Art Research Research Articles

Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging in Therapeutic Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease: AnOverview of the Current State of the Artof Research.

The integration of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has revolutionized the landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) research and therapeutic interventions. By combining structural and functional imaging, PET/CT provides a comprehensive understanding of disease pathology and response to treatment assessment. PET/CT, particularly with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18]fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG), facilitates the visualization of glucose metabolism in the brain, enabling early diagnosis, staging, and monitoring of neurodegenerative disease progression. The advent of amyloid and tau PET imaging has further propelled the field forward, offering invaluable tools for tracking pathological hallmarks, assessing treatment response, and predicting clinical outcomes. While some therapeutic interventions targeting amyloid plaque load showed promising results with the reduction of cerebral amyloid accumulation over time, others failed to demonstrate a significant impact of anti-amyloid agents for reducing the amyloid plaques burden in AD brains. Tau PET imaging has conversely fueled the advent of disease-modifying therapeutic strategies in AD by supporting the assessment of neurofibrillary tangles of tau pathology deposition over time. Looking ahead, PET imaging holds immense promise for studying additional targets such as neuroinflammation, cholinergic deficit, and synaptic dysfunction. Advances in radiotracer development, dedicated brain PET/CT scanners, and Artificial Intelligence-powered software are poised to enhance the quality, sensitivity, and diagnostic power of molecular neuroimaging. Consequently, PET/CT remains at the forefront of AD research, offering unparalleled opportunities for unravelling the complexities of the disease and advancing therapeutic interventions, although it is not yet enough alone to allow patients' recruitment in therapeutic clinical trials.

Calibration of NO, SO2, and PM using Airify: A low-cost sensor cluster for air quality monitoring

During the past decade, substantial efforts have been dedicated to advancing cost-effective sensor platforms for air quality monitoring. Calibration is a crucial step in ensuring that the data quality of low-cost air monitoring systems meets established standards. Recent research has extensively evaluated low-cost air monitoring platforms against the data quality objectives set by the European Directive. This paper introduces a novel calibration model for low-cost air quality sensors, significantly improving the accuracy of the measurement of nitric oxide (NO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, and PM10), while promoting accessibility and adaptability in environmental monitoring technologies. This study extends the evaluation of a developed platform capable of integrating a diverse array of sensors to measure up to 12 parameters. Our proposed models demonstrate a significant improvement, achieving a 60% better accuracy for SO2. Additionally, these models deliver similar results for PMx and NO or exceed those of state of the art research. The calibration methodology meets the requirements of the Data Quality Objectives (DQO) for all monitored parameters and also achieves indicative levels for PM parameters.

Kim Bok-jin - the founder of national sculpture in Korea during the Japanese colonial period

This study analyzes the biography and work of Kim Bok-jin (pseudonym: Chongwan), the first Korean to graduate from the sculpture department of Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan during the Japanese colonial period (in 1925) and the first sculptor to introduce Western realist techniques to Korea. The study will also examine the national motifs in the works of Kim Bok-jin against the backdrop of a difficult historical period, and analyze a number of his little-known works through the prism of Korean studies. The main content of the study is the sculptures of Kim Bok-jin “standing woman”, “statue of Maitreya Buddha” “Baek Hwa”, “Youth (Boy)”, “Old man”. He is a significant figure in Korean sculpture: from 1925 until his death in 1940, Kim Bok-jin regularly exhibited his works at the Joseon Art Exhibition, and in addition to his artistic activities, he also ran the Art Research Institute, nurturing young artists. He also engaged in journalism, criticism, and political activity as a member of the Joseon Communist Party. The purpose of this study is to rethink the work of Kim Bok-jin, the founder of Korean sculpture, who was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit of the National Foundation in 1993.

Spatial Behaviors and Mental Representations: Interactions of artistic and scientific perspectives

Contemporary artistic research has successively integrated preoccupations with the experimentation of space and mobility, as well as collective interactions between participants in situations of proximity or remoteness. In the scientific field, an important part of spatial cognition study has recently turned towards understanding the collective aspects of spatial cognition, integrating an understanding of the acquisition of spatial knowledge and studying cognitive maps, as well as research on navigation and individual and collective memorization. In both cases, spatial behaviors and mental representations are fundamental focuses. Using CORES research combining artistic and scientific perspectives as an example, we clarify specific differences within a framework common to the arts and sciences. This article will develop three points: 1) Artistic and scientific research contexts, 2) Interactions between artistic and scientific perspectives, 3) Proposal of a 7-step joint arts and sciences research cycle. In so doing, this study aims to counter the divide between the artistic and scientific fields by demonstrating a shared creative dynamic.

Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia

Within the extensively painted rockshelters of Awunbarna (Mt Borradaile) in western Arnhem Land, appears a cluster of paintings that are conspicuous amongst the traditional white, red, yellow, and black figures. Brilliant blue pigment has, for generations, captured the imagination of local Aboriginal community members and visitors, including rock art researchers. This rock art was created using laundry whiteners (such as Reckitt’s Blue) during a period of intense change in the region brought about by European arrival. This paper explores the largest documented cluster of laundry blue rock paintings in northern Australia. We investigate the subject matter, distribution, and manner of use at Awunbarna alongside its broader cultural and artistic context. We find that laundry blue rock art emerges as part of a flurry of innovative rock art being created in this region at the turn of the nineteenth–twentieth century and continuing, in rare instances, until the 1960s. We argue that blue paintings and the Painted Hand Figures represent two relatively short-lived, innovative experimental phases within an art-making tradition with Awunbarna as the epicentre for this rock art movement. Likewise, we suggest a very small number of artists may be responsible for the blue rock art of Awunbarna indicating its use may have been restricted to artists of a certain status.

Reflection as interference. Eleven thoughts on artistic research as an interruptive practice

Reflection as interference. Eleven thoughts on artistic research as an interruptive practice

Fair Games—Curating New Music

The authors of “Defragmentation: Curating Contemporary Music,” a special issue of the Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik published in 2019, considered all aspects of any given artistic event as fair game for curation. They suggested that not only could the choice of pieces, soloists, conductors, and ensembles be (re)tooled (including even site-specific aspects), but the roles of the musicians and audience and even value regimes could be instrumentalized to accord with the artistic demands of the curator. In her introduction to the special issue, Dorothee Richter argued that curation should be a “practice that is deeply involved in the politics of display, politics of site, politics of transfer and translation, and regimes of visibility.” If we understand politics with Jacques Rancière as “giving form to the social,” then Richter suggests that every thinkable manner in which people relate can, and should, be weighed when programming a concert. Curators need to reflect and act upon the way relationships in our world are displayed, the interplay involved on site, the participation or lack thereof of an audience, the participants’ ability to understand, enjoy, and be entertained, and even the audience’s and presenter’s perceived positions in society and how they play out in concert. Writing as a performer-researcher, a cultural-sociologist, and a musicologist, and drawing on previous research in the visual arts, we discuss the impact of the curator within the European new music world. We question the curator’s central role and probe shifts in power relations between festival directors, receptive venues, and performing ensembles. In our view, the rise of the curator in the new music world leads us in at least two distinct directions. First, as in the visual arts world, the individual curator may assume the role of the new protagonist, displacing the performing artists from their throne. When this occurs, curating takes place in a game of mutual competition, distinction, and exploitation, in which illustration of an abstract idea or concept prevails over musical experience. Alternatively, curating may become a collective affair and responsibility along the lines of commoning principles, in which curating returns to its etymological roots as a form of caring for each other and for both the tradition and the future of music.

How to approach and engage with underwhelming landscapes. Methods developed in the artistic research project Land-shapes, Sooth-scapes

How to approach and engage with underwhelming landscapes. Methods developed in the artistic research project Land-shapes, Sooth-scapes

Niterná jistota češství. Téma národní identity českého moderního umění v historiografii dějin umění sedmdesátých a osmdesátých let 20. století

The topic of Czech national identity and the search for proper art-historical methods of its identification was one of the most important issues in Czech art history. In the period 1970–1990, however, its significance changed. The generationally conditioned anti-German attitude receded and the whole concept of the question was transformed within the framework of the period’s “conservative turn”. This paper will attempt to examine this change in its overall contours in more detail, but will pay particular attention to the field of art research in the period 1848–1948.

Potential Increasing Trend in Schizophrenia Relapse Prevention in the Past 40 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Schizophrenia is an organic disease and a severe mental disorder with a relatively high risk of relapse. The rising rate of schizophrenia relapse has motivated researchers and academics to innovate and develop interventions aimed at relapse prevention. This bibliometric study sought to examine the publication trends in schizophrenia relapse prevention from 1973 to 2023, assess the contribution of international collaborations across various journals, identify the most influential authors and articles, and forecast future developments in this field. The study included 683 articles obtained from the Scopus database, analyzed using VOSviewer software, and visualized with Tableau. Reports of schizophrenia relapse prevention strategies have increased significantly over the last 3 decades. However, fluctuations persist, as evidenced by the annual number of publications ranging from 25 to 40 within the past 5 years. Nevertheless, this increasing trend underscores the sustained interest in this area of research. Regarding contribution size, the United States produced the largest volume of publications on this subject. John M. Kane authored the most articles, while Stefan Leucht exhibited the highest h-index. Frequently used keywords in this field include "relapse AND schizophrenia" AND "prevention." These results represent an important reference for determining the current state of research on schizophrenia relapse prevention and future research directions.

Digital Archives of Buddhist Cultural Heritage on the Eastern Silk Road: Status and Utilization in Dunhuang, Turfan, and Kucha

The advancement of digital humanities in the 21st century has significantly enhanced the importance of digital archives in Buddhist art research. The digitization of the extensive and geographically diverse Buddhist cultural heritage along the eastern Silk Road has greatly improved the efficiency and accessibility of scholarly research. This paper examines seminal digital archives initiatives pertaining to the region's Buddhist legacy.Notable examples analyzed in this study include the International Dunhuang Project (IDP); the Database of Medieval Chinese Texts, a collaborative effort between Belgium's Ghent University Centre for Buddhist Studies and Taiwan's Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies; the Digital Silk Road projects at Japan's Tōyō Bunko and Ryukoku University; the Dunhuang Academy's Dunhuang Documents Database and Digital Dunhuang platform; and Germany's Turfan Archive and Buddhist Murals of Kucha Archive. These digital archives offer access to high-resolution images and rare materials, encompassing Buddhist scriptures, Dunhuang manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures.These digital archives are crucial for art historical research, contributing to the understanding of original contexts, meanings, and religious functions through the virtual reunification of dispersed artworks. Moreover, these digital archives transcend time and space constraints, facilitating comprehensive research, aiding in cultural heritage preservation, and increasing public accessibility. As these digital repositories continue to expand and interconnect, they are poised to deepen our understanding of Silk Road Buddhist art, paving the way for innovative research approaches and promoting international scholarly cooperation.

Embodied/Encoded: A Study of Presence in Digital Music

Presence in Embodied/Encoded is concerned with the physical and embodied dimensions of musicking in relation to digital-informational representations of such phenomena. I explore presence through practices of recording, creative coding, audio production, and spatial electronic music composition. Of particular interest is the link between presence and the sensual/corporeal aspects of sound production and listening. Research in embodied music cognition and extended reality provide a foundation for this type of meaning formation. In the context of immersive electronic music, I suggest that physical presence – a sense of ‘being somewhere’—emerges not just from images/representations of place, but from peripheral aspects of the (embodied) acoustic experience such as spatial proximity and distance, diffuseness, resonance and reverberation, noise floor, etc. Consequently, musical meaning in “Embodied/Encoded” moves away from the symbolic dimension of electronic sounds toward meaning as an outcome of embodied interaction with the environment. The concept of presence can also apply to ‘mixed’ music, or combinations of acoustic and electronic sources, in which virtual presence is complicated by real bodies and spaces. Digital technology renders sound a flexible, malleable entity—a ‘flickering’ signifier to borrow from Hayles—capable of reconfiguring presence in creative ways. The dance between encoded and embodied dimensions inspires and informs this artistic research. Through a body of immersive music and multimedia documentation, I unpack connections between presence and its digital abstractions.

Painting matters: new materialism and new knowledge

ABSTRACT This article discusses the contributions of two individual research-creation projects focussed on the practice of painting and the matter of paint, emergent trans-disciplinary discussions regarding critical posthumanities, and new materialism. As an epistemological field, artistic research pursues knowledge in subjective, constructive and affective dimensions. It searches for new forms of understanding the world that do not reproduce existing modes of thinking, seeking to disrupt established research conventions regulating how the world is explored. Through reflections on the process of painting from a new materialist perspective, we define acts of painting as assemblages of human and non-human entities formed through complex intra-actions within a dynamic of becoming. Painting as practice is an embodied process of non-verbal material thinking, capable of enabling practitioners and viewers of artworks to experience, actualise and re-enact traces of affective registers. The article concludes with the proposal that painting practices within a new materialist framework enable modifications of personal affective registers contributing to transformations of the self and subjectivities.

Ten Years of Operating a Center with Large-Scale Virtual-Reality Installations: Developments and Learnings

Abstract Virtual reality (VR) can be found in many fields including art history, education, research, and industry 4.0. Next to lightweight head-mounted displays there are also VR installations, such as immersive 3D screens, large-scale displays, and CAVE systems, that are used in research, scientific visualization, and also the automotive industry. These systems offer high visual quality and collaborative VR experiences for researchers and have long been used in research. We present learnings and insights from ten years of operating and maintaining a visualization center with large-scale immersive displays and installations. Our report aims to answer questions on the benefits and challenges of such a location-based VR center. We broke down the ten years into three phases and discuss the installations themselves, software, and other various developments of the center over time, illustrated with exemplary use cases. Finally, we cover our experiences at the beginning of phase four with the installation of a (novel) LED CAVE and the future (forward-looking) developments we expect for location-based VR centers.

Áreas prioritárias na implantação de esquemas de Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais: Uma análise cienciométrica

Payment for Environmental Services schemes and programs emerge as economic instruments that aim to complement command and control instruments in environmental management. Due to their relevance and the need for allocation in places that can have the best performance, because they have a counterpart in financial resources, which are also scarce, research for the selection of priority areas is extremely important. To support researchers who aim to explore the line of research related to payment for environmental services, scientometric analysis presents the state of research in the area with measurement and quantitative analysis of bibliometric data, guiding the main sources and authors of reference and geolocating the scientific productions related to the subject. In the present research, a scientometric analysis and literature review was carried out with data from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, unifying the databases and analyzing the bibliometric information through the R-bilbiometrix interface, resulting in images, graphs, tables and maps that allowed an analysis of the state of the art and scientific research on the proposed theme. With the results, it was possible to observe the need for further studies on methodologies for selecting priority areas for PES schemes, as it is a fundamental tool for sustainable development

Ensemble & Ensemble of Me – What I Think About When I Think About Improvisation

This exposition is a copy of Ivar Grydeland's artistic research fellowship project (2011-2015) at The Norwegian Academy of Music, financed by The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. The exposition was redesigned within The Research Catalogue in 2024. The content is identical to the original documentation. ________________________ Ensemble & Ensemble of Me is an artistic research fellowship project carried out at the Norwegian Academy of Music, as part of The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme between 2011 and 2015. In this project I produced solo improvisations deriving from the music of two improvising ensembles to which I belong: Dans les arbres and Huntsville, and I produced collective improvisations with the ensembles. The project’s key questions: - What are my concepts when improvising with the ensembles and when improvising alone? - How do the ensemble improvisations inform my solo improvisations? - What do I think about when I think about our and my own improvisations? The Haruki Murakami-paraphrase in the sub-heading indicates a process of on-going reflection upon what I regard as key aspects when I improvise. More specifically, what I regard as key aspects in the music of Dans les arbres and Huntsville, as well as for my own solo improvisations. These reflections reveal key aspects and main challenges that emerged during my attempts to create solo works informed by the ensembles. The reflections are chiefly documented in the form of a personal encyclopaedia. The encyclopaedia includes audio and visual examples, both from the final artistic results and from artistic activity during the project.

Interview

Resonance guest editor Charles Eppley speaks with Bill Solomon, Jerry Pergolesi, and Sarah Hennies of the Queer Percussion Research Group. They discuss the group’s recently published zine, barriers to funding for queer art, the cis-heteronormative orientations of new music and the percussion music repertoire, and how experimental artistic research can be a productive strategy for community building and self-expression.

PETER DRUCKER: MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER FOR TODAY’S LEADERS

AbstractThe author, Research Director of the Management as a Liberal Art Research Institute, has studied directly under Peter Drucker and has written books about him. In assessing Drucker’s work and legacy in a context for today’s leaders, she notes that he “was shaped by the disruptions of World War I, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Great Depression, World War II, and the growth of the United States as a post‐war industrial powerhouse. Given the degree of uncertainty he experienced in the first 35 years of his life, it is not surprising that Drucker sought a path to navigate the rough waters of instability and change.” Regarding his personal/career longevity, “his devotion to lifelong learning and his genuine interest in the lives of so many people helped him produce timely and important work well into his eighties and nineties.” She further discusses Drucker’s work as a social theorist, in management as a human activity, evolving views on leadership, the knowledge society, innovation, the public sector, technology, and the future. Regarding the latter, “decisions regarding advancement must be made with an eye on social costs and benefits, the limitations of technological innovations, and the historical, social, and cultural context of technological innovation.”

Documentary and the question of knowledge

Ruthless Times: Songs of Care /Armotonta menoa – Hoivatyön laulujaan (Helke 2002) is an acclaimed musical documentary about the privatization of elderly care. I explore how the film was framed by the director Susanna Helke, in written articles and in an interview, as artistic research, and consider how this research engages with the question of knowledge production in terms of the director’s stated aims and reference points, particularly Bertolt Brecht and Jacques Rancière. I analyse to what extent, as Helke suggests, it can be seen as creating a “rupture”, in Rancière’s sense, in relation to previous documentary forms and languages. I argue that while the film faces some of the same issues that critical art often confronts in terms of spectator address, its process of working with its topic and its participants nonetheless embodies a progressive model of feminist witnessing.

Quartertone marimba

A PhD-level project in the Fellowship program for artistic research and development ("Stipendprogrammet for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid") at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, by Kjell Tore Innervik.