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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
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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.
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September 02, 2021

ARTIS member Matthew Pelowski speaks about what art can do in the context of shared art experiences

Matthew Pelowski participated in the Eu4Art Online Lecture Series: Art and Cognition at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Dresden Art University) on the 19th of November, 2020. His Lecture was titled ‘’What can art do? Empirical investigations into our shared art experiences’’. For more information please visit: https://eu4art.eu/2020/11/12/what-can-art-do-empirical-investigations-into-the-depth-scope-and-implications-of-our-shared-art-experiences/.

Abstract
Despite the millennia-old appreciation and anecdotal documentation of the power and nuanced nature of art experiences, actual empirical scientific investigations of how we experience art and how our diverse reactions might connect, diverge, or unite across styles and peoples are only now emerging. Especially there are very few attempts to explore experiences in ecologically valid settings and to connect what happens in art experience to actual implications for the individual, their mind and bodies, as well as for society. Thus, we also find questions, from a number of levels, regarding why we devote such resources to art presentation and practice, and whether there might be better avenues for public resources or interest. In this talk, Matthew Pelowski reports on a program he and his colleagues have been developing for several years, and for which they were recently awarded EU Horizon2020 funding, to theorise and then investigate how individuals engage with art across a range of art varieties and ecologically valid settings. Pelowski reports on preliminary findings employing advanced Network modelling and a range of empirical measures for tracking emotions, physiological responses, and even the body, and connecting these to real-world impacts on the viewer.

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