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Art, Technology, and Culture

Art, Technology, and Culture is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 8k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of art and technology in modern society, covering topics such as interdisciplinary collaboration, digital media, innovation, education, mathematics, science, interactive art, and cultural heritage. It delves into the impact of technology on artistic expression, the role of art in technological advancements, and the evolving relationship between traditional art forms and modern technology.

  • Art
  • Technology
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Digital Media
  • Innovation
  • Education
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Interactive Art
  • Cultural Heritage
Research works
8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
835
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Art, Technology, and Culture

Which countries lead Art, Technology, and Culture research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (479 and 144 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 479 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 144 works
  3. 3 China 101 works
  4. 4 Germany 87 works
  5. 5 India 68 works
  6. 6 Canada 66 works
  7. 7 Italy 55 works
  8. 8 Japan 54 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 42 works
  10. 10 Brazil 42 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 42.0%United Kingdom: 12.6%China: 8.9%Germany: 7.6%6 others listed: 28.8%42%largest
United States479 · 42.0%United Kingdom144 · 12.6%China101 · 8.9%Germany87 · 7.6%6 others listed328 · 28.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Art, Technology, and Culture research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Institute of Child Health publishes the most Art, Technology, and Culture research, followed by New York University and Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Institute of Child HealthHungary 23 works
  2. 2 New York UniversityUnited States 9 works
  3. 3 Academy of Fine Arts MunichGermany 9 works
  4. 4 Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 8 works
  5. 5 Film IndependentUnited States 8 works
  6. 6 Independent DanceUnited Kingdom 7 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  8. 8 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 7 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 6 works
  10. 10 City University of New YorkUnited States 6 works

What are the most cited papers in Art, Technology, and Culture?

The most cited paper in Art, Technology, and Culture is "Materials against materiality" (Tim Ingold, 2007), with 1,348 citations. Next come "The textility of making" (534) and "Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education" (526).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Materials against materiality Tim Ingold · Archaeological Dialogues 4 Apr 2007 1,348
2 The textility of making Tim Ingold · Cambridge Journal of Economics 9 Jul 2009 534
3 Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education Paulo Blikstein · transcript Verlag eBooks Book chapter 31 Dec 2013 526
4 THROMBELASTOGRAPHY Susan V. Mallett, D. Cox · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access Sep 1992 449
5 CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS BIOMASS Fang Huang · Materials and Energy/Materials and energy Book chapter 8 Jan 2014 388
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Art, Technology, and Culture research done?

The largest centres of Art, Technology, and Culture research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Budapest (Hungary) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Budapest and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 35 works
  3. 3 BudapestHungary 29 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 18 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 18 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 15 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 15 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 15 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BudapestHU · 29.5 works8.8×
  2. LondonGB · 51.0 works3.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Art, Technology, and Culture than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Art, Technology, and Culture?

Among universities, judged by research, New York University and Academy of Fine Arts Munich score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1New York UniversityUnited States 80.010.2%5.5×10 +150.7%
2Academy of Fine Arts MunichGermany 19.06.3%3544.0×9 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Art, Technology, and Culture, country by country

Is Art, Technology, and Culture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Art, Technology, and Culture.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Art, Technology, and Culture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Art, Technology, and Culture over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Art, Technology, and Culture10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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