13 research outputs found
Can small be beautiful? assessing image resolution requirements for mobile TV
Mobile TV services are now being offered in several countries, but for cost reasons, most of these services offer material directly recoded for mobile consumption (i.e. without additional editing). The experiment reported in this paper, aims to assess the image resolution and bitrate requirements for displaying this type of material on mobile devices. The study, with 128 participants, examined responses to four different image resolutions, seven video encoding bitrates, two audio bitrates and four content types. The results show that acceptability is significantly lower for images smaller than 168Ă—126, regardless of content type. The effect is more pronounced when bandwidth is abundant, and is due to important detail being lost in the smaller screens. In contrast to previous studies, participants are more likely to rate image quality as unacceptable when the audio quality is high
21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media, Book of Abstracts
The Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and the Society for Aesthetics of
Architecture and Visual Arts of Serbia (DEAVUS) are proud to be able to organize the
21st ICA Congress on “Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between
History, Geography and Media”.
We are proud to announce that we received over 500 submissions from 56 countries,
which makes this Congress the greatest gathering of aestheticians in this region in the
last 40 years.
The ICA 2019 Belgrade aims to map out contemporary aesthetics practices in a vivid
dialogue of aestheticians, philosophers, art theorists, architecture theorists, culture
theorists, media theorists, artists, media entrepreneurs, architects, cultural activists
and researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences. More precisely, the goal
is to map the possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics in Europe, Asia, North and
South America, Africa and Australia. The idea is to show, interpret and map the unity
and diverseness in aesthetic thought, expression, research, and philosophies on our
shared planet. Our goal is to promote a dialogue concerning aesthetics in those parts
of the world that have not been involved with the work of the International Association
for Aesthetics to this day. Global dialogue, understanding and cooperation are what we
aim to achieve.
That said, the 21st ICA is the first Congress to highlight the aesthetic issues of
marginalised regions that have not been fully involved in the work of the IAA. This will
be accomplished, among others, via thematic round tables discussing contemporary
aesthetics in East Africa and South America.
Today, aesthetics is recognized as an important philosophical, theoretical and even
scientific discipline that aims at interpreting the complexity of phenomena in our
contemporary world. People rather talk about possible worlds or possible aesthetic
regimes rather than a unique and consistent philosophical, scientific or theoretical
discipline