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

The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) took place during August 23-25 in in Nikosia, Cyprus. The conference connects the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena. VSAC is an ideal venue to debate and collaborate on all topics associated with the perception and evaluation of artworks. It is a satellite conference to the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). The full program can be found online.

The various presentations/posters of the ARTIS team included:

What happened during Marina Abramovich’s The Artist is Present performance? Was the transformative experience many reported due to eye contact, or the art context and the chance to “communicate deeply” with the artist? – Theresa Demmer
Art as intervention: On the effects of a street-level gallery exhibition on neighbourhood connectedness, satisfaction and psychological wellbeing – Corinna Kühnapfel
What did the art mean? A case study of an installation by artist Anselm Kiefer – Stephanie Miller
The role of interoception in art experience – Corinna Kühnapfel