Visual Creativity Research Articles

Employing (Artificial Intelligence) Techniques in the Aesthetic Construction of Cinematic Tricks in the Cinematic Film

Cinema is a unique art based on innovation and scientific inventions in addition to the talent and genius of directors, and directors such as Edison, the inventor of the motion picture, the Le Maire brothers, the pioneers of the cinema projector, the Frenchman of genius imagination and visual creativity, Georges Mila and Gervath, the creator of magazines. Editing, photography, directing and innovations such as motion pictures, sound entry to the cinema, color film tape, wide lenses, 3D imaging, films that used scientific techniques, such as the Star Wars series of director Lucas, the Jurassic Park series of Spielberg films, and computer technologies developed by James Cameron are all They are considered as basic pillars of a world full of excitement and suspense called cinema, and cinema is still to this day making rapid and interesting transitions in the world of entertainment because it attracts the latest scientific innovations in the field of motion picture, and among the modern and important innovations, the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the manufacture of cinematic trick scenes Whether by making movie scenes backgrounds, digital characters, or controlling lighting and a camera, to be either a must Let's talk about movie workers or a key element to help movie workers.

Strategi Experiental Marketing Akal Production Pada Event Loal Museum Melalui Media Sosial TikTok

This Final Project Report is an application of project-based curriculum or other forms compiled based on the author's experience while making projects at Akal Production company as an event organizer located in Padang City. While in the company, the author created a unique event project that has never existed in Padang City, namely an interactive museum that emphasizes visual creativity. Loal Museum is a project idea created so that the citizens of Padang have a new place of art, entertainment and recreation. The event was held for 1 full month located in Fabriec Block, Parupuk Tabing. This event carries the theme Galaxy Pop Art by using the #MagicExperienceOfLoal campaign. Loal Museum has several rides whose purpose is to provide direct experience to visitors. In addition, the author who is part of Akal Production as Chief Of Admin and Social Media to manage the promotion of this event so that it has many enthusiasts and visitors who come every day of the month. This Experiental Marketing strategy is carried out through TikTok and Instagram social media. This strategy is used to create an interesting experience to make this event viral and known by many people is through TikTok social media. Through the experiental marketing strategy, many visitors come through their curiosity and experience firsthand the experiences that many other visitors have felt. The obstacle that the author faced when running thisLoal Musem project was the many communication errors that occurred.

Syntax of Language in Visual Arts Education: Interactive Understanding through Image Prompt Generator

The development of image generators in visual arts has garnered attention from the field of art education, and this article explores the interaction between language syntax and visual arts through the use of image prompt generators. Given the increasing utilization of AI technology in visual creativity within art education. The research methodology involves analyzing the language syntax within prompts used as instructions for image prompt generators, followed by a visual evaluation of the generated outcomes related to the language descriptions. Data analysis will highlight the correlation between language syntax instructions and visual interpretations, with the subjective of identifying the extent to which language usage influences visual artistic creativity. The results are expected to provide a deeper understanding of the impact of language syntax in creating visual artworks through image prompt generator technology. The implications of this research can enhance comprehension of language syntax usage in the context of visual arts and support the development of more interactive art education methods.

THE OLD NUREMBERG CARNIVAL IN THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW TIMES

The article examines a striking phenomenon of European culture — traditional carnival. The historical perspective is coordinated by geographical and chronological localization: Nuremberg, 16th century. The object of the study, the Schoenbartbuch of the University of California Library, reflects the nature of the cultural and artistic process before and after 1539, when the last, especially spectacular procession of mummers, schembartlauf, took place in the city. Up to a third of the more than two hundred drawings in this book are devoted to it. It is a remarkable gallery of episodes and images, chronologically arranged from 1449, when the chronicle of the Nuremberg schembartlaufs was started. The analysis of images on the theme of carnival touches on aspects of basic content, attendant circumstances and objective changes. The brainchild of medieval urban culture, carnival became an instrument of its self-regulation due to the parodic reflection of the processes that took place in its different layers. In the Schoenbartbuch, the deep reality of life and historical psychology emerges behind the allegorical language of ornamental motifs, carnival accessories and props. The chronological principle gives the book the status of a document of the era, but the dating of 1590–1620 moves the drawings away from the last carnival depicted in them by at least half a century, and from the first — by a century and a half, so the use of chronicle and material evidence does not remove the question of the degree of documentary nature of these images and, accordingly, their value as a historical source. The value of the drawings was ensured by the concept embodied in them — an artistic reconstruction of the era in which the carnival achieved the full disclosure of its syncretic character, a bizarre combination of semantic and material, ritual and improvisational proto-­­theater, applied and visual creativity. The imitation of medieval style did not prevent the artists from capturing and conveying the subsequent increase in spectacle, thematic and staging fantasy, the desire for developed staging and the increased aestheticism of images, which foreshadowed the transition of the street carnival to a different level of theatricality.

AuDrA: An automated drawing assessment platform for evaluating creativity

The visual modality is central to both reception and expression of human creativity. Creativity assessment paradigms, such as structured drawing tasks Barbot (2018), seek to characterize this key modality of creative ideation. However, visual creativity assessment paradigms often rely on cohorts of expert or naïve raters to gauge the level of creativity of the outputs. This comes at the cost of substantial human investment in both time and labor. To address these issues, recent work has leveraged the power of machine learning techniques to automatically extract creativity scores in the verbal domain (e.g., SemDis; Beaty & Johnson 2021). Yet, a comparably well-vetted solution for the assessment of visual creativity is missing. Here, we introduce AuDrA – an Automated Drawing Assessment platform to extract visual creativity scores from simple drawing productions. Using a collection of line drawings and human creativity ratings, we trained AuDrA and tested its generalizability to untrained drawing sets, raters, and tasks. Across four datasets, nearly 60 raters, and over 13,000 drawings, we found AuDrA scores to be highly correlated with human creativity ratings for new drawings on the same drawing task (r = .65 to .81; mean = .76). Importantly, correlations between AuDrA scores and human raters surpassed those between drawings’ elaboration (i.e., ink on the page) and human creativity raters, suggesting that AuDrA is sensitive to features of drawings beyond simple degree of complexity. We discuss future directions, limitations, and link the trained AuDrA model and a tutorial (https://osf.io/kqn9v/) to enable researchers to efficiently assess new drawings.

Enhanced white matter fiber tract of the cortical visual system in visual artists: implications for creativity.

This study aimed to examine the white matter characteristics of visual artists (VAs) in terms of visual creativity and the structural connectivity within the cortical visual system. Diffusion spectrum imaging was utilized to examine the changes in white matter within the cortical visual system of a group of VAs (n = 25) in comparison to a group of healthy controls matched for age and education (n = 24). To assess the integrity of white matter and its relationship with visual creativity, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using region-based and track-specific tractographic examinations. Our study uncovered that VAs demonstrated increased normalized quantitative anisotropy in specific brain regions, including the right inferior temporal gyrus and right lateral occipital gyrus, along with the corresponding white matter fiber tracts connecting these regions. These enhancements within the cortical visual system were also found to be correlated with measures of visual creativity obtained through psychological assessments. The noted enhancement in the white matter within the cortical visual system of VAs, along with its association with visual creativity, is consistent with earlier research demonstrating heightened functional connectivity in the same system among VAs. Our study's findings suggest a link between the visual creativity of VAs and structural alterations within the brain's visual system.

Visual Creativity through Concept Combination Using Quantum Cognitive Models

Visual Creativity through Concept Combination Using Quantum Cognitive Models

The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity

Studies have been conducted to investigate the components involved in generating creative outcomes. Divergent and convergent thinking are the most extensively studied components of this kind. There is evidence of important contributions of divergent thinking to creativity in artistic domains (e.g., writing, music, and visual art), but the role of convergent thinking remains unclear. This study aimed at comparing the relative contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity. Participants worked through four tasks serving to assess divergent and convergent thinking, and a creative drawing task. Our SEM and mediation models characterized the relationship between the two creative thinking processes and visual creativity, and revealed a positive impact of both divergent and convergent thinking on visual creativity. Divergent thinking has a direct, facilitating impact on visual creativity, whereas convergent thinking predicts visual creativity through drawing skills, thus suggesting a more indirect, enabling role. Taken together, both divergent and convergent thinking are involved in producing creative visual drawings.

Academic Philistinism? The Challenges of Contemporary Artistic Research Inside Academia. Semi-structured Interviews with Visual Art Students in Brazil

The objectives of this research are twofold, firstly, to analyse how departments of art and art practitioners are integrated within academia, and to scrutinise this coexistence, by focusing on emerging issues due to the nature of Art as “specific knowledge” thus, an assessment of its eventual mismatch within the generic framework of a traditional academic context. Consequently, this article exposes both frictions and dilemmas witnessed, as well as elaborates on the specificities of the Art knowledge and associated visual creativity and thinking. The study used qualitative analysis to explore the topic of the integration of art departments within academic settings. In this article, ten Visual Art students from three Brazilian universities are interviewed between May and August of 2022 about their perspectives on their studies and whether they advocate artistic research. The results shed light on how artistic practice is viewed as research and demonstrate how the traditional research outcome affects art students in their art production, academic and artistic identities, and perceptions and expectations.

The technical mediator in contemporary Iraqi formation

The current research (technical mediator in contemporary Iraqi painting) dealt with the concept of technical mediator in contemporary arts and its role in the qualitative transformation in art, the diversity of discoveries in technical media that artists use in their artistic achievement, and the extent of their impact on contemporary Iraqi painting, where the research problem was identified (what is The nature and role of technical media in showing works in contemporary Iraqi painting) and (What are the intellectual and aesthetic concepts of media and techniques as references for contemporary art in Iraq). The second topic dealt with technical media and their impact on the plastic arts, and the third topic focused on the technical medium and the mechanisms of its manifestation in contemporary Iraqi painting, and the third chapter, which included samples of the sample numbered (3), was a model representing the work of three Iraqi artists, while the fourth chapter included the results of the research. And conclusions, and sealed by the researcher sources and references.Conclusions: -1. Achieving visual creativity in artistic works by experimenting with contemporary media and techniques.2. The clear influence of contemporary Western techniques, in the use of new non-circulated media, as a result of constant friction with the latest prevailing artistic trends.3. Contemporary media and techniques are clearly influential in the Iraqi plastic achievement through the dismantling of forms, giving expression a dramatic dimension, and modifying the media from its relations to become self-sufficient, starting towards innovation and singularity in the constructivist style.4. The Iraqi artist was tempted to experiment according to contemporary propositions, after he was tired of the traditional ideas and methods, which have become stagnant in a vicious circle.5. The works of the three artists (Kuish, Abdeen, Bilal) were distinguished by the freedom to choose the appropriate media for their work, and to try to dialogue with the other through multimedia to convey the suffering of his people and the crises they are going through

Symbolism in the Animation's Visuals : The Role of the Creative Sector in Advancing the Utopian

The purpose of this article is to substantiate the important role of visual creativity in the creative industry sector in meeting the educational needs of the creative economy community. One form of cultural media from the creative sector that has the potential to boost the economy is animated film. When an animated picture is screened, the originality of the imagery takes center stage in order to engage the audience's imagination and foster a sense of personal connection with the entire work. A specific idea is embodied in animated film representation. The primary components that must be prepared in the creative sector are ideas because they are associated with technological innovation and artistic creativity. Utopianism was one of the original concepts that inspired the plot of the Disney animated film Zootopia. Through specific visual representations, the idea of utopia manifests metaphorically. Relational analysis based on Ogden and Richard's triangle of meaning is used to describe how the animated film's visual characters and symbols represent the utopian idea. For the drivers of the creative sectors, the results might be valuable as a way to relate ideas into the form of symbols and visualizations.

The application of advertising logo color design for big data and visual communication technology

Color is one of the three major elements of print advertising, and different color combinations can trigger different emotional experiences of human beings. At present, the application of color in advertising in China is relatively mature, but it is limited to the traditional application method and has not been combined with big data technology. From the perspective of business needs, this research analyzes the process of visual creativity from the perspective of business value-added, and analyzes the role of big data in it. Then it introduces the semantics of common colors and how to incorporate color semantics into advertising design. And a sequence mining-based advertising click-through rate prediction model is proposed. The Criteo dataset is used as the training set. The AUC value of the model is 0.702 and the loss value is 0.415. Compared with other models, AUC values increased by 10.16%, 4.70%, 2.69% and 2.30%, respectively. Losses decreased by 10.17%, 9.19%, 6.11% and 7.57%, respectively. Finally, the online shopping data of 20 consumers was used as the test set to predict their color preferences, and the prediction accuracy was about 70%. Among them, the prediction accuracy of the group with stable shopping habits was 72.76%, and that of the group who liked to try new things was 70.60%, both meeting the expectation. Through experiments, it is concluded that the model has good performance and stability, and can more accurately judge consumers’ consumption preferences.

Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition.

Increasing evidence suggests that specific memory systems (e.g., semantic vs. episodic) may support specific creative thought processes. However, there are a number of inconsistencies in the literature regarding the strength, direction, and influence of different memory (semantic, episodic, working, and short-term) and creativity (divergent and convergent thinking) types, as well as the influence of external factors (age, stimuli modality) on this purported relationship. In this meta-analysis, we examined 525 correlations from 79 published studies and unpublished datasets, representing data from 12,846 individual participants. We found a small but significant (r = .19) correlation between memory and creative cognition. Among semantic, episodic, working, and short-term memory, all correlations were significant, but semantic memory - particularly verbal fluency, the ability to strategically retrieve information from long-term memory - was found to drive this relationship. Further, working memory capacity was found to be more strongly related to convergent than divergent creative thinking. We also found that within visual creativity, the relationship with visual memory was greater than that of verbal memory, but within verbal creativity, the relationship with verbal memory was greater than that of visual memory. Finally, the memory-creativity correlation was larger for children compared to young adults despite no impact of age on the overall effect size. These results yield three key conclusions: (1) semantic memory supports both verbal and nonverbal creative thinking, (2) working memory supports convergent creative thinking, and (3) the cognitive control of memory is central to performance on creative thinking tasks.

Creativity with 6 Degrees of Freedom: Feasibility Study of Visual Creativity Assessment in Virtual Reality

ABSTRACT Immersive virtual reality (IVR) takes advantage of exponential growth in our technological abilities to offer an array of new forms of entertainment, learning opportunities, and even psychological interventions and assessments. The field of creativity is a driving force in both large-scale innovations and everyday progress, and imbedding creativity assessment in IVR programs has important practical implications for future research and interventions in this field. Creativity assessment, however, tends to either rely on traditional concepts or newer, yet cumbersome methods. Can creativity be measured within IVR? This study introduces the VIVA, a new IVR-based visual arts creativity assessment paradigm in which user create 3D drawings in response to a prompt. Productions are then rated with modern extensions of a classic product-based approach to creativity assessment. A sample of 67 adults completed the VIVA, further scored using item-response modeling. Results demonstrated the strong psychometric properties of the VIVA assessment, including its structural validity, internal reliability, and criterion validity with relevant criterion measures. Together, this study established a solid proof-of-concept of the feasibility of measuring creativity in IVR. We conclude by discussing directions for future studies and the broader importance and impact of this line of work for the field of creativity and virtual reality.

Ballet by Pavel Goncharov and Modernism: at the Intersection of Two Methods of One Style

The article explores the creativity work of Pavel Goncharov (1886–1941) – a ballet artist and a painter who is not as well-known among masters of Russian modernism, but is an interesting author of the late 19th to early 20th century, who created a unique series of graphic works dedicated to Russian ballet. By focusing on the artistic characteristics of the modernist style, the author notes that it began its development in architecture, decorative and applied arts, graphics, and extended to choreography, including classical dance. The interaction of related arts (graphics and ballet) led to the formation of synthetic visual images, which are analyzed in the article in morphological, stylistic, and compositional contexts. Using primarily historical and cultural and typological research methods, the author identifies a number of directions in Pavel Goncharov’s visual creativity: character actor images, sketches for the Firebird ballet, autolithographs for Fyodor Lopukhov’s The Greatness of the Universe dance symphony, and book graphics for ballet publications. Analogies are drawn with the aesthetics of the painters of the World of Art movement, whose graphic works included a theatrical concept, manifested in the drawn silhouette imagery, striking poses and gestures, actorly sensibility, and theatricality of costumes. The conclusion is drawn that the dance plasticity of modernism, borrowing many elements of graphic language at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, created versatile artistic and stylistic techniques, one example of which is the figurative format of Pavel Goncharov’s works, possessing an individual system of expressive means.

Methods of Teaching Graphic Design in HEIs for Art

Under the conditions of digitalization in technology and art, there is a sense of significant changes in visual creativity, where design projects are given not only new artistic expressiveness, but everything becomes an immeasurable resource base and source of inspiration for future graphic designers. This new reality encourages the permanent updating of approaches and the use of innovative methods of teaching graphic design in HEIs for art in the process of preparing for the professional activity of a future graphic designer. Therefore, a modern graphic designer, being the creator of a demanded graphic product that meets the requirements of business and clients, must have a sense of style, and artistic taste, track new trends in graphic design, be versed in styles, be creative, able to create original innovative design projects, have technical knowledge and computer programs, etc. The research aims to establish a pattern of promoting the use of differentiated methods of teaching graphic design in higher education institutions for art. The goal can be achieved by surveying higher education students on the Internet to determine the ability of HEIs for art to apply effective methods of teaching graphic design. Research methods: comparative analysis; systematization; generalization; survey. Results. The survey among higher education students found that online graphic design platforms such as Canva (98.3%), Pixlr (94.1%), Design Wizard (93.8%), Visme (92.4%), Snappa (89.8%), BeFunky (89.2%), etc. contribute to the formation of professional skills in the field of graphic design. It has been found that the following graphic design programs on PCs, namely Adobe Photoshop (95.5%), Affinity Designer (95.3%), Gravit Designer (91.5%), Adobe InDesign (89.9%), Adobe Illustrator (89.5%), best contribute to the formation of professional skills in future graphic designers. It has been determined that 3D graphic design programs such as Paint3D (91.9%), Autodesk Maya (89%), Sumo3D (87.9%), Blender (85.7%), Autodesk 3ds Max (83.3%), ZBrush (81.5%), etc. are the most conducive to the formation of professional skills. The study has revealed which methods of teaching graphic design in HEIs for art are used by teachers. These include innovative methods (91.8%), the method of graphic modeling (89.8%), the method of observation and independent reproduction of certain artistic images through graphic design (87.3%), the method of graphic illustration (86.2%), the method of projective and graphic form finding (81%), etc. It has been established that the successful implementation of differentiated methods of teaching graphic design in HEIs for art contributes to the formation of skills in using modern computer graphics programs to create design objects (91.2%), the ability to use basic skills in project graphics (89.3%), the ability to know color science to create a coloristic solution for a future design object (89%), etc.

Prevalence, Timing, and Network Localization of Emergent Visual Creativity in Frontotemporal Dementia

The neurological substrates of visual artistic creativity (VAC) are unknown. VAC is demonstrated here to occur early in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and multimodal neuroimaging is used to generate a novel mechanistic hypothesis involving dorsomedial occipital cortex enhancement. These findings may illuminate a novel mechanism underlying human visual creativity. To determine the anatomical and physiological underpinnings of VAC in FTD. This case-control study analyzed records of 689 patients who met research criteria for an FTD spectrum disorder between 2002 and 2019. Individuals with FTD and emergence of visual artistic creativity (VAC-FTD) were matched to 2 control groups based on demographic and clinical parameters: (1) not visually artistic FTD (NVA-FTD) and (2) healthy controls (HC). Analysis took place between September 2019 to December 2021. Clinical, neuropsychological, genetic, and neuroimaging data were analyzed to characterize VAC-FTD and compare VAC-FTD with control groups. Of 689 patients with FTD, 17 (2.5%) met VAC-FTD inclusion criteria (mean [SD] age, 65 [9.7] years; 10 [58.8%] female). NVA-FTD (n = 51; mean [SD] age, 64.8 [7] years; 25 [49.0%] female) and HC (n = 51; mean [SD] age, 64.5 [7.2] years; 25 [49%] female) groups were well matched to VAC-FTD demographically. Emergence of VAC occurred around the time of onset of symptoms and was disproportionately seen in patients with temporal lobe predominant degeneration (8 of 17 [47.1%]). Atrophy network mapping identified a dorsomedial occipital region whose activity inversely correlated, in healthy brains, with activity in regions found within the patient-specific atrophy patterns in VAC-FTD (17 of 17) and NVA-FTD (45 of 51 [88.2%]). Structural covariance analysis revealed that the volume of this dorsal occipital region was strongly correlated in VAC-FTD, but not in NVA-FTD or HC, with a volume in the primary motor cortex corresponding to the right-hand representation. This study generated a novel hypothesis about the mechanisms underlying the emergence of VAC in FTD. These findings suggest that early lesion-induced activation of dorsal visual association areas may predispose some patients to the emergence of VAC under certain environmental or genetic conditions. This work sets the stage for further exploration of enhanced capacities arising early in the course of neurodegeneration.

Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century

This introduction to the special issue ‘Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century’ explores the various types of literary and visual creativity enacted by medical practitioners as they sought new ways of communicating and engaging with the public. Focusing on the shift from Latin to vernacular publishing in elite medical circles, we examine the proliferation of new opportunities open to physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, medical artists, midwives, and other women practitioners to express themselves. Novels, drama, poetry, artworks, almanacs, and letters, to name but a few creative products of the period, allowed new ideas and underrepresented voices to be heard for the first time, changing forever the way creative and empirical cultures would intertwine. Stemming from the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Writing Doctors: Medical Representation and Personality, ca. 1660–1832 (2018–22), this research has undoubtedly been impacted by the rapidly changing nature of public healthcare in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic that was still ongoing when this issue went to print. We value and celebrate connections made between the past and present that continue to assist us in understanding and caring for our bodies.

Enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system of visual artist: Implications for creativity.

This study sought to elucidate the cognitive traits of visual artists (VAs) from the perspective of visual creativity and the visual system (i.e., the most fundamental neural correlate). We examined the local and long-distance intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) of the visual system to unravel changes in brain traits among VAs. Twenty-seven university students majoring in visual arts and 27 non-artist controls were enrolled. VAs presented enhanced local FC in the right superior parietal lobule, right precuneus, left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), left superior parietal lobule, left angular gyrus, and left middle occipital gyrus. VAs also presented enhanced FC with the ITG that targeted the visual area (occipital gyrus and cuneus), which appears to be associated with visual creativity. The visual creativity of VAs was correlated with strength of intrinsic functional connectivity in the visual system. Learning-induced neuroplasticity as a trait change observed in VAs can be attributed to the macroscopic consolidation of consociated neural circuits that are engaged over long-term training in the visual arts and aesthetic experience. The consolidated network can be regarded as virtuoso-specific neural fingerprint.

SAMStyler: Enhancing Visual Creativity With Neural Style Transfer and Segment Anything Model (SAM)

SAMStyler: Enhancing Visual Creativity With Neural Style Transfer and Segment Anything Model (SAM)