Aesthetic Interest Research Articles

Optimization of Neighborhood Public Space Design Based on Physical Environment Simulation and Crowd Simulation—A Case Study of Xiaomi’s Changping Campus

Digital technology has brought drastic changes to the design methods, values, and design tools of neighbourhood public spaces, thereby changing the behavioural patterns of people in neighbourhood public spaces. Therefore, people’s requirements for urban public space have changed and are characterised by high efficiency, high precision, humanization, and high aesthetics. Scholars at home and abroad have conducted many studies and practises on the application of digital technology to neighbourhood design, but there is a lack of systematic research practises on the use and analysis of multi-faceted data. This paper selects the Xiaomi Beijing Changping II design project, simulates and deduces the physical environment of its location, simulates the results of the natural environment by using the data of sunshine, wind, and water catchment in the physical environment, and then simulates the crowd’s action paths by combining kinetic algorithms and ant algorithms to optimise the design methods, processes, and results of the neighbourhood public space on the basis of this research. The research team designed five groups of programmes for the project based on different design methods and processes, and conducted a comparative study of the five groups of programmes through the hierarchical analysis method in conjunction with the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, as well as discussing them in conjunction with the actual bidding results of the project and the scoring conclusions of the industry experts. The results of the study show that the design scheme for neighbourhood public space based on physical environment simulation and crowd simulation is better able to take advantage of the analytical and predictive advantages of the technology and unite with the designer’s aesthetic interests, balancing the data objectivity and aesthetic subjectivity in the design process. The method is more likely to achieve a design solution that combines systematicity, foresight, rationality, and aesthetics, and provides an empirical case for the application of data simulation in public space, aiming to improve the rationality of public space design and solve the data-objective problems faced by the design of public space at this stage.

Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music

We present a novel framework for music and emotion research that addresses emotional experiences with music as functional episodes. This framework, called the Episode Model, places the situation and the function of the music for the individual at the centre of the experience and integrates acts of affective self-regulation to our understanding of music as emotional experiences. The model consists of a set of five common and functionally unique episodes of emotional experiences related to music, which are: (1) Enjoyment–Distraction–Relaxation (EDR), (2) Connection–Belonging (CB), (3) Focus–Motivation (FM), (4) Personal Emotional Processing (PEP), and (5) Aesthetic–Interest–Awe (AIA). Each episode type can be characterised by a distinct configuration of six descriptive schemes: (1) core affect and emotion qualia, (2) induction mechanisms, (3) listening modes and agency, (4) reward and exposure, (5) musical meanings, and (6) functional contexts. This framework of episodes and schemes places the functionality of emotions at the forefront of music and emotion research and explains how emotional experiences are situated and functionally constructed. In addition, we provide a set of assumptions and specific predictions to facilitate focussed empirical studies of emotional engagement with music.

Ophiolites: Geological Heritage with Multifaceted Cultural Values

Cultural geomorphology is a very recent discipline that studies the geomorphological component of a territory which embodies both a cultural feature of the landscape and its interactions with cultural heritage: this cultural approach concerns the dialogue and cultural integration between humanistic and scientific disciplines and can be extended to all the fields of Earth Sciences. Ophiolite rock masses strongly characterize the landscape: their greenish-black, sometimes red-brown colour; the steep profile of the slopes, which results from their greater resistance to erosion than the surrounding softer sedimentary rocks; the scarce or even absent vegetation cover. The value of ophiolites is not only related to scientific and aesthetic interests, but is also due to historical–geographical, cultural and socio-economic issues. In this research, we present the elements of cultural and landscape value related to the ophiolites of the Northern Apennines, and how these geological and geomorphological features have led to specific relationships with humankind and human geography. Indeed, ophiolites represent characteristic elements of popular culture with immediate reference to toponymy, local legends and religion. Ophiolites are also an element of great strategic importance, as they are crucial for human settlement, with specific reference to defence, and for mining and quarrying activities. The landscape of ophiolites is of great geological, geomorphological, hydrogeological and pedological interest, resulting in a high concentration of geosites, hence on the one hand the opportunity for enhancement and potential geotourism, and on the other hand the need for their protection and geoconservation.

Study on the Strategy of Creating Teaching Situations in High School Art Appreciation Classes

Art appreciation focuses on guiding students to use their perception, experience and knowledge to carry out learning activities such as appreciation, identification and commentary around the visual world of natural beauty and works of art, so as to obtain aesthetic enjoyment, form aesthetic interest, and cultivate aesthetic ability and artistic accomplishment. In art appreciation teaching, situation creation is an important teaching strategy that can help students better understand and apply learning knowledge. This paper first introduces the definition and characteristics of situation creation, and then discusses the importance of situation creation in middle school English classroom teaching, as well as how to create effective teaching situations, so as to build a better classroom for students that is more emotional, more interesting, more abundant, and can enhance their aesthetic ability, so that students can fall in love with art appreciation classes.

Speaking for music?

How does musicology articulate the value of music and the study of music? This is an urgent question given the collapse of music provision in schools and its impact on the discipline at university level. One response has been to demonstrate the pro-social benefits of music through empirical work allied with approaches in psychology and sociology. While this is important, we should be wary of downplaying the aesthetic value of music at the expense of more obviously instrumental functions. A recent convergence of disciplinary interest in aesthetics, from neuroscience to political theory, suggests the aesthetic dimension of music, far from being some outdated fiction, remains a powerful challenge to habitual academic discourse. Against the trivialisation of music on the one hand, and the reductive readings of critical orthodoxies on the other, I argue that music affords modes of sense-making that have never been more needed. (This article is published in the thematic collection `The arts and humanities: rethinking value for today—views from Fellows of the British Academy’, edited by Isobel Armstrong.)

The role of audiovisual congruence in aesthetic appreciation of contemporary music and visual art

Does congruence between auditory and visual modalities affect aesthetic experience? While cross-modal correspondences between vision and hearing are well-documented, previous studies show conflicting results regarding whether audiovisual correspondence affects subjective aesthetic experience. Here, in collaboration with the Kentler International Drawing Space (NYC, USA), we depart from previous research by using music specifically composed to pair with visual art in the professionally-curated Music as Image and Metaphor exhibition. Our pre-registered online experiment consisted of 4 conditions: Audio, Visual, Audio-Visual-Intended (artist-intended pairing of art/music), and Audio-Visual-Random (random shuffling). Participants (N = 201) were presented with 16 pieces and could click to proceed to the next piece whenever they liked. We used time spent as an implicit index of aesthetic interest. Additionally, after each piece, participants were asked about their subjective experience (e.g., feeling moved). We found that participants spent significantly more time with Audio, followed by Audiovisual, followed by Visual pieces; however, they felt most moved in the Audiovisual (bi-modal) conditions. Ratings of audiovisual correspondence were significantly higher for the Audiovisual-Intended compared to Audiovisual-Random condition; interestingly, though, there were no significant differences between intended and random conditions on any other subjective rating scale, or for time spent. Collectively, these results call into question the relationship between cross-modal correspondence and aesthetic appreciation. Additionally, the results complicate the use of time spent as an implicit measure of aesthetic experience.

Metabibliographic Fiction: Metafiction After the Death of the Book in Steven Hall’s Maxwell’s Demon and Nicola Barker’s I Am Sovereign

ABSTRACT This essay examines the combination of an aesthetic interest in the book with metafiction’s self-reflexive literary strategies in two recent British fictions, Steven Hall’s Maxwell’s Demon (2021) and Nicola Barker’s I Am Sovereign (2019). Both fictions, I argue, engage in what I describe as “metabibliographic fiction.” Metabibliographic fictions are fictions that explore the intellectual, narrative, and aesthetic dimensions of metafiction, but do so in ways that incorporate forms of self-reference into their linguistic and graphic structures that engage with the book as a media device. Situating this work within the context of what N. Katherine Hayles terms “postprint,” the essay places metabibliographic fiction at the critical intersection of textual materialism, studies of bookishness, and taxonomies of aesthetic self-consciousness. It then analyzes metafictional and metabibliographic devices in Maxwell’s Demon and I Am Sovereign in order to open theories of the contemporary book to metafiction’s narrative and intellectual legacies.

Exploration of Constructing a Team of Interdisciplinary Talents for Participatory Qinqiang in the New Era

The inheritance and dissemination of traditional Qinqiang in the new era is facing the innovation of technology and the great changes in creative concepts. Combining the principles of communication, focusing on the construction of talent teams for the development of Qinqiang, changing people's stereotypical prejudices about the dissemination and inheritance of traditional opera art, changing the mimetic environment of its dissemination, creating a unique immersive viewing habit with a sense of atmosphere, retaining old audiences, and attracting new audiences. Taking the social factors of art development in the new era as an opportunity, focusing on the factors related to the development of Qinqiang, focusing on the technical means as the factor of communication, stimulating the audience's aesthetic interest in all aspects and dimensions, combining the new path of digital art inheritance and communication, and enriching the construction of a new generation of composite talents in Qinqiang.

The Characteristics of The Inner Intangible Level on Enamel-Colored Culture in Qing Dynasty

On the basis of the theory of cultural levels, this paper analyzed the cultural characteristics of enamel-colored porcelain culture in Qing Dynasty through the allusions and cultural peculiarities of the inner intangible level. Specifically speaking, the allusions include stories and customs, and cultural peculiarities mainly include aesthetic interest, poetry, traditional thought, symbolic meaning. Through the analysis of 42 enamel-colored porcelains in Qing Dynasty, this research explored the characteristics of the inner intangible layer of enamel porcelain culture, injected cultural genes and provided cultural theory for the innovation of contemporary enamel porcelain.

The Status and Changes of the Relationship between Ink and Color in Traditional Landscape Painting

Color has always played a key role in the evolution of Chinese painting history. With the rise of ink painting and the development of literati painting, the expression of landscape painting gradually transformed, green and heavy colors gradually lost their dominant position, and ink painting gradually became the dominant style in the Chinese painting world, with the use of color gradually weakening. Especially in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The change and application of color in landscape painting is in line with the changes in society and aesthetic concepts, reflecting the aesthetic interests and cultural backgrounds of different times.

Re/visiting

It is an honor to receive an invitation from Tawny Andersen and Dena Davida to republish the curatorial essay for our exhibition-event, CounterPoses: Reimagining Tableaux Vivants, that was presented by the gallery Oboro in Montreal in 1998. The opportunity to revisit the project and share it with a larger audience reignites the joy, generosity, and openness we experienced within the Montreal art community. During those years, we were engaged in interdisciplinary graduate studies that illuminated our interests in sensory aesthetics, affect theory, and experiential art, while our editorial positions at Parachute magazine located us at the nexus of the critical art apparatus, where we sought to expand upon art-historical discourse by nurturing writers working in cultural studies, media studies, and performance studies. Now full-time academics, we continue to be involved in these fields of inquiry as founding editors of the Journal of Curatorial Studies, as well as through independent curatorial projects.1

The Application of Multiple Music Cultures in College Music Teaching in the Background of Internet

Abstract In advancing quality education, there is a pressing necessity to equip students in higher education with global perspectives and skills in intercultural communication. This study leverages the TSPCK knowledge transformation model to deliver an extensive exploration and application in the realms of goal orientation, content structuring, foundational learning, strategy deployment, and the execution of assessments within the framework of multicultural music education. The adaptive learning system’s learner model is meticulously crafted by assessing learners’ preliminary knowledge, evaluating their challenges with music knowledge, and estimating their overall knowledge proficiency, with validation conducted across six distinct datasets. Multicultural elements in college music education are strategically utilized to investigate their influence on students’ aesthetic interests and musical literacy. Empirical results indicate a residual mean score of 2.0501 for music aesthetic literacy within a multicultural context, suggesting that exposure to multicultural music education broadens students’ perspectives significantly. Furthermore, this educational approach encourages students to cultivate a deeper appreciation and respect for the nuances and commonalities across various cultures. Enhancing the quality of music education in tertiary institutions and promoting a profound understanding and proficiency in diverse music cultures are identified as pivotal elements in achieving these educational outcomes.

Exploration of aesthetic education path for college students based on cognitive multi-method integration of innovation and entrepreneurship cultivation

Abstract This paper builds a cultivation system of innovation and entrepreneurship ability, and puts forward the corresponding cultivation mode and implementation path. At the same time, under the implementation conditions, a multiple linear regression model is used to explore the influence of the integration of aesthetic education on innovation and entrepreneurship ability. The results show that aesthetic interest, aesthetic perception, innovation consciousness and innovation and entrepreneurship ability cultivation are significantly positively correlated, with correlation coefficients of 0.039, 0.025, 0.12 respectively. Multiple covariate diagnosis shows that the model fit is good, the value of VIF is more than 3, and that the influence of aesthetic interest, aesthetic perception, and innovation consciousness on college students’ entrepreneurial intention is significant. In addition, regression analysis showed that the standardized regression coefficient of aesthetic interest on the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship was −0.113 (P<0.001), and the standardized regression coefficient of innovation awareness was −0.128, which indicated that aesthetic education had a significant favorable influence on the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship. The study verifies the effectiveness of the innovation and entrepreneurship ability cultivation system incorporating aesthetic education. It provides data support for implementing innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities.

Exploring Urban Aesthetics from the Viewpoint of Shared Culture: Gaozhuang Xishuangjing of Jinghong and Chiang Mai Old City

<p> 東南亞的共享文化是一種社會現象，共享文化一旦符碼化後，對城市美學發展而言可能形成阻力。以中國的傣族和泰國的泰族而言，兩造有族源關係，具共享文化，特別是西雙版納和清邁的傣泰族群的語言、習俗與宗教相通，不僅造就兩地相似的文化意象，也影響彼此的景區建設。其中，景洪市告庄西雙景和清邁市的清邁古城，都是由舊城區改造的觀光景點，兩城區的景觀相似，有共同的造景符號。問題是：城市美學的發展強調在地特色，但告庄西雙景和清邁古城卻出現了相似的景觀，這是一種共享文化的再現，還是美學設計的問題？本文立基於此進行調查，目的在探討告庄西雙景和清邁古城的城市美學為何相似的原因。研究結果顯示，兩景區景觀之所以相似，關鍵在於美學設計的問題，而非共享文化的因素。告庄西雙景和清邁古城的文化戰略定位雖不同，但彼此的美學設計卻相似，主要是因為告庄西雙景的造景技術團隊來自泰國，以清邁的藝術技法複製於告庄西雙景，遂造就兩景區相似的外觀，文末則對此進行評述。</p> <p> </p><p>The shared culture in Southeast Asia is a kind of social phenomenon that, once encoded as symbols, could resist urban aesthetic development. The Dai people of China and the Thai people of Thailand have ethnic ties and share a common culture, especially in Xishuangbanna and Chiang Mai, where the Dai and Thai people share a common language, customs, and religion. This provides the conditions for the presence of similar cultural imagery and influences the construction of areas of aesthetic interest in both places. Among these, two key such areas in Jinghong and Chiang Mai–Gaozhuang Xishuangjing Scenic Area and Chiang Mai Old City–are both tourist attractions transformed from the old city. The landscapes of them are similar and have common landscaping symbols. Do these qualities indicate the reproduction of a shared culture? If so, is it the case that the development of the urban aesthetic in each instance emphasizes local characteristics and that this is the explanation for the similarity between the two environments? Or does this similarity result from design? On the basis of these questions, the study aims to investigate the reason of why the urban aesthetics of these two areas are similar. The research finding shows that the key to the similarity between the two urban landscapes is design and not the influence of shared culture. Although the cultural strategies of Gaozhuang Xishuangjing Scenic Area and Chiang Mai Old City differ, their design features are found to be similar, mainly because the technical team that built Gaozhuang Xishuangjing Scenic Area came from Thailand and replicated the artistic techniques of Chiang Mai Old City, resulting in two aesthetically similar areas. The article concludes with a brief comment in light of the findings.</p> <p> </p>

AI for Everyone? Disposition Towards the Use of GPT Chat Among Secondary School Adolescents

This quantitative research examines the utilisation patterns of GPT chat platforms within the adolescent demographic of secondary school students, exploring the potential associations between such usage and their vocational interests, gender, and personality traits. The study involved 75 students from a technologically advanced high school, where tablets and iPads are innovatively implemented, largely replacing traditional teaching aids in every subject. A diagnostic survey and two psychological tests – NEO Five-Factor Inventory NEO-FFI by P.T. Costa and R.R. McCrae – Polish adaptation and Multidimensional Preference Questionnaire WKP were used. The research indicated a correlation between gender and interests and declared level of knowledge about AI tools: in the study group, boys declared a higher level of knowledge and interests. Moreover, there is no significant correlation between personality and the use of ChatGPT. Individuals with managerial and organisational interests reported higher interest in ChatGPT. Conversely, individuals with practical and aesthetic interests stated that ChatGPT restricts creativity.

Aesthetic interest of youth students in folk music

Aesthetic interest of youth students in folk music

An Analysis of the Teaching Reform and Practice of Dance Courses Under the Background of Curriculum Ideology and Politics

Dancing is an influential form of artistic expression and it holds a significant position in aesthetic education. Under the background of ideological and political considerations within the curriculum, dance teaching in colleges and universities should focus on nurturing students’ aesthetic interests and instilling socialist core values. This paper delves into the significance of incorporating civic politics into dance teaching and discusses specific practical strategies in detail, aiming to provide valuable insights for educators in this field.

Study on the Symbol of Chinese Copper Pheasant in Court Painting in Song Dynasty

Chinese traditional painting is divided into palace painting, literati painting and painters painting according to class.In the Song Dynasty,the palace painting was mostly assigned by the emperor himself. In addition to the fine and beautiful royal aesthetic interest, the political meaning behind it was also the content of the palace painting.It is the most commonly used technique in Chinese literature and art, which is also a means to give political moral to court painting in Song Dynasty. Behind the symbols of the objects in the palace paintings of the Song Dynasty are the political meanings expressed by the rulers at that time.The emperor,for some reason, flaunted or warned them through paintings.The symbol of Chinese copper pheasant contains profound social culture and folk culture, which can fully reflect the cultural characteristics of Song Dynasty. This paper explores the meaning of Chinese copper pheasant symbol and better understands the deep meaning behind the image. It is helpful to study the flower and bird painting in Song Dynasty and provide a new perspective for the study of court flower and bird painting in Song Dynasty.

An Analysis of Cao Yus Creative Conception of Female Images Transformation in His Plays

As the Pioneer of Chinese Drama, Cao Yu has contributed a series of distinctive and representative female images to contemporary Chinese literature. However, it exists a great transformation in female image creation and aesthetics in his plays. Divided from 1938, modern women represented by Fanyi, Chen Bailu and Hua Jinzi full of passion for life were celebrated by Cao Yu during the pre-time, while traditional women with classic Chinese flavors got well recognized by him during the post-time, such as Doctor Ding, Sufang and Ruijue. The transformation related closely to his creative conception, reflecting Cao Yus re-choice of his aesthetic interests, values, and cultural stance. This article analyzed Cao Yus creative conception from the differences between his two periods of female image creation and aesthetics before and after 1938. In recent years, feminism has been on the rise in China. Therefore, it will not only be beneficial to the Chinese womens liberation movement, but also to the worlds womens liberation movement.

An Exploration of Artistic Beauty in Renaissance Artworks: A Case Study of Botticelli's Spring

With more and more people beginning to enrich their spiritual world, some of them have a stronger interest in modern aesthetics and even classical aesthetics, at the same time, with the continuous development of society, more and more people attach importance to aesthetic education. Many scholars also began to conduct a deeper study of Renaissance artworks. In this context, it is necessary to explore the beauty of Renaissance art. This paper will adopt the case method, taking the representative work of Botticelli in the Renaissance as an example, to show the beauty of art in the artworks of the Renaissance through its content, painting techniques, composition, and the author's emotions was how to express. Choose to analyze this painting from various aspects in order to increase the persuasiveness of this paper. To prove that the aesthetic expression in the artworks during the Renaissance is helpful to the guidance of modern art.