Collaborative Art Research Articles

The Role of Art in Addressing Health Inequities

This paper examines the intersection of art and public health, focusing on the role of art in addressing health inequities driven by social determinants of health. Health disparities—disproportionate health outcomes influenced by socioeconomic, racial, geographic, and other systemic factors—are pervasive in many communities. Art, as both a therapeutic tool and a platform for social critique, holds unique potential to bridge these gaps. Through case studies of art initiatives, this paper investigates how collaborative art projects can foster community engagement, raise awareness, and influence policy changes to promote health equity. The paper also examines the challenges faced by art-health initiatives, offering practical strategies to overcome them. Ultimately, the integration of art into health interventions can foster emotional connections and inspire collective action toward more equitable health outcomes. Keywords: Health inequities, social determinants of health, art as social critique, public health, community.

Mobile brain imaging in butoh dancers: from rehearsals to public performance

BackgroundDissecting the neurobiology of dance would shed light on a complex, yet ubiquitous, form of human communication. In this experiment, we sought to study, via mobile electroencephalography (EEG), the brain activity of five experienced dancers while dancing butoh, a postmodern dance that originated in Japan.ResultsWe report the experimental design, methods, and practical execution of a highly interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of dancers, engineers, neuroscientists, musicians, and multimedia artists, among others. We explain in detail how we technically validated all our EEG procedures (e.g., via impedance value monitoring) and minimized potential artifacts in our recordings (e.g., via electrooculography and inertial measurement units). We also describe the engineering details and hardware that enabled us to achieve synchronization between signals recorded at different sampling frequencies, along with a signal preprocessing and denoising pipeline that we used for data re-sampling and power line noise removal. As our experiment culminated in a live performance, where we generated a real-time visualization of the dancers’ interbrain synchrony on a screen via an artistic brain-computer interface, we outline all the methodology (e.g., filtering, time-windows, equation) we used for online bispectrum estimations. Additionally, we provide access to all the raw EEG data and codes we used in our recordings. We, lastly, discuss how we envision that the data could be used to address several hypotheses, such as that of interbrain synchrony or the motor theory of vocal learning.ConclusionsBeing, to our knowledge, the first study to report synchronous and simultaneous recording from five dancers, we expect that our findings will inform future art-science collaborations, as well as dance-movement therapies.

Renegotiating the notion of artistic genius - within the frame of an institutional theatre

This exposition explores how the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen, with the artistic research project, BETTY DEVELOPS, works with spreading a collaborative practice to the infrastructure of an entire institutional theatre and how this renegotiates the notion of artistic genius and the star. The exposition offers a meta-reflection on the author’s artistic research activities at the theatre. These reflections shed light on what happens when collaborative methods of working and producing are implemented in an institutional theatre and discuss the extent to which artistic research can develop methods for collaborative co-creation as well as resistance to the neoliberal individualised performance culture. Could such methods prevent you from falling back on a modernist understanding of the artist as the original creator of an individual expression and instead support a collaborative art and knowledge practice? As opposed to defining artistic creation as something that springs from and comes from an individual (the artistic genius or star), the author argues that artistic creation is a relational act, and that art is something that comes to be between people. This exposition is a collage of empirical material, text, images, and video gathered and produced over the last five years while facilitating, documenting, researching, and sharing the development of fourteen BETTY DEVELOPS productions.

The Stepwise Artification Process in Luxury Fashion: Strategic Integration With the Arts and Collaboration With Non‐Profit Institutions

ABSTRACTThis article investigates the diverse artification strategies used by luxury fashion brands to strengthen their connection with the art world and emphasises how these strategies infuse objects, practices, and brands with artistic value. Using a theoretical framework, the research classifies the Altagamma and Comité Colbert brands into distinct clusters representing various stages of the artification process, from early exploration to full integration of artistic practices. The study analyses the ways in which these stages reflect the brands’ historical evolution and strategic investments in artification, particularly in response to market threats. Between 2019 and 2024, 81.25% of the 39 brands examined in this study engaged in at least one artistic activity, such as artist collaborations, art installations or incorporating artistic elements into collections. This study offers new insights by expanding the understanding of artification and classifying underexplored connections between luxury brands, artists and non‐profit cultural institutions. It reveals how brands, despite differing approaches, recognise artification as a key strategy in enhancing identity and positioning in the luxury market.

Language Preservation through Popularization of Regional Indian Music: A Data-Driven Approach

The increased global connectivity due to internet penetration has resulted in the dominance of international languages and the decline of regional languages. To help preserve these languages, this study identifies the non-native regions in India that offer the most promising opportunities for expanding the popularity of music for each of the 14 regional languages. It analyses the audio features of 41,000 songs from 14 Indian languages on Spotify, employing two approaches – clustering algorithms and Random Forest Regressors. An overlap between the regions identified by both methods for any given language is considered a robust result, providing greater confidence in the results. The results show that while geographical proximity is a significant factor in determining non-native market fits for the music of a given language, alignment in preferences of audio features driven by cultural similarities plays an integral role as well. The findings have important implications for music industry stakeholders, including artists, management, digital platforms, and governments, who can leverage this data to devise strategies to expand the reach of regional music. This includes designing targeted marketing strategies, fostering cross-regional artist collaborations, and optimizing content recommendation algorithms, among others.

The Case Study of Pop Art Collaboration in Fashion Brands

The Case Study of Pop Art Collaboration in Fashion Brands

The Historical and Musical Characteristics of the Henan Qu Chinese Opera Troupe in the Social Context

Background and Aims: Chinese Opera, specifically the Henan Qu Chinese Opera Troupe, embodies a rich tapestry of cultural heritage and artistic expression that has evolved through centuries. The study aims to investigate the historical and musical characteristics of the Henan Qu Chinese opera troupe in the social context. Materials and Methods: Employing a qualitative research design, the study utilizes ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and archival research. Participant observations during performances, rehearsals, and cultural events, along with interviews with troupe performers, directors, and cultural experts, provide a multifaceted perspective on the opera’s evolution and current practices. Archival documents and recordings complement these insights by tracing the troupe's historical development. Results: The research highlights how the Henan Qu Chinese Opera Troupe has navigated significant historical upheavals and adapted to contemporary challenges while maintaining its distinctive musical and theatrical identity. Innovations in performance and outreach have helped sustain interest and relevance among newer audiences, demonstrating a dynamic interplay between preserving traditional art forms and embracing modernity. Conclusion: The Henan Qu Chinese Opera Troupe exemplifies the successful adaptation of traditional cultural expressions to modern contexts, underscoring the importance of innovative strategies in audience engagement and artistic collaboration. The study underscores the potential of traditional arts to remain culturally and socially relevant, offering insights into broader strategies for cultural preservation.

Teacher-Paraeducator Teams: Strategies and Systems to Improve Student Outcomes Through the Art of Collaboration

ABSTRACT Paraeducators have increasingly become an integral part of educational teams in the delivery of instruction to students with disabilities. The appropriate use of paraeducators in special education is essential to ensure students who need these supports can achieve in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). The interplay among appropriate paraeducator roles, the co-delegation of tasks to paraeducators by general and special education teachers, the teacher’s ownership of and preparation for their supervisory role, and effective systems to support teamwork is a dynamic that continues to need clarification in the field. To support states and local education agencies, this article provides a conceptualization and supporting resources outlining a systematic approach to building collaborative Teacher-Paraeducator Teams (TPTs) that will ensure the safety, effectiveness, and cohesiveness of our students’ learning environment.

Artistic Practices in the Context of the Evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0

This article examines the evolution of artists’ interaction with the audience in the context of media culture, linked to the updates of communication mechanisms on the Internet, from the static Web 1.0 to the interactive Web 3.0. The aim of the article is to show the connections between the changes in authorship models and mechanisms of interaction with the audience in artistic practice and the evolutionary development of web technologies. The transformation of contemporary artistic forms is the result of the active influence of digital technologies and the associated collapse of the existing hierarchy between author, performer and audience. The study discusses the strengthening of the interactive component in artistic practices, parallel to the development of Internet technologies from Web 1.0 to the semantic Web 3.0 and analyzes the overlapping of these processes and their mutual influence in the context of post humanist perspectives. It was found that artistic collaborations through collective authorship are a characteristic model of authorship for this phase of Internet development. It was noted that the evolution from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 opens new possibilities for the creation of multisensory experiences, thanks to the use of VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) technologies, which are actively used by artists in artistic practices and works, for example in operas or concerts. In addition, the active development and integration of artificial intelligence technologies in artistic practices has been identified. By analyzing musical projects of different genres and forms, the transformative influence of web culture on contemporary artistic practices becomes clear. Keywords: artistic practices, music, internet, technologies, interactivity, communicative models’ development

Leveraging Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) for enhanced artistic creation: Exploring quality improvement and content control through conditional inputs

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have revolutionized digital art by enabling the creation of high-quality, artistically coherent images guided by conditional inputs. This paper examines key factors influencing the performance of cGANs, including the quality of training data, network architecture improvements, and loss function optimization. We introduce a mathematical model to quantify training data quality, emphasizing dataset diversity, data augmentation, and cleaning. Network architectural enhancements such as residual connections, attention mechanisms, and progressive growing are explored for their impact on image quality. Additionally, we discuss the integration of conditional inputs, such as labels and textual descriptions, for precise content control. Challenges in balancing realism with artistic expression, managing mode collapse, and interpreting conditional inputs are also addressed. This study provides a comprehensive framework for enhancing cGAN-generated artworks, offering insights into applications in personalized art generation, art restoration, and collaborative art projects.

Isolation Journal: Remote Interactions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the development of artistic collaboration during the global lockdown, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The art work under study involves the author’s practices of ecological sound art and intercultural collaboration in collaboration with Canadian composer and improviser John Oliver. A primary outcome of this work was the album Isolation Journal, released in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. One feature of Isolation Journal was how it revisited site-specific recordings made in Vietnam, on the countryside north of Hanoi, for an installation made by Östersjö in collaboration with Nguyễn Thanh Thủy and Matthew Sansom [Östersjö, Stefan, and Thanh Thủy Nguyễn. 2016. “The Sounds of Hanoi and the After-Image of the Homeland.” Journal of Sonic Studies 12. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/246523/246546]. Through remote interactions, and by building a complex sampler instrument using Östersjö's recordings of Aeolian đàn đáy, a traditional Vietnamese lute, as well as field recordings from the site, Oliver and Östersjö created the album Isolation Journal through remote interaction. This in turn became a fundamental building block when the author's Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones took the initiative to develop a scene for telematic performance at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi. This series started out with a concert with John Oliver, The Six Tones and guest performers from Hanoi in July 2020. Building on audio and video documentation, as well as on qualitative interviews with the participating co-performers, an analysis of the emergence of discursive voice [Gorton, David, and Stefan Östersjö. 2019. “Austerity Measures I: Performing the Discursive Voice.” In Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities, edited by Catherine Laws, William Brooks, David Gorton, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Stefan Östersjö, and Jeremy J. Wells, 29–79. Orpheus Institute Series. Leuven: Leuven University Press] is drawn from these two internally linked artistic projects. The paper develops the analytical framework of tele-copresence, a synthesis of the contrasting concepts of telepresence and copresence, as a means for analysing the virtual presence which emerges through such remote musical interaction.

Communication of health messages using theatre: Appreciative inquiry from Ubuntu theatre group.

Theatre involves expressing meaning in a collaborative art using words, movements, and visual elements. However, theatre remains poorly used as a viable teaching strategy or a method for communicating health messages. Instead, it is relegated to solemnly transmitting indigenous knowledge. To explore and describe communication of educational health messages through theatre using an appreciative inquiry approach. The study was conducted among the Ubuntu theatre group from a rural province in South Africa. The group is famous for using theatre to communicate educational health messages through the lens of Ubuntu philosophy. A qualitative exploratory descriptive design was followed. A non-probability purposive sampling was used to select thirteen members of the Ubuntu theatre group. Data were collected by two moderators from the two focus group discussions through conference calls. Deductive thematic content data analysis was used to describe the 4-Ds of appreciative inquiry. Theatre is a playful pedagogy that can cut through language and cultural barriers when used to communicate educational health messages. There is a need to formalise it as an alternative pedagogy within the health care sciences curriculum. Furthermore, the sustainability of theatre as an educational tool is dependent on expanding educational practices, documenting its success stories and periodical in-service training. Using Ubuntu innovation to communicate complex educational health messages through theatre can maximise learning. This study recommends that Ubuntu-infused health messages be conveyed using theatre. The study adds to the body of knowledge by presenting Ubuntu innovation in communicating health messages through theatre.

Reframing Youth Wellbeing Through Community-Engaged Learning

In recent years, discourses about youth have been mired in narratives of learning loss and mental health crises. These cultural stories often pathologize youth, offering little in the way of generative pathways for educator practice to aid young people as they navigate the very real challenges in contemporary society. The experiences and reflections shared by a young man, Alberto, about the work he did with his peers and teacher demonstrates the power of community engagement, collaborative art, and responsive teaching to reframe the “problems” of education, offering new pathways to “do wellbeing” in learning spaces.

화장품 브랜드 디자인 콜라보레이션이 소비자 구매의도에 미치는 영향 연구

In recent years, brand collaboration products have become increasingly popular among young consumers. Amid fierce competition in the cosmetics market, cooperation between brands has emerged as a novel marketing model. Companies introduce sentiment-driven collaboration products to enhance consumer brand preference and stimulate purchase intentions. This study aims to define the concept, purpose, and types of multilateral collaborations for cosmetics brands, drawing on previous studies, and analyze the factors influencing consumers' purchase intention. This study selected Innisfree’s design collaboration, which is gaining popularity in China, as the focal point. Awareness and preference for brand design collaborations were identified, and their effect on consumers' purchase intentions was analyzed. In addition, the study also exploited the mediating relationship by examining the correlation between the type of cosmetic brand design collaboration, brand preference, and consumer purchase intention. The results indicated that character collaboration, art collaboration, and brand collaboration all positively impacted consumers' purchase intentions in the context of cosmetics brand design collaboration.

MEMORY AND TIME IN OLES ILCHENKO’S PHOTOPOETRY

The paper considers new creative approaches to the established types of poetry. Building on the theoretical definitions, taxonomies and observations formulated in the works of Aleida Assmann, Roland Barthes, Nina Chamata, Robert Crawford and Norman McBeath, Michael Nott, Irina Rajewski, James Smith, Susan Sontag, et al., the research argues that the artistic practices of photopoetry (“a form of photo-text that takes, for its primary components, poetry and photography”, Michael Nott) offer new ways to interpret certain topics of metaphysical poetry. The material for analysis is taken from a black and white photo-text book “Some Dreams or Kyiv That No Longer Exists” (2007) by a Geneva-based Ukrainian poet and artist Oles Ilchenko. The detailed analysis of it seeks to clarify the structural, stylistic, and semantic characteristics of Ilchenko’s photopoetry. The special attention is paid to the mechanics of cyclization, forms of intermedial interactions, and types of artistic collaboration in this project. It is also noted that the interpretative co-operation with the audience here depends on the readers/viewers’ personal memories and emotions evoked by these photographs and poems. Focusing on the motifs of memory, nostalgia, and transience of life, Ilchenko’s photopoetic cycle explores the metaphysical theme of Death and Time in its connection with the urban space of Kyiv. This project demonstrates that the long form photopoetry provides the 21st century author with some efficient creative instruments to interpret the realities “of peculiar kind” (James Smith), such as time and memory. The contrasting combination of verbal and visual elements in this book creates an effect of double visualization, which accentuates the dynamics and dramatic tension between the poems and the images. The cyclic composition of texts paired with the fragmented and modified photographs transforms the real urban space into a powerful metaphor of memory and personal loss.

Application of social entertainment robots based on machine learning algorithms and the Internet of Things in collaborative art performances

In terms of control strategies for social entertainment robots, advanced control system design was adopted in the study, aiming to enable robots to achieve efficient collaborative art performances. The control system is based on machine learning algorithms and Internet of Things technology, combined with the application of sensing technology, providing accurate environmental perception and real-time feedback mechanisms for robots. Considering the collaboration and interaction between robots and human actors, control strategies adapted to different scenes were designed by analyzing and understanding the needs of artistic performances. These strategies not only consider the robot’s own actions and performance, but also the interaction with human actors and the coordination with the entire performance scene. The control method in this article combines machine learning algorithms and sensing technology to enable robots to make intelligent decisions and action planning by learning and perceiving real-time environmental information. By modeling and simulating the structure and characteristics of the robot, precise planning and control of the robot’s motion trajectory can be achieved. Through dynamic modeling, it is possible to better understand the motion characteristics and energy consumption of robots, and to adjust and optimize their actions during the performance process.

“Two Sides of the Same Coin”: Benefits of Science–Art Collaboration and Field Immersion for Undergraduate Research Experiences

This study examined how incorporating art into an upper-level undergraduate field-based ecology research course influenced students’ communication and collaboration skills, their career goals, and how they conceptualized the scientific method. Student pairs designed an independent research study that used artwork and a scientific research poster to disseminate their findings at an end-of-term exhibit. Students enrolled in either a local or a (subsidized) travel abroad section of the course. Students in both sections found new or deeper connections between art and science, developed a more sophisticated understanding of the science method, became more confident with their science skills, and reported an expanded perspective on their future careers (often including field work and a wider geographic job search). Science–art student teams indicated they wanted more opportunities for collaborative work in the future, and that their final products were more professional due to their collaborations, as compared to science–science teams. Additionally, the travel abroad students benefitted from experiencing new ecosystems and cultures, from working with science and art professionals from other countries, and from working in an isolated field station without distractions.

Strategi Seni Pertunjukan Dengan Segmentasi Pariwisata (Kajian Pertunjukan Tallu Cappa’ Di Wisata Pulau Camba-Cambang Pangkep)

Art and tourism rarely become concerned in a study or research. Though it is allegedly both have the power of mutual influence and profitable. Efforts have been made to make the art as a medium to develop the world of tourism but sometimes have no strategy and formulation appropriately so that the art is just a patch or entertainment when melalkukan travel. Through the study and analysis of Tallu Cappa's performances by Makassar artists Muhajir can be formulated conceptual strategy or some strategic thinking related to performing arts and tourism. Among others, 1) presentation of Multi-disciplinary Art and Innovative Packaging, 2) Collaboration of art with the concept of tourism and 3) Excavation of local Wisdom as an effort to get the aesthetic experience for tourists. Performing works of artists Muhajir perceived successfully menyjiakan concept performances with tourism segmentation. So hopefully this strategy becomes the initial basis for the development of art as an effective, innovative and cultured tourism promotion media.

Evaluating the Impact of Collaborative Art, Therapy and Training on Police Legitimacy: The Perceptions Held by Individuals with Substance Abuse Disorder and Police Officers

This qualitative pilot study was funded by a federal micro-grant to seek to fill a void in the literature on police legitimacy. The focus of this pilot study was to determine if collaborative art therapy and training can change the perceptions of police legitimacy held by individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) or the perceptions of the police toward individuals with SUD. Besides the collaborative activities, individuals with SUD and police officers were provided with therapy and/or training sessions during the period of collaboration. The methodology for this study included the use of electronic survey instruments to evaluate any changes in perception. These instruments were administered anonymously before and after all therapy, training, and collaboration activities occurred. Each instrument contained open-ended questions relating to Police Legitimacy Scale (PLS) (Tankebe et al., 2016) categories, as well as additional measures. Analysis included qualitative methods to provide context and identify themes for content analysis. Findings did not confirm change overall however, positive responses support police legitimacy, perceptual changes and relationship building. Recommendations are made for relationship building through increased interaction, excluding enforcement activities between individuals with SUD and the police using collaborative projects such as art therapy.

Participatory presence – social connectedness through collaborative art practices

ABSTRACT In a post-Covid context, the term presence has become the subject of renewed academic focus, amplified by mass phenomena such as Zoom fatigue and online classroom teaching. The prism of new materialism allows for a new reading of relationships between technology and human sensing, physical and virtual presence and copresence, with possible design implications: Current research in public health and social-environment discourse is interested in the effect of presence on well-being. As a theoretical framework, new materialism provides a lens that foregrounds complex relations between affect and technology, enabling us, through interventions like the KIMA: Colour participatory artwork, to interrogate the broad discourse on mediated presence and social connectivity. This paper provides an overview of the AHRC-funded research project, 'p_ART_icipate!', which is a collaborative investigation led by the University of Greenwich, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, and Brunel University. This paper describes one of the case studies within the project, ‘KIMA Colour’, a collaboration with the art collective Analema Group, the National Gallery and the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). The case study explores the effect of collective cultural experiences and participatory art on a sense of social connectivity and copresence. In collaboration with RNIB and a group of visually impaired individuals, the team asked how we can design meaningful and accessible online interfaces that actively contribute to a sense of ‘participatory presence’. Findings suggest a possible link between the experience, presence and social connectedness. This research aims to contribute to our understanding of participatory art and to provide recommendations for accessibility and facilitation designc for participatory online interfaces.