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T1 - New Prospects for Information Theory in Arts Research
AU - Marsden, Alan Alexander
N1 - This is a preprint, or manuscript version and that the article has been accepted for publication in Leonardo
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Information Theory provoked the interest of arts researchers from its inception in the mid-20th century, but failed to produce the expected impact partly because the data and computing systems required were not available. With the modern availability of data from public collections and sophisticated software, there is renewed interest in Information Theory. Successful application in the analysis of music implies potential success in other artforms also. I give an illustrative example, applying the information-theoretic similarity measure Normalized Compression Distance with the aim of ranking paintings in a large collection by their conventionality.
AB - Information Theory provoked the interest of arts researchers from its inception in the mid-20th century, but failed to produce the expected impact partly because the data and computing systems required were not available. With the modern availability of data from public collections and sophisticated software, there is renewed interest in Information Theory. Successful application in the analysis of music implies potential success in other artforms also. I give an illustrative example, applying the information-theoretic similarity measure Normalized Compression Distance with the aim of ranking paintings in a large collection by their conventionality.
U2 - 10.1162/leon_a_01860
DO - 10.1162/leon_a_01860
M3 - Journal article
VL - 53
SP - 274
EP - 280
JO - Leonardo
JF - Leonardo
SN - 0024-094X
IS - 3
ER -