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Open Access · 2026

2026 Vol.6 No.2


Cultural Arts Research and Development

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5 articles
ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 1 May 2026

Medieval Mystical Narratives as Pre-Modern Utopias: New Conceptualizations of the Religious Experience by Mechthild von Magdeburg and Angela da Foligno

Albrecht Classen

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 1-13 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.1150

Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or pro

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 13 June 2026

Digital Music as Artistic Research: Practice, Platforms, and Post-Digital Aesthetics

Triyono Bramantyo

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 14-24 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.102025

This article approaches digital music as a form of artistic research, examining the ways aesthetic value is produced through creative practice, platform-based infrastructures, and post-digital sonic conditions. From a practice-informed standpoint, it understands composition, curation, and technologically mediated listening as pr

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 15 June 2026

Aura: An Elusive Concept in Art Theory and Museum Practice

Werner Schweibenz

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 25-42 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.102386

According to Tate’s online glossary Art Terms, aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques. So what happens to the aura in the age of digital reproduction? The paper describes the origin of this concept, which was introduced by the author and art critic Walter B

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 16 June 2026

Ink, Paper, Bodyminds and Ideas: Material Consciousness in Architectural Sketching

Otto Paans

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 43-70 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.101881

Sketching in the context of architecture has often been framed as either the intellectual development of an idea by visual means, or more recently as a heuristic instrument. In both cases, the influence of the lived body and subjective experience have been sidelined. This article investigates these material conditions of archite

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 20 June 2026

Representation of the European Woman as an Intercultural Agent in the Western Film Genre: Archetypal and Genre Analysis

Olga Kosachova

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 71-104 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.101915

The Western film genre has long functioned as a marker of American identity, and recent cinematic trends increasingly foreground female protagonists, particularly European women as intercultural agents within frontier narratives. This study investigates the intersection of mythology, archetypes, and Westerns, focusing on the way

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