In an increasingly technology‐driven world, this study examined how communication design students can critically and creatively master advanced digital tools to craft immersive storytelling experiences, drawing upon an ‘analogue’ mindset. While immersive experiences are often associated with XR technologies, true immersion transcends the medium: it involves fostering a profound sense of engagement

The article focuses on demonstrating the connections between works of visual art and their musical representation—in the sense of a musical response to a work that served as a source of inspiration. The discussion focuses on works by outstanding composers: Zbigniew Bargielski (born 1937), Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938), and a younger composer, Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1961). Among the distinguished artists

The function of film grammar in the creation of narrative cinema is a central one when considering the realities of cinema as a global art. Since its birth from a confluence of European scientific and aesthetic principles, cinema has become a ubiquitous art form, but together with this growth has come the spread of those very principles from which cinema sprang. As an example, camera movement in Japanese

This research considers causal factors that impede the development of socio‐cultural creativity for adolescents, who experience micro and macro levels of structural violence and dehumanisation, while examining the conditions needed for participants to reconnect with their creative potential. Overall, the data present qualitative evidence that a blended programme of arts education, therapeutic intervention

This study examines the role of participatory research and community action in promoting peace among conflict‐affected youth in Colombia through architectural education. Using experiential learning (EL) methodologies, such as participatory action research (PAR) and tactical urbanism (TU), the project engaged young participants from conflict‐impacted regions in community interventions aimed at fostering

Artist‐teacher practices are important sites of peace ‘making’. This paper examines the importance of autoethnographic work for opening spaces of dialogue and dissensus in learning. Engaging in autoethnographic practices is an important part of knowing the self. Crucially, as educators, knowing the self and learning how to know the self becomes an essential part of engaging in and with our relationship

The modern world has had a long and uneasy relationship with the nostalgic past, with the line between the harmless and the harmful in this relationship often difficult to parse. This article looks at a particular microcosm of nostalgic medievalism in nineteenth century popular culture—selections from the work of prominent editorial cartoonist Sir John Tenniel in Punch that combine gothic imagery with

This article is premised on the understanding that arts‐based research (ABR) has a twofold relationship with peace: the future of ABR is dependent upon conditions of scholarly peace (constructive critique and ethical practice)—a dependency that holds implications for ABR itself to serve wider movements towards peace (socially, ecologically and politically). This article presents a critical analysis

This study examines how hand-drawn comics became a site of critical and creative resistance during fieldwork at Artist Village Aso 096k in rural Japan. The international artists in residence initially came to learn about the professional environment of the Japanese manga (comics) industry and to publish original works. However, the corporate-led system revealed barriers that constrained their early

Sweet bags were small, embroidered textile pouches used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to carry fragrant substances, money, books, sewing tools, mirrors, or other personal items. They were often exchanged as gifts, used to preserve clothing in wardrobes, or used to protect against contaminated air. Beyond their material function, both their name and some of their uses suggest an olfactory

Ceremonial deployed with the aim of displaying and perpetuating power was a shared practice across the medieval Mediterranean. Processions, ceremonies, and ritual acts created solidarity and consensus, naturalized dominion, and conveyed legitimacy while minimizing dissent and threats to social and political hierarchies. Such ceremonial acts were carried out in the public spaces of Mediterranean cities

Was it okay to bring the students here? Was it okay to plan to go here again with students working on site‐related art projects? How can art matter here? Such questions I asked myself when organizing a bachelor course on site related art in Lesvos back in 2018 and 2019. The Greek Island was then still heavily affected by the refugee crisis that hit Europe in 2015. In the visual essay I expose the uncertainty

According to Sigmund Freud, the unconscious is full of contradictions (wild emotional impulses, baseless fears, and repressive forces) but it is also a control mechanism. It is no wonder that digital platforms—requiring uniformity, reliable protocols, secure transmissions and proprietary algorithms as well as an enormous database about human desire and impulses—would gravitate toward a model of control

This article emerges from a researcher-generated longitudinal photography project conducted between 2016 and 2025 situated on the redundant site of the former Middleton Tuberculosis Hospital in North Yorkshire. The research project explored the site’s transformation through an unmanaged rewilding in the context of surrounding dairy farms within the Nidderdale ‘area of outstanding natural beauty’. The

In 1897, King Leopold II of Belgium opened the Brussels International Exposition, which, in the Palace of the Colonies, showcased objects and people from the Congo Free State. They were displayed as the property of the King, who was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. The Palace of the Colonies was a combination of classically inspired imperial architecture and references

This article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the roles of sound in character development in relation to issues of gender called the gendered character soundscape critique. This theoretical framework is applied to the character Mia Wallace from the film Pulp Fiction (1994) and illuminates the contrasting ways sound contributes to her characterization as a femme fatale. Mia Wallace is

The SIKUL research project examines the case of a self-organised music festival, which is understood as a social innovation in the field of arts and culture, in order to answer the following question: What effects do social innovations in arts and culture have on the members of the public involved in rural areas? How do they impact the region? To this end, a triangulation of methods has been used in

This article addresses the recent conflict in the Netherlands between a national ethnographic museum, the Wereldmuseum Berg en Dal (formerly Afrika Museum), and a Catholic congregation, the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, both of which legally own half of the museum’s collection. The case highlights the challenging situations faced by ethnographic museums with missionary legacies in the Netherlands

This article contends that Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (2023) uses digital filmmaking to re-animate the commodified image of Priscilla Presley, privileging surface and affect over historical realism. Though Coppola predominantly shoots on film, her decision to film Priscilla digitally—an adaptation of Presley’s memoir—marks a formal shift in her filmography aligned with her ongoing exploration of feminine

This article examines the role of visual and plastic art as a key instrument for constructing and interpreting cultural space. The study synthesizes a corpus of diverse theoretical works on the interaction between art and landscape, systematizes the principal issues within the field, and proposes avenues for further discussion. It investigates how art not only reflects but also physically, visually

This article explores how the photographic practice of Polish contemporary artist Krzysztof Marchlak draws on the visual language of early modern Italian painting. The main goal of the article is to highlight how historical iconography connected to the representations of St Sebastian is reimagined today in a contemporary photographic context. Krzysztof Marchlak’s exploration of the male nude explicitly

This article proposes the term ‘generative artifact’ to define a new method of imagining the future, one derived from artistic and architectural interpretations of non-linear time, material exploration, and relationship building. This contrasts the imagining that happened in the past by European and North American dominant culture, born out of fears of a declining Western hegemony and resulting in

The article provides a field report on some of the artistic approaches deployed in the transdisciplinary Praxis of Social Imaginaries (2023–2025) research project. The project emphasizes performative, site-specific, and embodied methods to enhance engagement with historical texts, viewing them as knowledge addressing present and future issues. It highlights the medieval and early colonial past’s rich

The so-called social turn toward collaborative art practices in the West has a curious but rarely discussed parallel in unofficial art in the late Soviet Union where collaborative performance art served as a significant catalyst for artistic innovation, particularly during the watershed period between 1975 and 1985. Pathbreaking performances by the Nest, SZ, and others, as well as the important collaborative

Reflecting on the digital unconscious may mean proposing a reflection on non-mastery in a field—digital creation of images and sounds, or the use of the digital in audiovisual creation—where resides the idea that digital machinery gives immense power to the artist who can now, thanks to calculation and data storage, surpass the usual limitations that human capacities have otherwise imposed on creation

The present study examined the personality traits of those who are attracted to dark visual art, in an attempt to understand whether their attraction to this dark genre indicates any of the dark traits. The study examined a sample of 241 participants from a specific forum of dark visual art fans (80% women and 20% men), aged between 18–65. Participants completed three online personality questionnaires:

The separatist rebellion in Casamance, southern Senegal, has driven what is arguably the longest‐running intra‐state conflict in West Africa. Spanning over four decades, it has affected successive generations through insecurity (including armed violence and landmine use); economic disruption; trauma; human displacement (both internal and into neighbouring Guinea‐Bissau and The Gambia); loss of homes

This paper places La Casa de las Golondrinas, a Pre-Columbian rock image site, in its Kaqchikel Maya cultural context. This is an exploration of both the cultural situation of the paintings and the meaning of a selection of the images. A comparison of sacred locations in contemporary use in the Kaqchikel highlands to the prehistoric locations of La Casa de las Golondrinas reveals that the same features

Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat/Spirit Land is a transdisciplinary practice-based artistic research project around Sámi cosmology and the act of giving voice to indigenous reclamation of sacred spaces. The Sámi are the indigenous people of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat/Spirit Land is a hybrid fusion between textile art, music, poetry and theology, aiming at taking part in the decolonizing

This article examines how metaphors operate in digital media not as descriptive analogies but as structuring forces that shape how technologies are designed, understood, and inhabited. Building on Marianne van den Boomen’s theory of digital material metaphors, it argues that metaphors such as the “desktop,” “cloud,” and “frontier” encode social and ideological assumptions into the infrastructures of

A number of collector’s cabinets known as pronk or luxury dollhouses were formed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by women in the Netherlands. The present study examines the dollhouse cabinets as exemplars of material culture collections assembled by female collectors. Primary sources give outsized attention to the materiality of these structures, often noting types of substance, quality

This article seeks to understand what an approach grounded in materiality and tactile engagement can offer to our understanding of why collectors might have been drawn to gem impressions in the long eighteenth century. Instead of looking to a specific collector or producer of gem impressions, this study examines interactions with gem impressions from a more general perspective. I speculate how, through

This article reconsiders Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as a cinematic “anti-testament”, a final film that eschews resolution, culmination, or closure in favour of subtle continuity, repetition, and quiet disappearance. Situated between the Japanese aesthetic of mono no aware and Western existential philosophy, Ozu’s final work embodies an ethics of impermanence and restraint, where cinema

This paper examines a series of AI-based recompositions created by the artist and researcher Gregory Chatonsky between 2015 and 2022, all derived from the iconic kissing scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) [1:55:10–1:57:30]. It explores how these reconfigurations bring out unforeseen transformations of the scenario, unexpected elements, hallucinatory motifs and figures, which expand the experiential

The world of laughter is often deemed frivolous. Clowns have taught us otherwise. This paper investigates the convoluted politics of laughter in relation to clowning, arguing that clowns (and the laughter they elicit) blur humour and horror and, in doing so, offer a corrective to officialdom. I analyse laughter as a social phenomenon (following Bergson, Benjamin, and Bakhtin) and as a mediating form

This study investigates the evolution of women’s representation in Vietnamese silk paintings across three historical phases: traditional (1925–1954), modern (1955–1986), and contemporary (1986–present). The aim is to elucidate how artistic transformations reflect broader social and cultural change. Employing a qualitative approach that integrates visual analysis and in—depth interviews with artists

In eighteenth-century England, anyone attending an opera, an oratorio, or even a church service would typically have had a printed ‘wordbook’ made available to them to read during the performance. Such wordbooks, whether available for purchase or distributed free of charge, contained the words to be sung (the libretto), usually with translations if necessary, and sometimes also explanatory footnotes

Contemporary architecture is undergoing a transformation from the modernist techno-functional paradigm towards practices that integrate technology with humanistic, cultural, and environmental values. Biophilia—understood as the innate human need for contact with nature—is becoming an important design category that supports health, well-being, and ecological awareness, yet it can also convey additional

This article was born from an artistic collaboration between a Sámi textile artist and me as a composer. At the heart of our work, Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat, three woven triptychs inspired by Sámi cosmology, met newly composed music shaped through my engagement with chi-based practices of flow and awareness. The creative process unfolded as a spiritual journey; a path of listening, learning, and

CIE recommendations for architectural exterior illumination provide general guidelines for highlighting building forms, with emphasis on edges, curvature, and spatial layering. However, they do not explicitly address luminance contrast disposition—specifically, whether elements further from the viewer should appear brighter or if those closer should be more intensely lit. Inspiration for addressing

This article proposes a reading of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) as the spiritual swan song of Stanley Kubrick, even though it was completed posthumously by Steven Spielberg. Conceived and developed by Kubrick from the 1970s until the late 1990s, the film emerges as a profound meditation on life, death, and the persistence of memory—one that continues to resonate through another author’s hand

This paper draws together visual arts education and the Irish language reflecting on how they have developed and evolved in the Irish primary school context. Visual arts education and the Irish language have a complex history influenced by the shifting priorities of the Irish education system. This paper explores the residual effects and challenges because of this. This work focuses on bringing together

In the interface of Christian ethics, autoethnography and Indigenous knowledge, I propose a Christian moral imagination of cohabitation based on interdependence and enablement. I use non-archival community knowledge and oral memory to excavate moral wisdom from my grandmother’s garden. I argue that to be interdependent is to be human, and the creation of a “social condition of livable lives” is a necessary

This paper presents Macalla, a practice-based research project investigating how architectural spaces function as co-creative instruments in Ambisonic choral composition. Comprising four original compositions, Macalla employed Nelson’s praxis model, integrating creative practice with critical reflection through iterative cycles of composition, anechoic vocal recording, and site-specific re-recording

We examined how familiarity with low or high complexity images influences complexity, liking and understanding judgments. Participants were first familiarized with either low or high complexity images. They then rated a set of intermediately complex images on perceived complexity, liking, and understanding. Data were analyzed using Bayesian mixed-effects models, controlling for declarative art knowledge

This article brackets the sociology of music and urban arts by exploring how independent musicians derive creative meaning and connections within the musically diverse place of West Hollywood, CA (WeHo), and describes the existing municipal conditions that enable professional musicians to experience their career trajectories as authentic to their selves. Findings from in-depth interviews and ethnographic

This article commences from a transdisciplinary research setting where students, artists, activists, and researchers come together to investigate medieval travelling accounts. The article is structured in two main parts. The first part presents an exploration of the theoretical framework of an hermeneutics of charity and suspicion as well as a development of a methodology that probes at the “cracks”

This article concerns nōsatsu, also known in Japanese as senjafuda and generally known as “votive slips” in English. Nōsatsu emerged in the 18th century out of popular practices related to pilgrimage in the city of Edo. Nōsatsu practitioners who visited Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines would paste votive slips on walls or other surfaces in the belief that the pasted slip would function as a proxy

This text presents a sociological approach to the historical role that the figure of the witch has played and continues to play. Omnipresent in mythology and art, it is hardly surprising that fashion and cinema have drawn upon her as both a source of inspiration and a mirror of contemporary society. Both the catwalk and the screen have underscored the relevance of black in her attire, establishing

80 years of Chilean rock art research, from its early descriptive stages in the 1940s to the present-day integration of relational ontologies, archaeometric techniques, and interdisciplinary perspectives, is reviewed. 562 publications are analysed, covering four major regions: the Arid North, Semi-Arid North, South-Central, and Southernmost Chile. Drawing from a systematically constructed corpus, we

Street art increasingly reshapes aesthetic hierarchies by introducing previously marginalised media into the public sphere. A compelling example is the artistic practice of the Polish artist NeSpoon (Elżbieta Dymna), whose work merges the visual language of traditional lace with the communicative strategies of contemporary urban art. Active since the late 2000s, NeSpoon combines stencils, ceramic lace

Today's interior design education is twofold and evidence‐based, building on theoretical foundations and integrating methods and findings from empirical research to create built environments that support occupant health, safety and well‐being. While storytelling has been a valuable design method in education, it alone may lack the structure necessary to address the complex constraints and regulatory

Between 1900 and 1940, African American participants in transatlantic public exhibitions reclaimed a medium that often oppressed non-White bodies: the diorama. This essay traces a transatlantic conversation among African American artists about how to render Black history in diorama form, leveraging the miniature format to make political arguments. In diorama series which circulated on both sides of

The recent years have seen a significantly increased representation of African artists at major recurring shows of contemporary art. This paper looks at works featured in the past few editions of La Biennale di Venezia, Kassel’s documenta, Berlin Biennale, and the European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta—events that once stemmed from civilisational transformations and now function as influential art institutions

Visual regularities activate the visual cortex and generate an Event Related Potential (ERP) called the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN). Previous research suggests that aesthetic preference and SPN amplitude correlate: People like the visual regularities that generate a large SPN. We found further evidence from a new study, which built on SPN results from previous research. As predicted, participants