Role Of Aesthetics Research Articles

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The design process, which starts with identifying the design problem in design studies, is completed by conveying the message of the creative visual solution to the target audience. The images used in the design for the target audience are carefully selected by the design team. Images have a universal language and are transmitted faster than written texts. Images have layers of meaning as cultural indicators of their own time. For this reason, the most frequently used method for examining and interpreting images is semiotics. The colors used in the design also represent culture. Each color can have personal meanings as well as cultural and universal meanings. Color constitutes an important code system in the reading of images through semiotics. To develop the ability to incorporate colors into design, it is necessary to understand the science, psychology and meaning of colors. Visual communication designers and artists are aware that effective color palette choices are one of the techniques that enable guiding eye tracking in design. Color choices, color palette designs play an important role in visual aesthetics. In addition to the contribution of colors to visual aesthetics, the meanings they attach to the message are also important. In this study, the use of images in design applications is examined through the language of colors. The contributions of the use of color to the meaning of the image are examined through examples.

Workplace Aesthetic Appreciation and Exhaustion in a COVID-19 Vaccination Center: The Role of Positive Affects and Interest in Art.

Recently, workers employed in vaccination points around the world have been subjected to very high workloads to counter the progress of the COVID-19 epidemic. This workload has a negative effect on their well-being. Environmental psychology studies have shown how the physical characteristics of the workplace environment can influence employees' well-being. Furthermore, studies in the psychology of art show how art can improve the health of individuals. The aim of this research was to test a moderated mediation model to verify how appreciation of workplace aesthetics can impact the level of exhaustion of staff working in a vaccination center, the mediating role of positive and negative affects, and the moderating role of interest in art. Data were collected from a sample of 274 workers (physicians, nurses, reception, and administrative staff) working in the same vaccination center in Italy. Participants answered a self-report questionnaire during a rest break. We used a cross-sectional design. The results show that appreciation of workplace aesthetics impacts employees' level of exhaustion. This relationship is mediated by positive and negative affects, and interest in art moderates the relationship between positive affects and exhaustion. These findings indicate the central role of workplace aesthetics in influencing healthcare workers' well-being, and how interest in art can reduce exhaustion levels. Practical implications of the results are discussed.

Aesthetics of Nonduality: Genuine Transcendence, the Imperceptible Other, and Joker

This paper develops the aesthetics of nonduality mainly with Deleuze’s “transcendental ontology” and Levinas’s poststructural “ethics.” Although Deleuze (and Felix Guattari) and Levinas’s thoughts were nourished in different philosophical lines, their ideas seem to be actually the closest ones in contemporary Western world. Deleuze’s notions of pure “desire,” “becoming,” and “affect” are very similar to Levinas’s ethical explication of “metaphysical desire” and “enjoyment.” Then Mahayana Buddhism is also brought not only to support but to complete the traits of “nonduality.” This paper begins with their views that are in contrast to binary opposition and the stable “transcendence” that had been the central idea in the tradition of Western metaphysics. Then it is argued in various ways that Deleuze actually explicates the same realm as Levinas elaborates in terms of genuine transcendence. Then I discuss Joker, the 2020 Oscar and the Golden Lion (the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival given to the film with the highest artistic value) winning film. Joker is one of the most shocking and self-deconstructive films from the perspective of truly poststructural meanings of nonduality. The aesthetic role of the violence in the film is discussed in great detail. I hope this interdisciplinary study would contribute to the development of critical theory of the present age.

Space-making and aesthetics: Adaptive restoration, new functions and their experience in architecture

In this study I investigate several questions related to adaptive restoration, i.e. when a functioning piece of architecture operates with a different purpose to its original one, as well as the role of aesthetics in re-purposing, and the importance of the special forms of experience such a conversion provides. The questions connected to these architectural projects are not only theoretically inspiring, leading to diverse and broad fields of research in architecture, art and aesthetics, but are also crucial on a practical level, and hence require caution and precise consideration, given the impact the final results of such projects may have, as well as in terms of the effect and efficiency of the new space. Creative and adaptive re-purpose, modification or complete change of function can have wonderful potential, as well as, obviously, presenting serious hazards to avoid. What is equally important, however, is that this will also contribute to a strengthening of awareness of architecture and its aesthetic qualities, hence further promoting the idea of safeguarding and care of edifices and of tangible heritage.

The Characteristics of Mandibular Fracture In Rsup Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung, Indonesia

Introduction Mandibular fracture poses a fatal complication because the mandible plays an essential role in occlusion and aesthetics. The mandible is one of the bones most affected by facial fractures commonly resulting from trauma to the face and may be associated with severe morbidity and serious consequences Methods The records of 282 patients referred to RSUP Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung, Indonesia between January 2017 and January 2021 were analysed retrospectively. Data including age, sex, etiology of mandibular fracture, type of mandibular fracture, and treatment. Incompleted data from the medical record were excluded. Results Men aged 17-30 years were the most common victims of mandibular fracture. Road traffic accidents (RTAs) were responsible in 84% of cases. The most common anatomic site for mandibular fracture was parasymphysis region 28.7 with simple fractures 79%, and 82% of the total fractures were treated with open reduction Conclusion The characteristics of mandibular fracture patients describe trauma patterns in the community. This finding is similar with some readily available literature with RTAs was the most common etiology and parasymphysis was the most common fracture site. Reasons for this high frequency may include the large number of poorly maintained, overloaded vehicles on unsuitable roads, violation of traffic regulations particularly by inexperienced young drivers. Keywords: Fractures, Mandibular, Parasymphisis, Reduction

Artificial Aesthetics and Aesthetic Machine Attention

The aesthetics of artificial intelligence is often viewed in relation to the qualities of their generated expressions. However, aesthetics could have a broader role in developing machine perception. One of the main areas of expertise in aesthetics is the understanding of feature-based information, which involves how the aesthetics of sensory features can cause affective changes in the perceiver, and the other way around – how affective states can give rise to certain kinds of aesthetic features. This two-way link between aesthetic features and affects is not yet well-established in the interdisciplinary discussion; however, according to perceptual psychology, it fundamentally constructs the human experience. Machine attention is an emerging technique in machine learning that is most often used in tasks like object detection, visual question answering, and language translation. Modern use of technology most often focuses on creating object-based attention through linguistic categories, although the models could also be utilized for nonverbal attention. This paper proposes the following perceptual conditions for aesthetic machine attention: 1) acknowledging that something appears (aesthetic detection); 2) suspension of judgment (aesthetic recognition); and 3) making the incident explicit with expression (aesthetic identification and amplification). These aspects are developed through an interdisciplinary reflection of literature from the fields of aesthetics, perceptual psychology, and machine learning. The paper does not aim to give a general account of aesthetic perception but to expand the interdisciplinary theory of aesthetics and specify the role of aesthetics among other disciplines at the heart of the technological development of the human future. Article received: May 10, 2022; Article accepted: July 15, 2022; Published online: October 15, 2022; Original scholarly paper

Experience Them, Love Them, Protect Them—Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed People’s Perception of Urban and Suburban Green Spaces and Their Conservation Targets?

Public green and open spaces fulfil various social, ecological, economic, and aesthetic roles, which can be complementary while also competing with one another. The COVID-19 pandemic catalysed multiple societal changes, including citizens’ perception, needs and expectations relating to urban green spaces. This article discusses the extent to which the temporally and geographically changed patterns of experiencing these natural spaces also influenced users’ perception and behaviour as well as their appreciation of the conservation areas. The study is based upon two surveys carried out in the greater metropolitan region of Vienna, the capital city of Austria. A quantitative survey (representative online panel) among Viennese population (n = 1012), as well as qualitive interviews with experts responsible for conservation areas, administrators of federal parks, along with NGOs representatives were carried out in spring and summer 2021. Our study shows changed perception of urban citizens towards green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. An increased importance of time spent in nature (68%) and possibility to visit large green areas (67%) was reported by Viennese citizens. Also, higher recognition of green spaces located close to home was observed among 69% of the respondents. There were significant differences in opinions on green areas during the pandemic in various age and gender groups. Thus, the presented study contributes to the ongoing international discussion on the transition of societal needs and its effects on urban green spaces induced by the pandemic. Presented results highlight the need of urgent transformation towards a more sustainable, resilient and healthy urban space.Graphical abstract

Tattoos in cinema

In cinema, many visual characteristics of the characters serve as "unspoken" elements that allow the audience to attribute (rightly or wrongly) these characteristics without the need to use superfluous verbal information: clothes, hairstyles, scars, prostheses, physical defects, etc. Tattoos are obviously part of this visual panel. Tattoos may be the central theme of the movie, allow to give one or more attribute to the character, have a real function in the movie or simply has an aesthetic role of beautification. The prevalence of actors and actress with tattoos is unknown. However, some actors may display their tattoos for the purpose of the movie.

Frivolité, sensualité, sensibilité : langage érotique et éducation amoureuse dans le roman Don Sylvio von Rosalva de Christoph Martin Wieland

This article analyses the frivolous dimension in the novel Don Sylvio of Rosalva. Placing the concept of frivolity in the context of the European Enlightenment makes it possible to analyse Don Sylvio’s inability to understand the erotic language of the other characters in the novel. After highlighting the role of rococo aesthetics in the various representations of sensuality and its connection with French libertine literature, the article concludes with an examination of philosophical questions raised about conceptions of love, fidelity and virtue.

Aesthetics of hotel photos and its impact on consumer engagement: A computer vision approach

Visual content has been an essential marketing approach to exerting enjoyable virtual experiences and inducing consumer engagement. However, despite the widespread acknowledgment of the importance of visual content, how would the exerted aesthetic perception affect consumer engagement is still unexplored. Adopting a deep convolutional neural network model, this study quantifies the aesthetics of thumbnail images and managerial photos of hotels and thereby explores the impact of hotel photo aesthetics on consumer engagement. Aesthetically enjoyable photos are shown effective not only to encourage more consumers to engage in word-of-mouth discussions but also to promote consumer ratings. Such impact is also significantly moderated by hotel price. This study illustrates a viable approach to probing the perceived aesthetics of visual content in the hospitality field, and the uncovered significant role of aesthetics highlights the necessity of further attention to the cognitive perceptions of visual marketing content in both theoretical research and practical management.

Chitlins and Dry Bones: A Conversation About the N-Word in Stand-Up Comedy

ABSTRACT This conversation addresses the social meanings and aesthetic role of the N-word in stand-up comedy, where its power, utility, and relation to Blackness are hashed out in performances and in dialogues among artists. We turn our attention to stand-up comedy as a vital cultural space for deconstructing and repurposing the N-word. We discuss how the stand-up comedian, as a sociopolitical commentator who subverts audiences’ expectations and calibrates sets through ongoing exchanges with the audiences, uses humor to wrestle with discomfort surrounding the N-word. Our dialogue focuses on the work of Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes, and Sam Jay, with some consideration of Louis C. K., George Carlin, and Hasan Minhaj. We make the case that to discuss the N-word in stand-up comedy is to engage with public understandings of Blackness and humanity.

Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

Icons play an important role in modern interfaces and therefore recent empirical research has focused on enhancing icon processing — that is, icon perception and icon function understanding. However, in existing sets, icons vary simultaneously across different icon characteristics, confusing the contribution of each to icon processing. We developed icon design principles for aesthetics, complexity, and concreteness, and used them to create 64 icons that varied independently along each characteristic. Participants reported the icon function and rated each icon in terms of aesthetics, complexity and concreteness. The manipulated characteristics had independent effects on icon processing, with two exceptions, for which we propose evidence-based solutions. Based on these findings we propose guidelines for designing icons for research purposes.

Perioral Rejuvenation: Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of High Molecular Weight Hyaluronic Acid and Amino Acid Treatment.

The lips and perioral area play a crucial role in facial aesthetics. Signs of aging, such as wrinkles, decreased muscle tone, and thinning skin, frequently appear first in this anatomical area and, subsequently, in other areas. This may explain why the lips and perioral area are frequently requested focus areas for aesthetic treatments that retain the client’s natural features. To assess the safety and efficacy of the rejuvenation of the perioral area with an injectable product containing high-molecular-weight (HMW) native hyaluronic acid (HA) and a cluster of amino acids (AAs). In this open-label observational study, 37 female patients underwent 3 monthly sessions of intradermal injections with HMW HA gel with a cluster of AAs. Follow-up investigations were performed after 30, 60, and 180 days. Outcomes were evaluated subjectively using a patient questionnaire, the Global Aesthetic Improvement Scale (GAIS) questionnaire, and objectively using a 3D photosystem. All patients completed the study. The subjective evaluations made by patients and by the investigator during follow up and at the end of the study were positive, and all patients showed improvement in the perioral area. The objective evaluation showed a statistically significant improvement in pores condition and wrinkles. The protocol for rejuvenation of the perioral area with injections of HMW HA gel and AA is safe and effective. J Drugs Dermatol. 2022;21(9):968-973.doi:10.36849/JDD.6875.

Not Just for Show: How Aesthetics Underpins Work Within and Around Organizations

Organizational aesthetics is a way of understanding organizational life based on sensory reactions to its material components, such as objects and settings (Baldessarelli, Stigliani, & Elsbach, 2022; Strati, 1992). Following the recent material and spatial turn in organization studies (Boxenbaum et al., 2018; Jones et al., 2017; van Marrewijk & Yanow, 2010), scholars have begun to acknowledge and document the role of aesthetics in organizations and institutions. However, the topic remains relatively unexplored, and substantial opportunities exist in management research for further analysis and theorization. This symposium brings together scholars who empirically study aesthetics in relation to key organizational topics (i.e., coordination, creative collaboration, institutionalization, stigmatization) to provide novel insights into how aesthetics contributes to organizational and institutional processes. In particular, the symposium extends management scholarship by emphasizing how aesthetics influences the construction and disruption of meanings across a variety of research settings. The four empirical papers highlight how material and visual artifacts and the subsequent experiences emerging from their use and manipulation support organizational and institutional work by forming or challenging collective understandings. In doing so, the studies point to novel research directions concerning (1) the role of interactions with artifacts that trigger sensory reactions leading to collective achievements, and (2) the use and manipulation of artifacts to strengthen cognitive and symbolic processes that challenge dominant meanings. Inducing Artifactual and Aesthetic Experience to Enable Coordination Presenter: Mercedes McBride; Case Western Reserve U. Presenter: John Paul Stephens; Case Western Reserve U. Clients as Feedback Providers: A Study of Creative Projects Presenter: Giada Baldessarelli; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Ileana Stigliani; Imperial College Business School The Role of Multimodality in the Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric Presenter: Elena Bruni; Luiss Guido Carli U. Presenter: Dennis Clemens Jancsary; WU Vienna Presenter: Renate Elisabeth Meyer; WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School The Symbolic Manipulability of Market Offerings: Strategies for Mitigating Consumer Resistance Presenter: Anders Dahl Krabbe; King's Business School

Understanding the Role of Aesthetics and Price Fairness for Establishing Marketing Strategies in the Sports Bar Industry

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of aesthetics, price fairness, emotions, and behavioral intentions in the sports bar industry and to provide sports bar managers with practical strategies for maximizing the physical environment by employing aesthetics. Using data collected from 507 U.S. sports bar customers, structural equation model analysis was performed which supported the proposed effects of’ aesthetics on behavioral intentions via emotions. We also find that aesthetics and emotions play an important role in customers’ dining intentions in sports bars. Unlike existing studies arguing the significant effect of negative emotion on the perceived price-fairness, we found that the effect of negative emotion does not influence the perception of price-fairness of the consumers in the context of sports bar. Key theoretical and managerial implications for enhancing the patron’s positive valence emotions and aesthetic appeal are discussed.

The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding

The publication of The Aesthetics of Science invites us to reflect, beyond the range of individual arguments advanced in it, on the general aims that motivate the production of an edited volume like this. There seems to be a spectrum of possible commitments when one addresses the role of aesthetic values in science. At one extreme, the spheres of the aesthetic and the epistemic are completely separated from one another, with no meaningful interaction between them. So if allusions to the beauty of a theory are to be found in science, these should be understood as merely subjective, emotional responses of scientists in the context of discovery, without standing on the epistemic justification of the theory. At the other extreme, aesthetic and epistemic values belong to the same kind; they are indistinguishable from each other in practice. In this view, references to the beauty of a scientific theory are understood as entailing an epistemic assessment—that is, they are taken as appraisals of the good performance or empirical adequacy of the theory. These two extreme views have something important in common: they render the project of further examining the role of aesthetics in scientific practice a futile task. As one disregards aesthetic considerations and the other translates them into epistemic assessments, they fail to recognize as a genuine philosophical problem the fact that, throughout the history of science, model evaluation and theory choice have been persistently formulated in terms of elegance, harmony, beauty or the capacity to inspire awe.

Remembering and Antifascist Education: A Response to My Critics

ABSTRACT This article is a short response to two reviews of the book Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education: From Riddles to Radio by Tyson E. Lewis. It discusses the role of aesthetics and memory in cultivating antifascist potentialities in children.

Cultural Critique

Cultural Critique Cesare Casarino, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, and Simona Sawhney In the dark times, will there also be singing?Yes, there will also be singing, about the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht When in her Lessing Prize speech Hannah Arendt recycled Brecht's figure of "dark times" she was not thinking of the COVID-19 pandemic that has been ravaging "humanity" since the spring of 2019. How could she? We, however, cannot help but think of it. It has imposed a new darkness on our times. As Brecht predicted, there has been singing and, as always, it has taken many forms: global protests against environmental destruction, pandemic racism, and corporate autocracy, for example. For the senior editorial team at Cultural Critique the singing has taken collegial form. In fall of this year we welcomed a new senior editor to the journal, Professor Frieda Ekotto, a "song" whose qualities resemble those that hover over and between Yaoundé, Fort de France, and New Orleans. Frieda, who will serve as president of the Modern Language Association in 2023, comes to us from the University of Michigan where she is professor of Afroamerican and African Literature, Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature. She is the author of a dozen books, including Race and Sex across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical, and Theater Discourse (2011), Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella, which was translated by Corine Tachtiris (2019). She is the coeditor of Rethinking African Cultural Production (2015) and Rethinking Third Cinema: The Role of Anti-colonial Media and Aesthetics in Postmodernity (2009). She has appeared in a documentary on the Hmong communities in the U.S. and is the producer of two feature films. Other forms of "illumination" are in hand. [End Page vii] Long ago Frieda completed a doctorate at Minnesota, so in a sense she is circling back through home. We have heard her approaching and are thrilled to be here to greet her. Bienvenue, Frieda. [End Page viii] Cesare Casarino, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, and Simona Sawhney The Senior Editorial Group Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Minnesota

Carl Schmitt’sDon Quixote

How might recognizing the literary influences behind political concepts shift our understanding of their meaning? This article explores how Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote shaped political concepts in the thought of the German jurist and Nazi Carl Schmitt. It does so by tracking Schmitt’s reflections on the Quixote throughout his oeuvre, from his early literary writings to his postwar book on Hamlet. Far from a curiosity, Schmitt’s scattered reflections on the Quixote show the extent to which his foundational political concepts of myth and the public have their roots in literary analysis, challenging Schmitt’s own account of the nonpolitical role of aesthetics in The Concept of the Political.

Художественное осмысление темы «неволи» в рассказах Дили Булгаковой

The aim of the study is to reveal the ideological and aesthetic role of the “bondage” theme in the stories of the prison cycle by Dilya Bulgakova. These stories occupy a special place in the writer’s creative work, as in the early 90s of the 20th century namely these stories declared that a subtle lyricist had come into prose, able to convey the dramatic tension of events, the psychological depth of characters, the unique national flavour, and the peculiarities of the heroes’ worldview. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in the Tatar literary criticism, an attempt has been made to analyse Dilya Bulgakova’s stories reflecting this topic. The results of the research have shown that the “bondage” theme is revealed through the motives of loneliness, illness, death, etc. and indicates the emotional and psychological nature of what is happening due to socio-historical prerequisites through the lens of national and universal values.