written by Corinna Kühnapfel UNIVIE PhD Candidate MacKenzie Trupp has been recently awarded with the Impact Award 2023 funded by the City of Vienna Cultural Affairs for her research funded by ARTIS. MacKenzie Trupp is a doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience (VDS CoBeNe) of the University of Vienna.Through […]

February 23, 2024

*Parkinsons

New research project at UNIVIE on the relationship between Parkinson’s and creativity

This project is looking into the role of creativity to better understand Parkinson's by ’unlocking the Muse’

January 26, 2024

*Outreach
*Transformation

New article about ARTIS in EU Research

In the latest edition of EU Research, the winter issue highlights the work of the ARTIS project studying art's impact across Europe

October 17, 2023

*Transformation

New exhibition by Kaj Osteroth

Kaj Osteroth, who works in close colaboration with Sarah Hegenbart (UOXF) for an upcoming ARTIS project, invites to an upcoming vernissage.

October 05, 2023

Research presentations at the Visual Science of Art Conference 2023

VSAC is a conference connecting the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena

October 04, 2023

**foundationClass

Paper on Ethical Conflicts in the Research Project: ARTIS. Speaking For and Over Others.

From the context of the art school weißensee kunsthochschule, Anisha Gupta Müller writes on the ethical problems of ‘including’ marginalised people in research

May 13, 2022

*Emotion

Eftychia Stamkou visiting at University of California, Berkeley

written by Eftychia Stamkou

Eftychia Stamkou is setting up new project on the emotions portrayed in visual art in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture (https://artsandculture.google.com/), Hume AI (https://hume.ai/), and UC Berkeley Psychology! For more updates on this – stay tuned!

A previous project together with Google Arts and Culture and Hume AI was the Atlas of Emotion. In this project, the scientists asked 1,300 people to describe how 1,500 paintings make them feel by choosing from different words. The results revealed 25 different emotions that people linked to the artworks they saw. These feelings on an interactive map, grouping artworks that triggered specific emotions. Click this link to enter the Art Emotions Map.