Aesthetic Process Research Articles

Polyethene: The Exploration and Experimentation Extrinsic Property of the Material in Environmental Concern in Aesthetic Process

Polyethene: The Exploration and Experimentation Extrinsic Property of the Material in Environmental Concern in Aesthetic Process

Research on the Application of Computer-aided Analysis System in the Concept of Visual Aesthetics in Graphic Design

The utilization of computer-aided analysis in graphic design mainly focuses on the design and testing of works, which helps to realize the effective use of visual aesthetics in graphic design works, and can maximize its effectiveness, so it has important research value. Based on this, this paper first analyzes the method of computer-aided graphic design, and then studies the parametric, modular and visual design in computer-aided graphic design, and finally gives the computer-aided analysis process of visual aesthetics of graphic design.

Thoughts on Handicraft Aesthetic Philosophy Opened by Heart—The Unity of “Mind” and “Hand” Contains Aesthetic Thinking

As the product of human ingenuity, handicrafts derive multi-level speculative characteristics in the aesthetic process. This paper intends to take advantage of this artistic creation phenomenon rich in philosophical speculation and practical labor. Firstly, through Chinese and even East Asian handicrafts, the daily practical value of the people in the middle ages is first; Secondly, under the background of this change, it explores the possibility of reconnecting the soul between man and the universe and society from the aspects of technology and art, thinking and work, mind and human hands; Finally, from the perspective of utensil aesthetics, this paper analyzes the beauty of the intersection between the present and the past, the practicability of daily life and ordinary human feelings, and the beauty of the local essence of the hometown, reveals the future of the traditional Tao and utensils in East Asia to create a more dynamic aesthetic tradition in handicrafts, and explores the aesthetic possibility of reconstructing the “ordinary heart” of the ancient tradition under the background of the post industrial era.

Exploring Situations Between Art and Pedagogy: The Dance Project Var Vrimmel as an Aesthetic Learning Process with Fourth Graders as Participants

This article investigates aesthetic learning processes from the perspective of three dancers working in a school context. It is based on our own experiences from Var Vrimmel – a dance project carried out by the dance group Landing at a Norwegian primary school in 2019, where three dancers were “artists in residence” at a primary school for four weeks. We present three different formats, each with a different relationship between the dancers and the fourth graders participating in the project. Our intention is to outline, describe and discuss how our practice can facilitate aesthetic processes at the intersection between art and education. Our theoretical framework is based on John Dewey’s work, particularly his definition of aesthetic experience. Our aim is to contribute to understanding the notion of aesthetic learning processes and broaden perspectives on how artists could work in a school context and the roles they might have.

Dilemas y disputas al interior de una política de memoria: el caso del Museo de la Memoria de Rosario

ABSTRACT Memory studies tend to opt for two clear paths. Either they focus on the contestation of two antagonistic narratives, each with its selection of facts, symbols and dates. Or they analyse how a memory is represented in various devices or artefacts of the dominant and/or subaltern culture. This article proposes a third path based on the combination of both options with an articulation of political science and public policy analysis. The article will analyse the historical, political and aesthetic processes within the same narrative in order to understand, on the one hand, how these narratives are formed and, on the other, why they are represented in a certain way and not in other ways. To this end, the Rosario's Memory Museum in Argentina will be taken as the object of study.

“THIS IS AMERICA”: Um Videoclipe estético e ativista social

In this text, we present an analysis of the videoclip “This is America” and its signage, including its artistic, aesthetic processes and its media relationship, making a brief historical contextualization of its poetics and technological evolution. We understand the body of the actor / rapper Glover as a kind of activist that develops his work as a new type of cultural agent, more aware of his role of artist and political activist, a kind of a new star system of the contemporary world within Cyberculture. We also investigate how the videoclip manages to articulate sound, imagery and performance aiming to achieve a status of leader and meaning producer. Departing from the theoretical conceptions of Jacques Rancière, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Chion, Arlindo Machado and Denise Azevedo Duarte Guimarães, among others, we focus on the aesthetic analysis of the videoclip and its relations with sociocultural contexts. “This is America” is an intelligent, social and political music video, acting against racism and media’s indifference to the topic.

Aesthetic principles, the arts, and the interpretation of culture.

Culture is symbolism. Symbols allow a distance between perception and interpretation and create space for intentional action. Science, the arts, and religions are different cultural strategies to transcend sensual perception and open up the search and representation of structures and relations in and yet beyond sensual experience. The arts demonstrate, interpret, and invent such connectivities. Knowing, feeling, and representing hidden structures influence the very ways of perception, which are categorized in theories of perception called aesthetics. The processual and non-dual character of perception can be modeled not only on the basis of the well-known distinctions in European epistemologies (based on Platonic and Aristotelian modes of thinking) but on the Buddhist theory of skandhas, which might be able to transcend the dualism of matter and mind. The dynamics of perception will be explained on this basis using the categories of beauty and sublime and veiling and revealing (unveiling). The central category of aesthetic processes is similarity or variation, being expressed in fractal proportions and relationships in the processes of knowing and feeling.

The Cultivation Strategy of School Physical Education Aesthetic Process

Comprehensively cultivating students’ moral education, intellectual education, labor education, physical education and aesthetic education is an important task of school education in the new era. School physical education can only effectively attract students to participate in sports consciously and voluntarily and achieve widespread development the purpose of campus sports. Due to the interdependence and mutual influence between fun and beauty, the study of sports fun must involve the study of sports aesthetics. This article adopts research methods of literature and logical analysis, from the necessity of sports aesthetics, sports aesthetics, and sports aesthetics. In terms of sports aesthetic design and effectiveness, it explains the importance of aesthetic process research for sports fun and the practical significance of school physical education.

Rinograma protocolo seguro na rinomodelação com ácido hialurônico

The rhinoplasty is also an aesthetic process, where it depends the correct form to be made. Small nasal defects can be corrected with fillers. Hyaluronic acid is one of the most commonly used fillers lately due to efficacy, predictability, reversibility, local anesthesia, rapid patient recovery, and few postoperative complications. The objective of this study was to present a case report based on rhinomograms as a safe application protocol and its advantages to the surgeon. It was concluded that rhinoplasty with hyaluronic acid is a minimally invasive procedure and few side effects when respecting the limits of each region. Regarding the clinical case, there was an evident improvement in the eformities and nasal contour in the photographic evaluation performed immediately after the reported procedure. The patient informed that she’s pleased with the result.

An Aesthetic Reasoning System of Artistic Creation Based on Factor Space of Memory-Perception

In order to build an intelligent art design system with human-computer interaction, this paper proposes an aesthetic learning model based on memory mapping and perception inversion. Through the relationship construction of practical aesthetic model and on-the-spot model, it sets up a couple of mapping models aesthetic information acquisition. The study shows that the premise of aesthetic reasoning is to set up fuzzy perception of human aesthetic, on the basis of the fuzzy perception, we can analyses the aesthetic relation among memory and object, and discuss the fuzzy perception characteristic of aesthetic process, and then obtain some conclusions and results. A simple example on how to create and apply the model is give. The presented model can be applied conveniently by selecting suitable ACDS in accordance with the give aesthetic judge and computing the best decision from the rules in those ACDS.

The spatial politics of street art in post-Revolution Egypt

This article is concerned with exploring the politics of street art and graffiti in Egypt in the aftermath of the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Rather than viewing street art and graffiti as mere by-products of the revolutionary period, the article centres them as important elements of political and social struggle. I put forward a reading of Egypt’s street art and graffiti as sites of politics through both aesthetic and spatial approaches. To do so I draw on Jacques Rancière’s concept of ‘dissensus’, a term referring to a political and aesthetic process that creates new modes of perception and novel forms of political subjectivity. In various writings, Rancière argues that part of the work of ‘dissensus’ is the creation of spaces where political activity can take place. As spatially bound practices, street art and graffiti can allow a visible ‘dissensus’ to take place. Through a semiotic analysis of several street art and graffiti works, the article makes a further contribution to scholarship on Egypt’s revolutionary street art and graffiti scene. Instead of focusing on the figure of the ‘rebel artist’, I centre the works in relation to the history of Egyptian nationalism, and argue that we need to complicate our understanding of street art and graffiti’s potential as modes of resistance.

Digital Testimonios: A personal journey towards healing and empowerment

I explore my journey of creating my digital testimonios and how this intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic process has aided in my healing journey. Throughout this process I illuminate the emotional labor that goes into creating these tools of healing by sharing personal experiences of trauma. Through my experiences, I demonstrate that the process of creating digital testimonios is one of great reflection that allows the creator to sit with their testimonio to find a combination of mediums to communicate their voice. This mix of expressions ultimately allows space for full autonomy for the storyteller/testimoniadora to create a digital testimonio that is reflective of their experiences.

“Un festín libertino”. La seducción y el control de los sentidos en Le Sopha de Crébillon hijo

El siglo XVIII en Francia se caracteriza por la creación artística en dos vertientes. Por un lado, la producción de la filosofía ilustrada y, por el otro, la producción de textos y obras plásticas consideradas como libertinas. Para cristalizar los procesos estéticos del modelo libertino hacemos un análisis de los placeres del cuerpo y su materialización en un texto representativo como Le Sopha (1742) de Crébillon hijo. El tejido narrativo le permite al libertino controlar un entorno que le facilita a él, y a sus compañeros de placer, la exaltación de cada uno de los cinco sentidos: un festín que engloba desde el gusto hasta el olfato. Este artículo rastrea estos “placeres de la boca” que se desarrollan dentro de la estructura del cuento oriental de Crébillon hijo antes mencionado.

Application of 3D Prototyping to Promote Size-Inclusive Design Practices for Plus-Size Apparel

Although innovative computer-aided design tools offer opportunities for advancing size-inclusive apparel design, minimal design research has been conducted to document the applications of these technologies. The purpose of this study is to identify plus-size women’s needs through mixed method research and to integrate 3D prototyping technology to enhance plus-size apparel design. The research includes a) an online survey of plus-size consumers and market analysis to identify clothing needs and perceived problems, and b) development of a virtual and physical prototype through technology integration methods. This study responds to current needs to enhance apparel design for plus-size consumers; the integration of 3D prototyping and the functional, expressive, and aesthetic (FEA) process is a novel approach that places plus-size women at the center of the model. Results from this study may also provide practical guidelines for designers and students with limited knowledge of plus-size women’s body types and bolster their interest in designing for larger body figures to promote a sense of inclusivity.

Aesthetic study of patterns based on event‐related potential and eye‐tracking: Taking the decorative patterns of the Tang dynasty as an example

AbstractThe decorative patterns of Tang dynasty (DPTD) combine Chinese and western styles, providing inspirations to designers. The main purpose of the study is to summarize aesthetic cognition for DPTD and improve modern Tang style products design, thus introducing new materials and ideas to modern products design. The event‐related potential (ERP) and eye‐tracking were mainly used to study DPTD, exploring early reactions of brain nerves in the process of aesthetic cognition of DPTD, and analyze people's aesthetic process during tests. The results showed that attractive DPTDs attracted more fixation counts and longer second fixation time than those of unattractive DPTDs. When watching attractive DPTDs, pupil sizes of subjects were significantly smaller than those of unattractive DPTDs. In addition, attractive DPTDs induced larger amplitude of P300 than unattractive. N2 was strongly activated in the parietal and occipital areas, whereas P300 was strongly activated in the prefrontal to parietal areas. At the same time, this study found that in the process of people's aesthetic appreciation, attractive DPTDs would make people have a pleasant subjective feeling. This study adopts the method of combining ERP with eye‐tracking and provides a new method and design idea to guide the design of modern Tang‐style products.

Assembling threads of identity: installation as a professional learning site for teachers

ABSTRACT This article presents installation as a professional learning site for early childhood teachers to visualise relationships between key events, people and places influencing their professional identity journeys. Aesthetic processes of collecting, creating and representing the ways teachers see their evolving identities offer opportunities to reveal connections and influences that impact identity development. This investigation of teachers’ unfolding stories provoked the methodological design of seven ‘aesthetic frames’ for uncovering and sharing what was revealed about self-as-teacher. Contributions from six early childhood teachers were shared with the primary researcher over a period of 14 weeks before being assembled and viewed collectively in a final focus group as installation. Selected frames are offered in this article as storied forms of visual narrative that present participating teachers with opportunities for critical reflection. As an arts-informed research process, installation provided teachers with a uniquely aesthetic model for understanding and transforming their identity journeys. The immediacy of lived teaching experience captured through image and text also prompting teachers to see with refreshed perspective, new ways for expressing and evaluating pedagogy–practice connections.

Contemporary Sculpture Development: Art Learning Process, Lanna Art and Local Cultural Identity through the Integration of Installation Art, Digital Art, and Solar Cell Technology for Community’s Landmark

This research article was founded on the investigation within informative accounts of creative outcomes of a research project, based on a mix method approach of the qualitative research and community-based action research. The methodology consisted of review literature and field research alongside with artistic productive processes. The procedures include firstly, a documentary research where field research include in-depth interviews and focus-group meetings and secondly, accounts of mixed media sculpture development. The objectives of this research, combined three crucial parts which were to study and collect the local Chiang Rai art database, to design and develop contemporary sculpture documentations in order to create local landmark underneath local art and culture basis alongside the concept of creative economy, and lastly, to encourage local people to realize and appreciate the value of their own cultural heritage and the local wisdom related to Lanna art and culture through the dissemination of gaining knowledge related to the contemporary sculpture development and its presentation. The research findings highlighted that not only there were tangible outputs which were composed by the sculpture and the community’s landmark themselves, but significantly yielded a byproduct that further developed an innovative local sustainable tourism management system. This enhances the local people quality of life through experiences and knowledge gaining from the research project. These findings, therefore, could be divided into 3 main aspects. Firstly, the art learning process; the mixture of production between the knowledge development process and the art appreciation or aesthetic process. Secondly, the social learning process included the brain-storming, team-working leading to the community’s mutual agreement in order to find the solution or products. Lastly, the community-based action research encourages an integration operation between the local community and the university in order to use the domestic resources for local sufficient and sustainable benefits.

Metamorphosis process of Animation and aesthetics to Arts

This paper is appreciative to the invaluable contribution of numerous animation artists. The evolution of their animation style, in putting the contribution, new resources and possibilities of digital production. It is the animators who over a period of time, advantages have they discovered, and which disadvantages they endure, ultimately providing innovative ideas to achieve better results. Computer animation helped to enhance the profile of the pioneer hand-made animation techniques, particularly by replicating so-called “traditional” drawing and painting tools and terminology in computer graphics programs. Computer Animation has become commonplace in animated films since the late 1980s, not only has not caused a decline in traditional animation, as might be expected, but rather has ironically. Digital art does not interrupt handmade processes and aesthetics, but rather, has given them a new life. This paper gives the extracts of how animation industry has changed its form, traditional to digital.

Investigation into the production of meaning in autobiographical performance in dramatherapy

This paper offers a summary of a doctoral research that investigated the production of meaning in autobiographical performance in dramatherapy, and how it can be described as emerging from the relational and embodied encounter between performers and witnessing spectators. The study responded to a need in autobiographical performance research to analyse and understand the processes and mechanisms of connection between the staged experience of the performer and the lived experience of the witnessing spectator, and how these create possibilities of new meanings for both. The findings of the research reveal complex relational dynamics within the shared space of autobiographical performance and their impact on the meaning making process. The research suggests that the production of meaning in autobiographical performance is located at the intersection between aesthetic, embodied and intersubjective processes. The findings show a reciprocal relationship between the role of the performer and the witnessing spectator, and the way in which they co-author and complete their respective experiences. As part of that dynamic, the research unveils the significance of embodied and pre-reflective processes in the production of meaning. Finally, the research shows how aesthetic processes in autobiographical performances regulate the transformational potential of the encounter between performers and spectators.

“The Own-The Borrowed” in Artistic Culture of the 20th-21st Centuries

The article presents various forms of working with the “borrowed” material in the artistic practice of recent centuries. This phenomenon covers painting, literature, cinema, choreography, and music. The stable nature of this phenomenon, preserved by a tradition, is explained by its ability to identify the author’s position towards the current needs of the time in comparison with another creative consciousness, an understanding of the world order, as well as the artistic and aesthetic priorities. A dialogue with the “borrowed” thought plays a significant role in the art of music. Some special ways of work in the conditions of “the own – the borrowed” concept emerged here, and each of them caused the certain genres to appear. In real practice, the following genres were firmly established: transcription, adaptation, arrangement, and paraphrase. Despite the internal differences, the general reflection of the author’s individual creative approach and, indirectly, self-awareness of the specific historical stage in the cultural development remains their common feature. “The own – the borrowed” concept, containing two opposing ideas, reveals the inconsistency of artistic and aesthetic processes in the historical development of the ballet genre, the complex interaction of classic dance with inapplicative symphonic music, and the relation of dance and flexibility in choreographic drama. In whatever form of art the “borrowed” material is used, including the genres of a “light” music, the ludic logic inevitably actualizes itself, starting from the choice of an object for a creative “duel” and ending with a combination of language means. The competitive atmosphere explains both the repeated use of the same material by the artists of different generations, as well as the appearance of peculiar “shifters” who, introducing an ironic and comedic element, represent the skillful mastery. Thanks to this, working with a “borrowed” material retains its value regardless of the change in artistic and aesthetic paradigms.