Art Online Research Articles

Teaching Art Online During COVID-19 Using Media as Sites of Memory

Teaching Art Online During COVID-19 Using Media as Sites of Memory

Discovering art online: Digitising university art museum collections

Discovering art online: Digitising university art museum collections

The Sorcerer in Sword Art Online: A Glance at the Archetype

ABSTRACTSome villains in the anime Sword Art Online are influenced by the sorcerer archetype, drawn from legends of fairyland, medieval tales of hostile magicians, and the ancient figure of the shaman. The concentration of sorcerers in SAO makes it fertile ground for tracing the archetype in both Western and Japanese sources before turning to how SAO uses those influences in its world‐building and in the development of its own brand of sorcerer.

Obrazy idą na strajk – o strategii aktywistycznej Arka Pasożyta

Analyzing Arek Pasożyt’s <i>Obrazy strajkujące</i> [Strike Images] series as a case study of artivististic practices during the rule of Law and Justice, the authors highlight the contemporary challenges, entanglements and opportunities faced by art understood as an instrument of political change at a particular moment of deepening, multi-faceted crisis of neoliberal hegemony. Distinguishing between the concepts of activistic art and artivism, they draw attention to the specificity of today’s artistic activities that are engaged in effecting political change. They incorporate a sense of powerlessness, rage and exhaustion into their deliberations, as well as reflect on the presence of artivistic art online. Key-words: activism, artivism, protest, strike images, populism

REPLICATION OF CHARACTER CLOTHING ADAPTED FROM THE CHARACTER LEAFA IN THE SWORD ART ONLINE SERIES

Every clothing must have utility, beauty, or distinctiveness to keep buyers interested. Creative clothing is one type of apparel that is both unique and very creative. Creative clothing is clothing created as a consequence of a person's imagination, wishful thinking, thoughts, ideas, or inspiration to express creativity. The inspiration or inspirations for designing these imaginative garments might vary, such as the fantasy-themed animation series Sword Art Online. Sword Art Online is a fantasy series that prompted researchers to create imaginative attire, with the series' character Leafa serving as the primary inspiration. Leafa is a character from Suguha's sylph race in the Alfheim Online game who assists her older brother, Kirito, in saving Asuna, who is trapped in the game. This study intends to foster the writer's creativity by creating unique apparel and utilizing what he or she has learned in class. This study used the PPE model technique, which has three stages: planning, production, and assessment. This study creates unique attire that complements Leafa's qualities by using glossy textiles that provide a stunning and glamorous visual impression. The wing embellishments on this unique clothes add to its appeal and consistency with the theme.

Reframing art online through collective meaning-making

ABSTRACT Building on the embodied consumption literature, we draw on Merleau-Ponty’s theory of art to consider how new modes of visibility arise in interactions between individuals online. Focusing on one particular virtual and collaborative museum programme, we use ethnomethodological analysis of interactions to analyse video recordings of virtual arts conversations. The analysis explores how participants render visible their orientation to each other and to the works of art discussed in the workshop. Thus, we can see how participants produce the sense and significance of works of art in, and through ‘intercorporeal interactions’ while participating in a virtual arts programme. Observations and findings from our research have significant implications for the strategic management of virtual consumer experiences.

Design of online art education system based on 3D virtual simulation technology

Abstract At present, the call for information reform in education teaching is increasing, and art education is also facing the demand for online. This paper analyzes the demand for online art education according to the characteristics of existing online education, proposes an online education system based on virtual simulation technology for the special needs of art education, and studies the structure distribution of learning resources, teaching organization and online teaching practice under 3D virtual simulation scenarios respectively. At the same time, a virtual simulation explanation robot is added using Unity3D technology to realize online learning interaction in art education. In the continuity test of the system, the system throughput per second accounted for 42.31% of the maximum throughput on average, with the lowest accounting for only 28.65% and the highest accounting for 56.98%, and the operating efficiency of the system met the teaching needs of art education. In the concurrency test, the success rate of system interface calls remained above 80% as the number of concurrent users increased. In practice, the overall satisfaction rate of students with the art online education system reached 88.3%. The system in this paper can enhance the interest in art teaching and provide a feasible new path for the development of art education in the information era.

Retracted: Research on Interactive Art Online Teaching System Based on BS Mode and Internet of Things

Retracted: Research on Interactive Art Online Teaching System Based on BS Mode and Internet of Things

Lost in communication: The relationship between hikikomori and virtual reality in Japanese anime

Nowadays virtual reality has gained extreme popularity among adolescents around the world, thanks to the possibility they offer to create a new life for their users. Especially for teenagers affected by the hikikomori syndrome, who experience struggles in establishing communication with others, virtual reality has become a tool to forsake their “adverse” reality, shaping fictitious safe environments and creating relationships with similar-minded users. This issue of virtual reality has been depicted in recent Japanese animation, whose country is mostly affected by this issue. I will show mainly two approaches to the phenomenon: the one given in the anime series Sword Art Online (2012), in which virtual reality is perceived as the only place where true communication can happen; the second is the interpretation given by director Hosoda Mamoru in his animated features Summer Wars (2009) and Belle (2021), where virtual reality is a tool to support real life’s difficulties.

DIMENSI METAVERSE DALAM NOVEL DAN SERIAL ANIME SWORD ART ONLINE: KAJIAN EKRANISASI

Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online novels have been ecranized into a television anime series, going from four volume novels to 25 episodes. However, in this article the material object is a twovolume novel which is ecranized into 14 episodes. This research using qualitative method aims to understand the changes that occur from the novel version to the television series version by using the theory of ecranization. The results of the study show that in the ecranization process there are three changes, namely shrinking, adding, and varying changes. These three changes had positive impacts, including the sequencing of episodes which made it easier for viewers who had not read the novel version to understand, and the television series version could be enjoyed by more viewers. The novels and television series Sword Art Online provide an overview of the metaverse technology created by Mark Zuckerberg by combining the real and virtual worlds. The work has affinities with metaverse concepts such as 3D virtual space, avatars, and full immersion. However, the sophistication of this technology has received criticism because it has the potential to cause addiction to the virtual world.

A deep reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic with feature fusion for online packing problems

In recent years, deep reinforcement learning has shown great potential in solving computer games with sequential decision-making scenarios. Hyper-heuristic is a generic search framework, capable of intelligently selecting or generating algorithms to solve a class of optimisation problems with stochastic or dynamic settings. This paper proposes a new general framework for solving online packing problems using deep reinforcement learning hyper-heuristics. Although analytical approaches can address most offline packing problems successfully, their online versions have proved much more challenging and the performance of the existing methods is often not satisfactory. In this paper, we extend a recent deep reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic framework by fusing the visual information of real-time packing with distributional information of random parameters of the problem. Computational experiments show that our method outperforms the state of the art online methods with reductions in optimality gap between 2%–19% for knapsack problem and 0.7% for the online strip packing problem. In addition, a new visual analysis presentation is also devised to better interpret the learned packing strategies, which can reveal more information than the widely used landscape analysis. As online packing problems are widely available in production environments, the proposed approach can serve as an important reference to solve other similar combinatorial optimisation problems for which visual layout inputs would aid learning.

Students’ Satisfaction with Quality of Synchronous Online Learning Under the COVID 19 Pandemic: Perceptions from Liberal Arts and Science Undergraduates

COVID-19 imposed dramatic changes on educational practices worldwide with American institutions of higher learning moving a significant number of their courses and educational programs to electronic online modes. In the post-pandemic world, the same institutions and educational programs recognize the need to incorporate technological components into their courses. Yet, some disciplines and areas of study may be better equipped for this change than others. The liberal arts are believed to be more reliant on face-to-face interaction and thus can be argued to have been more negatively affected by the required move to synchronous online learning during the pandemic Instructors have the option of teaching online courses either synchronously or asynchronously. As synchronous online learning requires course delivery in real-time via online video conferencing, the hope is that some of the drawbacks associated with teaching liberal arts online can be mitigated with technology-based, face-to-face interaction. In the spirit of exploring the relationship between liberal arts education and synchronous online learning, this research aimed at gauging Jacksonville liberal arts students’ levels of satisfaction with the quality of instruction in synchronously delivered courses during the spring semester of 2021. Informed by the Community of Inquiry theory, of special interest were aspects of synchronous online learning like interaction with the virtual platform (video conferencing), interaction with content, interaction with instructor, and interaction with peers. Three local institutions participated in this study, yielding a sample of 141 students who participated in an anonymous Qualtrics survey pertaining to their learning experiences in the synchronous mode. Using a mixed-methods approach, results show positive perceptions, challenges, and recommendations for synchronous online learning.

Analysis of the influencing factors of online classes satisfaction based on text mining Take MOOC platform art education online classes as an example

The normalization of the epidemic and the convenience of online classes have led to the rapid rise of online education courses. The MOOC teaching platform represents the online course field and is popular in various disciplines. Unlike disciplines such as natural science and engineering technology, art education courses require real-time emotional expression and transmission. However, the existing technical framework is difficult to support the interactive needs of art teaching mode, and the learning effect of art students is not ideal, and the user The learning effect of art students is not ideal, and the phenomenon of low user satisfaction and low willingness to continue learning is more serious. Based on the above background, this paper uses Python to crawl the review texts of art online courses and summarizes the factors influencing students' satisfaction with art education online courses through sentiment analysis and LDA model to provide valuable references for the quality of art online education.

Chinese contemporary art teachers\u2019 professional development in the 20th and 21st centuries within the multicultural framework

The study of contemporary art is one of the main means of implementing aesthetic education in China. This discipline allows a student to develop a system of spiritual values, reveal talents and acquire skills needed for professional growth. Chinese art is an integral part of the global cultural space, and Chinese contemporary art performs the functions of cultural reflection, occupying an important place in developing the state’s cultural identity. In the process of globalization, it is extremely important to study not only Chinese, but also world contemporary art, as well as the peculiarities of its teaching in the educational institutions of the PRC within the framework of the multiculturalism movement. The study objectives are to develop a unique online platform for teaching and learning contemporary art in China, to identify the features of art teacher training, to identify the methods of and trends in teaching contemporary art in the Chinese system of secondary and higher education, as well as to determine the most effective method of teaching contemporary art in China based on the experiment. In the course of the study, a plan and structure of the website containing audio and video materials, graphic editors and a conference system for students and teachers were developed. An innovative classification of the contemporary art movements was made in accordance with the tools and methods of creating art works. The styles of contemporary art were divided into groups: painting, sculpture/architecture, photography, cybernetic art, literature, optical art, theatrical art, mass culture, and hybrid art. The database was compiled by the masters of Art from China and Ireland, which emphasizes the internationality and multiculturalism of the project. An experiment was conducted to determine the level of effectiveness of different methods of teaching contemporary art in China. In the course of the experiment, the Spark platform developed for the study purpose was recognized as the most effective (56.1%). The effectiveness of the active method and passive method of teaching was 27.2% and 16.7%, respectively. The study results can be used in the study of various trends in contemporary art in the process of modernization and within the framework of pedagogical and commercial activities related to the work of exhibitions and galleries. In addition, they can be used to improve the methods of teaching contemporary art online and offline to the broad public audience and improve the professional skills of graphic or UI/UX designers, 3D modeling experts, engineers, editors, and IT developers. The practical significance of the developed online platform lies in the possibility of database use, practical application of the knowledge gained, and taking online lessons with Chinese and foreign teachers as part of a multicultural experience exchange.

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This article examines the barriers that limit access to video art online and offers practical solutions and suggestions to aid librarians in the search for digital video art resources. Videotape is essentially an obsolete technology, a fact that dramatically slows down digitization efforts. Furthermore, in support of the protection of artist’s rights, access to video art is often controlled by third party distributors. While distributors are crucial champions of the medium, issues of copyright complicate discussions of online access. Opportunistic art lovers have taken matters into their own hands, uploading work to online platforms and creating new liminal spaces of access. This article offers an understanding of video recording technology, the historical development and dissemination of video art, and the problematic nature of many online resources that provide access to these culturally valuable works.[This article is a revision of a paper presented during the 49th annual ARLIS/NA conference held virtually May 11–13, 2021.]

Graph-Based Token Replay for Online Conformance Checking

Conformance checking is able to detect deviations in business process execution. An online detection capability is required to anticipate and respond immediately to possible impacts. The state-of-the-art online conformance checking is a prefix-alignment (PA) technique. However, this technique has an important weakness of maintaining all the state data of running processes in memory. In an online environment, the last event of a case is unknown, whereas a PA requires this information to free up memory space for other cases. Consequently, the PA does not meet the requirements of online conformance checking to process infinite data (event stream) without memory constraints. PA also has a conplex state space search computation especially for large and complex reference process model. In this paper, a Graph-Based Online Token Replay (GO-TR) method is proposed. This method takes benefit of Graph Database to adapts the Token-Based Replay (TBR) technique which has simple replay computation. We propose a Replay Image (RI) to store the case administration and developed a cypher based algorithm to simulate token replay on the RI to handle the event stream. Finally, we propose a cypher-based algorithm to identify and replay invisible path. The experiment result show that GO-TR has succeeded in adapting TBR and solved the problem of wrong-place tokens in TBR. GO-TR outperform the replay throughput for relatively low amount of data against state of the art online conformance checking. In terms of memory usage, GO-TR shows its superiority over state of the art because it is safe against memory limitations problems.

Efficient Online Log Parsing with Log Punctuations Signature

Logs, recording the system runtime information, are frequently used to ensure software system reliability. As the first and foremost step of typical log analysis, many data-driven methods have been proposed for automated log parsing. Most existing log parsers work offline, requiring a time-consuming training progress and retraining as the system upgrades. Meanwhile, the state of the art online log parsers are tree-based, which still have defects in robustness and efficiency. To overcome such limitations, we abandon the tree structure and propose a hash-like method. In this paper, we propose LogPunk, an efficient online log parsing method. The core of LogPunk is a novel log signature method based on log punctuations and length features. According to the signature, we can quickly find a small set of candidate templates. Further, the most suitable template is returned by traversing the candidate set with our log similarity function. We evaluated LogPunk on 16 public datasets from the LogHub comparing with five other log parsers. LogPunk achieves the best parsing accuracy of 91.9%. Evaluation results also demonstrate its superiority in terms of robustness and efficiency.

Art Online Design Based on Digital Simulation Technology

In order to improve the humanization and convenience of online art design, this paper applies digital simulation technology to the art online design system and establishes a set of sequential multi-free-form surface design methods. Based on the obtained front free-form surfaces, this paper establishes the relationship between the discrete points on the subsequent free-form surfaces and their spatial solid angles and, through extremely complex theoretical deduction, finally obtains the subsequent free-form surfaces. In addition, by combining the two free-form surfaces to enter the 3D modeling software, we can obtain an optical lens with multiple free-form surfaces to improve the digital simulation effect. Finally, this paper uses the intelligent system constructed in this paper to conduct multiple sets of simulation experiments to evaluate the digital effect and artistic design effect of the system constructed in this paper. From the experimental research, it can be known that the art online design system based on digital simulation technology constructed in this paper basically meets the expected goals of the system constructed in this paper.

Evolving Identities Within COVID Culture

Living through COVID-19 while teaching art online has encouraged me to reflect on my purpose as an art educator. As a lifelong artist, I have always used art as a platform to share my story: my str...