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When does eating become art? 'The Aesthetics of Taste' answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only in artistic practices, where they are naturally expected, but also in the spaces of everydayness that seem far removed from the domain of fine arts. As such, it seeks to grasp what artists - who offer aesthetic as well as culinary experiences - actually try to communicate, while also pondering whether a cook can be an artist.00Also available in Open Access

"In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960's. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against institutionalization, both within the art world and more broadly in Japanese society. This book contains 256 high-quality reproductions, including rare performance photographs not readily accessible elsewhere, as well as a comprehensive chronology" -- Page 4 of cover

• Toward a theory of anteaesthetics
• The corporeal division of the world, or aesthetic ruination
• Before the nude, or exorbitant figuration
• The black residuum, or that which remains
• Unworlding, or the involution of value.

• Interrogating the Nuclear Industry, Local and Global: Tsushima Yūko's Post-3.11 Writing / Barbara Hartley
• Hiroshima Museums: Atomic Artifacts on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary / Ann Sherif
• The Unquiet Legacy of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia / Elizabeth Rechniewski

"This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age. It closely interrogates the political and cultural shifts that have accompanied the transition to a nuclearized world. Beginning with the contemporary socio-political and cultural interpretations of the impact and legacy of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the chapters examine the challenges posed by committed opponents in the cultural and activist fields to the ongoing development of nuclear weapons and the expanding industrial uses of nuclear power. It explores how the aphorism that 'all art is political' is borne out in the close relation between art and activism. This multi-disciplinary approach to the socio-political and cultural exploration of nuclear energy in relation to Hiroshima/Nagasaki via the arts will be of interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, social political and cultural studies, fine arts, and art and aesthetic studies"-- Provided by publisher

"Anarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the "magic circle" in Amsterdam; Bauhaus Situationiste and anti-national art exchanges, networks and communes. As "Happener" and "Art Missionary," Yoshio Nakajima's storied career traverses an astounding range of locations, scenes, movements, media, and performance modes in the global 1960s and 1970 in ways that challenge our notions of the possibilities of art. Nakajima repeatedly plays a role in jump-starting spaces of possibility, from Tokyo to Ubbeboda, from Spui square and the Dutch Provos to Antwerp and Sweden. Despite this, Nakajima's work has paradoxically been largely absent in accounts where it might have justifiably featured. The present volume represents an international collaboration of researchers working to remedy this oversight. Nakajima's work demands a reconceptualization of narratives of this art and politics and their specific interrelation to consider his exemplary nonconformity-and its exemplary exclusion. This history demonstrates the inadequacy of notions of specificity that would oppose an authentic local or national frame to an inauthentic transnational one. Conversely, Nakajima manifests a key dimension of the 1960s as a global event in the interrelation between eventfulness itself and the redrawing of categories of practice and understanding"-- Provided by publisher

• Agriculture in Times of Ecology: A Brief History
• The Honest Aesthetics of Food Representation
• Anarchy in the Kitchen
• Art and Research in Food-Based Situations
• Art-Science Residencies as Experiments
• ArtMill, Rural Residencies, and Environmental Education
• Bread, Grains, and Ancient Cosmologies
• "In-Between Places"
• Nomads, Shepherding, and Territory
• Poisons
• Decolonizing Land and Body through Food Culture
• The Food of Life

"This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing traditional forms of expression and integrating others, the culture around food and its production has been added to a new vocabulary of experiential art. The authors measure the impact of such experiments on local food consumption and production, focusing on education and youth, both in the surrounding community and culture at large. They suggest how these projects can be up-scaled to further encourage sustainable solutions for our environment and communities. The book explores the reflections and motivations of case study practitioners in urban and rural areas and, through interviews, engages with artists who are pioneering a new trend to create hubs of activity away from traditional art spaces in cities to follow a non-hierarchal practice that is de-centralized and communally based. This book will be of great interest to academic readers concerned with issues related to environmental aesthetics, eco-design, eco-criticism, culture, heritage, memory, identity, and those interested in the current debates on the place of aesthetics and culture in sustainability"-- Provided by publisher

• Dialogues Between Geometry, Computer Graphics and the Visual Arts (Special session)
• [IN]Musicality: a collection of VR drawings and music as an artistic application of Hybrid Immersive Models
• 2000 eyes: Spherical View of La Fenice di Venezia. A Large-format equirectangular drawing with a gigapixel resolution
• A Comparative Study of Four 3D Facial Animation Methods: Skeleton, Blendshape, Audio-Driven, and Vision-Based Capture
• A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Generating 3D Models of Fluid Arts
• Using off-the-shelf AR and VR software for teaching immersive perspectives to 9th grade students
• Geometrical feature identification of cuneiform signs on micro survey reconstruction
• Games and Gamification
• Digital Game-based Second Language Learning of JLPT N5 & N4 Grammatical Concepts for Japanese
• CryptoKitties vs. Axie Infinity: Computational Analysis of NFT Game Reddit Discussions
• Preferences of Student in-Game Elements for Implementation in Gamified Learning: a Survey Report
• Design Factors for an Educational Game where Girls and Boys Play Together to Learn Fundamental Programming
• Recreating Gaming Experience Through Spatial Augmented Reality
• IN[The Hate Booth]: a Gamified Installation to Counteract Hate Speech
• A Review of Game Design Techniques for Managing Suspense
• Implementation and Playtesting for a world adventure game’s Procedural Content Generation System
• Museums and the Virtual
• Engaging Museum Visitors with AI-Generated Narration and Gameplay
• User experience of a conversational user interface in a museum
• Designing Virtual Guides’ Characteristics for Remote Tourism in the Arctic
• User Experience in Virtual Museum - Evaluating Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Discovery Tour
• VR Diet Museum: A Virtual Experience Designed for Better Learning and Reflection on Eating Habits and Its Effects
• Animation, AI, Books and Behavior
• The Impact of hybrid animation on the future of Animation
• Investigation of the Relationship between Artworks and Real Objects Using AI and Psychological Experiment
• Transmediation Of The Illustrated Children’s Book «Goodnight Moon»: A Web-based Traditional Animation
• Analysis of Affective Behavior in the Artistic Installation Moviescape
• Fate, Death and marketing. Is a book the same product as yogurt or a car?
• The singing bridge: sonification of a stress-ribbon footbridge
• Shadow Display Design Concepts for AI Enhanced Environments
• Fluency, Fashion, Emotion and Play
• Designing a multilingual, multimodal and collaborative platform of resources for higher education
• Desiring Machines and Affective Virtual Environments
• Development of Art Fashion by Integrating Art and Digital Textile Printing
• Developing Playful and Tangible Approaches to the Gap Between Academia and Civil Society: Inclusion and Access through Participatory Action-Research
• Movement, Film and Audio
• PirouNet: Creating Dance through Artist-Centric Deep Learning
• Simulating Idiosyncratic Movement Qualities
• Audial Kinetics and the Disembodied Voice
• Banging interaction in ubiquitous music
• Motion capture as a tool of empowerment for female main characters
• Next Level Choreography: Applying a Transformer Network to Generate Improvised Dance Motions
• Customising the Interactive Film
• Synaesthetic Sound Design in Virtual Reality
• Questioning Potentials of the Electrorganic aFrame in Music Therapy: Two client case studies with a single Music Therapist
• Enabling Genuine Connections in a Digital Learning Environment for Students Through Information Communication Technologies
• Designing an Interactive 2-Level Circular Algorithm to Visualize and Support Collaboration in Science
• Cross-Sections Between Geometric Patterns of the Past and the Generative Arts of Today
• The Resurrection of Art and Human Dignity MAGNETS case study
• Touchy Tap: a Slow Technology for Shared Reflections on Water Consumption
• Shadows as Ambient Displays - a Design Space.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 11th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, ArtsIT 2022 which was held in Faro, Portugal, November 21-22, 2022. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 118 submissions. The papers are thematically arranged in the following sections: Dialogues Between Geometry, Computer Graphics and the Visual Arts; Games and Gamification; Museums and the Virtual; Animation, AI, Books and Behavior; Fluency, Fashion, Emotion and Play; Movement, Film and Audio.

"Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black people from all corners of the globe. As We See It brings together 30 image-makers creating visually refreshing narratives on Black cultural identities, and exploring what Blackness brings to the making and viewing of art. How photographers are investigating and representing notions of Black identity in diverse new ways; Includes photographers who are both exploring the history of Black visual identity while also resetting its future; Full of visually refreshing and challenging narratives--including depictions of Black joy and love, as well as queer and non-binary identities, and images that underline photography's role in challenging stereotypical visual identities; Images come from across the world and straddle the worlds of portraiture, documentary, fashion and fine art; Artists included: Prince Gyasi, Nadine Ijewere, Campbell Addy, Chris Facey, Emeka Okereke, Lina Iris Viktor, Braylen Dion, Girma Berta, Kenny Germé, Naima Green, Mikael Owunna, David Nana Opoku Ansah, Lebohang Kganye, Dario Calmese, Melissa Alcena, Davey Adesida, Takeisha Jefferson, Atong Atem, Donavon Smallwood, Henry J. Kamara, Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni, Ronan Mckenzie, Rahima Gambo, Allison Janae Hamilton, Sedrick Chisom, Lunga Ntila, Jodi Minnis, Délio Jasse, Joana Choumali and Emma Prempeh"--Amazon.com

• Oiled hinges : sounds and silences in documentary films of social change
• Filmic stutter, taped counter-truths, and musical sutures : knots of recovery
• White ink, family systems, forests of illusion, and aging : knots of passion
• Miniatures : small kindnesses across poisonous knowledges
• Blue widow with green stripes : pivots in widening horizons
• Filmic obsessive repetitions, dissociations, and power relations
• Meritocracy blues, chimeras, and analytic monsters
• Afterword: Portals to the future : MRT stations, universities, and the peopling of technologies
• Exergue: Bangarra Dance Company and the historical hinge in Australia.

"At the Pivot of East and West is the companion volume to Michael M. J. Fischer's Probing Arts and Emergent Futures. In this book, Fischer continues his investigation into artistic practices with a focus on documentary films and novels, and introduces three analytics to do so: pivots, knots, and hinges. For Fischer, "pivots" signals geopolitical spaces, like art markets and commissions, as places to think with; "knots" speak to feminist and intercultural knots in women-authored novels; and "hinges" as a counterpoint to the notion of an event, a persistent slow change that only retrospectively seems dramatic and that remains unfinished. At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

• Oiled hinges : sounds and silences in documentary films of social change
• Filmic stutter, taped counter-truths, and musical sutures : knots of recovery
• White ink, family systems, forests of illusion, and aging : knots of passion
• Miniatures : small kindnesses across poisonous knowledges
• Blue widow with green stripes : pivots in widening horizons
• Filmic obsessive repetitions, dissociations, and power relations
• Meritocracy blues, chimeras, and analytic monsters
• Afterword: Portals to the future : MRT stations, universities, and the peopling of technologies
• Exergue: Bangarra Dance Company and the historical hinge in Australia.

"At the Pivot of East and West is the companion volume to Michael M. J. Fischer's Probing Arts and Emergent Futures. In this book, Fischer continues his investigation into artistic practices with a focus on documentary films and novels, and introduces three analytics to do so: pivots, knots, and hinges. For Fischer, "pivots" signals geopolitical spaces, like art markets and commissions, as places to think with; "knots" speak to feminist and intercultural knots in women-authored novels; and "hinges" as a counterpoint to the notion of an event, a persistent slow change that only retrospectively seems dramatic and that remains unfinished. At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

• "I Build My Monument" / Courtney J. Martin
• Indelible / Stephanie Weissberg
• Drawing Through Time / Christophe Cherix
• The Cleopatra Sculptures / Akili Tommasino
• Poetry by Barbara Chase-Riboud
• From Malcom to Josephine : A Manifesto for Sculpture in Pursuit of Futurism / Barbara Chase-Riboud and Reginald Jackson
• A Conversation with the Artist / conducted by Erin Jenoa Gilbert

"Accompanying the largest monographic exhibition of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud's (b. 1939, Philadelphia) work to date, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes traces the full output of the artist's remarkable career from the 1950s to the present. The catalogue features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks, highlighting the artist's groundbreaking role in the field of contemporary sculpture. In addition to some fifty sculptures, the book presents twenty works on paper, as well as a selection of Chase-Riboud's internationally acclaimed poetry. It also includes excerpts from an interview with the artist conducted for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. The catalogue offers a careful consideration of the many diverse aspects of the artist's practice, and in doing so, it provides unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and monument, while revealing a rich array of global art-historical and literary points of inspiration"-- Provided by publisher

Border Ecology is an important and accessible art historical analysis of mainly digital art and its borderlands references that promises to ignite new conversations in Border Studies, American Studies, Environmental Studies, just to name a few fields. Border Ecology considers both well-known and lesser known artworks, and brilliantly challenges the reader to reconsider what is seen and visible and what is not. John-Michael H. Warner, Kent State University, USA This book analyzes how contemporary visual art can visualize environmental crisis. It draws on Karen Barads method of agential realism, which understands disparate factors as working together and entangled. Through an analysis of digital eco art, the book shows how the entwining of new materialist and decolonized approaches accounts for the nonhuman factors shaping ecological crises while understanding that a purely object-driven approach misses the histories of human inequality and subjugation encoded in the environment. The resulting synthesis is what the author terms a border ecology, an approach to eco art from its margins, gaps, and liminal zones, deliberately evoking the idea of an ecotone. This book is suitable for scholarly audiences within art history, criticism and practice, but also across disciplines such as the environmental humanities, media studies, border studies and literary eco-criticism. Ila Nicole Sheren is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her first book Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984 (2015), focused on the shifting definition of site-specificity in art of the U.S.-Mexico border region

• Ceramics as Agent of Design Reform and Aestheticism
• Willow Pattern: A Mutable Agent of British Design and Art
• Teacups Tell Such Wondrous Tales
• British Pottery: Pride and Piety
• A Victorian Pitcher Speaks a Thousand Words.

"This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The art of transculturality Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella Part I: The Politics of Transculturality
• 1. Interrogating transculturality: from avant-garde literature to street art Andrea Riemenschnitter
• 2. "Words divide, images connect": the politics of language and the language of politics in Xu Bing's Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground Wenny Teo Part II: Collecting the Art of Transculturality
• 3. How people collect contemporary art: my typology of collecting styles Uli Sigg
• 4. Confusionism Uli Sigg Part III: The Topography of Transculturality
• 5. Transculturality in Hong Kong artist Annie Wan's conceptual ceramic art Silvia Fok
• 6. Tibetan stories with transcultural perspectives and experimental styles: Chinese avant-garde fiction as example Xi Liu
• 7. Burning words: Deng Dafei's Dark Utopia 2 Cosima Bruno Part IV: The Frontiers of Transculturality
• 8. Avant-garde 'Boys Love': female fantasy and the new queer discourse in China Xi Tian
• 9. Avant-garde women's poetry from China: Zhai Yongming and the poetry journal Wings Justyna Jaguscik
• 10. Stealing the art of pain: Body Art and Zhao Yue's Lattice Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg.
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This book examines how China's new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect on reform-era China's transformation and the Maoist heritage. It explores the vortex of cultural change from the launch of Deng Xiaoping's reforms in 1978 to Xi Jinping establishing his leadership for life in 2018. The book argues that China's new avant-garde adopt transcultural forms of expression while challenging the official discourse of Xi Jinping's regime, which promotes cultural nationalism and demands that cultural production in China embodies the essence of the "Chinese nation". The topics range from body art, women's poetry and boys' love literature to Tibetan fiction and ceramic art. The book shows how the avant-garde use the new digital media to bypass government censorship, transcending China's virtual frontiers while breaking new ground for an emerging public sphere. Overall, the book provides a rich picture of the nature of China's avant-garde art and literature and the challenges it poses for the Chinese government.
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• List of figures List of abbreviations Notes on translation, transliteration, and names Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Performing queer memory
• A queer way of life: Ren Hang's photography
• Post socialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer cinema Part II. Mediating queer activism
• 'Gently change the world with singing': Beijing Queer Chorus and queer audibility
• Performing queer at the theatre-documentary convergence: Fan Popo's screen activism Part III. Enacting intercultural communication
• Theatre of Cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West Palace
• About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in transcultural documentary theatre
• Sharing food, vulnerability, and intimacy: The digital performance of the queer diaspora in a global pandemic Bibliography Index.
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Art, politics, Asian, LGBT, Queer, China, Storytelling, Theatre, Performance.
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