We are artists working on the creation of interactive computer installations that combine interactive graphic generation with state-of-the-art interface design. When creating our interactive systems we often invent new technologies and interfaces that fit the conceptual content of the particular interactive installation. While our main focus is to design interactive systems for the art context ...

This paper looks at a method of blending different artistic filters together to create a range of artistic effects. Instead of using a single painterly rendering technique, the methods used in three different filters can be blended together in a user defined way. The filters are arranged in a triangular structure where the user defines their chosen painting style by choosing a point in the tria...

This paper is dedicated to the development of constructed artists, i.e., computer programs capable of creating artworks with little or no human intervention. We make an analysis and critic of some of the most prominent work on this field. We give a description of the main characteristics that a system should have, in order to be considered a constructed artist. These characteristics include the...

The aim of this work is to provide researchers from the field of aesthetics with a guideline on working with artworks as stimuli. Empirical aesthetics research is complicated by the uncertainty of the object of research. There is no way to unquestionably tell whether an object is an artwork or not. However, although the extension of the term artwork (i.e., the range of objects to which this con...

some of the iranian artworks during the 10th-14th centuries have been illustrated by narrative scenes showing a cavalier archer king in the hunting ground of gazelles; while a tiny lyre playing girl sat back him. according to shāhnāma-i-fērdowsī and haft peykar-i- nizami ganjavi, such scenes narrate the story of sassanid king bahram-i- gūr and āzāda, his lyre player servant girl. it should be n...

The spatial characteristics of letters and their influence on readability and letter identification have been intensely studied during the last decades. There have been few studies, however, on statistical image properties that reflect more global aspects of text, for example properties that may relate to its aesthetic appeal. It has been shown that natural scenes and a large variety of visual ...