Artistic Exploration Research Articles

Violin Sonata in F-major by Edvard Grieg in the context of national elements and european music achievements

In concert and especially in teaching practice, Edvard Grieg’s Violin Sonata in F Major op. 8, which was written in 1865, is labelled as his youthful composition. Considering the time when it was created, it is an undisputed fact, but such a term has negative connotations and may also make one’s attitude towards artistic explorations within the piece shallower. It is worth to mention here that it was this very Sonata in F Major that attracted the attention of the great Ferenc Liszt. In his article, the author attempts to point to different sources which inspired Grieg during the initial period of his creative life. These influences can be divided into national ones (Norwegian) and European ones (based on the firm roots of the European musical heritage). There is no doubt that the composer is another link in the great Romantic tradition, both in terms of composition technique and form, as well as regular studies at the Conservatory in Leipzig. However, the matters related to the national element are much more difficult to look at using a comprehensive approach. While experiencing and analysing Norwegian folk music, one needs to consider to what extent Grieg’s music draws from it. In this aspect, the author discusses the issue of how well Grieg knew the music from his home country as well as objective obstacles in reflecting its idiom in artistic music. Norwegian folk instruments as such, in this case – the violin: hardingfele, seem an interesting element. These diverse influences were present throughout the whole period of Grieg’s creative work and can be seen already in his youthful Sonata in F Major – even though sometimes they are barely noticeable because of not having a mature form. Nevertheless, the awareness of rich- ness and many layers included in this composition should stimulate performers to study it in a diligent and in-depth way.

APPLICATION OF THE WESTERN ART FORM BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The western artistic school understands the world through its form of expression, images creation from the consciousness which induces illusion, deal with concretion through decomposition, synthesis, overlap, art cross thinking.it reflects subconscious progress; The art school evolution from classical to modern, based on the objectives, from concretion ,impression to abstract art expression, artificial intelligence deepen the objective, scientific, rational and artistic exploration, less considering the unity of formation and content of the art in exploring the breakthrough, but the transcendence mechanism itself will continuing to research in the art field because of art nature, It will prompts the rationalization of western art in convergence and development constantly.

Living Life as Inquiry \u2013 a Systemic Practice for Change Agents

The practical orientation of action research, together with its embedded and participative principles, means it is particularly suited to complex, interconnected questions and ‘real life’ systemic issues. In the realm of first-person action research, Judi Marshall’s (1999) influential article “Living Life as Inquiry” described how such research can extend to one’s whole life whereby professional and personal questions can be set within politically relevant frames. Over the past two decades, many students and researchers have worked with and drawn much imaginative inspiration from the idea of living life as inquiry (LLI). However little has been written to describe how the practice develops and the many forms it can take. This article draws on our extensive experience as inquirers ourselves and as educators, working with students and change agents motivated to address social and environmental concerns. Twenty years after the original article we have conducted a reflective review that included surveying the literature, and working in depth with a range of stories and current practices. From this comes a textured expansion of the language and practice of living life as inquiry as it is approached from the specificity of people’s lives. Through narrative and visual textures, we present views into the many different ways LLI is developed through day-to-day practices of experimentation, data gathering, artistic exploration, intervention and reflection. We explore what this means for quality in the enactment of inquiry. The article draws particular attention to the embodied nature of inquiry and seeks to capture its fleeting, processual quality.

The Clay Hand Illusion and the Embodiment of Unfeasible Objects.

In an artistic exploration, clay hands and nonhand-like, unfeasible clay objects were created by the participant and used to perform an alternative version of the rubber hand illusion. Most participants felt ownership even over these unfeasible objects, raising questions about the embodied experience of objects that we make.

Somatic–Performative Research: Artistic practices, pedagogical processes, methodological principles

Somatic–performative research (SPR) is a mode of Artistic Practice as Research I have been developing in the past fifteen years. Major influences of SPR have been Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, dance theatre and performance. Performativity in a somatic perspective is a constant state of change, between pulsing and resting, innovation and balance, in a process of merging, differentiating and growing. In SPR, the research subject and its enquiries are alive and pulsing in contrasting forces. We merge into them to move with and be moved by them, in dynamic relationship with an inter-artistic creative environment. The association of somatic and performative research implies specific pedagogical choices, strategies and activities. As part of an academic moving field, the SPR encompasses the integration of inner attunement and coherence with artistic exploration, sensorial merger and critical analysis, creativity and social relevance.

APPLICATION OF THE WESTERN ART FORM BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The western artistic school understands the world through its form of expression, images creation from the consciousness which induces illusion, deal with concretion through decomposition, synthesis, overlap, art cross thinking.it reflects subconscious progress; The art school evolution from classical to modern, based on the objectives, from concretion ,impression to abstract art expression, artificial intelligence deepen the objective, scientific, rational and artistic exploration, less considering the unity of formation and content of the art in exploring the breakthrough, but the transcendence mechanism itself will continuing to research in the art field because of art nature, It will prompts the rationalization of western art in convergence and development constantly.

The art of the thinking space—a space filled with data

ABSTRACT Interactive media art is an art form that ‘transforms digital information and translates it into aesthetics of participative processes.’ In their artistic investigations, the artists and architects Fleischmann and Strauss focus on the concept of the ‘thinking space’ [Denkraum]. Following Aby Warburg's ‘space of thought’ (1929), they define the thinking space of interactive media art as a ‘space filled with data’ (Strauss, W., and M. Fleischmann. 2001. The artists’ thinking space is the artistic exploration of an architecture of interactivity that ‘evokes’ communication ‘in a culture of simulation’ (Turkle, S. 2004). by involving people in a performative way. This article presents three of their projects, all based on the metaphor of the thinking space: ‘Semantic Map’, ‘Media Flow’ and ‘Energy Passages’ illustrate strategies of interactivity using artificial intelligence to ‘reinforce human intelligence’. The question is not whether machines can think, but whether people can still think when everything is automated.

Od redaktorek. Sztuka w socjologii jakościowej bez rewolucji. Krótkie wprowadzenie

Niniejszy numer tematyczny skoncentrowany jest wokół dwóch pytań: po pierwsze, jakie miejsce zajmuje sztuka w jakościowych badaniach socjologicznych, a po drugie, jak za pomocą działań artystycznych i badawczych można zmierzyć się z problemem inności i obcości (także w relacji artystów i badaczy). Dotychczasowe doświadczenia wskazują, że najbliższe związki między nauką i sztuką realizowane są w ramach podejść krytycznych i zaangażowanych. Autorka wprowadzenia sugeruje, że kluczem do efektywnego zestawienia socjologii z działaniami artystycznymi w jednym projekcie badawczym jest rozdzielenie ich udziału na różne etapy lub poziomy badania: działania artystyczne najlepiej sprawdzałyby się na poziomie zaprojektowania i przeprowadzenia interwencji oraz zaangażowania uczestników i odbiorców dzieła, a zadaniem socjologów byłoby wspomaganie planowania i organizacji interwencji artystycznej, a następnie zbieranie materiałów dokumentujących jej przebieg, dokonanie ich analizy i interpretacji oraz ewaluacja projektu pod kątem jego wpływu na otoczenie społeczne i rozwój wiedzy o badanym aspekcie życia społecznego. Jest to stanowisko raczej umiarkowane niż radykalne, ale pozwalające zapewnić odrębność i specjalizację obu dziedzin wytwarzania wiedzy i uwzględniające ograniczenia i wymagania pochodzące z kontekstu społecznego. Elementy takiej strategii zastosowali autorzy i autorki artykułów zamieszczonych w tym tomie, koncentrując się na analizie dzieł i sytuacji ich tworzenia, pierwszy ruch pozostawiając artystom.

Bio matter in creative practises for fashion and design

Through an examination of the bacteria that produce the cellulose, an investigation of the growing process and properties, and a discussion of an artistic exploration, one can fully grasp bio cellulose’s potential in becoming a synergist for sustainable fashion. This new creative and radical approach re-imagines the future materials for fashion and other fields requiring textile applications that are grown and renewable. Questions how textile can be created to be sustainable, biodegradable and infinitely reusable and mainly what the paradigms for the new aesthetics are. The aim of this article is to convey the need for new biomaterials inspired by nature.

7. The Burke’s Pentad Heuristic: Potentiality for Creative Idea Generation in Graphic Communication Design

Abstract The Burke’s Pentad (Act, Agent, Agency, Scene and Purpose) is a creative idea generation guide for dramatism (or dramatistic framework). Its utilization to probe, often engenders a process of stochastic combination, whereby a vista of multiple ideational variations emerge in one’s mind, from which an appropriate subset could be selected and implemented. This usually affords inspiration, creative flow and energy that are pivotal for success in drama as much as in visual communication. However, there is prevalent unawareness of the potentials of the Pentad model as a veritable structure to creating innovative ideas in art and design. Therefore, this paper focused on the potentiality of the Pentad for creating and or analyzing ideas on form generation for pedagogical, practical, or theoretical purpose in graphic communication design. Towards this end, a triangulation of methods: critical-historical-analytic examination, artistic exploration, and content analysis are employed. The paper introduced the reader to the need for a strategy to generate new ideas, stimulate creative thinking, and enhance self-motivation in visual expression for structural and human development. Furthermore, it highlighted the processes of creativity, and form generation for material culture development. Also, the paper discussed the Pentad and its utilization for generating new ideas in art/design. It was found that the Pentad is indispensable in generating ideas for creating, interpreting and teaching visual form. The paper ended with the need for visual communicators to be acquainted by use of the Pentad for creative ideas to generate product with satisfactory outcomes.

Digiti Sonus and Eyes

Abstract This paper discusses design process and motivations of two interactive biometric data artworks (Digiti Sonus and Eyes). Narratives and artistic explorations using two forms of biometric data, from fingerprints and the iris, are discussed based on insights from various fields such as genetics, visual feature analysis, user interface design and data visualization and sonification. Digiti Sonus and Eyes extracted the unique visual features of each type of biometric data and transformed the data into musical sound with multimodal interactions so that the result was real time experimental sound. Various aspects of the two artworks are compared in this paper.

GENERAL TRENDS OF THE LITERARY PROCESS: THEORETICAL ASPECT

In the article the attempt is made to present general tendencies of the literary process in the theoretical aspect, based on the research of modern scholars. The definition of outlined components of the literary process and the factors that affect its evolution are suggested. At the same time, the concept of the literary process is illuminated: allocation of the verbal art of a syncretic of mythological and folk art, the loss of anonymity writing, strengthening the dialogue art of thinking, the formation of personal, individual authorship, the weakening of canonicity in genre creation (evolution from folk epic to the novel), the formation of psychological and socio-historical specificity (realism) is an artistic exploration of life.It is proved that the evolving according to its internal laws the literature included in the overall socio-cultural paradigm, and its steady course of the extra literature factors as philosophical, ideological, sociological, psychological are determined. At the same time, the angles of the multifaceted connection of literature with the historical process was shown. The article focused on the value side of the literary process, as the interaction of literature with cultural, linguistic, ideological, scientific phenomena, as well as with other types of art.Theoretical developments on the role of the national system in it involved to understand the literary process in the analysis of the problem in the field of research. First of all clarified its characteristics, the factors that shape the national literature, and identifies typological framework structure of national literature.The article also revealed the specifics of the Ukrainian mentality, archetypes of the nation and the concept of a typical image is embodied in Ukrainian writing.

Svalbard as a Motif and a Place of Artistic Exploration

The article outlines the history of artists’ exploration of Svalbard as a motif, and then proceeds to describe a number of more recent art practices by the artists relating to Svalbard in the new millennium. The article traces the artists’ development from being supporters of research by providing visual material, to becoming researchers in their own right.

Holding Paradox: Activating the Generative (Im)possibility of Art Education Through Provocative Acts of Mentoring With Beginning Art Teachers

We describe the theorization and implementation of a collaborative pilot initiative that took place over the course of one school year as we implemented provocative acts of mentoring for beginning art teachers. The provocations we set in motion were designed to confront prevalent myths of teaching and to embrace the power of artistic exploration to make something generative out of the complex experiences faced by beginning teachers. As our work progressed, we began to see sparks of paradox arise—paradoxes that characterized the (im)possibility of teaching art. By activating mentoring provocations that encouraged all of us to engage with paradoxical tensions, we came to recognize that holding paradox offers an opportunity to embrace the (im)possibility of art education as a space of immanent potential. Excited by the possibilities afforded by holding paradox, we offer three paradoxical tensions that might prompt a re-visioning of mentoring practices with beginning art teachers.

THE INCREASING OF SCHOOL ATTRACTIVENESS AS A KEY PROBLEM OF ITS RENOVATION IN THE PERIOD OF SOCIAL CHANGES

The attractiveness of school for children, parents, communities and teachers is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. This article deals with its several aspects, namely the necessity of modernizing and innovative redesign of the content of educational subject curricula, textbooks. This task should be solved at all levels beginning with the ministry and finishing with a separate educational institution. But exactly the teachers of a new generation should play a special role in the renovation and reform of the content part of national education. Training new teachers` personnel is the task of pedagocial universities. They should considerably renovate the conceptual foundations of the educational and upbringing process, provide a competency approach, introduce the latest technologies as well as thoroughly reinterpret home and foreign pedagogical experience, new realias of social existence and besides realize everything in practice. The subject of the research is the renewal of the school in the period of social changes. The goal of the article is to study the attractiveness of the school as a key problem of its renewal in the period of social changes. The methodology of studying the attractiveness is based on the use of systematic, logical, historical and dialectic approaches and methods. The results of the scientific research. The figure of a teacher, his authority, psychological and communicative qualities and personal and professional competencies are one of the key factors on the basis of which the attractiveness of the educational establishment as a whole is formed and ensured. The practical value of the results. In order to attract pupils by his educational and upbringing activities and behaviour the teacher must fully possess and actively apply innovative and humanistic technologies, demonstrate personal creativity and artistic explorations. The scientifically developed methodological and didactic principles and also technological techniques

Góry Mariana Pankowskiego – przestrzeń emigracji i „emigracji”?

The interpretation of the forgotten volume of „Wiersze alpejskie” (Alpine Poems) by Marian Pankowski, published in Brussels in 1947 is, in the presented article, a starting point for reflection on the various dimensions and meanings of emigration in the biography and work of the artist. Paying attention to the topographic details allows to read the collection of poems not only as a poetic record of sensations related to the mountain trek, but also as a testimony to the writer’s dilemmas and his artistic explorations. However, the comparison with the later work „Z Auszwicu do Belsen” (From Auszwic to Belsen) reveals the genesis of „Wiersze alpejskie” (Alpine Poems) as related to the first post-war holiday trip of the poet and directs our attention to his traumatic experiences, absent, displaced in the lyrics, which can be read as the area of another emigration i.e. escape from painful memories.

Flow Vertical: Composing and Improvising Original Music Inspired by Bodily Sound Vibrations

This text analyzes the process of composing and improvising the musical experiment Flow Vertical. This artistic exploration for chamber orchestra responds to a theory of biosignals, incorporating a putative sonic mapping of “inaudible” sound vibration of the author’s biofield as understood to be measured by an SCIO device. The interpretation and represent ation of measured frequencies influenced the creation of an “assemblage,” the system of interconnected human and nonhuman agents within the piece. The artist applied an original eight-week-long method of creation, investigating how this idea of body vibration and a specific yogic routine could aesthetically affect music.

Teacher! Teacher! An Artistic Exploration of the True-Story Troubles and Triumphs of First-Year Teachers

New teachers often feel unprepared to meet the demands of the profession, and attrition rates indicate approximately half will leave within their first 5 years. To address this problem, this applied theater project utilized ethnodrama, integrating research and performance, to stage the stories of first-year teachers. Researchers interviewed 18 first-year teachers and an ensemble of performers then developed a series of monologues, dances, poems, songs, and scenes. These vignettes fit within three categories: (a) The Beginning; (b) The Students; and (c) The Profession. This script documents that performance.

From Undesired Flaws to Esthetic Assets: A Digital Framework Enabling Artistic Explorations of Erroneous Geometric Features of Robotically Formed Molds

Until recently, digital fabrication research in architecture has aimed to eliminate manufacturing errors. However, a novel notion has just been established—intentional computational infidelity. Inspired by this notion, we set out to develop means than can transform the errors in fabrication from an undesired complication to a creative opportunity. We carried out design experiment-based investigations, which culminated in the construction of a framework enabling fundamental artistic explorations of erroneous geometric features of robotically formed molds. The framework consists of digital processes, assisting in the explorations of mold errors, and physical processes, enabling the inclusion of physical feedback in digital explorations. Other complementary elements embrace an implementation workflow, an enabling digital toolset and a visual script demonstrating how imprecise artistic explorations can be included within the computational environment. Our framework application suggests that the exploration of geometrical errors aids the emergence of unprecedented design features that would not have arisen if error elimination were the ultimate design goal. Our conclusion is that welcoming error into the design process can reinstate the role of art, craft, and material agency therein. This can guide the practice and research of architectural computing onto a new territory of esthetic and material innovation.

Монтаж как сюжетный прием в драматургии Вадима Леванова

Статья посвящена проблеме монтажа как сюжетообразующего приема, активно используемого в современной драматургии. Возможности монтажа рассматриваются на примере последних пьес Вадима Леванова. Он – один из наиболее известных представителей новейшей российской драмы рубежа XX–XXI веков, и в творчестве Леванова отразилось все многообразие идейных и художественных исканий современной драматургии. Драматургический диптих Святая блаженная Ксения Петербургская в житии и Кровавыя барыни Дарьи Салтыковой, московской столбовой дворянки правдоподобное и елико возможно достоверное жизнеописание, а также Пьеса про коров несомненно были программными произведениями Леванова, в которых отразились его философские искания. В статье показано, как использование приема монтажа позволило драматургу выразить свое отношение к извечной оппозиции добра и зла.