*(A)rt and (R)esearch on (T)ransformations of (I)ndividuals and (S)ocieties

April 24, 2024

*Wellbeing

MacKenzie Trupp’s (UNIVIE) research received The Impact Award 2023

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 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

October 03, 2023

*Conference
*Outreach

Research presentations at the 2023 convention of the American Psychological Association

Presentations were parrt of the APA Division 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts) programme

October 02, 2023

Paper on Ethical Conflicts in the Research Project: ARTIS. Research as ‘Dirty’[1]: On Colonial Histories of Research

The ARTIS project description aims to research ‘how art impacts societies depending on their dominant ideologies’. This excerpt by Anisha Gupta Müller (KHB) hopes to turn the question around: how do dominant ideologies affect research in the first place? From the context of weißensee kunsthochschule, Anisha Gupta Müller writes on the ethical problems that foreground scientific research

August 14, 2023

*Emotion

New study on emotion communication via computer-generated art

Contrary to popular intuition, people perceive emotions and intentions when viewing art, even when they know the work was generated by a computer.

July 17, 2023

New publication on visitors’ bodily, emotional, and transformative experience with an installation artwork

Installation art, with its immersive and participatory nature, evokes and necessitates bodily engagement and awareness. A new study shows that these aspects are integral to the overall art experience, appreciation, and transformative outcomes.

January 07, 2022

*Outreach

What makes Aesthetic Experiences Unique or Universal?

written by Corinna Kühnapfel

ARTIS member Matthew Pelowski (UNIVIE) spoke as an Invited Panelist about what makes aesthetic experiences unique or universal at the 43^rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Matthew Pelowski participated in the invited panel ‘’towards comparative aesthetics’’ as part of the 43^rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vienna) which took place virtually from the 26^th until the 29^th of July 2021. His lecture was titled ‘’Moving, mundane, beautiful, troubling, enlightening, sublime – Network Modeling and Latent class analyses of what makes aesthetic experiences unique or universal for humans… and beyond?’’ Sponsors include, The Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation, Duolingo and the European Office of IBM Watson AI Lab. For more information please visit: https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2021/