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LEON 36.4 - From “Life-Water” to “Death-Water” or On the Foundations of African Artistic Creation from Yesterday to Tomorrow
The question of water crosses all African cultures—water as the critical factor for a happy life (life-water) or water mastered as a source of malediction (death-water). The aquatic nature of such a civilization appears then as the foundation of shapes and contents of African artistic expression. An analysis of various forms of creation shows that, without a lucid understanding of the power of water in the constitution of Africa's identity, it is impossible to interpret correctly African art from yesterday to tomorrow.
LEON 36.4 - An Investigation into the Use of Metaphor in the rubeTM Paradigm
LEON 36.4 - Aesthetic Computing Manifesto
LEON 36.3 - Leonardo Network News
LEON 36.3 - Commentary on “art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art”
LEON 36.3 - New Media Dictionary
LEON 36.3 - A Three-Dimensional Zoetrope of the Calabi-Yau Cross-Section in Cp4
LEON 36.3 - Stan VanDerBeek: An Early Space Art Pioneer
LEON 36.3 - Augmented Sculpture: Computer Ghosts of Physical Artifacts
This paper describes an approach to computer-based sculpting concerned with the creation and modification of digital models based on physical abstract sculptures. The authors begin by presenting a survey of current methods for the creation of computer-based sculpted artifacts. They proceed to present some original methods and tools based on the Function Representation of geometric models. They introduce a specialized computer language, called Hyper Fun, that facilitates the modeling of complex objects.