artworks are different in terms of creation, application, function, interpretation and finally meaning. sometimes, we don’t know the meaning of a picture or a literal text. human perceptual media and cognitive faculties are confused. the understanding of artworks is difficult. the ready-mades have disrupted the rules of the aesthetic judgment. the recognition of art from non-art is not the work...

Nowadays Mobile technologies in Museums and especially in Art Museums are a popular way of communication with their audiences. These kinds of technologies have a high communicative potential and also could be a tool for marketing, information, engagement and learning as well. However with regards how these resources explain the meaning of works of art, generally they maintain the same language ...

Walter Benjamin is best known for his essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, (Benjamin, 1968b) in which he argues that film and other mechanical technologies are destroying the aura that had belonged to traditional art. In this article we apply Benjamin’s concept of aura to new (digital) media, and in particular to ‘mixed reality’, a group of technologies that blend comp...

Semantic annotation of media resources has been a focus in research since many years, the closing of the “semantic gap” being seen as key to significant improvements in media retrieval and browsing and enabling new media applications and services. However, current tools and services exhibit varied approaches which do not easily integrate and act as a barrier to wider uptake of semantic annotati...

In this poster we share results from a study focusing on parent roles in learning, part of a larger research project describing conditions that support the continued engagement of middle school students in projects that use new media technologies. We identify ways in which parents can support their children’s pursuit of digital media skills, and analyze roles that vary as a function of the chil...

My interest in art and interactivity started in 1994 as an undergraduate student. At the time, the digital media technologies were in their infancy. From the field of communications I arrived at my study theme: interaction mediated by the new media technologies. I chose artists as a study object because their experimental practices push the new media to their limit, exploring new and emerging i...

What are the boundaries between traditional and new media, between ability and disability, and between the artist and the processes for making art? This article reports findings from a study of tablet devices as media for self-expression and visual storytelling by adults with intellectual disabilities and examined whether or not artmaking processes were altered by the use of tablet devices when...

Software engineering has been in contact with new media art for years, although the connections between these fields have rarely been explicit. In this article we discuss the software engineering issues that appear in one of the new media art subfields, namely interactive installation art, as reported in the literature. Interactive installations are often heavily dependent on software and thus ...