Media Art Research Articles

전통문화 기반 가상현실과 증강현실 연구개발 동향

This study aimed to identify the research trends in the VR, AR a rising field in Industry 4.0 for traditional culture and propose policy suggestions. The terms VR and AR, which refer to key configuration, were added alongside the traditional culture in the terminology as journal articles search words to conduct this study and the used on text mining. The journal articles and theses collected from RISS yielded 1,186 on the traditional culture vr, and 239 on traditional culture AR. As a result of the study, frequency analysis of academic journals and dissertations showed that digital, virtual space, media art, cultural heritage, and animation were commonly ranked high. In the frequency analysis of academic journals and theses, the 4th Industrial Revolution and content (cultural content & digital content) were found to be highly ranked.

청소년 회복탄력성 증진 방안 연구

This study explores the effects of integrated art therapy on adolescents' mental health and resilience. Integrated art therapy can improve resilience by strengthening emotional expression, self-identification, and communication skills through art media. However, there may be differences in effectiveness depending on the characteristics of each adolescent, requiring a customized approach, and in some areas, there may be accessibility problems due to lack of resources. Cooperation between the government, educational institutions, art therapy experts, and local communities is necessary, and efforts are needed. Therefore, customized access, resource expansion, and cooperation are needed to improve the resilience of adolescents using integrated art therapy. Through this, it is expected that more adolescents will be able to have enhanced mental health and resilience.

Adoption of Digital Healthcare Interventions and Innovations in Reducing Mental Health Stigma: A Perspective on (COVID)-19

Objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese people with mental health difficulties faced a major issue of mental health stigma. The pandemic's constant stress and social isolation intensified the stigma attached to people suffering from mental illnesses. To address this issue, a study was done in China to investigate mental health stigma in the context of digital media arts. Methods: The study involves randomly distributing 1300 questionnaires on a 5-point Likert scale. Only 500 questionnaires, however, were found adequate for data analysis using partial least squares (PLS). Results: Digital health innovation and adoption are crucial for enhancing mental health. The study's focus was confined to the adoption of innovation in mental healthcare in China because this sector received less attention in previous research that sought to establish a link between digital health innovation and digital mental healthcare. Conclusion: The study has important theoretical and practical implications for improving people's lives by strengthening their mental health systems with digital technologies and raising awareness of digital healthcare tools. The findings are important for policymakers to make people aware of the importance of caring for their mental health by digital healthcare tools.

A. 볼로딘의 희곡 다섯 밤의 무대화와 영화화 연구

The purpose of this paper is to study how A. Volodin's play Five Nights has been reproduced and recreated through the artistic media of theater and film. And the purpose is to study how the director (film director) discovered and supplemented the hidden side of the play. In other words, the purpose of this paper is to examine how a play, which is a written text, is converted into a form through a play delivered through words and actions, and a movie delivered through video through camera shooting, and the aspects and meaning of that transformation. To this end, this paper selected Topstanogov's play from Vedette in 1959 and Mikhalkov's film from 1978, and studied the directors' original interpretations and complementary aspects of the original text in different time periods and genre characteristics. This paper proposes that it can be actively utilized in the research methodology of media conversion of works of art, which is emerging as a trend in modern culture and arts research.

표현예술치료와 통합예술치료의 융합을 위한 비교 연구

The purpose of this study is to convergence of Expressive Arts Therapy and Integrative Arts Therapy. As a research method, first looked at the similarities and differences between the two treatment methods through literature review, and then analyzed the phenomenon of convergent application of the two treatment methods in medical and educational settings. The results of this study are as follows. First, Expressive Arts Therapy and Integrative Arts Therapy treatments include each other in terminology, implementation contents and orientation. Second, the 'Five Stages of Integrative Arts Psychotherapy', which is officially implemented in medical and educational settings within the NCMH(in South Korea), is the integration of psychotherapy and therapeutic education, and the convergence of techniques between Expressive Arts Therapy and Integrative Arts Therapy, and It represents the integration between traditional arts media and practical arts forms. Third, the stages and structure of Int egrative Arts Psychotherapy were proposed.

Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills

ABSTRACT Media literacy education in Australia is underpinned by the key concepts of media education: technologies, representations, institutions, audiences, languages and, more recently, relationships. The conceptual approach to media literacy education continues to offer a way for teachers and students to critically examine the media. In Australia, this usually occurs through the subject strand of Media Arts; however, little research explores how the concepts are used in primary school classrooms. This study investigates how the key concept of ‘technologies’ was enacted in three primary school classrooms. A case study methodology was employed to gain insight into how teaching and learning experiences develop an understanding of the concept of ‘technologies’. A thematic analysis determined that the concept of ‘technologies’ was explored in the case study classrooms. However, technology was used as a tool to complete tasks rather than a nuanced examination of how technology enables and constrains production and distribution.

THE PROBLEM OF MORAL AGENCY IN BIOART

The meaning of creating aesthetic value has been defined as an activity as an end in itself in the sense of not serving any other interest or human need. In this respect, art seems free of social value judgements and practical concerns. In parallel, an artist’s conflict with social values is accepted as normal in the name of the freedom of artistic expression. The risk of moralism causes a separation between ethics and aesthetic values. The discussion surrounding "moralism" and "artistic autonomy" revolves around the argument for a clear separation between art and ethics, or their integration with one another. Whereas moralism reduces aesthetic value to ethical value, autonomism claims autonomy of aesthetic and ethical values because of the legacy of ethical criticisms. In this respect, this article dwells on the limits of art’s moral agency by placing it outside the extreme divide between moralism and autonomism. For this aim, the claim that every artwork cannot necessarily be subjected to ethical judgement or agency, because not all artworks consist of propositional knowledge, will be eliminated. Second, considering the fact that nonpropositional artwork is immanent to the social networks that they emerge from and their mutual effects on these networks, it will be asserted that artwork as a fabrication of reality can be seen as responsible for its actions. The relationship between art and ethics when the subject matter is "living beings" will be assessed through a bioethical lens by analyzing notable examples of bioart. Does art have a responsibility to treat living beings? The use of biotechnology by artistic aims and the forms of how bioengineered life becomes an artistic medium can be seen as either a break from traditional art and an artistic revolution or an intervention to “natural” processes and destroy the perception of the nature-human relationship. To emphasize the moral responsibility of new media art involving biotechnologies, it is recommended to concentrate on their connection to the broader social-material field and their impact, in addition to the physical characteristics of these artworks or the medium through which they are presented. By examining the impact of these artwork on biotechnological networks and societal relationships, it is possible to trace their ethical and political effects and differentiate the boundaries of their moral agency within the realm of bioart.

Exploring the Educational Potential of Immersive New Media Art in Urban Commercial Spaces in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

Contemporary Chinese art has witnessed a transformative evolution in the realm of installation art, particularly in the context of immersive new media installations within urban commercial spaces. This study explores the educational potential of immersive new media art in urban commercial spaces in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. The research journey spans various stages of Dalian’s installation art development, from its early emergence in the 1980s to the prosperous period in the 1990s and its diversification in the 21st century. Key themes explored include the evolution of artistic expression, the impact on education, and the integration of new media in urban commercial spaces. The research site primarily focuses on Dalian’s cultural and commercial landscapes, with a spotlight on the Xiongdong Street project. The study employs a qualitative research methodology, combining field research, interviews, multimedia elements, and data analysis to offer comprehensive insights into the subject matter. Key informants include artists, scholars, and experts within the field of installation art. The research results reveal the dynamic evolution of Dalian’s installation art, its educational significance, and its integration into urban commercial spaces. The study suggests that immersive new media art has the potential to enrich art education, engage the public, and foster cultural and commercial development.

Content policy and access limitations on commercial neural networks as an incentive to artivism

This article employs a case‐study method to investigate the artivism neural network community concentrated on Twitter (since renamed X), which has been ideologically influenced by the content policy and limitations of OpenAI. Today, many young artists using machine learning technologies in their artworks (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Kandinsky) note that despite significant progress in the field of neural network generators of image through prompts present in museums and exhibitions of contemporary digital art, a significant number of artworks are still made chiefly using outdated text-to-image algorithms created in 2021. These neural networks continue to be popular in art to this day. The reasons for the sustainability of such practices can be found in the soft ideological conflict between artists and OpenAI in 2021. At that time, neural networks had not yet become mainstream, and the dominant theme was deep fakes, which became the basis for a comprehensive discussion about the possibilities and consequences of implementing AI algorithms in modern society. A series of scandals related to the work of neural networks alerted businesses, which feared the reputational costs of neural network errors and biases. At the same time, the existing discourse on freedom of speech, thought, and self-expression in contemporary art has led to ideological conflict, as the creators have introduced constraints on tools of artistic expression. Previously, the actions of artists were not moderated by technical means. Thus, the community did not accept this state of affairs, and as a result of cooperation and “collective intelligence” created, on the GitHub and Google Colab platforms, their own algorithms with open code, with which everyone could carry out their visual experiments. Artists face the ideological question of fighting globalism and anti-progress in art to be outside the system but to riot against it. This process led to a division of artistic practises in neural network art, outlined by media artist Ryan Murdock as a gateway to text-guided visual art by the hacker effort of 2021 or the modern generation of algorithm text-to-images (after 2022).

An Application of Hemp as Fiber Material in Art Applications from Past to Present: A Brief Artist Perspective

Hemp has been a longstanding material choice for textile creations. As far back as early Chinese civilizations humans have been using hemp for items including paper, clothing, rope, and various other household items. As trading moved westward, more civilizations began to pick up on cultivating hemp for textile uses. This was easily done due to the simplistic growing conditions necessary for hemp. Items made from processed hemp have since been found and collected from all over the globe and are now preserved in history and art museums. These items began getting recognition by art communities in more recent years. After World War II fiber art became a recognized art medium instead of its previous classification of utilitarian craftwork. Since then, fiber art has flourished, and it is celebrated in art museums and similar works worldwide. Now, old and new items and textiles utilizing hemp are preserved through art museums and collections.

The Development of The Interdisciplinary Talent Training Model for The New Media Art Major

In the contemporary context, the construction of talent cultivation model for new media art major inevitably requires the integration of the concept of "interdisciplinary" and the exploration of its effective integration points, in order to effectively improve the quality of talent cultivation.

OOO Sound Art and Technology as Speculative Realism

This article presents a conceptual elaboration that was created from an interview with the philosopher Graham Harman. It makes linkages between art, technology, communication and philosophy while focusing on object-oriented ontology philosophy applied to sound art. The argument involves aesthetics and social contextual ideas such as post-digital, techno-cultural, and post-techno aesthetics. Examining how technology, as a technical, symbolic and contextual dominant object of material and symbolic meaning, affects society and the arts and impacts perception, by pointing out the analytical and philosophical differences between events as spectral, immanent forces with performative qualities and technological things as materials with atomic vibrations. The aim is to promote perspectives on hybrid-materialism and event with conceptual linkage in hybrid creative art forms focused on sound as the virtual nominator in both the analog and digital environments of an expanded reality. The analysis focuses on sound studies and digital media art, supporting those artistic mediums that employ hybrid materialism to varied degrees, as shown by the artistic examples that build specific conceptual reformulations of space, score and performativeness art research by creating metapolitical distinctions and extrapolations that are able to inspire notions about time, event and place that are crucial for time-based artists that rely on technology and computational infrastructures for performativity and theoretical exploration about time, sound , image and place.

Exploring the Traditional Art Design in Urban Space Based on Interactive Media Arts: A Case Study of China

As a cultural communication medium, art needs to be developed and passed on. In an environment where traditional culture and art are gradually being forgotten, interactive media is particularly important. Compared with traditional media, interactive media is more guiding and interactive, and can also stimulate people's interest in traditional art and culture. The interactive media incorporated into modern urban design can better establish connections between traditional art culture, artists and the public, making traditional art culture truly come alive and integrated into urban space design. The addition of interactive media enables people to not only appreciate but also have a strong sense of participation. This article verifies the influence of interactive media in changing traditional culture and art by studying the impact of interactive media on traditional culture when interacting with the audience, and explores how interactive media art can be integrated into urban space design.

Analysis of the Relationship and Application of Film and Animation and Digital Media Art

Digital media has emerged as an innovative form that will disseminate information through new channels and facilitate the transformation of traditional mass communication into digital. The link between digital media and animation in movies and television shows is the primary topic of this essay. The study goes into additional detail about the significance of digital media in film and animation production by examining the relationship between the two. Animation in movies and on television frequently uses digital media technologies, such as computer graphics, augmented reality, virtual reality, and so forth. This paper concludes that there is a mutually beneficial relationship between the two. A thorough examination of their interrelationship will not only aid in comprehending the mutual influence between digital media art and film and animation, as well as the respective development trends of both, but it will also serve as a priceless resource for future innovation and advancement in both fields. In the new media era, it suggests that in the future, science, technology, and art will be increasingly closely entwined and that this will support the growth of the cultural sector.

Photo Art Therapy: Coproducing a Community Arts-Based Research With Children in Care (Art-thérapie par la photo : coproduire une recherche fondée sur les arts communautaires avec des enfants pris en charge)

Photography is a powerful means of creative expression but it is often overlooked in the field of creative therapies. In this arts-based research, we describe a collaborative community project informed by the principles and practice of art therapy with former street children in residential care (age range 9 to 15). Ten participants used cameras to document their stories through images, they engaged in group discussions, made individual photo albums, and community photo exhibitions. The project was designed with the input of the participants to ensure cultural appropriateness and user engagement. We assessed the value of photography as both a tool for therapy and an artistic medium. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), the authors looked at the images as artworks and means of expression. Participants identified how photography helped to re-tell and gain control of their life stories, explored future aspirations, and regained a sense of social responsibility. With the visual evidence of their stories, group discussions and exhibitions, they became active agents of community engagement and social change. Future studies can further explore photo art therapy as a method to improve individual and group well-being. The healing potential of photographs and photography as useful tools for social cohesion, sensitization, and emotional well-being are discussed as project outcomes.

Digital social media expression and social adaptability of the older adult driven by artificial intelligence.

This study examines the impact of digital new media art on the health literacy and digital health literacy of older adults. It explores how digital new media art influences the social adaptability of the older adult, with a focus on variations in their engagement with digital technologies and community activities. The research employed interviews and observations of older adult participants from communities A and B. Data were collected on their smartphone usage, community engagement, and access to technological infrastructure. The study also assessed their interaction with digital new media across various domains, including interpersonal communication, information retrieval, entertainment, practical applications, and mobile payments. The study found significant differences in engagement with digital new media art among the older adult. Participants with prior computer experience were generally more skilled in using smartphones and more active in community events. In contrast, individuals in community B showed lower acceptance of digital new media art and no clear association with community participation. There was substantial variability in their use of digital media for information retrieval, entertainment, practical applications, and mobile payments. Some older adult individuals demonstrated proficiency with these technologies, while others were more reserved. The findings suggest that digital new media art can enhance community participation and social adaptability among older adults, particularly those with prior computer experience. However, disparities in digital media usage highlight the need for targeted interventions to improve digital health literacy and engagement across different community settings. The study underscores the importance of addressing these disparities to ensure that all older adults can benefit from digital advancements, thereby improving their overall well-being and health literacy.

Research on new media art exchange and communication driven by artificial intelligence technology

Abstract This paper gathers information on artificial intelligence, art communication, news communication, and other related topics, with the aim of comprehending the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing information and new media art communication. The paper selects information from the “Annual Development Report of China’s News Industry” and “Review of China’s Advertising Market” to analyze and summarize the current state of the gradual intelligentization of news. We examine the browsing data from new-era news media, including today’s headlines, to investigate the impact of intelligent news dissemination. Lastly, we scrutinize the spatial data from actual new media artworks to comprehend the role of intelligence as a catalyst for experiencing a sense of immersion. The results show that by June 2024, the number of Internet users will be as high as 725 million, accounting for 96.8%. The penetration rate of intelligent new media also rises gradually with changes in time. It reached 84.9% in 2023, and almost half of the users are undergoing intelligent migration. And Tencent News, as a new-age news media, tops the list with a monthly activity of 27,042.17. The interactive nature of artificial intelligence technology promotes artistic communication and broadens the scope of communication.

Artificial Intelligence Technology Empowers Communication and Dissemination of New Media Arts

Abstract The study adopts digital ground model (DTM) and digital elevation model (DEM) to construct the virtual spatial environment, and combines extensive texture mapping and small texture mapping techniques to optimize the texture display on the surface of the 3D model. The coordinate system transformation of computer graphics further enhances the fidelity of the virtual environment. In addition, this study analyzes the information diffusion pattern in the network and real space based on the information space model. The empirical analysis shows that the spread of new media art in the virtual communication space has been significantly enhanced, especially in expressing individual and collective emotions, contemporary media art has obvious advantages compared with traditional art. The information dissemination analysis confirms the accuracy of the information diffusion model in predicting the communication trend of contemporary media art, and the negative sentiment index of modern media art is lower than that of traditional art between 2016 and 2023, showing a more positive emotional communication pattern. This study shows that artificial intelligence technology can effectively promote the communication and dissemination of new media art. Through the construction of virtual space and the application of information diffusion model, contemporary media art is not only improved in communication efficiency and dynamics.

Cross-border Integration: Synergies and Impacts of New Media Arts in the Cultural Industry

Cross-border Integration: Synergies and Impacts of New Media Arts in the Cultural Industry

Exploration of New Digital Media Art Forms under the Combination of Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology

Abstract VR and AR not only expand the art field, but also enrich the form and content of digital media art and promote the development of digital media art. This paper proposes a 3D reconstruction of media art scenes based on the improved Neural Radiation Field (NeRF) technology and then completes the style migration, through which a unique scene art effect is formed, with a view to exploring new ways for the development of new digital media art forms. In the virtual orchard construction, the PSNR value of the optimized NeRF method is improved by 0.205, the SSIM value is improved by 0.015, and the LPIPS value is reduced by 0.018 compared with the state-of-the-art method, which can be concluded that the optimized NeRF method has a good image synthesis effect.