Brain and Art

Brain and Art
Author: Idan Segev
Publisher: Frontiers E-books
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 2889193608

Could we understand, in biological terms, the unique and fantastic capabilities of the human brain to both create and enjoy art? In the past decade neuroscience has made a huge leap in developing experimental techniques as well as theoretical frameworks for studying emergent properties following the activity of large neuronal networks. These methods, including MEG, fMRI, sophisticated data analysis approaches and behavioral methods, are increasingly being used in many labs worldwide, with the goal to explore brain mechanisms corresponding to the artistic experience. The 37 articles composing this unique Frontiers Research Topic bring together experimental and theoretical research, linking state-of-the-art knowledge about the brain with the phenomena of Art. It covers a broad scope of topics, contributed by world-renowned experts in vision, audition, somato-sensation, movement, and cinema. Importantly, as we felt that a dialog among artists and scientists is essential and fruitful, we invited a few artists to contribute their insights, as well as their art. Joan Miró said that “art is the search for the alphabet of the mind.” This volume reflects the state of the art search to understand neurobiological alphabet of the Arts. We hope that the wide range of articles in this volume will be highly attractive to brain researchers, artists and the community at large.

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, book series, Vol. 11, 2016

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, book series, Vol. 11, 2016
Author: Florentin Smarandache
Publisher: Infinite Study
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1599734672

This volume is a collection of fourteen papers, written by different authors and co-authors (listed in the order of the papers): N. Radwan, M. Badr Senousy, A. E. D. M. Riad, Chunfang Liu, YueSheng Luo, J. M. Jency, I. Arockiarani, P. P. Dey, S. Pramanik, B. C. Giri, N. Shah, A. Hussain, Gaurav, M. Kumar, K. Bhutani S. Aggarwal, V. Pătraşcu, F. Yuhua, S. Broumi, A. Bakali, M. Talea, F. Smarandache, M. Khan, S. Afzal, H. E. Khalid, M. A. Baset ,I. M. Hezam.

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Author: Susan Sinclair
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1510
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004170588

Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Explaining Creativity

Explaining Creativity
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199737576

Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.

The Revival of Beauty

The Revival of Beauty
Author: Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000933903

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials

Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials
Author: Yves Bréchet
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Total Pages: 1342
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3038135100

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the conference on Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials (PTM), June 2010, France.

Studio Downie Architecture

Studio Downie Architecture
Author: Studio Downie Architects
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864701555

This new NeoArchitecture monograph presents the work of Studio Downie, a young practice whose work to date has mostly appeared in the UK, but is poised to make its mark on the world scene. Craig Downie studied architecture within the layered environment

Contemporary Commonwealth

Contemporary Commonwealth
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Twenty two artists from Australia and across the Commonwealth were presented in an exhibition that was the flagship program of the Commonwealth games.

Digital Da Vinci

Digital Da Vinci
Author: Newton Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1493909657

“Science is art,” said Regina Dugan, senior executive at Google and former director of DARPA. “It is the process of creating something that never exists before. ... It makes us ask new questions about ourselves, others; about ethics, the future.” This second volume of the Digital Da Vinci book series leads the discussions on the world’s first computer art in the 1950s and the actualization of Star Trek’s holodeck in the future with the help of artificial intelligence and cyborgs. In this book, Gavin Sade describes experimental creative practices that bring together arts, science and technology in imaginative ways; Mine Özkar expounds visual computation for good designs based on repetition and variation; Raffaella Folgieri, Claudio Lucchiari, Marco Granato and Daniele Grechi introduce BrainArt, a brain-computer interface that allows users to create drawings using their own cerebral rhythms; Nathan Cohen explores artificially created spaces that enhance spatial awareness and challenge our perception of what we encounter; Keith Armstrong discusses embodied experiences that affect the mind and body of participating audiences; Diomidis Spinellis uses Etoys and Squeak in a scientific experiment to teach the concept of physical computing; Benjamin Cowley explains the massively multiplayer online game “Green My Place” aimed at achieving behavior transformation in energy awareness; Robert Niewiadomski and Dennis Anderson portray 3-D manufacturing as the beginning of common creativity revolution; Stephen Barrass takes 3-D printing to another dimension by fabricating an object from a sound recording; Mari Velonaki examines the element of surprise and touch sensing in human-robot interaction; and Roman Danylak surveys the media machines in light of Marshall McLuhan’s dictum “the medium is the message.” Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences is dedicated to polymathic education and interdisciplinary studies in the digital age empowered by computer science. Educators and researchers ought to encourage the new generation of scholars to become as well rounded as a Renaissance man or woman.