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...

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...

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...

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 ...

In many examples of repeating patterns in the art of various cultures, the use of symmetries to analyze those patterns does a good job of capturing the repetition intended by the artist. In other cases, however, the artist uses precise forms of repetition that are not well modeled by mathematical symmetries. The analysis of the orbits of motifs under the action of the symmetry group both reveal...