Abstract In this paper I distinguish between illustrative and performative uses of artworks in the teaching communication philosophy, drawing examples from history art my own practice. The former are where works used merely to illustrate communicate a philosophical idea or argument, latter artist teacher philosophizes through creation art. hope promote future collaboration philosophers, histori...

Intersubjectivity experiences established between adults and infants are partially determined by the particular ways in which adults are active in front of babies. An important amount of research focuses on the "musicality" of infant-directed speech (defined melodic contours, tonal and rhythm variations, etc.) and its role in linguistic enculturation. However, researchers have recently suggeste...

Background: Research on the effects of music education on cognitive abilities has generated increasing interest across the scientific community. Nonetheless, longitudinal studies investigating the effects of structured music education on cognitive sub-functions are still rare. Prime candidates for investigating a relationship between academic achievement and music education appear to be executi...

Prior research has affirmed the importance of direct marketing in various nonprofit industries, yet little guidance has been offered as to selection of those direct marketing methods that have significant effects on actual performance. This research investigates the effects of direct marketing on multiple measures of performance in the nonprofit arts industry. The results suggest that direct ma...

In this paper, we report a real-time gesture driven interactive system with multimodal feedback for performing arts, especially dance. The system consists of two major parts: a gesture recognition engine and a multimodal feedback engine. The gesture recognition engine provides real-time recognition of the performer’s gesture based on the 3D marker coordinates from a marker-based motion capture ...

The development of digital media has ended the conceptual and technical division between the gaming industry and the performing arts. Digital games based on computers provide the experience of enhanced immersion in the game as one enters a virtual environment and leads the story by selecting and manipulating independently. In the case of media performance in which the digital media functions as...

Government funding of the arts has received considerable attention in the United States in recent years. Efforts to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts and declining budgets for state arts agencies have raised questions about how much individuals value the arts. This paper applies the contingent valuation method to assess this value, using surveys of random households and of arts...

Our experiences of art are framed by the context and the rules that apply to it. Not only the theatre where performing arts are enjoyed, but also art museums displaying paintings, sculptures, installations and other artistic objects, dictate the distance to the pieces and the type of sensory perception permitted to the visitors. How art is presented to us reflects traditional established settin...