The Role of Performance in Environmental Humanities: The Case of Joan Jonas’s Moving Off the Land II

This article explores the role of performance in Environmental Humanities by discussing Joan Jonas’s staging of Moving Off The Land II at Ocean Space in Venice as a case study. More specifically, the article shows that Moving Off The Land II and Ocean Space have created a space in which to practice environmental art illustrating how co-habiting ecosystems that we regularly fail to acknowledge should form part of how we construct our own presence.

Methodological Fundamentals for Forming Art Values of Students-Musicians in Arts and Educational Activities

The article is devoted to the problem of value formation of a future music teacher in the process of professional training. Art education is considered as a component of training that accumulates performing, musical, methodological directions. The artistic education for Music teachers determines the poly-artistic vector of professional training, which includes understanding music and other arts. The success of artistic education is ensured by the subjectivity of a future teacher-musician who accepts such activities as a universal professional value. The hierarchy of pedagogical conditions of effective arts and educational activities is substantiated. The initial positions for substantiation of methodological fundamentals of arts and educational activities of the future Music teacher are specified, namely teacher’s focus on self-development and on values of other people. The groups of methods relate to motivation for the complex of musical activity, poly-artistic development, thesaurus in the field of various arts. The core of the methodological fundamentals is personal artistic communication with art as well as interpersonal artistic communication. The need for the functioning of a specific arts and educational environment is substantiated in order to provide artistic communication, The functional connection of pedagogical conditions and methods of formation of artistic values of students-musicians in arts and educational activities as subjects of environmental art education is explained. The prospects of research of the problem caused by actualization of processes of virtual communication, risks of minimizing of interpersonal art communication are defined. Key words: students-musicians, arts and educational

PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY WITHIN THE CONCEPT OF «UKRAINIAN LAND ART»

Fundamental art studies in the field of land art are not yet available in Ukraine, and individual articles in periodicals do not reveal the principles of the formation of the actual Ukrainian art of the environment, its features and differences from abroad land art. To date, the phenomenon of Ukrainian land art has not received its own term and for thirty years in a row uses the borrowed foreign name «land art», while the uniqueness of domestic environmental art is an indisputable fact. The article considers the peculiarities of the formation of land art abroad and in the system of Ukrainian contemporary art. The analysis and clarification of terminology related to land art in Ukraine has been carried out. The author's term for the phenomenon of the Ukrainian land art is offered. The study found that the application of the foreign term «land art» to the domestic art of interaction with the environment is not exhaustive, because it does not reveal the full range of creative communication of artists with the environment and is too narrow in relation to it. At that time, the term «mystectvo dovkillja» («art of the environment»), introduced by P. Bevza, is too wide a range of artistic creativity, where «environment» is used in the sense of «environment» as one that contains the entire surrounding space. Therefore, it isn't inexpedient to apply the foreign term «land art» to the creative practices of Ukrainian artists. At the same time, «art of the environment» is too abstract a concept for the term «land art», which aims at a specific creative interaction with the earth. Environmental art aims to decorate and equip a person's place of residence, which expresses his utilitarianism and may include: both landscape art and landscape design and monumental art, site-specific art, ecological art, as preservation and repair of the Earth's resources, etc. Domestic artists work with natural materials in the natural environment in order to create a new art product. Accordingly, instead of the term «Ukrainian land art» it is appropriate to use the term «pryrodotvorche mystectvo» («natural creative art»), because the context of the Ukrainian art form is characterized by creative interaction with the natural environment and materials as a way to create a new art product. Theoretical research of the work is the basis for further in-depth scientific development of the problem, namely, the phenomenon of land art in the system of contemporary art of Ukraine.

Research on Art Intervention in Rural Design Based on the Cultural Ecology: A Case Study of the Xun Jiansi Village in Jiangxi Province, China

In 2021, the world will enter the post-epidemic era. China is at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the integration of urban and rural development and rural revitalization. At the same time, the internal circular economy brings opportunities for rural development and regional revitalization. This article uses interdisciplinary research methods, integrates various design models involved in cultural ecology, and strengthens the connections between them, combined with innovative thinking in rural design, art promotion, cultural inheritance, and industrial upgrading paths. The article intends to solve how to use environmental art and public Art, experimental art and other art forms are involved in rural design, and based on the theoretical framework of cultural ecology, the rural design method is constructed through the case analysis of the Xun Jiansi village, and the innovative and characteristic development path of art intervention in rural design is studied.

Pose Estimation under Visual Sensing Technology and Its Application in Art Design

The study is aimed at solving the problem of large measurement errors caused by the binocular camera in traditional 3D art design, which leads to inaccurate 3D information of the target. The contour information extraction in the process of human motion pose reconstruction is easily affected by the noise in the image. Therefore, a binocular stereo vision system is built first and it integrates image acquisition, camera calibration, and image processing. The dedistortion method is used to process the image because it can reduce errors. Second, a three-dimensional human motion pose reconstruction model is implemented, the Gaussian template is used to remove the noise in the image frame, and the change detection template (CDM) is used to solve the problem of background “exposure” and “occlusion.” Finally, simulation experiments are designed to verify the system and model designed. Since the research on the application of pose estimation based on visual sensing technology in art design is still blank, such research has great significance and provides a reference for the research in the field. The literature analysis is used to expound and analyze the application of pose estimation based on visual sensing technology in visual communication design and environmental art design: (1) although the binocular stereo vision system causes some errors in the measurement, the overall error is controlled within 2% and the accuracy is high, which proves that it can be applied to the acquisition of three-dimensional information of the target in art design; (2) there is a high degree of fitting between the video sequence data created by the three-dimensional human motion pose reconstruction model designed and the real motion data, which indicates that this method has high accuracy in processing image sequences and the feasibility of applying it to human pose reconstruction in three-dimensional art design is high; (3) through the analysis of the existing literature, it is found that most of the current visual-based attitude assessment studies are carried out by using network cameras combined with computers, and the quality of the obtained images is low. The combination of binocular stereo sensor and attitude estimation technology can be applied to the design of advertising, animation, games, and packaging, making the behavior of virtual characters in animation and games more vivid. The combination provides convenience for the collection of environmental spatial information and object attitude information, the formulation of a design scheme, and real-time monitoring of construction in environmental art design. The purpose of this study is to provide an important theoretical basis for the technical upgrading of art design.

Discussion on the Teaching of Art Color Design in Higher Education in the New Era

The success and failure of color matching are directly related to work efficiency, sleep, personality and so on. Color matching course can not only cultivate students' creative thinking, but also improve their aesthetic ability and expression ability. This paper studies the teaching methods of art color design in Higher Education in the new era. Color matching course is an important part of the teaching and training of art design major, and it is also an essential basic skill for every environmental art student. Through the research on the meaning, types and characteristics of color, as well as the concept and category of color matching, combined with the experience and lessons in the teaching process, this paper demonstrates various teaching methods of indoor color design in practical teaching. The experimental research shows that the method proposed in this paper can improve the teaching efficiency of art color design.

We Do Not Have an Adequate Conception of Art Until We Have One that Accommodates Gardens

<p>In the first part of this thesis (chapters 1 – 4) I argue that we do not have an adequate conception of art until we have one that accommodates gardens. I argue for this by demonstrating that gardens are sufficiently like paradigmatic types of art to be included in the category of art. While doing this I show not just how gardens are similar to other types of art but also how they combine qualities shared with other types of arts in a way that is unique. In the second part (chapters 5 and 6) I develop this claim. I consider the dynamic nature of gardens and argue that gardens are most like performance arts such as music and dance, and that their distinctiveness relies on the particular dynamic character of the living organisms that constitute their principal materials. I concludes this thesis (chapter 7) by considering gardens in the context of the contemporary art genres of installation and environmental art.</p>

We Do Not Have an Adequate Conception of Art Until We Have One that Accommodates Gardens

<p>In the first part of this thesis (chapters 1 – 4) I argue that we do not have an adequate conception of art until we have one that accommodates gardens. I argue for this by demonstrating that gardens are sufficiently like paradigmatic types of art to be included in the category of art. While doing this I show not just how gardens are similar to other types of art but also how they combine qualities shared with other types of arts in a way that is unique. In the second part (chapters 5 and 6) I develop this claim. I consider the dynamic nature of gardens and argue that gardens are most like performance arts such as music and dance, and that their distinctiveness relies on the particular dynamic character of the living organisms that constitute their principal materials. I concludes this thesis (chapter 7) by considering gardens in the context of the contemporary art genres of installation and environmental art.</p>

Structural design for a hybrid stone carving manipulator

With people’s higher and higher requirements for environmental art, a large number of stone carving products are needed in the current urban construction. However, the traditional carving technology and equipment can not meet this demand. The development of robots to complete the processing of stone products, especially for the processing of special-shaped stones with complex shapes such as three-dimensional, multi-faceted and curved surfaces, has great social and economic benefits. In this paper, a stone carving manipulator is designed. In the processing of special-shaped curved stone, the structure of 3-TPS/TP hybrid manipulator is adopted, and its kinematic model and Jacobian matrix are established to realize the efficient automatic processing of special-shaped stone.