Many limitations have been addressed in appreciating artworks with conventional analytical methods. This study was accordingly designed to get around the limitations by quantitatively analyzing artworks through biologically-motivated image processing techniques that reflected characteristics of human visual information processing. This research method pursued to shed new lights on longstanding ...

The paper first discusses early work that predated internet art and that was concerned with active audience participation in electronic art and describes the path of development of the first author’s artworks that have looked at human to human communication through electronic (computer) systems from 1970 until today. The fundamental concept has been to make artworks that explore human communica...

This paper presents a digital watermarking scheme based on a new application of DWT and SVD for color artworks protection. This scheme uses the major features of the two chrominance components where the watermark bits are embedded only into one chrominance component according to the color prevalence rate. In watermark embedding process, more modifications can be done upon the selected chrominan...

In the field of Cultural Heritage, the safeguard of artworks contends new and complex problems linked not only to conservative condition, maintenance, etc. but also to the introduction of fakes and problems linked to this aspects. In last years, dating and authentication studies, mainly based on historicalartistic-stylistic studies, have been supported by scientific world both through identific...

The paper introduced an art search engine platform that differs from ordinary search engines, which provide users only directly related information about the users’ queries. The art search engine platform introduced in this paper provides users both the directly related introductory information of their queries and the necessary educational background information of the artworks and the artists...

In this paper, I provide a brief introduction to my artistic practice combining the use of digital technologies with traditional methods for producing Islamic art. Looking at further examples of Islamic artworks by artists in the UK I describe how in some cases, the artworks are digital in themselves, using digital technologies as a medium and in other cases, the digital plays a part in the cre...

Artificial Life as a field of research attempts to synthesize life in silico by using computers to create virtual life. By definition life and artificial life should display the following characteristics: self-organization, metabolization, self-reproduction, and adaptive evolution. Until now, most Artificial Life inspired artworks have created artificial characters or creatures that display som...

Much research and development has gone into creating a viable means to interact with virtual objects. Haptic devices, such as the Phantom Omni by Sensable Technologies, provide a means of using computer graphics and force feedback to create a multimodal sensory experience. We use touch to conceptualize objects and obtain a greater understanding of them, however objects such as artworks are usua...

Artworks have a strong emotional impact on the visitors of an exhibition. Many museums and associations opened their collections for access on the web and have studied the potential of social tagging. User data collected by tagging in art social platforms are a precious information source about emotional responses to artworks and a feedback about the way in which users perceives collections. In...