Artistic Experience Research Articles

Self-perceived relations between artistic creativity and mental illness: a study into lived experiences.

To explore the self-perceived relationships between experiences of creativity and mental illness and to understand the meanings behind these relationships. The idea that mental illness and artistic creativity are somehow related dates back to ancient times. There is some evidence for an actual correlation, but many questions remain unanswered on the nature and direction of the relationship. Qualitative contributions to the debate are scarce, and mainly focus on the potential benefits of participation in the arts for people with mental illness. An explorative, interpretive study. Twenty-four professional and semi-professional artists with self-reported experience with mental illness, were recruited purposively. Unstructured in-depth interviews were conducted and transcripts were subjected to interpretive analysis, guided by a hermeneutic phenomenological frame. Participants experience a range of interactions between artistic creativity and mental illness. Three constitutive patterns describe what these interactions look like: "flow as a powerful force"; "ambiguous self-manifestation"; and "narrating experiences of suffering." The findings show that both the concept of creativity and the concept of mental illness, as well as their interrelationships, are layered and complex phenomena that can take on different meanings in people's lives. The findings provide starting points for further research that goes beyond the polarized academic debate. Understanding the experiences of artists with mental illness can help shape the role of art in public mental health and mental health care.

The Opportunities and Challenges of Theater Stage Design in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and new media technologies has revolutionized the theater industry, offering innovative opportunities for artistic expression and audience engagement. This article explores the impact of AI on multimedia stage design, particularly its implications for the theater industry and individuals with disabilities. By analyzing the innovative applications of artificial intelligence in scriptwriting, stage design, and virtual reality, the article points out the new opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence brings to artists and audiences. It particularly emphasizes how the combination of AI with AR/VR technologies provides a novel artistic experience for disabled individuals while also offering suggestions and prospects in areas such as intelligent audience experiences, copyright protection, and the transformation of traditional theaters. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of artificial intelligence in leading the theater industry forward and calls for an open-minded approach to addressing the challenges posed by new technologies, ensuring that theatrical arts continue to inspire audiences.

The Opportunities and Challenges of Theater Stage Design in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and new media technologies has revolutionized the theater industry, offering innovative opportunities for artistic expression and audience engagement. This article explores the impact of AI on multimedia stage design, particularly its implications for the theater industry and individuals with disabilities. By analyzing the innovative applications of artificial intelligence in scriptwriting, stage design, and virtual reality, the article points out the new opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence brings to artists and audiences. It particularly emphasizes how the combination of AI with AR/VR technologies provides a novel artistic experience for disabled individuals while also offering suggestions and prospects in areas such as intelligent audience experiences, copyright protection, and the transformation of traditional theaters. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of artificial intelligence in leading the theater industry forward and calls for an open-minded approach to addressing the challenges posed by new technologies, ensuring that theatrical arts continue to inspire audiences.

Shanshui Journey: Using AI to Reproduce the Experience of Chinese Literati Ink Paintings

Abstract The authors investigate Chinese shanshui (literally, “mountain and water”), ink paintings of the natural landscape, through an interactive art installation entitled Shanshui Journey. By examining shanshui’s philosophy, multiple moving perspectives, and creation and appreciation practices, the work emphasizes motion in nature, memories, and interactive appreciation. These concepts are realized in a digitized room, where each participant’s motion is captured as a line “sketch” and transformed into an ink painting via a custom neural network. Generated paintings are displayed in real time alongside previous works, collectively termed Shanshui Memories, mimicking handscroll interaction. The authors’ approach to shanshui aims to reproduce the Chinese literati art experience, and to raise awareness of this cultural heritage.

Movement in museums: Using movement as embodied learning

This article considers the ways that movement can be used as an affective experience for art museum visitors. In so doing, the correlation between art experience and cultural history is explored through the relationship between movement and language. This exploration can be utilized to cultivate important conversations regarding the role of the unwelcome body in the institutionalized museum space that has been difficult to recognize and articulate utilizing traditional Western histories, contexts, and methods of understanding and discussion. Here, the experience of moving with an art object, rather than around or in front of, increases the connection, or relation, between the user and the object despite unfamiliarity with museum spaces or art objects. Rather than asking the participant to interpret the art object verbally in a way that is understandable to others, this article argues that using movement allows the participants to interpret what they are thinking and feeling in a way that is specific to their minds, bodies and cultural contexts. Experimental movement might interrupt the inhibiting quality of many museum experiences by making space for visitors’ thoughts, feelings and experiences above all else.

Ça a l’air synthétique bonjour hi

Coming from different artistic and cultural backgrounds in theatre, dance, and media arts, Burcu Emeç, Michael Martini, Nien Tzu Weng, and Roxa Hy zoom in on labour, constructed intimacy, and consent within participation in their transdisciplinary performance Ça a l’air synéthique bonjour hi. Considering the notion of participation in its broadest sense—such as in a community, an economy, and politics—what factors can encourage, discourage, or limit it? In order to explore these factors, the four artists turn to the model of a participatory performance. Realizing that many experiences of participatory art contain troubling, awkward, and often non-consensual elements, they interrogate how this form of performance can offer a parallel to larger questions about participation in an economic and political system.

The local and ethnic specifics of Yunnan in the work of modern Chinese artists: an "inside" and "outside" view

The article is devoted to the reflection of local and ethnic specifics (mainly Yunnan Province and the Tibetan borderland) in the works of Chinese artists of the Reform and Opening Up period – Jin Shangyi, Wang Yidong, Zhang Jian Jun, Yuan Yunsheng, Ai Xuan, Zeng Xiaofeng, Ma Yun, Mao Xuhui, Zhang Xiaogang, Liao Xinxue and Liu Ziming. Various cultural codes within which ethnic and local culture is interpreted in the paintings of visiting and local artists are identified. These differences in the perception and display of ethno-local specifics are especially evident when artists paint the same ethno-local object – for example, the life of Tibetan ethnic minorities. The glamorous characters of the Tibetan cycle of Zhang Jian Jun and Ai Xuan are strikingly different from the stern Tibetan women in the paintings of Zhang Xiaogang. The main conclusion of the study is that artists of various trends have their own ideological and aesthetic intentions, so they select individual figurative dominants from the whole variety of phenomena of tradition and everyday life of the ethnic group and build them into a new cultural code. It can be argued that the exotic cultural code (the view from the outside, characteristic mainly of visiting artists) presupposes “estrangement” and the dominance of aesthetic form to the detriment of ethno-cultural specifics, while the archaic code (the view from the inside) complements modern ethno-local elements with historical-cultural (folklore) examples. Artists of the esoteric type of coding possess “double vision”: they accurately reproduce the cultural landscape of Yunnan and the “life world” of ethnic minorities, but interpret it through individual optics, using world artistic experience.

Рец. на кн.: Marina Balina, Sergei Oushakine (eds.). The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Toronto; Buffalo, NY; L.: University of Toronto Press, 2021. XX+548 p.

The reviewed book The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children, edited by Marina Balina and Sergei Oushakine, is dedicated to Soviet children’s book illustrations of the 1920s–1930s, which had an ideological function. The introduction and sixteen chapters written by different authors demonstrate a variegated picture in which there is a place for avant-garde artistic experiments, educational projects and discussions about children’s books. Illustrations for books that were not related to politics did not come into the focus of attention of the authors of the collection, but nevertheless the coverage of the material is very wide. Different chapters examine how paper, nature, electricity, vezdekhodnost (goeverywhereness), time, the death of Lenin, the Red Army, the proletariat, and “Americanism” were represented in children’s illustrations. Due to involvement of many researchers, the book presents different approaches and methods of visual analysis borrowed from visual studies, art criticism, and history. Not all the authors are convincing in their analysis, but the publication of this collection is undoubtedly an important event in this field of study, even though illustrations for children of the 1920s and 1930s are well-studied.

한국 청소년의 문화·예술경험과 정의적 성취

Objectives This study aims to examine the disparities in cultural and artistic experiences among adolescents ac-cording to gender and family background. It seeks to clarify the longitudinal relationship between cultural and ar-tistic experiences and affective achievements, shedding light on the growing issue of educational inequality in Korean society. Methods Using the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018 Middle School Panel, structural equation models with fixed effects were applied to examine the longitudinal relationship between adolescent cultural and artistic experiences and affective aspects such as happiness, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. Results Descriptive statistical analysis showed that female students and those with parents of higher educational and income levels had significantly higher levels of cultural and artistic experiences. Meanwhile, the positive rela-tionship between cultural and artistic experiences and affective achievements was more pronounced among male students. Specifically, for male students, the relationships between cultural and artistic experiences during the past year and current life satisfaction, happiness, and self-esteem were statistically significant, and the creativity was positively significant for both male and female students. Conclusions The research findings demonstrate the gap in cultural and artistic experiences among adolescents across social classes, and the longitudinal relationship between the experiences and adolescents' affective development. It supports the need for enhanced accessibility to cultural and art education through public educa-tion systems.

Diversity of Popular Expressions in Arab Maghreb Drawings

The current research addresses the study of the diversity of popular expressions in the drawings of the Arab Maghreb which can be employed in formative formulations that are consistent with the concepts of modernity in art, as the heritage expressions was associated with the authentic civilizational concepts and with the myths and folkloric stories that have an active presence in the memory of the Arab consciousness. The current research included four sections, the first contained the theoretical framework of the research. It identified the research problem which was summarized in the following question: What is the diversity in the popular expressions in the Arab Maghreb? In addition to its inclusion of the importance of the research and the need for it, and the research objective represented by (identifying the popular expressions in the Arab Maghreb), and it also included the research limits, including the objective that was determined by studying the representations of popular expressions in drawings of the Arab Maghreb executed with acrylic, watercolor and oil paints within the time limits confined between (1955_2018) and the spatial limits in the countries of the Arab Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), reaching the definition of the terms mentioned in the research. The study analyzed a sample of 4 models from the works of artists from each of the countries of the Arab. Th results showed that the Moroccan artist sought to enrich his artistic experience with subjects related to the local and folkloric richness in the diversity of popular expressions, as in all the sample models of the research. The research concluded with proposals, in which it was suggested to conduct a comparative study between popular symbols in the countries of the Maghreb and the Arab Gulf countries.

THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN THE FORMATION OF LANDSCAPE PLANNING ORGANIZATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF UKRAINE

A historical and cultural descriptive overview of the artistic experience and landscape planning organization of organizing the architectural space of rural settlements of Ukraine with an emphasis on the current stage of development is presented. It is emphasized that the academic discourse is dominated by studies devoted to the study of this issue for urban space. While rural settlements in the corpus of auk studies are presented much more modestly, which once again actualizes the chosen topic. After all, the rural settlements of Ukraine, despite the urbanization processes, remain an important component of the architectural space of Ukraine, and also manifest long-standing artistic folk traditions that give rural landscapes a unique and unique architectural face and create a harmonious combination of the natural environment and anthropogenic influence. The importance of preserving the traditions of the landscape and planning organization of the architectural space of the village, taking into account the long-standing traditions of construction and the artistic expression of aesthetic preferences and worldview beliefs formed in Ukrainian culture, is emphasized. Historical and cultural heritage, its preservation and popularization, is one of the strategic tasks of the state and an example of Ukraine's European integration aspirations. Careful nurturing of one's own traditions, including artistic, landscape planning, and architectural ones, is a demonstration of the maturity of society and awareness of the importance of cultural identity. The village itself, despite the Soviet policy of standardization and unification, was able to preserve unique artistic traditions that complement the socio-humanitarian space and emphasize the regional and local features of one or another settlement. Research attention is focused on such examples as wells, which are an important part of rural communication and village landmarks. The importance of plastic arts in the architectural space of the village is also emphasized. With the help of sculpture, historical memory, commemoration is formed, and society gathers around significant and symbolic events, symbols and meanings for the community. In the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the problem of destroyed villages became particularly acute, because it is necessary not only to restore the housing stock, socially significant objects, establish communications and restore the infrastructure, but also to preserve the history of the village, its socio-cultural accents. That is, the role of art in these processes is extremely important. Artistic means can embody both the historical and cultural aspects of the development of the village, as well as immortalize the modern tragedy of the war.

The well-being benefits of virtual art galleries: Examining the roles of emotion, immersion, and individual differences

A wealth of research suggests that engaging with visual art and visiting art museums is beneficial to flourishing; however, less is known about the potential benefits of digital forms of engagement. An emerging literature provides preliminary evidence of the benefits of digital art engagement, but additional research on mechanisms and potential moderators of the benefits is necessary. The present study examines the impacts of repeated visitation to a virtual art gallery to address three questions: 1) Do well-being, emotion, and immersion differ between those in a digital art gallery versus those reading about art?; 2) Do personality and interest in art influence virtual art gallery visit qualities (i.e., emotion and immersion)?; and 3) Do visit qualities and individual differences predict well-being? A sample of 890 U.S. adults was recruited from Prolific. The findings suggest that: 1) People in a virtual gallery show greater well-being, immersion, and aesthetic emotion than those reading about art; 2) Openness to experience is most strongly linked with visit qualities; and 3) Immersion, positive and aesthetic emotion, extraversion, and neuroticism are associated with well-being. This work suggests that repeated engagement with art in a digital format has benefits and that future research should continue to examine the underlying mechanisms and ways digital art experiences can be best designed to be effective well-being interventions.

LLM을 활용한 맞춤형 미술관 안내 시스템 구축을 위한 프레임워크

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology have brought about a transformative change in the way information is searched, processed, and delivered. In the case of art museums, this has opened up the possibility of providing personalized information and services to visitors in a conversational manner. Existing IT-based museum guide systems have primarily relied on voice guidance, smartphone applications, and chatbots. However, these systems mostly provide pre-prepared information unilaterally or allow only very limited interaction with users. Additionally, individual museums have faced challenges in terms of cost and technology in implementing and maintaining such systems. This study aims to address these issues by proposing a museum guide system framework based on customized LLM technology. The framework is designed to provide visitors with exhibition information, personalized recommendations, and supplementary information for a comprehensive cultural experience in a conversational manner. The development of the framework employed the design science research methodology, and a virtual museum was constructed to validate and demonstrate the framework’s potential using ChatGPT 4.0 and the GPTs platform. The results suggest that this framework can overcome the limitations of existing museum guide systems and provide visitors with an enhanced cultural and artistic experience.

Hospitality Art Experience Model: The Effects of Visual Art on Guests’ Attitudes and Behavior

Art evokes a wide range of effects, including emotional, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes. Despite the growing recognition of the role of art in tourism and hospitality, there is a gap in understanding how the different attributes of visual art influence guests’ responses. This perspective paper aims to address this gap by introducing a conceptual framework of the effects of visual art attributes on guests’ perceptions and behavioral intentions and calls for future research on the effects of different art characteristics in hospitality settings. Various attributes of visual art, such as the style, content, size, context, color palette, and thematic relevance of artworks, can serve as antecedents to guest experiences. Several factors can moderate the relationships between different art attributes and perceptions of art, including socio-demographic characteristics, personality traits, cultural differences, familiarity with art, and prior experiences. Hotel or vacation rental characteristics, including price, service quality, ratings, amenities, and other factors, can also interact with art perceptions in shaping attitudes toward the accommodation and behavioral intentions. A combination of survey methods, interviews, experience sampling, experiments, and emerging techniques can be applied in future studies to explore the effects of visual art and its attributes on guest and business outcomes. The proposed framework brings important implications for both academic scholarship and industry practice.

On Romani Contemporaneity: Rethinking the Malgorzata Mirga-Tas Exhibition in Seville

This essay delves into the representation and reclamation of Romani identity and experience in contemporary art, focusing on the work of Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, viewed from a Gitano point of view located in the South of Europe. Drawing on historical contexts and artistic movements, the essay examines the evolution of Romani portrayal in European art and the emergence of contemporary Romani art as a form of resistance and self-representation. Through an analysis of Mirga-Tas's artistic practice and its intersection with themes of coloniality, gender, and racialization, the essay explores how her work challenges dominant narratives and fosters a deeper understanding of Romani culture and history. Furthermore, the essay discusses the significance of Mirga-Tas's artistic interventions in reshaping perceptions of Romani identity and contributing to broader conversations about representation, power, and agency in the art world, including the cultural field of flamenco. Through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing art history, sociology, and cultural studies, this essay offers insights into the complexities of Romani contemporary art and its role in challenging entrenched stereotypes and advocating for social justice and recognition.

Polyphonic Narrative, Feminist Utopia, and London Imagination: Artistic Experimentations in Girl, Woman, Other

Polyphonic Narrative, Feminist Utopia, and London Imagination: Artistic Experimentations in Girl, Woman, Other

The Mystery Arts Box Project: a qualitative exploration of the experiences, benefits, and challenges of participating in a remotely delivered art and craft project for British veterans with visual impairment

IntroductionThe clinical application of the arts among military personnel and veterans has been well documented, particularly in relation to service-related mental health difficulties. However, the impacts of engaging recreationally with...

The Innovative Role and Practical Exploration of Virtual Simulation Driven by Artificial Intelligence

This paper discusses the innovative role and practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual simulation technology in the field of art design. The article first outlines the impact of AI on art designers, including data analysis and prediction, adaptive optimization and independent innovation and creation. The application advantages of virtual simulation technology in art design are discussed, such as intuitive preview effects and freer creative space. The article further analyzes the development prospects of the integration of AI and virtual simulation technology, including the intelligent, immersive experience and intelligent creation of art design.AI has broad application prospects in art design, which can shorten the design cycle, provide personalized design optimization solutions, and reduce the cost of trial and error through simulation and prediction. Virtual simulation technology brings an immersive experience to users through a three-dimensional interactive environment, and combined with the personalized adjustment of AI,it can further enhance the user experience. Finally, the article looks forward to the future of AI and virtual simulation technology in art design, indicating that art design will develop in a more intelligent and humanized direction, bringing more innovative and personalized experiences to designers and users.

Kant's account of emotive art

ABSTRACT For Kant, experiences of beauty, including experiences of beautiful art, are based on the feeling of disinterested pleasure. At first glance, garden-variety emotions don’t seem to play a constitutive role for beauty in art. In this paper I argue that they can. Drawing on Kant’s notion of aesthetic ideas, I will show that garden-variety emotions can function as a driving force for the free use of the imagination: they can enhance the beholder’s activity of freely associating and thus contribute crucially to the free play of the faculties. In doing so, I will develop a more emotion-oriented view of art than is commonly attributed to Kant. I will also argue that there is a lesson to be learned for contemporary aesthetics: emotions not only help us to understand some works of art and to direct our attention, but they also make us engage imaginatively with artworks and make our experiences of art more vivid.

Поздние комедии А. Ф. Писемского в диалоге с русской комедийной традицией XVIII века

The aim of the research is to reveal the forms of continuity of A. F. Pisemsky’s late plays “The Predators” and “Financial Genius” to the 18th century Russian social comedy. Scientific novelty: Pisemsky’s late comedies are considered for the first time in terms of their orientation towards a dialogue with the national genre tradition, originating in the plays of the 18th century. It has been established that Pisemsky’s comedies enter into a dialogue with the tradition, as evidenced by their similarities to Y. B. Knyazhnin’s “The Boaster” and V. V. Kapnist’s “The Sneak”. Similarities have been found in the sphere of problems, plot, motives, character system, finals’ poetics, and characterology techniques. In “Financial Genius”, as well as in “The Boaster”, cunning deceit is exposed, and the motives of imposture and boasting are similar. The connection of “The Predators” with “The Talebearer” at the level of the problem is manifested in the condemnation of the social “calamity”, which in both comedies takes the place of the main character; the comic fades into the background, the finals convey the idea of the incurability of social evil, which brings in tragic overtones. Pisemsky’s orientation towards the artistic experience of the comedy writers of the 18th century testifies to the continuity of the Russian comedy tradition in the literature of the following century.