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In this research, we develop a system, which enables the users to experience past exhibitions on-site, by using AR technology. Our efforts focused on the new methods for using "digital archives" with respect to the spatiality of exhibitions and archives of site-specific or installation art. The purpose of this system is to propose a new use of an archive using AR technology, and to help users acquire various understandings about an exhibition. The system shows interactively the scene of past exhibition on the scre...

The paper †Ciuleandra – Variations' for mixed choir, written by the composer Vasile Spătărelu, highlights a Romanian folkloric play from the region of Muntenia-Argeş, particularly known as a dance and holler song with progressive accelerated rhythm, carrying profound symbols which relate to the folkloric practice of magic. Vasile Spătărelu rearranges the whole composition in variations, by using methods such as melodic, rhythmic, metric, harmonic and improvisational transformation, obtaining a series of v...

Three very young shepherds, on May 13, 1917, reported seeing “... a lady even brighter than the sun\ldots”, floating a meter or so in the air, near an old oak tree, when they were pasturing their little herd in Cova da Iria, Portugal. The story of Our Lady of Fatima has remained one of the most remarkable odes in Portuguese folklore. It is, beyond the religious event in itself, a key episode in the official history and culture of the Portu-guese people. It is a day celebrated every year; more among the faithfu...

This paper presents findings related to symbolic interactionism in the development and interpretation of art installations. It stems from three projects created by the first author: “Attrition,” “Contrition,” and “Babel Amidst an Arising.” This paper looks at symbolic interactionism as a proactive tool used by the artist first to engage the observer; second to construct an environment that communicates through shared meanings and societal experiences; and third to shape future decisions made by the obs...

Creativity is widely acknowledged to be the trigger of innovations and urban development after recognition of ideas by R. Florida, R. Landry and others on creative city and creative class though the latter notions are nowadays criticized for unsustainability issues they raise (Kirchberg & Kagan 2013). Moreover, these ideas put the main accent on macro-level of analysis, i.e. economic effects of creativity in the cities; however the micro-level of creativity - grass-rooted interactions of real creative actors - whi...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relations between art and social evolution, referring in particular to Japanese experience of the tragic events of March 11th 2011, which had a direct impact on a huge piece of territory along the north eastern coast and indirectly affected the whole society. My focus here is on how, in one form or another, many Japanese artists, designers, architects and filmmakers shifted to a collective and social form of creativity after the Great Earthquake. Several representative e...

Although the networking in the cultural and creative industries has been the subject of a number of studies, almost nothing is known about networking in the post-transitional social and cultural context. By studying the personal networks of creative professionals, this paper identifies the different types of sociality that are taking place in a post-transitional artistic and creative sector. Personal networks were reconstructed with the help of eight name generators. Data was collected in the form of structured in...

Fashion, art and narrative photography are taking one of the main positions in the development of culture and art. Photographs which are obtained as a result of the team work of art figures are the most promising. In this paper our team of photographer, assistants, retoucher, designers, make-up artists, hair stylists and models represents our works in fashion, art and narrative photo industries.

This paper focuses on haiga painting—a Japanese art which unifies painting, poetry and calligraphy on the same surface—and the influence that it had on some of the Western artists in their creations at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. Haiga painting was created together with the haiku poetry in Japan during the 17th century. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part consists in presenting the appearance of the haiga painting in Japan, its aesthetics, and its evolu...

During the second semester of 2013-2014, as an associate professor at the Arts Faculty from the Ovidius University in Constantza, I proposed a research project to the masters' degree students in Visual Arts, focussing on the relationship between earth and water in different versions: Waterfall, River, Coast of the Sea, Coast of the Lake, and the Danube Delta. From the beginning, I told the students that this research project had to be completed by an exhibition at one of the art galleries in Constantza—including...

If art and science inspire each other, bringing them together is a real challenge that pushes back the boundaries of knowledge. This paper describes a current project from the artistic motivation to the technical skills it requires and especially how one can contribute to the other. Through our connection to new technologies and even reality, we develop a piece that involves a new vision on different research areas while grouping them together, as in image synthesis, massively parallel programming, artificial life...

The goal of the research is the content, style and specificity of historic monumental paintings in Orthodox churches in Vyatka (now the Kirov region) in Russia. Nowadays many of the villages with the churches are abandoned as people moved to the cities. The wall paintings are on the edge of disappearing both physically and from the realm of academic study. Therefore a significant part of cultural heritage of the region is at stake. Since 1989, we have conducted inspection of more than 150 churches, the monumental ...

This article is dedicated to the comprehensive study of virtuosic concert piano pieces of Dikran Tchouhadjian (1837-1898): Armenian classical musician, a genius composer, the founder of Armenian musical theatre, a gifted pianist, a talented conductor, a skillful pedagogue and an active musical and public figure, who lived and worked in Constantinople in the 19th century. We used traditional methods of research, such as study of archives, empiric and theoretical analysis of the pieces. In this article an attempt is...

Every musical style can be characterized by means of probabilistic restrictions imposed upon structures as well as mutual relations between those structures and the mental representation of musical surfaces formed on their basis by listeners. In music, narratives generally result from a culturally embedded musical language that has been established over the course of centuries. There seem to be two factors that contributed to specific way that Xenakis understood music – the free play of the imagination directly ...

Our current research involves determining effort dynamics on a couple of performance dancers (dancesport - standard dances), in the pre-competitive stages for two successive competitions: Romanian National DanceSport Championship, held in Iasi, on the 1st and 2nd of March, 2014 The WDSF DanceMasters International DanceSport competition, held in Bucharest, on the 29th and 30th of March, 2014. The athletes used in our study are registered members of the Katamis DanceSport Club in Craiova, Romania – official member...

The avant-garde movements of the 20th century have emphasized the experiments in artistic creation, building on the experience of abstract movements in visual arts. They introduced new elements such as body movement, materials and unconventional sceneries. All of these have led, later on, to performance art and new media. The artistic experiments of the last century focus more and more on the subjective experience of the artist during the artistic process. Using the new technologies and visual media, the artist is...

The oldest drama theater of Russia, A.S.Pushkin Russian State Academic Theater (Alexandrinsky Theater) is the leader in new media and internet technologies amid the Russian theaters. Over the last years, the New Stage was founded at Alexandrinsky Theater by the young stage directors, to serve as an experimental space for implementing their innovative creative ideas. The New Stage is a high-tech performing-cum-educational facility. The challenges faced by the New Stage cast, as well as the hi-tech nature of most sh...

The stage construction of a role could be influenced by the borderline situation of a show, staged with a particular expressivity. The creation process of the stage play demonstrates the ability of the actor to transform and transpose himself in the role considering the borderline situations of the dramatic text. The performer could express the dramatic dimension of his text and the impact on the receiver even since the first rehearsals. One unique, obsessive question keeps standing though: how do I play? At the f...

The science of aesthetic joy The human body is certainly one piece of classic engineering designed to enable positive physical, emotional and above all spiritual enhancement. It is well upon the individual to understand, utilize and then usher in great sense of fulfillment. The Supreme has gifted us this wonderful Yantra or our body. In dance, one delves deep into the macrocosm and into the micro orbits of forces. The physical entity, the body form is never negated but it rather used as a VДЃhana or a vehicle that...

This article analyses the phenomenon of the virtual museum as one of the key features of post-postmodernism. It describes the way modern science masters virtual reality. The article gives classification of the virtual museums and indicates specific features. In details it tells about the creation of virtual museum. In 2014 The Chair of Engineering Graphics of ITMO University, the Center of Design and Multimedia of ITMO University together with the Prosecutor's Office of Novgorod region created a project Virtual Mu...

Viorel Munteanu, the author of the Glossa Symphony, is a multilateral artistic personality and composer of archaic origin. This article depicts the composer for whom the interpretation of folkloric or byzantine sources, that he often draws on his creation, is accomplished through the light of a well understood contemporary conception, carefully approached and minutely polished. Skilful in handling concrete time and space, either nostalgic, concerned and lyrical or expansive and playful or tense and dramatic, the c...

The main objective of this paper was to investigate and evaluate the factors which determined the winning of Eurovision 2014 contest by the cultural marketing campaign of Austria. Due to its huge stake, with immense financial gains and international consecration for the winner, the festival has become a true battle of national marketing campaigns. In the attempt to explain the social and political implication of the brave Austrian marketing campaign, I used the statistics that I found illustrative, overlapping the...

The article is a study of interdisciplinary cooperation of IT and multimedia experts from the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (UITMO), and the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater. The cooperation resulted in several theatre projects that involve multimedia and internet technologies, in designing the prototype of a system for multi-stream online broadcasting of shows, with the option of interactive involvement of the online audience and switching between the streams; several long-term go...

The paper focuses on the fundamental manners of working with graphic notation within the Different Hearing music-creative programme, which has developed in the Czech Republic the method of classroom composing. It deals with the creation and performance of graphic notations and, on the basis of analysing 35 scores and the experience gained within the Different Hearing programme, describes specific approaches to and strategies of their creation within the context of current research.

The personal synthesis between national and universal that Enescu has performed throughout his compositional career is foreshadowed since the time when writing the Octet op. 7, one of the composer's youth works, that reveals a number of trends and personal marks of the style he gained in subsequent creation. With the new perspective upon polyphony, offered by the multitude of the processes outlined in the twentieth century, the Octet op. 7 by George Enescu offers a personal view upon multivocality, seen from a set...

If we talk about great musicians, usually men's names are remembered, not women. Only musicologists can name some musician-women, who have got be successful performers in the world stage. In common view men are thought to be as creators and women – executors of something men intended. Question of duality of artistic interpretation in music performing art is considered in gender categories of logic, ratio, emotion and sensitive. Analysis of critical articles devoted to musicians' performing art reveals prejudice ...

Contemporary Czech liturgical music is a genre which has been given an official attention of cultural community only after the year 1989. It relates to the political situation and the state ideology that prevented the spread of this music and even obstructed its musicological processing or pedagogical use. However, until this time, it has not been systematically analyzed, although the differences of styles and experience from concert presentations show that this music deserves the attention of artists, students, s...

This study investigates performance and perception of microintervals in first movement (Hora lunga) from Gyorgy Ligetis' Sonata for Solo Viola. The 2.5 bar excerpt was performed live by the professional viola player – the author of this paper, with intention to test the performance and perception of two intonational versions – one containing equally tempered semitones B3-C4 (100 cents), and the other containing microintervals, which should be performed by lowering pitch B3 by 49 cents, or about a quartertone (...

This paper wants to present and highlight the very difficult but very valuable work of Romanian composer Viorel Munteanu, conceived as a theme with variations, inspired from a carol from Transylvania (Romania), collected by Bela Bartok. There are presented the results of research and artistic activity carried out in several stages: structural analysis and solving the specific technical problems, for such an interpretive act; the results of the interpretation experience resulted from performing the work in differen...

Approaching the history of music at present day, entails, first and foremost, setting in order the writings of important authors, who, by their general- cultural view (connection to the historic, esthetical, philosophical and political ideas of the time), and musical (the balance between general aspects regarding the presentation of either eras, styles, or composers and their oeuvres, and the personal option for certain esthetics, certain language or significant opus), contributes to the diversity of research meth...

We propose a very important research subject developed around the concept of actor, namely a theoretical and applied study of stage movement in developing the creativity of actors. The study proposes the identification and, afterwards, the use of the contemporary acting and its adaptation to freelancing. Thus, starting from the present theoretical models together with the existent case studies, we will approach this subject taking into account the specificity of European and Romanian cultural pattern. Taking into ...

Beginning with the second half of the XIXth century, the Romanian space has known a powerful stylistic orientation, with its own main purpose to exploit the archaic, archetypal chant and melody, specific to the oral traditional Romanian music. The impact was strong and generalized, gathering a great number of composers who, through the approach of all musical genres, have developed the musical language up to a maximal degree of complexity, in a perfect synchronicity with the musical tendencies and currents promote...

At present, the link between musicology and new information and communications technologies, a well as the novel possibilities this link provides for preparing critical editions of music, receive more and more attention. Furthermore, financing and publishing extensive series of critical editions of music for print is becoming more complicated. Institutions financing research in this field are beginning to place more emphasis on the preparation of scholarly editions in digital format. The success of some of these e...

Term scene design relates to professional, artistic, curatorial, theoretical and ideological practices developed from the expanded meaning of scenography – as semantic category and artistic discipline. The first researches in this area in Serbia started in 1996 with the series of exhibitions and theoretical symposia dealing with the phenomenon of spectacle in the contemporary world, and resulting in scene design being defined as a joint process of conception, creation and realisation of a scene in the broadest s...

In the contemporary music industry the image of a musician or a music event appears to be one of the most important parts of an agent or concert organization work. Thanks to correctly formed image a musician (music event) becomes memorable, recognizable and able to concentrate appropriate target audience around him (it). Successful and elaborated image is a key factor for a music project success and sometimes overshadows the quality of the music itself. The purpose of the article is to present our own vision on im...

In his book length essay L'homme revolte / The Rebel, Albert Camus describes the absurd man in terms of its major essential qualities: freedom, passion and revolt and identifies its three major prototypes: the Creator, Conqueror and Don Juan. All these qualities of the absurd man, outlined by the famous French writer and philosopher in his writings, are undoubtedly vivid descriptors of Samuel Beckett, in all his human and professional stances: as playwright (The Creator), director (The Conqueror) and complete arti...

There are neither simple nor facile things or answers when we talk or wonder about Samuel Beckett the person, the artist, the professor, the playwright, the director. His manifest theater flashed briefly through the world, revolutionizing and breaking patterns and demolishing conventions. He challenged and irreversibly changed the horizon of expectation for spectators in what the theatrical experience was concerned. His dramatic creation, bridge between world and stage set new delimitations of the space of accepta...

The notion of empty space in this work was defined on the basis of theoretical investigations in the fields of theatre, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theory of space. Understanding of the empty space in theatre was based onto the theories of a British director Peter Brook, while the theoretical postulates of Jacques Lacan were taken from the field of psychoanalysis. Concept of the emptiness, which Peter Brook defines as the ultimate condition for emergence of the truly theatrical experience, was analyzed in a re...

From a general perspective, the Romanian composers of the second half of XX century felt themselves united to a certain synchronistic spirit of the musicians from the Western Europe (and not only them), being polarized by the imperative to create a synthesis, essentially based on the fusion of three factors: 1. The assimilation of composition techniques universally recognized; 2. The valorisation of the autochthone modal-archaic potential; 3. The personal, authentic infusion of the creator. In this context, two st...

Silence means concentration, emotion, analysis. The spectator understands what he sees. In the moment in which he sees a sign, he decodes it; the sign can be represented by a gesture or a sound but by silence as well. Could silence be a sign of the inner conflict on both sides of the stage? The present research is based on three axes: the actor's play, the communication with the partner and the reception of the message considering the unuttered word the expression of the inner language. In this vein, methodologica...

The art of the XXth century was marked by an effervescent creativity in continuous search for its modern means of expression and its stylistic evolution. Great creative personalities brought their contribution to the unprecedented assertion of those cultures by accomplishing syntheses between national folkloric heritage and European music tradition; those syntheses were differently achieved in each culture and by each composer, as they either carried forward certain traditions of the XIXth century or reinforced or...

Graffiti is, by its nature, an agent of architecture and of urban space transformation and can positively interfere on the affective and symbolic aspects of the living space. In the case of a problematic neighbourhood, for which was urgent to find solutions that effectively solved the existing social problems, and the bad image it presented outside, was, among other initiatives, created a street urban art gallery with the organization of an art Festival. The presence of a large number of graffiti pieces clearly pr...

Starting with the 1980s, the world of flamenco has been witnessing a process of innovation and internal changings. The roots of this process can be practically seen in the new directions flamenco follows. The discussion revolves nowadays around the question, if tradition and flamenco are two concepts that exclude, or rather imply, one another. We aim at answering that question by means of comparison between what can be defined as two distinct styles: classic flamenco and new flamenco.

The highlighting of the importance of melody in education, as an element of connection between the music theory and the other disciplines of the filed, represents the purpose of the present research. Sometimes, students with abilities, give up the musical study, overwhelmed by the universitary programmes' requests. The theme of the research is proposing the simplification of learning the theoretical data, by using the melody. The theoretical disciplines of music -History,Harmony, Polyphony,Folklore , Forms, Orches...

This article aims to highlight two aspects of sound concretization of a convergent spiritual background generated by the symbolism of stained glass window, exposing conceptions, orientations and even writing techniques belonging to composers considered to be very different stylistically. Come into sight since the period of great medieval cathedrals, the stained glass window will transcend the purely visual stage, being symbolically filled by the polysemy of light-colour-sacrality triad. From this perspective, the ...

The research aims to discover the efficiency in understanding the work with elusive message involving literary arts. In the work of the academical didactics, I found some deficiencies about perception of the true musical phenomenon. For this reason I have found it necessary to do a thorough research to discover the causes of deficiencies and remove them. In the investigation the used methods were: conducted audition and compared study. The study was applied to groups of students differentiated by education level a...