Category: Arts Practices
Cartoonization Practices: The Visual Perspective of Learners With Intellectual Disabilities in a Participatory Learning Environment
Participatory learning is known as a form of teaching method that focuses on the learner, deemed suitable for learners with intellectual disabilities as it encourages engagement, attention, and flexibility in nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and awareness as a part of their cognitive ability. This mental ability can be sharpened through practice that involves the repetition …
Ceramics as a Medium for Social Critique: Artistic Reflections on Freedom and Marginalization
Modern life often generates various forms of personal anxiety, which, in turn, contribute to a broader social unease. This anxiety can stem from multiple sources, including feelings of alienation and injustice experienced by individuals within contemporary social structures. Within this conceptual framework, the author draws inspiration from the experience of caring for rescue dogs living …
From Clever Rain Tree to Cosmic Metaphor: Toru Takemitsu’s Musical Interpretation of Nature and Emotion
Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch series, inspired by Kenzaburō Ōe’s short story “Clever Rain Tree”, exemplifies the composer’s deep connection to nature and his masterful use of music to express emotion and metaphor. This paper explores Takemitsu’s musical journey from the clever rain tree to the cosmic metaphor, investigating how he interprets and transforms natural …
The Influence of Makeup on Individual Self-Identity: An Exploratory Study
Makeup has increasingly become an important factor affecting self-identity and social interaction among college students. With the popularity of social media and the rise of the beauty industry, more and more young people are using makeup to shape their social image and express their personalities. The purpose of this study is to explore the Chinese …
For Seeing the Sea Sometimes Is Better to Close One’s Eyes: Tongues to Name the Landscape that Grows Unseen
On the island of Arousa, in Galicia, the BioCost research group is trying to grow the Himanthalia Elongatha seaweed, which is endangered in the area. However, the rock on which they carry out this procedure is covered by the sea depending on the tidal movements, making it difficult for scientists to access the evolution of …
Glitch Sounds Based on Image Manipulation
Glitch art is the art that makes use of image, video, and sound errors (glitches) intentionally generated by destroying digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. Such glitch art is interesting in that it expresses unpredictable and accidental beauty. As part of our research into glitch sound creation methods and effects, we tried to create …
Socially Engaged Art Practice for Mental Caring and Social Inclusion: The Case Study of the International Center for Wound Repair and Regeneration, Taiwan
This research offers analysis and findings from a series of socially engaged art practices implemented by The International Center for Wound Repair and Regeneration in Taiwan to enhance mental health and well-being and promote the social inclusion of patients of a rare hereditary disease: the ‘Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).’ The EB patients often suffer from frequent …
The Cities of Málaga Represented: Exploring Architectural Heritage Through Drawing and Painting
The present investigation aims to present the development of a research project funded by the Margarita Salas Grants, financed by the Ministry of Universities of Spain and the Next Generation funds from the European Union. Essentially, it consists of the study of the representations, both graphic and pictorial, of several cities in Málaga. New graphic …
Copy As Original: Artistic Practice Before and After Appropriation
Contemporary art can be approached through actions that challenge the classic notion of originality and authenticity. Artistic actions regarding authenticity reversals were rather pluralistic before the Appropriation Art movement of the late 1970s. The first part of the research reviews key actions spanning from the Readymade use of utilitarian objects as art to the question …
Colorimetry Analysis of a 3D Model of Artwork for Forensic Examination of a Counterfeit in a Virtual Environment
This article describes an experimental analysis of an original artwork using color models. The text discusses color analysis in a 3D point cloud of a digital twin of an artwork. A digital twin of the artwork is created using the Structure of Motion photogrammetry method. CMYK and RGB color models are used for color analysis …
The Influence of Culture in Pattern Wisdom Development Between Praewa Pattern of Phu Tai Ethnic and the Javanese Batik Methods
The traditional textile patterns embody the significant influence of conservative values within local communities, particularly in the context of rural ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. This research aims to study the application of cross-cultural approaches in design, specifically focusing on the contrasting textile cultures of Thailand and Indonesia within the Phu Tai Ethnic group. The …
Disturbed Spaces: Santiago Sierra’s Artistic Practice in a Time Out of Joint
Santiago Sierra is an internationally renowned artist, who over the years has explored diverse forms of enunciation to make visible the political dimension that artistic discourse presents within the modern public sphere. His pieces explore the re-signification of disturbed spaces, those precarious places, charged with feelings, memories, and desires, where a process of collective identification …
Diffractive Art Practice: An Approach to Contemporary Art Practice
This essay is an introduction to diffractive art practice, an approach based on practice and combining art practice, art history, and cultural studies. This paper discusses and outlines how the embodied approach I have adopted in my art practice – a method of using bodily sensations to collect and analyze data – has yielded new …
Paintings of the Self: Ethics and Poetics in the Talking Clothes of the Visual Artist Solange Gonçalves Luciano
The research is sketched in the field of art and unreason, from the post-structuralist philosophical perspective of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The objective is to present the work of the multi-artist Solange Gonçalves Luciano, entitled Talking Clothes, held at the Creativity Workshop of the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, in the city of Porto Alegre, …
AI as a Creative Partner: Enhancing Artistic Creation and Acceptance
AI tools have gained popularity in the art world, offering numerous advantages for artists in terms of creativity and innovation. However, concerns and limitations surrounding AI-generated art have also emerged, such as the potential lack of emotional depth and human touch compared to traditional art forms. This paper explores the use of AI tools in …
Creating Interaction: A Storytelling Framework for Arts and Design Referring Quantum Theories
In art practices, the challenge of enhancing practitioner’s creativity is the most important topic in the filed of arts and design. As once assumed, the creativity is the most vital ingredient as its appearance is unpredictable just like quantum leaps (Koyama and Niwase, 2017, p.3). Referring to the String Theory, the eleven dimensions of space-time …
Interfering Diffractively with Matter: Anamneses of the “Metagrid” Art Workshop
In this article, I examine how the concept of diffraction can be corporeally communicated within art workshops. Through my perception as an artist and workshop facilitator, I narrate the case study of the “metagrid”, which was part of “#metttafestival – Who are we on social media?” held at BUoY in Tokyo in October 2022. I …
Imagination Versus Materiality – The Bond of Image and Text in Conflict
A seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of Romanticism, William Blake, considered imagination as an instrument of knowledge superior to reason. In his works he sympathized with the victims of society degraded by industrialization and praised imagination against materiality. The paper focuses in two groups of works of the artist, …
Inequitable Access in the Music Related Industries: Proposed Strategies and Directions
There has been a small, but powerful wave rippling within artistic academic discourse of recent years, a wave that has begun to challenge the ideas of equitable access within the arts and its lack of inclusion for disabled people. This wave has been driven by critical analysis of the medical model of disability and an …
The Reconstruction of Rural Places Through Paper-Cutting Art: A Case Study of a “Paper-Cutting Village” in Fujian Province, China
Xuelingwei is a village in Zhe Rong County, Ningde City, Fujian Province, China, which is renowned as the “paper-cutting village.” The village can be regarded as an”overall space” from a spatial sociological perspective. In my research, I examined the spatial practices of the paper-cutting village of Xuelingwei based on participant observation and interviews with local …
Mindfulness in Art Practices, an Ethnographic Research on Hong Kong Artists in Visual Arts, Music/sound Art, Performance and Contemporary Art
In the field of neuro-science and psychology, there have been many studies proving mindfulness practices help well-being. However, there are very few researches done in Hong Kong. This is the very first one regarding local artists’ mindfulness practices. Since 2019, Hong Kongers have been experiencing extreme difficulties due to political situations plus Covid-19. We are …
The Future of Small-to-Medium-Scale Production of Ceramics: The Use of Thermoplastic Polyurethane 3D Printing to Produce Molds in Educational Institutions
Using 3D printers to create molds for ceramics arts and industries is one of the new techniques influencing these creative fields. The role of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) in the creative industries has received increased attention across a number of disciplines in recent years. It is well known that TPU is a flexible, durable material, and …
Performative Drawing: Concepts, Processes and Artworks
Abstract: Performative drawing is a contemporary art movement that seems to be gaining worldwide importance over the last decades. An increasing number of artists are focusing their practice-based research on this art trend that explores the intersection between performance and drawing in process oriented practices. However, very little theoretical research has been undertaken upon this …
Exploring the Intersections of Cultural Performance Practices and Wearable Technology
Humans have gone to great lengths in recent years to augment their bodies with wearable technology using commercial devices such as smart phones, watches, and jewelry. The presence of technology in the area of the performing and fine arts has shaped the future of how technology can be used to enhance existing performance practices including …
What is Performative Drawing? An Overview on Nancy and Kant’s Ideas Underlying Process Oriented Drawing Practices
Performative drawing is a contemporary art movement that seems to be gaining worldwide importance over the last decades. An increasing number of artists are focusing their practice-based research on this art trend that explores the intersection between performance and drawing in process oriented practices. However, very little theoretical research has been undertaken upon this topic. …