ArtMaps: A Technology for Looking at Tate’s Collection

This article presents ArtMaps, a crowdsourcing web-based app for desktop and mobile use that allows users to locate, move and annotate artworks in the Tate collection in relation to one or more sets of locations. Here the authors show that ArtMaps extends the ‘space’ of the museum and facilitates a new, pluriperspectival, way of looking at art

Community Reclamation: the Hybrid Building

Reclamation of a city involves reusing abandoned buildings in conjunction with new construction. These negative spaces of disuse generated by a changing infrastructure are often overlooked or destroyed. If they are instead viewed as positive spaces for reuse, a city’s infrastructure and its residents can adapt and grow. Recognizing these newly positive spaces produces a chance to examine what social needs of the community are not being met. Pushing the modern concept of the hybrid building creates a unique opportunity; flexibility of use derived from flexibility of space. A community building can best serve the social needs of its residents by having the ability to adapt to changes in those needs

Complex multiplication and Brauer groups of K3 surfaces

Inspired by the classical theory of CM abelian varieties, in this paper we discuss the theory of complex multiplication for K3 surfaces. Let $X$ be a complex K3 surface with complex multiplication by the maximal order $\mathcal{O}_E$ of a CM field $E$. We compute the field of moduli of triples $(T(X), B, \iota)$, where $T(X)$ denotes the transcendental lattice of $X$, $B \subset \text{Br}(X)$ a finite, $\mathcal{O}_E$-invariant subgroup and $\iota \colon E \rightarrow \text{End}_{\text{Hdg}}(T(X)_{\mathbb{Q}})$ an isomorphism. If $X$ is defined over a number field $K$, we show how our results can be efficiently implemented to study the Galois-invariant part of the geometric Brauer group of $X$. As an application, we list all the possible groups that can appear as $\text{Br}(X)^{\Gamma_K}$ when $X$ has (geometric) maximal Picard rank, $K$ is the field of moduli of $(T(X)_{\mathbb{C}}, \iota)$ and $\Gamma_K$ denotes its absolute Galois group

Museums and New Media Art

Investigates the relationship between new media art and museums

Creativity and Art Education: Gaps Between Theories and Practices

Theories of creativity from different disciplines map onto teaching strategies within the fine art field. In particular, the outcomes of historical studies by psychologists and experimental studies within cognitive science have significant resonance with some long-standing methods of teaching artists. Through a series of interviews with experienced teachers of studio art in the UK university context, and analysis of written material to support teaching, this paper recognizes the need for a more systematic exploration of how creative thinking may have been embedded in the teaching of artists. We identify the presence of practical strategies, field knowledge, artistic identity, and the importance of ‘space’ within the accounts of teaching and the documents considered. We note that notions of identity and space are not clearly present within existing models of creativity, but aspects of them reflect tolerance for ambiguity. We conclude by reflecting that this space within conceptions of fine art education is a gap that needs attention and that the field that generates the creative practitioners of the future should understand creativity

Bounding Selmer groups for the Rankin--Selberg convolution of Coleman families

Let $f$ and $g$ be two cuspidal modular forms and let $\mathcal{F}$ be a Coleman family passing through $f$, defined over an open affinoid subdomain $V$ of weight space $\mathcal{W}$. Using ideas of Pottharst, under certain hypotheses on $f$ and $g$ we construct a coherent sheaf over $V \times \mathcal{W}$ which interpolates the Bloch-Kato Selmer group of the Rankin-Selberg convolution of two modular forms in the critical range (i.e. the range where the $p$-adic $L$-function $L_p$ interpolates critical values of the global $L$-function). We show that the support of this sheaf is contained in the vanishing locus of $L_p$.Comment: Final version. To appear in Canadian Jour. Mat