Performance Art Research Articles

Digital eternity: The holographic resurrection of music icons

Holographic reincarnations blend the allure of the past with the possibilities of modern technology, navigating through ethical quandaries and the redefinition of performance art. Central to this exploration is the fusion of memory and digital perpetuity, pushing the limits of what constitutes a live performance. The holographic rebirth of legends such as Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston sparks debate over the ethics of posthumous consent, the authenticity of such representations and the implications of monetizing the afterlife of artists. This shift towards digital eternity prompts a critical assessment of the moral dimensions involved in resurrecting artists through technology. Exploring the history and development of holography, from historical illusions to contemporary artificial intelligence-enhanced presentations, reveals both the technological achievements and the ethical challenges presented by these endeavours. The drive behind these resurrective projects shines a light on a lucrative industry focused on ‘Delebs’, turning the legacies of deceased celebrities into profitable ventures. Yet the quest to immortalize artists digitally invites scrutiny over potential misuse, privacy breaches and the erosion of the true essence of their legacies. Addressing these complex issues demands a concerted effort from ethicists, legal scholars, technology experts and cultural commentators. The journey into this uncharted domain highlights the necessity of balancing innovation with respect, advocating for a principled approach to honouring those who have passed. The concept of confining artists to a ‘digital purgatory’, where they exist solely for entertainment devoid of self-determination, emphasizes the urgency of establishing ethical guidelines. This digital afterlife, fraught with the risk of diminishing the soul of artistic works to mere commercial assets, calls for a vigilant approach to safeguard the dignity and volition of artists in the realm of digital legacy.

Politics of Performance/Performance of Politics

The 2022 anti–zero Covid White Paper protests that erupted in China and its diaspora demonstrated the intertwinement of politics and performance in contemporary China. The symbolic dimensions of blank sheets of A4 paper and other performative tactics used in these demonstrations exemplify the shifting roles of performance art in the field of contemporary Chinese art.

An Innovative Adaptive Web-Based Solution for Improved Remote Co-Creation and Delivery of Artistic Performances

An Innovative Adaptive Web-Based Solution for Improved Remote Co-Creation and Delivery of Artistic Performances

Ukrainian piano music paradigm of the past and present in the performance dimension

The research relevance on the specificity of Ukrainian piano composition, both solo and ensemble, is predefined by its demand for modern society, as well as in the content and significance of this sphere of musical art. The research aims to highlight the phenomenon in question as a voluminous, complex and, at the same time, holistic system, as well as to identify its leading components, their content, functional significance, and principles of interconnection between themselves and with the society. To achieve the above objective, the following methods were used: historical, culturological, analysis, structuring, synthesis, comparative characterization, and systematization. The research analyses the complexity of the phenomenon. The study examined several components of the phenomenon, namely the leading components of the foundation of piano performance in Ukraine, the sectors of pianism implementation and the nature of its impact on them, the modernisation of social life directions under the influence of music, Ukrainian piano art and performance in different historical eras, elements of the art of piano performance, software functions in the sphere of modern pianism. The research results illuminate processes of Ukrainian academic national piano art integration into world professional creative and performing culture as well as the uniqueness of Ukrainian music which embodied stylistic and technical achievements of classicism, romanticism, directions of the twentieth century and modernity on the ground of original colourful ethnic origins. The practical significance of the proposed study consists in the fact that its materials can be used in the concert activities of pianists, in compiling educational programs of secondary and higher music schools in piano performance, as well as in the implementation of research projects aimed at finding discoveries in the field of pianism, its specificity, manifested in different areas.

인공지능(AI) 기술을 적용한 중국 무용예술공연의 소비자 행동 연구: 확장된 통합기술수용이론(UTAUT2)을 중심으로

인공지능(AI) 기술을 적용한 중국 무용예술공연의 소비자 행동 연구: 확장된 통합기술수용이론(UTAUT2)을 중심으로

CHINESE AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS, ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE, AND MODERN SIGNIFICANCE OF LITERARY LANGUAGE

Literary language holds a distinct and crucial aesthetic value within literature and art. As a fundamental element of literature, it is an aesthetically refined form of language characterized by rhythm, implication, rhetoric, and strangeness. Its artistic performance is multifaceted, encompassing the creation of indirect artistic images, the depiction of the grand and intricate material world, and the exploration of profound emotional landscapes. Literary language's aesthetics and diverse artistic performance significantly contribute to historical traditions, literature evolution, and individual experience, securing its vital and irreplaceable role in contemporary society

The Role Of Bale Sarasehan In The Maintenance And Preservation Of Local Cultural Identity in Cireundeu Traditional Village

Cireundeu traditional village is one of the traditional villages in West Java that still keeping its noble values applied to the community from generation to generation. These noble values are also applied through one of its architectural cultural products, Bale Sarasehan. Its existence is very important in terms of functional and symbolic aspects. Functionally, Bale Sarasehan acts as a gathering place for the community to carry out various traditional activities that can strengthen social ties and cultural values inherent in their identity, such as religious ceremonies, traditional art performances, a space to transmit and pass on cultural knowledge to the younger generation. While the building is symbolically conveyed through its architectural form and also the use of materials in its structure, it also has a connotative meaning or message about the life teachings of its community. This research uses a limited fieldwork method with a qualitative approach and collects data through observation, interviews and documentary studies. Through this research, it is expected to gain a better understanding of the role of Bale Sarasehan, which can contribute to the sustainability of the maintenance and preservation of local wisdom as a local cultural identity in Cireundeu Traditional Village. Cireundeu traditional village is one of the traditional villages in West Java that still keeping its noble values applied to the community from generation to generation. These noble values are also applied through one of its architectural cultural products, Bale Sarasehan. Its existence is very important in terms of functional and symbolic aspects. Functionally, Bale Sarasehan acts as a gathering place for the community to carry out various traditional activities that can strengthen social ties and cultural values inherent in their identity, such as religious ceremonies, traditional art performances, a space to transmit and pass on cultural knowledge to the younger generation. While the building is symbolically conveyed through its architectural form and also the use of materials in its structure, it also has a connotative meaning or message about the life teachings of its community. This research uses a limited fieldwork method with a qualitative approach and collects data through observation, interviews and documentary studies. Through this research, it is expected to gain a better understanding of the role of Bale Sarasehan, which can contribute to the sustainability of the maintenance and preservation of local wisdom as a local cultural identity in Cireundeu Traditional Village.

Innovative communication of molecular evolution through sound: a biological sonification concert

BackgroundA major challenge of evolutionary biology is making underlying concepts accessible to wide audiences. One method for doing so is to utilise multi-media formats that have potential to engage and inform through entertainment. This pilot study outlines and discusses a sonification concert that integrated musical performance with a range of evolutionary concepts and ideas fundamental to an understanding of evolution, such as protein sequences. We aimed to showcase sound-art objects and live-coding performances created using sonification as a mechanism for presenting complex biological processes to both researcher and non-researchers. We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of this art-adjacent practice for public engagement with evolutionary biology research, and also to gather feedback to guide future events. Toward this end, we held a live concert showcasing biologically-based algorithmic music exploring links between evolutionary biology research, sound art, and musical performance. The event had three main acts: a generative audio-visual piece giving an artistic representation of SARS coronavirus based on a parameter-mapping sonification of protein sequence of the replicase polyprotein; a pre-recorded string ensemble demonstrating the effects of codon selection on translation speed using parameter-mapping sonification; and a live-coded music piece interactively sonifying protein structures.ResultsOur event attracted 90 attendees. We evaluated success using direct observation and written feedback forms with a 58% response rate: 95% of respondents stated they had enjoyed the event and 63% indicated they were inspired by it.ConclusionsPresenting the sonic outputs of sonification research in a concert format showed good potential for the pursuit of public engagement with evolutionary biology research, demonstrating the ability to engage curiosity and inspire an audience while also conveying scientific content alongside the nuanced and complex world of modern evolutionary biology.

Classic Performing Arts Supply Chain Modeling in Covid 19 Protocol to Support D.I Yogyakarta Cultural Tourism Using Soft System Methodology

The performing arts are a unique and complex industry. To enjoy performing arts products, a customer must come to the rooms where the performance takes place. Performance products can be categorized as service products that do not have a physical form. Every performing arts performance always involves many works of art with a high level of coordination. The flow of materials and information (supply chain) moves very quickly within the limitations of space and time. Because the success of performing arts is influenced by many factors and actors, a performing arts manager must be able to manage the performing arts supply chain well.The Corona Virus Disease 19 (Covid-19) pandemic which has hit almost all corners of the world has formed new patterns of human behavior in working and interacting. Likewise, organizing and enjoying performing arts will look different compared to before the Covid-19 outbreak. The implementation of health protocols is needed to minimize the spread of the virus which has infected more than 13.2 billion people throughout the world.The performing arts supply chain policy model in the Covid-19 protocol to support cultural tourism in D.I Yogyakarta can be implemented by following the Joint Decree Guidelines of the Minister of Education and the Minister of Tourism and Economy dated 02 July 2020. Each actor must pay attention to the technical guidelines for preventing and controlling corona virus disease 2019. Each actor guarantees the hygiene of their respective performing arts equipment. Each actor maintains the form and duration of physical contact and pays attention to health protocols in activities throughout the performing arts supply chain. The performing arts model during the pandemic is realized in regulations that are in accordance with the technical guidelines for preventing and controlling the 2019 corona virus disease.

K-PERM: Personalized Response Generation Using Dynamic Knowledge Retrieval and Persona-Adaptive Queries

Personalizing conversational agents can enhance the quality of conversations and increase user engagement. However, they often lack external knowledge to appropriately tend to a user’s persona. This is crucial for practical applications like mental health support, nutrition planning, culturally sensitive conversations, or reducing toxic behavior in conversational agents. To enhance the relevance and comprehensiveness of personalized responses, we propose using a two-step approach that involves (1) selectively integrating user personas and (2) contextualizing the response by supplementing information from a background knowledge source. We develop K-PERM (Knowledge-guided PErsonalization with Reward Modulation), a dynamic conversational agent that combines these elements. K-PERM achieves state-of-the- art performance on the popular FoCus dataset, containing real-world personalized conversations concerning global landmarks.We show that using responses from K-PERM can improve performance in state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT 3.5) by 10.5%, highlighting the impact of K-PERM for personalizing chatbots.

Analysis of Grotowskis Body Action Method from the Perspective of Zhuangzi

Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999, hereinafter referred to as Grotowski) was a renowned theater practitioner in the 20th century, dedicating his life to the study of theatrical performance. His theatrical works shook the world in the 20th century, and he was well-known in the theater communities of Europe and America. Unfortunately, he passed away prematurely, leaving behind profound and abstruse writings for future generations. His late-life creation, the Art of Vehicle in body action methods, holds profound significance for the study of states in various artistic performances. Based on this, researchers, drawing on Grotowskis lifelong learning and research background, interpret and analyze Grotowskis study of art of vehicle through the Zhuangzis concept of body in the philosophy of Swiss philosopher Jean Franois Billeters dynamic mechanism. This paper is based on the research theory of Professor Mingder Chung from Taipei National University of the Arts on Grotowskis MPA, aiming to elucidate Grotowskis interpretation of body through Zhuangzis body view, and further clarify the conceptual framework of MPA. The purpose is to contribute theoretical foundations to the study of Grotowskis Art of Vehicle.

Autism spectrum disorder identification using multi‐model deep ensemble classifier with transfer learning

AbstractIdentifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms accurately is a challenging task. The traditional subjective diagnostic process of ASD relies on time‐consuming behavioural and psychological observations. In this study, we introduce an ensemble learning‐based classification model using an open‐access database focusing on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We propose a novel multi‐model ensemble classifier (MMEC) and multisite ensemble classifier (MSEC) with transfer learning (TL) for ASD classification to improve the prediction accuracy. The MMEC utilizes four base classifiers, Inception V3, ResNet50, MobileNet, and DenseNet to boost the performance of the individual convolutional neural network (CNN) models. The MSEC combined the base classifiers trained from different data sites. We evaluate the two models with ensemble averaging, weighted averaging, and stacking methods. The proposed MMEC with stacking shows the state of art performance compared to MSEC, improving the prediction accuracy by 3.25%. The obtained results have shown an accuracy of 97.82%, 97.82%, and 97.78% for ensemble averaging, weighted averaging, and stacking methods, respectively, on multi‐site datasets. The ensemble classifier MMEC performed better than a single classifier on the multi‐site dataset. The proposed MMEC opens a new paradigm to design a universal ASD classification framework.

A German DJ, Postmodern Dreams, and the Ambivalent Politics of East–West Exchange at the First Exhibition of Approximate Art in Riga, April 1987

Organized as part of the annual Art Days festival in the capital of the Latvian SSR, the First Exhibition of Approximate Art comprised a cacophonous and provocative mashup of music, dance, performance art, and design. At the center of the event was a demonstration of mixing and scratching records by Maximilian Lenz, also known as Westbam, one of the leading DJs in West Berlin. Mining archival sources in Berlin and Riga, this article reconstructs the complicated path by which the DJ came to perform at the event. It reveals a surprising network of relations and alliances operating in tandem behind the scenes, featuring a Riga artist dedicated to enacting a vision of postmodern performance in his city, an ambitiously networking émigré Latvian living in exile in West Germany, and a pair of Soviet offices under direct control of the KGB, charged with managing cultural exchanges with the West in hopes of currying sympathies for Soviet culture and policy. Complementing and extending research on the “gaps” and “holes” in the Soviet system that sometimes allowed for the staging of otherwise unacceptable works of art, the story of the First Exhibition of Approximate Art reveals how personal connections and interpersonal networks within even the most highly monitored parts of the system itself—the state security apparatus—could open doors for artistic projects unanticipated and even undesired by the bureaucratic state.

NOWOCZESNE TECHNOLOGIE PROJEKCYJNE W ZABYTKOWYCH SALACH TEATRALNYCH KRAKOWA – SZANSY I ZAGROŻENIA

Along with the development of multimedia and their increasing role in producing culture, the language of performative arts have change significantly over the past few decades. However, as in the case of Krakow, Poland, many theatre companies are seated for decades in the same historic buildings, being important landmarks and protected architectural monuments. The paper sheds some light on opportunities and risks of introducing modern projection technologies into historic building. Results of reserch can be considered inspirational for artist and technicians as well as conservators and architects involved in the renovation and conservation of historic theatre halls.

Multi Task Learning Based Shallow Parsing for Indian Languages

Shallow Parsing is an important step for many Natural Language Processing tasks. Although shallow parsing has a rich history for resource rich languages, it is not the case for most Indian languages. Shallow Parsing consists of POS Tagging and Chunking. Our study focuses on developing shallow parsers for Indian languages. As part of shallow parsing we included morph analysis as well. For the study, we first consolidated available shallow parsing corpora for 7 Indian Languages (Hindi, Kannada, Bangla, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu) for which treebanks are publicly available. We then trained models to achieve state of the art performance for shallow parsing in these languages for multiple domains. Since analyzing the performance of model predictions at sentence level is more realistic, we report the performance of these shallow parsers not only at the token level, but also at the sentence level. We also present machine learning techniques for multitask shallow parsing. Our experiments show that fine-tuned contextual embedding with multi-task learning improves the performance of multiple as well as individual shallow parsing tasks across different domains. We show the transfer learning capability of these models by creating shallow parsers (only with POS and Chunk) for Gujarati, Odia, and Punjabi for which no treebanks are available. As a part of this work, we will be releasing the Indian Languages Shallow Linguistic (ILSL) benchmarks for 10 Indian languages including both the major language families Indo-Aryan and Dravidian as common building blocks that can be used to evaluate and understand various linguistic phenomena found in Indian languages and how well newer approaches can tackle them.

Enabling STE(A)M in Sustainability Education Through Dialogic/Dialectic Reconciliation

In the context of a need for finding and enabling alternatives to unequal and extractivist perspectives on development, growth, and human well-being, this positioning paper explores possibilities for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education with an education for sustainable development focus that counters disciplinary alienations particularly between the arts and the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. The paper argues that unnecessary alienations between cultural-emblematic and mathematical-logical epistemes, especially those linked to narrow interpretations and restricted developments in dialogism and dialectics, respectively, are influenced by restricted understandings of epistemological, ontological, and praxiological philosophical drivers in meaning making and responsive action. In response, the paper develops a series of philosophical principles that, it argues, could usefully underpin STEAM education practices. These are a) iterations of epistemological expansion and contraction (in response to monologic meaning making), b) an expansive and deepening ontology (in response to ontological collapse in describing the world), c) critical and judgmental rationality (finding a middle ground between radical relativism and dogma), and d) concrete utopianism (in response to idealism and additive holisticism). The emergence of the four philosophical principles is developed through illustrative examples of a broad range of arts (fine art, performance art, photography, film, poetry, prose, and music).

CoMadOut—a robust outlier detection algorithm based on CoMAD

Unsupervised learning methods are well established in the area of anomaly detection and achieve state of the art performances on outlier datasets. Outliers play a significant role, since they bear the potential to distort the predictions of a machine learning algorithm on a given dataset. Especially among PCA-based methods, outliers have an additional destructive potential regarding the result: they may not only distort the orientation and translation of the principal components, they also make it more complicated to detect outliers. To address this problem, we propose the robust outlier detection algorithm CoMadOut, which satisfies two required properties: (1) being robust towards outliers and (2) detecting them. Our CoMadOut outlier detection variants using comedian PCA define, dependent on its variant, an inlier region with a robust noise margin by measures of in-distribution (variant CMO) and optimized scores by measures of out-of-distribution (variants CMO*), e.g. kurtosis-weighting by CMO+k. These measures allow distribution based outlier scoring for each principal component, and thus, an appropriate alignment of the degree of outlierness between normal and abnormal instances. Experiments comparing CoMadOut with traditional, deep and other comparable robust outlier detection methods showed that the performance of the introduced CoMadOut approach is competitive to well established methods related to average precision (AP), area under the precision recall curve (AUPRC) and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve. In summary our approach can be seen as a robust alternative for outlier detection tasks.

‘Accounting for the Music’. Institutional logics in the Regio Teatro Carolino of Palermo at the beginning of the nineteenth century

ABSTRACT We analyse the foundation and organisation of the Regio Teatro Carolino (RTC) in Palermo in the mid-eighteenth century, and its development at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In particular, we examine the accounting system to determine how it was influenced by competing and often conflicting institutional logics. The RTC originated from a private initiative of the Palermo nobility, but soon had to resort to public funding to maintain its artistic performances. Following this process, the Bourbon monarchy implemented control over the RTC and more generally, over all theatrical activities. The research emphasises the different institutional logics that shaped the RTC's management system, highlighting the hybrid characteristics of this institution.

Research on the Integration of Guzheng Performance and Music Aesthetic Principles

The purpose of this study is to explore the integration of guzheng performance and music aesthetics, and to reveal the unique status and value of guzheng art in modern music aesthetics. Through the method of literature analysis and theoretical discussion, this study first sorted out the historical development of guzheng performing art, and analyzed its aesthetic characteristics and evolution process in different historical periods. Then, the research deeply discusses the basic principles of music aesthetics, including formal beauty, emotional expression, cultural connotation and so on, combined with the specific practice of guzheng performance, analyzes its embodiment and application in music aesthetics. In the process of research, through the aesthetic analysis of the classical works of guzheng, it reveals the unique expression of guzheng music in the aspects of sound beauty, structural beauty and emotional beauty, and discusses how these aesthetic characteristics can be conveyed and sublimated through the performance art. The results show that the performance of guzheng is the display of musical skills, and the concrete practice and embodiment of the principles of musical aesthetics. Through its unique timbre, playing techniques and cultural connotation, guzheng music shows rich aesthetic value and can occupy an important position in the modern music aesthetic system. The research also points out that the aesthetic value of the performance art of guzheng lies in the inheritance of its traditional culture, and in its innovative application in modern music creation and performance. Through the integration of guzheng performance and music aesthetic principles, this study provides a new perspective and method for the theoretical research of guzheng art, and also provides theoretical support for the development and innovation of guzheng performing art.

« Captiver la spécificité du langage du spectacle. » Tomasz Kaczmarek et Anna Jarosz : il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polacco del teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione

The article discusses the main premises of Tomasz Kaczmarek’s and Anna Jarosz’s lexicon: Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polaccodel teatro, del cinema, dello radio et della televisione. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of the language of artistic performances, like theatre, cinema, radio, television. The authors rely on the concept of language of the artistic performance as a field at the crossroads of several codes (verbal, visual, sound, gestural) interacting on stage. This interdisciplinary publication has an encyclopedic value, but also synthesizes theoretical and historical knowledge in the above-mentioned scope.