Using the Supercomputer to Visualize Higher Dimensions: An Artist's Contribution to Scientific Visualization

Leonardo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Mathematical Theorem ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Agricultural Entomology

The interdisciplinary research environment coupled with supercomputer graphics is affording new opportunities for collaborations between artists and scientists. The author has collaborated with specialists in such fields as agricultural entomology, topology and astrophysics to render visual representations of multidimensional computations. One collaboration has resulted in a single, aesthetic form encompassing both a new art form and the discovery of a suggested mathematical theorem. These team efforts provide interesting examples of research dynamics between artist and scientist as they work toward a common goal: visualization of the invisible. Such interaction serves as a prototype of the ‘Renaissance team’ where specialists provide a broad spectrum of skills in the quest for discovery. Artists can and will make important contributions to this research.

scholarly journals Biodiversity in Music Scores

Challenges ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
David G. Angeler
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
Structural Diversity ◽  
Gamma Diversity ◽  
Structural Differentiation ◽  
Science System ◽  
Quantitative Ecology ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Musical Genres

Nature has inspired music since the dawn of humankind and has contributed to the creation and development of music as an art form. However, attempts to use the science of nature (i.e., quantitative ecology) to inform music as a broader art-science system is comparatively underdeveloped. In this paper an approach from biodiversity assessments is borrowed to quantify structural diversity in music scores. The approach is analogous in its nature and considers notations with distinct pitches and duration as equivalents of species in ecosystems, measures within a score as equivalents of ecosystems, and the sum of measures (i.e., the entire score) as a landscape in which ecosystems are embedded. Structural diversity can be calculated at the level of measures (“alpha diversity”) and the entire score (“gamma diversity”). An additional metric can be derived that quantifies the structural differentiation between measures in a score (“beta diversity”). The approach is demonstrated using music scores that vary in complexity. The method seems particularly suitable for hypothesis testing to objectively identify many of the intricate phenomena in music. For instance, questions related to the variability within and between musical genres or among individual composers can be addressed. Another potential application is an assessment of ontogenetic structural variability in the works of composers during their lifetime. Such information can then be contrasted with other cultural, psychological, and historical variables, among others. This study shows the opportunities that music and ecology offer for interdisciplinary research to broaden our knowledge of complex systems of people and nature.

The Breath of Collaboration of Academia, Industry, and Governmental Sectors in Japan

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafumi Katsuta
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Academic Policy ◽  
Research Institute

Abstract The research environment of science and technology is going to change rapidly (dramatically) with the change of Japanese society change at the turn of the century. In this article, a discussion on what kind of academic policy put into the effect aiming to enhance collaborative research in Japanese universities and to foster interdisciplinary research between separate established organizations is attempted. A typical example of a successful system, The Advanced Research Institute of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, will be described.

The sound of silence: Blank spaces, fading narratives and fragile frames in comics

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
Debarghya Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Blank Space ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Printed Word

Abstract How does one translate silence onto a silent medium? Printed comic books and graphic novels are generally a non-auditory art form. This has caused them to be traditionally perceived as ‘silent’. This also means that comics artists have come up with some of the most innovative ways of translating sound to a primarily visual medium ‐ bold letters, onomatopoeic words, fading images, etc. Nonetheless, these innovations have often in fact failed to address silence. As an art form where both the blank space and the printed word acquire their own unique visual signification, is comics rather a stubbornly un-silent medium? If so, then how does one depict silence in an un-silent medium? My article addresses these questions by first examining the works of Scott McCloud, Thierry Groensteen and Barbara Postema and their study of sound in comics. I then build on these theoretical frameworks to problematize the conventional correlation of visual signifiers with sound and silence, primarily examining the use of blank space or the lack of words as a default signifier of silence. Ultimately, I will argue that comic books provide a unique transmedial approach to re-analyse our conventional ideas for visual representations of sound.

scholarly journals Archimedes Interdisciplinary Research Programme Forges a Broad Spectrum of Academic Innovations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Loupis ◽  
Georgios Fourlas ◽  
Petros Lampsas ◽  
Teodoros Tsiftsis ◽  
Konstantinos Anagnostou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Programme

scholarly journals Empathy or Empathies? Uncertainties in the Interdisciplinary Discussion

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Andrea Pinotti ◽  
Massimo Salgaro
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Expression Animation ◽  
Everyday Communication

Summary The term empathy has become a linguistic commonplace in everyday communication as well as in interdisciplinary research. The results of the research questions, raised in the last hundred (and more) years, coming from different areas, such as aesthetics, psychology, neurosciences and literary theory, lack in fact a clear concept of empathy. Not surprisingly, a recent paper has identified up to 43 distinct definitions of empathy in academic publications. By reconstructing the main research lines on empathy, our paper highlights the reasons for this conceptual inadequacy and the deficiencies in the theorization of empathy that create misleading interpretations thereof. Along the line connecting Plato’s insights on empathic experiences to the present neuroscientific experiments, a broad spectrum of issues is deployed for which “empathy” functions as an umbrella term covering a net of categorical relationships – projection, transfer, association, expression, animation, anthropomorphization, vivification, fusion, and sympathy – that only partially overlap. Our paper therefore recommends that “empathy” should not be assumed as a self-evident notion but instead preliminarily clarified in its definition every time we decide to have recourse to it.

scholarly journals Moscow Interdisciplinary Conference on Autobiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. R1-R5
Author(s):  
Thomas Rollings
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research University ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Environment

The conference devoted to “Autobiographical writings in an interdisciplinary research environment: people, texts, practices” was held on 1–2 June 2016 in Moscow at the National Research University The Higher School of Economics (HSE). The conference aimed to promote the study of first-person writings as the product of specific social practices and marked a modest step forward in the study of autobiography in Russia. This article was submitted to EJLW on October 21st 2016 and published on April 9th 2017.

Theoretical and Instructional Aspects of Learning with Visualizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 1667-1688
Author(s):  
Katharina Scheiter ◽  
Eric Wiebe ◽  
Jana Holsanova
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
External Representation ◽  
Multimedia Environments ◽  
Processing Of Visual Information

Multimedia environments consist of verbal and visual representations that, if appropriately processed, allow for the construction of an integrated mental model of the content. Whereas much is known on how students learn from verbal representations, there are fewer insights regarding the processing of visual information, alone or in conjunction with text. This chapter uses a semiotics approach to provide a defi- nition of visualizations as a specific form of external representation, and then discusses the differences between verbal and visual representations in how they represent information. Finally, it discusses how meaning is achieved when learning with them. The next section discusses basic perceptual and cognitive processes relevant to learning with visualizations. This background is used to specify the instructional functions that visualizations have either as self-contained instructional messages or as text adjuncts. Moreover, the role of individual differences in processing visualizations is highlighted. The chapter ends with methodological suggestions concerning the important role of interdisciplinary research and assessment methods in this area.

Theoretical and Instructional Aspects of Learning with Visualizations

2009 ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Scheiter ◽  
Eric Wiebe ◽  
Jana Holsanova
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
External Representation ◽  
Multimedia Environments ◽  
Processing Of Visual Information

Multimedia environments consist of verbal and visual representations that, if appropriately processed, allow for the construction of an integrated mental model of the content. Whereas much is known on how students learn from verbal representations, there are fewer insights regarding the processing of visual information, alone or in conjunction with text. This chapter uses a semiotics approach to provide a defi- nition of visualizations as a specific form of external representation, and then discusses the differences between verbal and visual representations in how they represent information. Finally, it discusses how meaning is achieved when learning with them. The next section discusses basic perceptual and cognitive processes relevant to learning with visualizations. This background is used to specify the instructional functions that visualizations have either as self-contained instructional messages or as text adjuncts. Moreover, the role of individual differences in processing visualizations is highlighted. The chapter ends with methodological suggestions concerning the important role of interdisciplinary research and assessment methods in this area.

scholarly journals Traditional Caddo Potter

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chase K. Earles
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Native American Art ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Ancient Pottery ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Art Form ◽  
American Southeast

Although I originally set out to find an art form that I was comfortable with and would be inspired by, for myself, I ended up discovering an ancient art form that would benefit not just myself, but the generations of Caddo people that would come after me. I feel that eventually they will see the benefit from its rediscovery. But also, I quickly realized the need to make public the distinction of our ancient pottery legacy for the sake of those Caddo that would pick up the craft. The Native American art world in the American Southeast is much different from that of the Southwest that I grew up loving. So many Native American artists are confused about what is their tribe’s specific legacy and traditional art form that many claim a broad spectrum of tribes in the region by creating artwork under the umbrella of “Mississippian” or “Southeastern Ceremonial.” It became apparent that the Caddo’s specific and unique pottery heritage is in danger of being misrepresented in the art world and to collectors. Making it all the more obvious was that I found out there was only one active Caddo member practicing pottery making, Jereldine Redcorn. I felt like although she was successful in reviving the lost art of our Caddo pottery, there is only so much one person can do and it was then that I decided that I could help expand and help spread our knowledge and our experiences so that our beautiful pottery tradition could be reborn and survive for all time, rather than become lost again in the earth.

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