Current Arts Research Articles

A Liberal Arts Course ‘Study on Studies’ with Expanded Content Based on Professors' Convergence

To address the issues caused by the segmentation and fragmentation of knowledge in our highly specialized modern society, convergence-oriented liberal arts education is essential. This paper introduces the development and operational case of a convergence liberal arts course, ‘Study on Studies’, approached from a fresh perspective. Current general liberal arts education in universities often falls short of effectively helping students develop the ability to think integratively across various disciplines. ‘Study on Studies’ is designed so that professors first engage in convergence learning across diverse academic fields and, based on this experience, foster students' integrated thinking skills. This course enables students to experience convergence thinking by exploring a range of disciplines, centered on the integration of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. This paper presents the specific structure and content system of the course and discusses the potential and directions for improving convergence education based on actual operational experience. While major-specific education effectively delivers specialized knowledge, liberal arts education can only be impactful when it fosters convergence thinking and experiences through an integrative, rather than purely professional, approach. To enhance the effectiveness of convergence education, I propose a new model for liberal arts courses, addressing both structural and content-related aspects, and anticipate a qualitative transformation in liberal arts education for the future.

GarVerseLOD: High-Fidelity 3D Garment Reconstruction from a Single In-the-Wild Image using a Dataset with Levels of Details

Neural implicit functions have brought impressive advances to the state-of-the-art of clothed human digitization from multiple or even single images. However, despite the progress, current arts still have difficulty generalizing to unseen images with complex cloth deformation and body poses. In this work, we present GarVerseLOD, a new dataset and framework that paves the way to achieving unprecedented robustness in high-fidelity 3D garment reconstruction from a single unconstrained image. Inspired by the recent success of large generative models, we believe that one key to addressing the generalization challenge lies in the quantity and quality of 3D garment data. Towards this end, GarVerseLOD collects 6,000 high-quality cloth models with fine-grained geometry details manually created by professional artists. In addition to the scale of training data, we observe that having disentangled granularities of geometry can play an important role in boosting the generalization capability and inference accuracy of the learned model. We hence craft GarVerseLOD as a hierarchical dataset with levels of details (LOD) , spanning from detail-free stylized shape to pose-blended garment with pixel-aligned details. This allows us to make this highly under-constrained problem tractable by factorizing the inference into easier tasks, each narrowed down with smaller searching space. To ensure GarVerseLOD can generalize well to in-the-wild images, we propose a novel labeling paradigm based on conditional diffusion models to generate extensive paired images for each garment model with high photorealism. We evaluate our method on a massive amount of in-the-wild images. Experimental results demonstrate that GarVerseLOD can generate standalone garment pieces with significantly better quality than prior approaches while being robust against a large variation of pose, illumination, occlusion, and deformation. Code and dataset are available at garverselod.github.io.

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Internalization and Externalization of Chinese Wushu Tacit Knowledge Transfer

In view of the unclear relationship between internalization and externalization of current martial arts knowledge, and the unclear interaction mechanism, this study firstly analyzes the master-apprentice model of martial arts dissemination, and then uses the questionnaire survey method, factor analysis method and structural equation model method to discuss The relationship between master-apprentice relationship, master’s ability to transmit knowledge, apprentice’s ability to receive knowledge, organizational culture and its characteristics, and the relationship between the tacit degree of martial arts knowledge and the internalization and externalization effects of tacit knowledge transfer, the internalization effect of martial arts tacit knowledge is obtained with influence on externalizing effects. The conclusion is that in the process of Wushu tacit knowledge transfer, the degree of internalization of tacit knowledge has a positive impact on the degree of externalization, and it is also affected by the master’s ability to send knowledge, the apprentice’s ability to accept knowledge, and the transfer environment.

Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art

ABSTRACT The current Chinese martial arts have at least three major values or functions – combat, health, and art. However, the combative value has been weakened while its healthy and aesthetic values have been strengthened in mass culture. With the development of digital technology, the media for disseminating visual cultural products have been broadened to film and television, advertising, performing arts, photography, video games, and so on. The inherent aesthetic quality of Chinese martial arts has been fully explored, reshaping the performativity of stage wushu in kung fu dance drama and wushu performance troupe with Shaolin Kung Fu as its core. This paper investigates the historical origin, present representation, and cultural connotation of stage wushu in accordance with performance theories and media culture theories and concludes that stage wushu is a type of hyper-real martial arts.

The arduous art of empowering visual artists: why the Dutch digital sales platform Patty Morgan ultimately failed

This article investigates Patty Morgan, a Dutch digital sales platform for emerging visual artists, founded in 2013 out of a dissatisfaction with capitalistic practices. The analysis is situated against the backdrop of the increasing financial struggles of small-scale galleries, which play a crucial role in promoting new artists, consequently threatening a loss of innovation. Patty Morgan’s goal was to generate cultural and economic value through scouting, promoting and mediating activities, all the while maintaining a fair, digital approach with supportive settings for artists. It can be seen as an atypical case of how idealistic entrepreneurs try to enable visual artists to capture more of the value they create. Using key elements of the Global Production Network approach, i.e. governance and embeddedness, this article investigates why Patty Morgan’s digital approach ultimately failed. Discussing the reasons behind Patty Morgan’s financial hardship helps grasp why scouting and promoting emerging artists is not financially rewarding within the current visual arts ecosystem, especially in relation to the Dutch sociocultural and institutional context. This article suggests that, for the purpose of safeguarding the visual arts industry, funding policy needs to be reconsidered and responsibility for demand needs to be further discussed.

A Study on the Educational Needs and Perception of the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum

The purpose of this study is to explore the direction of reorganization of S University's liberal arts core curriculum by analyzing the educational needs assessment and perceptions of members inside and outside S University to foster “H+ future talents” with future capabilities to lead a diversifying society. To this end, a total of 234 internal and external members (teachers, students, graduates, and industries) of S University were surveyed on the educational needs assessment and perceptions of S University's liberal arts core curriculum. After combining the collected data with t-verification, Borich education needs, the Locus for Focus model, and frequency analysis, the current liberal arts core curriculum was reorganized in the order of ｢Computing Thinking and Coding｣, ｢Critical Reading and Writing｣, ｢EnglishⅠ(Listening & Speaking)｣, and ｢English II (Reading & Writing)｣. In addition, through a survey on the perception of the liberal arts core curriculum, the need for class options for Christian liberal arts subjects and classes by English level were confirmed. This study is meaningful in that it can be used as useful basic data for the reorganization of the liberal arts core curriculum of S University and can be a basis for the return of the direction of liberal arts education and the development of liberal arts subjects in the future.

Towards Real-Time Segmentation on the Edge

The research in real-time segmentation mainly focuses on desktop GPUs. However, autonomous driving and many other applications rely on real-time segmentation on the edge, and current arts are far from the goal. In addition, recent advances in vision transformers also inspire us to re-design the network architecture for dense prediction task. In this work, we propose to combine the self attention block with lightweight convolutions to form new building blocks, and employ latency constraints to search an efficient sub-network. We train an MLP latency model based on generated architecture configurations and their latency measured on mobile devices, so that we can predict the latency of subnets during search phase. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to achieve over 74% mIoU on Cityscapes with semi-real-time inference (over 15 FPS) on mobile GPU from an off-the-shelf phone.

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN ARTS EDUCATION

The importance of arts education cannot be overstated, as it allows students to express themselves creatively and develop essential skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving. However, there is a growing concern that current arts education primarily focuses on knowledge acquisition and skill development while neglecting the emotional needs of students. In this paper, we explore the issue of utilitarianism in current art education and how current arts education neglects the emotional needs of students. Utilitarianism, which prioritizes the usefulness of education over its intrinsic value, often leads to a narrow focus on developing technical skills and knowledge at the expense of students’ emotional needs. We introduce the concept of socio-emotional learning and its impact on arts education. Socio-emotional learning is an educational method that promotes emotional growth, cooperative learning opportunities, and intuitive insights through arts integration. We argue that socio-emotional learning can help students better understand themselves and others and lead to more meaningful and fulfilling artistic experiences.

Plastic’s mark: A didactic strategy about ecology based on photography, printing and projections

The predominance of plastic is without doubt a major problem in today’s society. In order to create environmental awareness, it is necessary to teach critical reflection about its propagation to counteract its ecological consequences. This article proposes a revision of the use of plastic in contemporary art as an aesthetic material and as a creator of social and cultural knowledge in order to question its use in current arts education. An arts-based educational project is presented that hopes to sensitize students in the school of education about the predominance of plastic in today’s society and its mark on the environment. The main objective of this educational proposal is to make students work with plastic from an aesthetic viewpoint and artistically materialize their mark on the world using photography, engraving and projections. Through arts-based educational research, different student productions are analysed to create visual discourses that aesthetically express awareness of plastic’s predominance.

A balanced view of impossible aesthetics: An empirical investigation of how impossibility relates to our enjoyment of magic tricks.

The performance art of magic allows us to experience the impossible, and this study used a balancing magic trick to investigate the relationship between participants' enjoyment and perceived impossibility. Participants watched a live performance of a magic trick in which the magician balanced objects in progressively more impossible configurations. At seven different time points observers rated their enjoyment, and the extent to which they believed what they saw was impossible. Regression analysis revealed that participants' enjoyment of the magical effect relates to their perceived impossibility of the magic trick, and this relationship was independent of how much they enjoyed magic in general. Moreover, a one-way within-subjects analysis of variance showed that participants enjoyed the performance More as the trick became more impossible. However, once the magical effect was anticipated, enjoyment began to plateau while perceived impossibility continued to increase. These results are discussed in the context of people's aesthetic appreciation of magic and current arts appreciation models.

THE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF TEACHING ENGLISH: BASIS FOR A MODIFIED MODULE

With the introduction of K–12 curricula that incorporate literature as a springboard, teaching and learning English has become a prerequisite. Language is used in context throughout literature. According to Eaglestone (2010), it is a crucial component of the English curriculum in schools and needs to receive the sufficient emphasis if the overall goal of teaching English is to be accomplished. Teachers now have a duty to work more to make studying English for pupils a simpler, more pleasurable, and more rewarding experience. Anglo-American literature is covered in English 9, which is regarded as a crucial conventional course in English. According to Lu Rui (2014), the rapid development of curricula in the modern era has caused English literature to face a variety of challenges and flaws, pushing the current liberal arts class even further into the margins. As a result, the reform of the curriculum for Anglo-American literature cannot be postponed in the modern era. Wu Ling (2012) emphasized that another significant challenge teachers have while teaching students in English literature, including grammar and vocabulary, is the multifaceted competencies that must be attained. The perception that literature is a challenging and tedious topic compounds to this challenge. Students gradually disassociate from the subject matter as a result of this. In the national setting, Calacal (2003) stated that education in the Philippines has always been dynamic. Everything that has been dynamic certainly echoes possible problems. In the K to 12 curriculum, the Department of Education requires learning modules to be used in learning the subjects, specifically in English. Hence, whether the use of this learning package gush on, the crux of the issue lies in the learner and teacher as they move on towards the development of English competencies. In some of the challenges experienced by both teachers and learners are broad module content, lack of comprehension of students, taking English subject difficult, and the lengthy literature pieces used. In dealing with English language and literature, Hernandez (2003) said that teaching and learning strategies should be updated to make lessons comprehensible for students. Therefore, it is worthwhile investigating these difficulties, identifying their causes, and suggesting effective remedies for these problems so that they will not damage the benefits that Grade 9 English embodies.

대학 교양 글쓰기와 문해력

This paper examins the reality of whether the literacy of the current liberal arts classroom is in a state where narrative and classical literature can be read or rewritten using it. To this end, various communication beyond traditional meanings such as text, oral, video, and digital, and the system in which these communication are combined are viewed as media in a broad sense, and these rules of media writing are defined as literacy. As a result of examining students’ literacy and media literacy in detail through the examples of liberal arts classes at each university, substitution (metaphor), which is the main axis of language, is suppressed in each university, and the principle of contiguity(metonymy) preceding substitution in Chinese literature classes is suppressed. In the SNS space mainly used by them, excessive metaphors and broken metonymy were seen, simplifying complex situations into abstract problems or reducing them to peripheral problems by fragmenting only a part of the whole. As such, the classroom is a place where various media coexist, imitate each other, negotiate, and collide. Existing analog literacy alone cannot describe the media literacy of classroom, and instructors cannot stay with analog literacy only. The instructor’s literacy should not be limited to transfer, interpretation, enlightenment, or prescription. We should think of learners as tribes and foreign language speakers, exchange new literacy with them, and translate, create, and produce. Clear information delivery and the pursuit of computable language, on the contrary, the phenomenon of failure to reach language and fragmentation of language is a new linguistic disease in an automated society. The practicality of liberal arts, education, and humanities lies in the ‘surplus’ of non-practical language, not practical language, and language, not clear and transparent. It is necessary to invent meta-language that connects instructors, students, and mouths, and restore the poetic function of language.

Implementasi Bela Negara di Era Teknologi

Today'stechnologicaladvancesareexpandingrapidlyandplayamajorroleindailylife.Muchofthe information is stored digitally on electronic media, such as digital books, scientific works, and so forth. It makes information more quickly circulated and easier to obtain that makes the need for relevant information increasingly greater. Technological advances have led to an increasingly transparent and open-air world society. Such openness gives an opportunity for interdependence between nations, and it does not seldom lead to competition. High levels of competence can lead to an increasing interest of one country toward another. Indonesia as a free and sovereign country with the benefit of sda and human resources, needs to develop a sense of defense in the form of implanting and carrying out martial arts especially among the younger generation through cidal education subjects. Seeing the advancing age of technology brought some negative effects on national resilience and the decline in current millennial martial arts. Therefore, given the challenges ahead, there will be more varied and complex, hence the need for state defense and direct implementation in life. This article will expound the results of a study on the implementation of a country in defense learning.

Digitally Protecting and Disseminating the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Information Technology Era

This paper studies the digital protection and dissemination of digital information based on intangible cultural heritage. The “digital era” is an important milestone, and there is no problem with the development of martial arts heritage. First, this paper explains that the development of the current martial arts heritage is not without drawbacks, for example, ecological marginalization and imperfect development. Then, the author of this study determined the benefits of combining incomplete martial arts technology with digital technology, and took the digital protection of Xingyi boxing as an example to explore its practice and specialize in digital protection. Then, the problems and procedures in digital protection are studied. Finally, with Xingyi boxing as an experiment, this form leads to separation. The experimental results show that, according to the full understanding of the status quo of nondigital defense culture, the protection measures to improve digital protection are put forward: determining the digital distribution process and writing models, completing knowledge presentation view, document creation, multimedia interactive platform development, and digital technology protection of public heritage, without any problems.

A novel trust-based security and privacy model for Internet of Vehicles using encryption and steganography

High-speed wireless network technologies play a vital role in autonomous vehicle communication systems (AVS), i.e., IoV (Internet of Vehicles), and enhance the effectiveness and reliability of the communication network. Since the size of IoV communication is rapidly growing, it is now an essential part of our regular routines. Due to its dynamic nature and massive size, it is essential to avoid any miss-communication and protect the data privacy of each vehicle.IoVallowsAVS to link remotely to each other and to various platforms and groups that may be using the same communications system. This quality link between vehicles and the need for information exchanges among vehicles introduces vulnerability and threats that can be exploited by cybercriminals. This research emphasizes on enhancing data security in real-time IoV communication. It presents a trust-driven privacy method using encryption and steganography for IoV. This method uses an Efficient Algorithm for Secure Transmission (EAST) that integrates encryption and steganography algorithms. The proposed EAST is then compared to the various current state of arts, i.e., AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), DES (Data Encryption Standard), G-DES (Generalized DES), and Standard LSB on the basis of various performance measuring parameters, i.e., encryption and decryption time, efficiency, avalanche effect, PSNR, and file cover size. Experimental results are promising for the proposed EAST method, which reported a better time efficiency of 0.86 ms, avalanche effect of 58.81%, and PSNR of 78.58%, compared to the current state arts.

코로나19상황에서의 대학 교양교육과정에 대한 학습자 요구도 탐색

Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze learners' perceptions and necessity of the university liberal arts curriculum at the time when the government's COVID-19 prevention policy was in full swing. For this purpose, 475 students taking liberal arts courses at A Univ. located in the metropolitan area were evaluated on their experiences of taking liberal arts courses, awareness and necessity of lecture structure, learning activities, academic achievement, academic achievement, and evaluation. Methods As an analysis method, as a result of examining the requirement ranking by factor through the Borich’s Requirement Formula and the The Locus for Focus Model, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference in the t-test for importance and current level. Results First, the content showing the highest trend among the teachers' requests for lesson design perceived by learners was the composition of various theoretical lectures and learning activities tailored to liberal arts subjects. Second, it is necessary for teachers to improve students' ability to solve problems and think through liberal arts classes, and to have frequent opportunities for mutual communication between professors and learners. Third, students perceived positively both at the current level and importance in relation to the liberal arts class grade evaluation. Fourth, students gave an overall positive evaluation of the current liberal arts curriculum. Conclusions The researcher first needs to reinforce the lesson design that can communicate well with each other regardless of the type of class in order to increase the educational performance and effectiveness between professors and learners. It was suggested that universities and professors are required to prepare a standard system that can autonomously design lessons according to new lesson types and monitor learners' learning performance.

코로나19상황에서의 대학 교양교육과정에 대한 학습자 요구도 탐색

Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze learners' perceptions and necessity of the university liberal arts curriculum at the time when the government's COVID-19 prevention policy was in full swing. For this purpose, 475 students taking liberal arts courses at A Univ. located in the metropolitan area were evaluated on their experiences of taking liberal arts courses, awareness and necessity of lecture structure, learning activities, academic achievement, academic achievement, and evaluation. Methods As an analysis method, as a result of examining the requirement ranking by factor through the Borich’s Requirement Formula and the The Locus for Focus Model, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference in the t-test for importance and current level. Results First, the content showing the highest trend among the teachers' requests for lesson design perceived by learners was the composition of various theoretical lectures and learning activities tailored to liberal arts subjects. Second, it is necessary for teachers to improve students' ability to solve problems and think through liberal arts classes, and to have frequent opportunities for mutual communication between professors and learners. Third, students perceived positively both at the current level and importance in relation to the liberal arts class grade evaluation. Fourth, students gave an overall positive evaluation of the current liberal arts curriculum. Conclusions The researcher first needs to reinforce the lesson design that can communicate well with each other regardless of the type of class in order to increase the educational performance and effectiveness between professors and learners. It was suggested that universities and professors are required to prepare a standard system that can autonomously design lessons according to new lesson types and monitor learners' learning performance.

Toward Improvement of Community Life: The History of Arts and Local Development in Cooperative Extension

ABSTRACT The Cooperative Extension System (Extension) is a national organization of approximately 3,000 offices across 70 land-grant institutions that relies on a complex blend of federal, state, and local funding to deliver research-based education, resources, and support to citizens in each state. While Extension traditionally focused on agriculture, health and human sciences, 4-H and youth development, and community development, a collective of Arts Extension professionals also discovered Extension’s long, continuous history of arts engagement. Since the 1920s,Extension personnel have integrated the arts as creative strategies to engage participants through high-quality community efforts. This manuscript is an initial attempt to understand a regional perspective on Arts Extension work. First, the authors provide a chronological overview of the history of Arts Extension within the Midwestern region to explore the nuance of arts integration within the Cooperative Extension system. Then, they shift to highlight current community Arts Extension models in four Midwestern states to establish a preliminary foundation for future understanding of how modern approaches in Arts Extension contribute to local community development.

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The development of a decision matrix to guide and support the provision of effective arts programs in schools

In the current education climate, Australian schools are encouraged to provide arts programs, yet there is little dedicated funding for provision and leadership must balance resource allocation with other curriculum and policy priorities. To determine how best to support school leaders in this area, we undertook a three-year project with local industry partners to investigate relationships between different provision approaches, benefits and conditions necessary to realize them, using an emergent, three-stage design. Stage 1 explored current arts provision approaches in 19 Catholic primary schools in Melbourne, along with notions of sustainability. Stages 2 and 3 used ethnographic methods to develop and trial a decision-making matrix to facilitate discussion with school leaders about arts provision goals and provision feasibility. Leaders identified several distinct goals for engaging the arts, and a range of outcomes were anticipated that would require certain conditions and inputs for different program models to be successful. These goals, models, conditions and inputs were organized into a logic model that became the refined Arts Engagement Matrix. Trials showed that the matrix was considered accessible, and capable of assisting leadership navigate arts provision. While not prescriptive, we argue this matrix offers a uniquely comprehensive tool to help school leaders make realistic decisions about how the arts could enrich their school community.