The paper discusses developments in linear generative audio-visual art and shows how these have been extended into interactive art systems. The idea of integrating sound and vision in art goes back at least to the early 1700s with Louis-Bertrand Caste’s ‘Colour Organ’ In the work described here, the idea is to operate with structures that can mediate between sound and vision, so that a unified ...

We examined the finding that aesthetic evaluations are more similar across observers for representational images than for abstract images. It has been proposed that a difference in convergence of observers' tastes is due to differing levels of shared semantic associations (Vessel & Rubin, 2010). In Experiment 1, student participants rated 20 representational and 20 abstract artworks. We found t...

Broadly speaking, artworks are accorded a special significance and are recognized as powerful communication tools. In the current research, the authors posit that the "specialness" of artworks may be diminished simply by emphasizing that which is depicted in them. This emphasis results in the artwork being viewed as a mere illustration rather than a work of art. Specifically, the influence of a...

Within a time frame of about ten years, experimental (interactive) media installations and performances have gained recognition as new art forms in public space. Artworks explore the interconnectedness of public space, interaction, and new media. Urban Screens investigates how the growing infrastructure of dynamic digital displays in urban space, currently dominated by commercial forces, can be...

Online collections provided by museums are increasingly opened for contributions from users outside the museum. These initiatives are mostly targeted at obtaining tags describing aspects of artworks that are common knowledge. This does not require the contributors to have specific skills or knowledge. Museums, however, are also interested in obtaining very specific information about the subject...

Ant-based artificial art has reached significant levels of visual appeal and aesthetics. Nevertheless, the artworks are still clearly recognizable as computer-generated, and present a diffused colouring effect common to most of the ant-based art. In this work we propose to introduce two different roles, namely outliner and filler, that ants or ant-like agents can play on a digital canvas, aimin...

The presentation provides an overview of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections of computer-generated artworks, focussing on recent acquisitions such as the Patric Prince Collection and the archives of the Computer Arts Society. The paper then goes on to describe an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project entitled "Computer Art and Technocultures", a collaboration betwe...

Monitoring the health of ancient artworks requires adequate prudence because of the sensitive nature of these materials. Classical techniques for identifying the development of faults rely on acoustic testing. These techniques, being invasive, may result in causing permanent damage to the material, especially if the material is inspected periodically. Non destructive testing has been carried ou...