Arts

Positive Energy: A Review of the Role of Artistic Activities in Refugee Camps

by Awet Andemicael

published by the United Nations High Commisisoner for Refugees Policy Development and Evaluation Service (UNHCR PDES)

Cheliotis, L. K. 'Deconstructing the Relationship between the Arts and Imprisonment'

by Leonidas Cheliotis

Puzzle Art in Story Worlds: Experience, Expression and Evaluation

by Veli-Matti Karhulahti

Presented at The Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, Madrid 2012.

This paper discusses the aesthetic value of a specific video game challenge, the fiction puzzle, though cases such as... more This paper discusses the aesthetic value of a specific video game challenge, the fiction puzzle, though cases such as L.A. Noire, Grim Fandango and Leisure Suit Larry. The discussion is carried out through John Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics.

Umetnost, estetika in globalizacija, in „Borec“, ŠT. 621-625, LVII/2005, pp. 262-276 (titolo inglese: Arts,Aesthetics and Globalisation, traduzione in sloveno di Andreja Šalomon Verbič).

by Alessandro Bertinetto

“Supporting excellence in the arts: from measurement to judgement”

by Susannah Eckersley

Reclaiming The Sacred: A Festival Experience as a Response to Globalisation

by Karin Mackay

published in Journal for the Study of Religion, vol 24, No 2, 2011

Pressures of globalisation such as the focus on the growth of productive economies, consumerism, and long work-hours... more Pressures of globalisation such as the focus on the growth of productive economies, consumerism, and long work-hours have fragmented cultural beliefs and practices worldwide. Devaluation of deeply held soulful, creative, and nature-based practices in the dominant neoliberal capitalist discourse has challenged the way cultural and spiritual wellbeing are lived. Instead of being completely subsumed into the neoliberal global discourse, local responses incorporating global themes are emerging in the form of the “neo-tribal” festival experience. Although festivals have primarily been seen as places of consumption, this misunderstands the drive to participate in a festival experience. This article investigates a women’s arts and ecology festival held in The Blue Mountains, Australia, where members of the local community celebrate the return of spring. Findings suggest that this festival was a site for reclaiming a localized sense of connectedness, where participants reclaimed what was sacred to them. I will argue that consumerism is secondary to the desire for a sacred synergy of connectedness at this festival where critical creative action challenges the neoliberal and patriarchal discourses in the negotiation of global culture.

Aesthetic formalism, reactions and solutions

by MZB Noaparast

co-authored with: Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast

Formalists believe that the aesthetic appreciation of an art work generally involves an attentive awareness of its... more Formalists believe that the aesthetic appreciation of an art work generally involves an attentive awareness of its sensory or conceptual qualities and does not require knowledge about its non-perceptual properties. Anti-formalists on the hand hold that noon of the aesthetic properties in the work of art are formal. A number of philosophers have recently advocated a more moderate formalism. According to this view although not all aesthetic properties are formal, many are, and some artworks possess only formal aesthetic qualities. The quarrel among these three rival views concerns what sort of knowledge, if any, is required for appropriate aesthetic appreciation of an art work. In what follows, we will give a brief exposition of these three view points. Subsequently we will give our preferred position with regard to these views

The Human Factor: Experiences of Arts Evaluation

by François Matarasso

This is work in progress, to which I will return in due course. I’d welcome any thoughts about the current report or the wider issues it raises: just send me an email

The steady growth of arts evaluation in recent years has contributed to our knowledge of current practice,... more The steady growth of arts evaluation in recent years has contributed to our knowledge of current practice, particularly as far as education and socially engaged work is concerned. It has also led to some sharp polemics. Methods have been contested and some have argued that the arts are somehow beyond evaluation.

There is still much to be learnt about how evaluation can best contribute to arts practice, knowledge and evidence. But funders, arts practitioners and commentators often have limited understanding and therefore misplaced expectations of evaluation theory and practice.

One aspect of this is that the human experience of evaluation is not much considered within or beyond the arts sector. Debates take place and decisions are made in a kind of abstract vacuum. Little account is taken of how people’s experience affects their engagement with the systems that are put in place.
During 2009, I undertook a small scale study of this aspect of evaluation, through in depth interviews with a number of artists, evaluators and commissioners. I wanted to understand how they thought and felt about being involved in evaluation - and also what effect that had on how they engaged with it. The interim report can now be downloaded here:

Some Hybrid Forms: Memory and Imagination in Contemporary Iranian Art

by Aida Foroutan

published in Art Tomorrow, Tehran: Nazar Art Publications, 2010

In this paper I look into the idea of hybrid forms, and some of ways in which contemporary Iranian art treats... more In this paper I look into the idea of hybrid forms, and some of ways in which contemporary Iranian art treats “reality”. The relevance of this is that the recreation of the past—whether by writers, historians and artists individually, or by “culture” in general—is a hybrid process combining imagination and reality. It is never a simple matter of “discovering”, deconstructing and defining “the past” in “the present”. Generally speaking, collective memory is a major factor in the process of constructing the past of a society: it shapes contemporary culture by bringing together a myriad of individual stories. Moreover, in art, myth and architecture—i.e. in the narratives a society tells itself in words, images and forms—imagination plays a great part in their collective representations. This is not forgotten in terms of the personal imagination, but is often overlooked in terms of the collective imagination, and therefore in collective memory. In the act of remembering and reflecting on the cultural past, the artist brings recognisable, familiar, and obscure “foreign” patterns to the public cultural present (of Iran) by delving into his or her own individual, but also society’s collective, memory and imagination. This amalgamation of memory and imagination by the artist (or historian) may undermine the established, previously accepted view of reality by re-forming, re-calibrating and disorienting present time vis-à-vis the past. Hence, it is sometimes considered as a subversive repositioning of the present time towards the past, and this is often done through the process of hybridisation of memory and imagination, collective and individual.

Information Needs and Information-Seeking Behavior of Arts and Humanities Teachers: A Survey of the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

by Khalid Mahmood

Shifting paradigms in the field of craft, its effect in the life of traditional craftsman and organizational framework of the traditional guilds

by Sharat Sunder Rajeev

I would like to thank all my classmates and faculty members at S.P.A, New Delhi, who have guided me, this work would not have materialized without their help and support.

Abstract: The objective of the paper is to study in detail the ‘guild system’ followed by the traditional craftsmen of... more Abstract: The objective of the paper is to study in detail the ‘guild system’ followed by the traditional craftsmen of Kerala, the modes they adopted for the transfer of traditional knowledge systems down the generations and the association the guilds maintained with the other communities in the social setup of a village. The study also will cover the changes brought about by the industrial revolution in the field of craft. Industrial revolution has both good and bad effects affecting the social setup of the craftsmen and their traditional guild system. The introduction of modern technologies and the factories aimed at mass production freed the craftsmen from their status of ‘village artisan’ and helped in improving their social status and economic profile. The industrial schools established in various parts of the country thus played an important role in determining the social status of the traditional craftsmen community.

Journée d'étude Arts de la rue : Corps outsider, arts outsider ? - 4 novembre 2011- Bordeaux

by Anne-Sophie Sayeux

Première journée d'étude du CARC sur les arts de la rue, s'adressant aux chercheurs, étudiants, professionnels et institutionnels.
Maison des Sud, Pessac, 4 novembre - 9h30 - 17h

Organiser ces journées du CARC (Corps Arts Rue Culture) tient de la volonté d’interroger, aujourd’hui, les arts de la... more Organiser ces journées du CARC (Corps Arts Rue Culture) tient de la volonté d’interroger, aujourd’hui, les arts de la rue, au sens le plus large du terme, en regard du rapport entre corps et rue. En mobilisant des interlocuteurs issus de divers champs scientifiques, artistiques et culturels, associatifs ou politiques, notre ambition est de comprendre comment arts et rue son perçus socialement, tant dans leurs aspects positifs que négatifs. L’originalité du propos tient au fait que les regards seront croisés sur ces questions.
On interrogera les représentations actuelles du corps dans la rue, lieu de phantasmes, de craintes, de plaisirs, de vie, de passages ou de rencontres, à travers plusieurs pratiques telles que la boxe et la rue, l’immersion en milieu urbain et les façons de travailler dans la rue à travers la question de la reconnaissance des artistes de rue.

The Limits of Objective Art Criticism – Establishing an Objective Concept for Evaluating Artworks

by Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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Catalyst Arts: Good on paper, bad in practice

by Javier Stanziola

Arts Professional, N 243
http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/view.cfm?id=5947&issue=243

Earlier this summer, ACE announced further details of how it would implement one of the key programmes from that... more Earlier this summer, ACE announced further details of how it would implement one of the key programmes from that action plan – Catalyst Arts, a £40m fund to increase private giving to the arts. By then, of course, it came as no surprise that ACE was proposing to recycle two of A&B’s old schemes: fundraising training and match-funding. I was shocked to realise, however, that such a key cultural scheme appears to be yet another example of a ‘garbage can’ approach to policy-making: it seems that ACE adopted A&B’s schemes because they were there for the taking. Had they followed what they preach – engaging in a fast but thorough review of the evidence to support programme proposals – ACE would have realised that matching grants do not work. Or more precisely, they work for large cultural organisations at the expense of small ones, cultural consumers and artistic innovation.

The art of ePortfolios: Insights from the creative arts experience

by Andrew Brown

Co-authoroed with Dr. Steve Dillon

This chapter examines the creative production context as a vehicle to reveal the issues, problems and complexities... more This chapter examines the creative production context as a vehicle to reveal the issues, problems and complexities that may be encountered when working with ePortfolios. We utilise metaphors from the creative arts as tools to provide new perspectives and insights that may not otherwise occur in other disciplines to provide a unique critique of the performativity of ePortfolios. Through reference to case studies drawn from drama, dance, music, new media and the visual arts, our research has problematized ePortfolios from the teacher, student, institutional and pedagogical perspectives. We identify the issues and propose approaches to resolving them and illustrate how these ideas derive from creative arts knowledge and outline how they are transferable to other disciplines using ePortfolios based on rich media forms of presentation. In conclusion, we examine the performing arts as temporal art forms attuned to the unfolding of a narrative and examine the notion that the audient experiences the reading of a portfolio as a performance.

Buzz as an Urban Resource

by Daniel Silver

Draft only

The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this... more The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this is a commonplace for many mayors and local policymakers around the world. We seek to overcome this divide by joining culture and the arts with classic concepts of urban politics. We offer an analytical framework incorporating the politics of cultural policy alongside the typical political economic concerns in the urban politics and development literatures. Our framework synthesizes several research streams that combine in global factors driving the articulation of culture into city politics. This frames our studies of the local processes through which this articulation occurs on the ground in Toronto and Chicago.

Interfacing: Drama, The Arts and I.C.T.

by Kim Flintoff

Flintoff, K.(2004) Interfacing: Drama, The Arts and I.C.T. in LOGIN: The Journal of the Educational Computing Association of Western Australian (Inc) Volume 18 No 1 - Term 1, 2004.  ISSN 0819-9620 (reprinted in Education Horizons 2004)

Per l'attività padovana di Antonio Vivarini

by Vincenzo M. Buonocore

Towards a Holistic View of Humanities; Integration of Art, Science, and Linguistic Competence

by Parvaneh Khosravizadeh

Towards a Holistic View of Humanities; Integration of Art, Science, and Linguistic Competence, Khosravizadeh, Parvaneh, Omid Gohari, Navid Gohari, and Ghazal Ghaziani, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Granada, Spain, June 2011.

The paper investigates the deep structure of the human mind by analyzing multiple intelligences theory. Regarding... more The paper investigates the deep structure of the human mind by analyzing multiple intelligences theory. Regarding serious critics proposed by a number of cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and educational theorists (i.e. Sternberg 1983, 1991; Eysenck 1994; Scarr 1985; Klein 1998; Demetriou and Kazi 2006; Demetriou, Mouyi, and Spanoudis 2010, among others), it seems that the different types of intelligence introduced by Gardner (1983), have a shared feature. The authors believe that this particular shared feature can be account as the key point of underlying system of human knowledge. Since human cognition may be analyzed by means of universal structure of mind, and investigating this underlying structure is the most controversial issue of modern studies, paying attention to that feature is vital. The paper concludes with the emphasis on eliminating the borderlines between different fields of studies, by integration of arts, sciences, and linguistic competence.

New Horizons in Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing

by Finola Kerrigan

Bennett, R, Kerrigan, F and O’Reilly, D (2010) Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management New Horizons in Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing, Vol. 26 Issue 7&8