Native American artists face special challenges in making a living from their work. This paper explores Native artists training, mentoring, earnings, entrepreneurship and access to resources and markets based on interviews with dozens of Ojibwe artists and gatekeepers (managers of space and resources). In addition to the challenges of racism and geographic isolation (even in cities), Native art...

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...

Understanding how to create the right movement for a specific character is a significant open problem in computer animation. This same problem, however, has been at the heart of the work of performance artists for hundreds of years. In this work, we try to learn from the lessons contained in the performing arts literature so that we can apply them to creating rich, engaging, animated characters...

Recent application of coupled-room systems in performing arts spaces has prompted active research on sound fields in these complex geometries. This paper applies a diffusion-equation model to the study of acoustics in coupled-rooms. Acoustical measurements are conducted on a scale-model of two coupled-rooms. Using the diffusion model and the experimental results the current work conducts in-dep...

a Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EUETIB, E-08036 Barcelona, Spain b Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain c Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany d Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratorium der Münchner Universitäten (MLL), D-85748 Garching, Germany e Department of Physics, Centr...

Since the economic reform in Vietnam in 1986 provided more artistic and financial autonomy, the arts community has had more opportunity to develop. It has hence become necessary for arts leaders to obtain management and marketing skills to adapt to the new competitive environment. This necessity became vital when the Vietnamese government sought to tackle the problem of inadequate state funding...

Rheumatic conditions have affected, among others, emperors, kings, politicians, religious personages and artists. Knowledge about their articular illnesses has increased with a multiplicity of source documents on these personalities: ancient texts, letters, drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs and pictures. Here the case of the most important Brazilian visual artist is described, namely the s...

We present the unrolling of the Virage project and its main achievement : a sequencer for authoring and performing interactive intermedia scenarii. This two years long project addressed the question of authoring and controlling interactive scenarii dealing with several heterogeneous digital media, in the context of the performing arts. The project involved multidisciplinary members including ar...