Art Professions Research Articles

Digital and AI transformation in the contemporary art industry in China

This study examines the digital and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation in the contemporary art industry in China. This industry in China is undergoing a distinct digital transition and is “ahead” of other countries, having fully integrated digital technologies and AI (digiAI) into policies, regulations, organizations, and professional practices. A systematic, large-scale national integration of digiAI has led to its widespread adoption by artists and arts professionals. However, little is known about how or when this rapid and extensive integration and subsequent adoption occurred or about its impacts on professional practices. This study draws on research conducted between 2023 and 2024, including 30 interviews with contemporary Chinese visual artists, 23 interviews with arts professionals, a survey of 110 professional contemporary visual artists, and a systematic review of government policy. Findings indicate that the government began integrating digital technology into the contemporary art industry in 2016, further promoted digital technology integration in 2021, and introduced regulations to support AI usage in 2023. The data reveal a significant spike in the adoption of digital technologies by professionals between 2019 and 2020, followed by a rise in AI adoption in 2023. DigiAI has been accepted and now used across different kinds of arts professions, various types of visual artists, and several age groups. Digital and AI tools are now being applied in both creative and non-creative aspects of arts practices.

Exploration on the Integration of Red Aesthetic Education into Art Teaching in Colleges and Universities

In the context of the new era, art teaching in colleges and universities shoulders a renewed educational mission. Fine arts colleges should follow the guidance of educational policies to deeply integrate the construction of ideology and politics into art teaching, especially to carry the theme of patriotism throughout the whole process of teaching and to strengthen the leadership role of the school in fine arts education. In this way, not only can enhance the students artistic cultivation, but also highlight the patriotic culture in art education, reflecting the strong patriotic feelings, this practice is not only in line with the requirements of the current education policy, but also can effectively promote the quality and level of education in the art profession, this paper mainly discusses the strategy of patriotic culture integration of art teaching in colleges and universities.

Modelling arts professionals' wellbeing and career intentions within the context of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial effect on the creative and cultural industries in the United Kingdom (UK), as seen in our first snapshot of the HEartS Professional Survey (April-June 2020, Phase 1, N = 358). By analysing data collected one year later (April-May 2021, Phase 2, N = 685), the aims of the current study are to trace the contributors to (1) arts professionals' mental and social wellbeing and (2) their expectations of staying in the arts. Findings show that artists continued to experience challenges in terms of finances, and mental and social wellbeing. Over half of the respondents reported financial hardship (59%), and over two thirds reported being lonelier (64%) and having increased anxiety (71%) than before the pandemic. Hierarchical multiple linear regression models, using the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Social Connectedness Scale, and Three-Item Loneliness Scale as outcome variables, indicate that perceived financial hardship continued to be associated with higher depression and loneliness scores. As in our first study, more physical activity before lockdown was associated with higher wellbeing and social connectedness scores, and higher self-rated health scores were associated with higher wellbeing and lower depression scores. Similarly, increases in physical activity during lockdown, as well as older age, were still associated with higher wellbeing and social connectedness scores and with lower depression and loneliness scores. An ordinal logistic regression model indicated three contributors to artists' professional expectations of remaining in the arts: greater proportion of income from the arts pre-pandemic, continued maintenance of skills, and greater proportion of freelance work. The results suggest that the wellbeing patterns observed at the start of the pandemic remained consistent a year on. They point to possible strategies to support wellbeing and underline the importance of finances for expectations of remaining in arts professions.

СОЗДАНИЕ ДОРОЖНОЙ КАРТЫ ПО ФОРМИРОВАНИЮ МЕТАКОМПЕТЕНЦИЙ В ГУМАНИТАРНОМ ПРОФИЛЕ: ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ И МЕТОДЫ

Currently, the humanities face challenges and needs related to the formation of metacompetencies in students and professionals in the field. Metacompetencies are skills and strategies that contribute to successful knowledge acquisition and development of personal qualities. The authors consider metacompetencies as supra-subject abilities including metacognition, metaplanning, metacognition and self-regulation. Metacompetencies such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, communication skills, and self-reflection play an important role in success in the liberal arts professions. This article proposes an approach to developing a Roadmap for metacompetency development in a humanities major based on a literature review and expert opinion. The key components and stages of Roadmap development are considered, as well as methods and tools that can be used to create the Roadmap; examples of successful Roadmap implementation are presented. The study utilizes qualitative methods such as research literature review, expert interviews, and group discussions to identify key aspects of metacompetencies. The perspectives and methods presented in the article can be useful for educators, administrators and researchers interested in developing effective educational programs and practices for students in the humanities. This contributes to improving the quality of education, increasing the professional training of graduates and their competitiveness in the labor market.

METHODICAL GUIDELINES OF CHOIR AND CONCERTMASTER’S WORK ON THE EXAMPLE OF REPRODUCTION OF GENRE SPECIFICS OF D. SICHINSKY’S CANTATA “ТHE DNIEPER ROARS”

The modern artistic process of education requires substantiation of the features of its successful organization and implementation, which, in turn, involves constant scientific research, creative activity, improvement of professional competencies and more. Due to the content, methodological approaches, best practices of adaptation to new conditions, as well as close interaction and mutual understanding of the participants of the educational process, the full implementation of pedagogical tasks is possible. Thus, at the present stage the problem of professional landmarks is relevant, in particular in art professions, which require not only certain knowledge, skills, desires, diligence, talent, ability to understand, reproduce, interpret a work of art and implement its creative meaning, etc. , but also the ability to adapt this whole arsenal in modern realities, in particular in the difficult conditions of war and the challenges of distance learning. In our case, we mean the coordinated work of the choirmaster, where the object of the influence function is the person, and the work of the accompanist, where such object is the instrument. The art of working in an ensemble is a rather complex art form and mastering it requires work throughout the professional path. The specifics of a successful artistic tandem require knowledge of choral and musical literature, harmony and solfeggio, mastery of singing voice, emotional and volitional message, necessary knowledge of literature, poetry, pedagogy, psychology, ability to analyze a canvas, understanding of genre specifics, knowledge of composer etc. In the framework of our article on the example of D. Sichinsky’s work “Тhe Dnieper roars” we highlight the features of choir and concertmaster work on the successful implementation of pedagogical tasks of artistic reading and performance of music. Therefore, attention is paid to the peculiarities of the cantata genre, musical-theoretical analysis of D. Sichinsky’s work “Тhe Dnieper roars”, methodical recommendations of the accompanist’s work in the practice of leading specialists.

Our little clinic

Abstract The text critically tackles the prevailing ideology, which convinces us that mental health problems are a matter of the individual (everyone must take care of themselves!), not the society in which one is situated in; the ideology which does not question the predominant forms of work in capitalism. In art professions it is characteristic to work in ways which cause the most stress and psychological distress (constant flexibility, mobility, precariousness, permanent instability, troubles in balancing work and life). The artist seems to be the ideal modern worker. The main thread of interest in the article is whether there is a correlation between the level of mental distress and the predominant forms of the specific work of the artist, not related to the nature of his work (vulnerability, working with one’s emotions, connections with the intimate) but social, economic and ideological context in which his work takes place.

Swimming against the Tide: Thoughts on Managing an Art Profession

Charles Gaines, Numbers and Faces: Multi-Racial/Ethnic Combinations Series 1: Face #7, Eduardo Soriano-Hewitt (Black/Filipino), 2020, acrylic paint, acrylic sheet, and photograph, 38 x 32 x 3½ in. ...

Maria Rayevska-Ivanova. Pages of Memoirs

M. Rayevska-Ivanova (1840–1912), born in Kharkiv region, was the first female artist in the entire Russian Empire. For five years (1863–1868) she studied the art profession abroad, in particular from Dresden Professor L. A. Ergardt. Being well guided in the then directions of the development of art education and understanding the role of the movement of arts and crafts, in 1869 she opened the only art-industrial school on the Ukrainian territory, in Kharkiv. She constantly kept in touch with another enthusiast of this time-demanded type of art education from St. Petersburg – Dmytro Grygorovych. For over 27 years she taught free of charge at her school, making it public. She prepared about 900 pupils. Her significant contribution to the development of art education in Ukraine is still underestimated. However, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv preserves the insufficiently studied and unpublished memoirs of this ascetic, which represented a unique document of that era, revealing the spiritual world of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, its ideals and aspirations. Some fragments of these memoirs are offered below, which can become a serious addition to the study of the role and place of Maria Rayevska-Ivanova in the history of Ukrainian art. As confirmation, some reproductions of educational works of students of Rayevska-Ivanova’s school are given, which are preserved in the library of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. I used the embroidery “Landscape” by S. Yarotsky from my family archive, which is indirectly related to the artistic environment of Rayevska-Ivanova, in order to draw attention to the support of crafts as one of special merits of the school founder.

The works of Alex Steinweiss: design of the music album cover as a new trend in graphic design

This article is discusses the works of the graphic designer Alex Steinweiss (1917 – 2011), who was involved in music industry of the United States. The author examines the causes and effects of the emergence of a new trend in graphic design, associated with the design of music album covers, as well as analyzed some of the covers invented by Steinweiss in the 1940s. A brief overview is given to the evolution of sound recording media and their packaging. The subject of this research is the art of Alex Steinweiss, while the object is the envelopes for LP vinyl records, invented by the designer during his work for the Columbia Record Label (1930s – 1940s). The relevance of this article is substantiate by the new wave of interest in vinyl records, and thus graphic design in the context of music industry, as well as by the demand to prepare specialists for working in modern music industry. The novelty lies in examination of causal link of the emergence of new trend graphic design on inventing music album covers. The conducted research indicates the influence of a number of socioeconomic factors and activity of Alex Steinweiss upon the emergence of a new trend in graphic design. The author concludes on the relevance of studying the creative path of Alex Steinweiss for the students and representatives of art professions.

The influence of occupation on the longevity of Japanese traditional artists

The long-term lifestyle is known to affect lifespan and mortality. In particular, it is well known that exercise habit decreases the mortality. The effects of performing strenuous exercise, however, as an occupation over a lifetime have been unclear. Here we show the effects of various occupations that include being sedentary and performing music and exercise activities and/or birth year on longevity of 699 professional male artists either alive or dead, as reported in books and webpages. Kaplan–Meier analysis showed a significant effect of occupation type on longevity among the four Japanese traditional arts professions of Kabuki, Sado, Rakugo and Nagauta, which include strenuous exercise, and tea ceremonies, telling comic stories and playing instruments while sitting, respectively. Discrete-time logistic regression analysis showed that the lifespan was significantly shorter for Kabuki actors than among the other three Japanese traditional artists. This result suggests that daily strenuous exercise as an occupation shortens rather than prolongs the lifespan.

Self-determination of Personality of Creative Beginning in Choreographic Context

The article analyses the structure of personality self-esteem of representatives of art professions. As an object of the art profession, this research considers the choreographer profession. A feature of the choreographic artist's profession is the directivity on the plastic expression of a given artistic image. This research analyses the process of self-determination of a creative individual in the process of becoming a future professional. The novelty of the research is that choreography is understood not as an innate characteristic of a person, but as an acquired quality. In this research, the researcher shows the methodological techniques, functions and general parameters of the model, which can contribute to the disclosure of creative initiative on the part of the representative of the creative profession. The researchers considered a professional environment that allows the formation of professional qualities in an individual who is in a creative search. A correlation model is presented, which allows speaking about the readiness of an individual for professional self-realisation.

Irrational Economics and Regional Cultural Life

Irrational Economics and Regional Cultural Life

The Evaluation of decoratingskill of pottery Al vase bymosaic panels among the female students of domestic education and art profession

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Trabalho, Cultura e produção cultural: notas para uma sociologia do trabalho com arte e cultura no Brasil

Studies on culture and art and on the “world of work” are often found in separate fields, although some reference works on the art professions, art production chain and the labor market of artists such as those from Howard Becker and Pierre-Michel Menger. In order to analyze cultural production in the so-called “new world of work”, and the category of cultural producer in contemporary Brazil, I seek to develop a sociology of work with art and culture, making use of the theoretical framework of the sociology of work based on the analysis of Andre Gorz’s and Boltanki and Chiapello on contemporary changes in the world of work (and the influence of the counterculture in this process), complementing them with the sociology of work with art and culture of Menger and Becker. For that reason, I begin with the discussion about the so-called “new world of work” from the perspectives of the evolution of Gorz’s thought and Boltanski and Chiapello’s classic The New Spirit of Capitalism. Next, I present Menger’s approach to labor markets with culture and art, bringing his analysis closer to those discussed earlier, and complementing it with Becker’s study Worlds of Art. From then on, I try to think about the work with culture and art in contemporary Brazil from the perspective of “cultural producers”. Keywords: sociology of work with art and culture, cultural production, world of work, sociology of work, sociology of culture, sociology of art.

Brussels and Contemporary Dance: Artistic Labor in a Creative City

Within my contribution, I present the research project “Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin” (supervisors: Katharina Pewny, Rudi Laermans, Christel Stalpaert; UGent and KULeuven; sponsored by FWO). For this conference, I would like to concentrate on the specificity of the contemporary dance profession and to elaborate the landscape of working in Brussels.Working formats in contemporary dance revolve around internationalization, mobility, transnationalism, and collaboration. Contemporary dance therefore requires an appropriate social security system taking into account the specificity of the profession.Brussels attracts many foreign dancers, as it offers prominent training possibilities, and hosts several reputable companies and workspaces. Flanders has established a unique social security system for the performing arts professions; however I will elucidate where the system collapses when it comes to contemporary dance. I will demonstrate how dance artists question the working conditions they are confronted within Flanders by analyzing their performances of precaritiousness. Flemish dancer Benjamin Vandewalle uses his pieceCo-Productie(2011) to advert to the socio-economic situation, through abruptly stopping his performance in the middle of the piece, clarifying to the audience that he will not continue since the Minister of Culture decided to downsize project subsidies in the middle of the season. He calls for the investment of 2,500 euros by the audience so he can finish the piece. The latter tactic can be seen as one of many ways dance artists are bound to work collaboratively against their precariousness.

The Creation and Uses of Letters and Forms in Graphic Illustration

When art was first introduced to Africa and to Nigeria in particular by the missionaries, it never came as a surprise going by the advantages of this profession in the development of the European civilization. The acceptance of art in Nigeria most especially in schools never got the highest regard particularly among parents. This is probably because its long run advantages were not clearly spelt out to the society at inception. As a result of this however, the art profession suffered numerous setbacks as few talented people are presently found embracing its popularity after many years of neglect. The Fundamentals of Art is rather cheap in formation, but remains the basics which any artist will evidently depend on to realise a successful art career. Many Studios, Workshops and other centres of apprenticeship, have introduced without delay this basic fundamentals knowing and foreseeing its future advantages in making the next successful art designer, graphic designer, ceramist, painter, sculptor, fashion designer and textiles designer, interior decorator, exterior decorator and many more. Creativity is part of creation. The art to the artists remains a function to be researched before execution, and once successfully realised, it becomes a piece to be adorned and ever cherished.Key Words: Creativity, Schools, Fundamentals, Development, Professionalism, Civilization

Introduction: A critical focus on art-based research

This introduction to the second part of a special issue on ‘Opportunities and challenges in art-based research’ proposes critical examination as a way to advance this increasingly recognized approach to research that nevertheless elicits resistance and hesitation within applied arts professions. Art-based research is defined as the use of personal expression in various art forms as a primary mode of enquiry. These studies may accompany or include the artistic expressions of others but their unique feature is the making of art by the researcher.

Fractured Boundaries

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the Soviet-Estonian home decoration magazine Kunst ja Kodu (Art and Home). It focuses on the transformation of the magazine's content in the 1970s, under the direction of a newly appointed editor with a background in art and design professions who used the magazine as a platform for communicating alternative accounts of the environment and for presenting new ideas for a changed practice of art. The home during the late Soviet period has often been characterized retrospectively as having been a self-enclosed, private sanctuary from repressive state institutions. However, in the context of Soviet domestic life, what emerged from the pages of Kunst ja Kodu was the home as a ground for critical dialogue with the outside—a space where the border between private and public was permeated by, among other things, consumer items, popular culture, and information networks. I argue that the processes that transformed the home and enabled the permeation of its borders in the 1960s also continued in the 1970s, albeit in another form. Following the period of the Thaw, in which rational values and positivist argument represented a prevailing culture of expertise, there was a shift towards individuality in the home and criticism of the prevailing hierarchical relationship between high art and mass culture.

African American Artists Gain Access to the Fine Art Professions

African American Artists Gain Access to the Fine Art Professions

Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2

Research Article| July 01 2010 Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2 Ira Newborn; Ira Newborn Ira Newborn (iraleh@earthlink.net), born 26 December 1949, holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University. He is a guitarist who learned how to arrange and compose music for many purposes, two of which were The Manhattan Transfer singing group and motion picture scores such as The Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Naked Gun films, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Mall Rats, and Into the Night. He serves on the Artist Faculty in Film Scoring at New York University Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ron Sadoff Ron Sadoff Ron Sadoff, Associate Professor, pianist and composer, is the architect and Director of the program in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. He has been featured on CNN entertainment segments, having composed the music for the 2006 Oscar-winning film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. He also scored Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood for Warner Brothers for Academy Award–winning director, Peggy Stern. With Gillian Anderson, he cofounded and is the coeditor of the University of Illinois Press journal Music and the Moving Image. His forthcoming book coauthored with Roy Prendergast, Music in Film: History, Criticism, and Analysis, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2012. Serving as Creative Director, Sadoff produced the largest concert webcast of its day, Michael Jackson and Friends from Munich, Germany in 2000. He also serves as an expert witness in music copyright cases. [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Music and the Moving Image (2010) 3 (2): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ira Newborn, Ron Sadoff; Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2. Music and the Moving Image 1 January 2010; 3 (2): 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.3.2.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressMusic and the Moving Image Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2009 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.