

This text is dedicated to the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the composer, pianist and teacher Luiz Costa (S. Pedro do Monte de Fralães, 1879 – Porto, 1960). The preface begins by clarifying the meaning of commemoration as a ritual. The text is divided into two parts. The first, anthropologic in nature, undertakes the problems involved in the construction of the ident...

Research in Web music information retrieval traditionally focuses on the classification, clustering or categorizing of music into genres or other subdivisions. However, current community-based web sites provide richer descriptors (i.e. tags) for all kinds of products. Although tags have no well-defined semantics, they have proven to be an effective mechanism to label and retrieve items. Moreove...