Aesthetic experience is seen by some scholars as the product of several cognitive processes including perception, attention, memory, imagination, and emotion. While this is certainly true, it is almost reductive when we consider that these cognitive functions intervene even when we observe simple objects in everyday life. What is it, then, that makes the aesthetic…
What do we mean when we talk about “audiovisual installation”? Defining the ontology of such a practice is no simple undertaking. According to Rosalind Krauss, the advent of the Sony Portapak in 1964 and the consequent diffusion of the video medium in the artistic sphere caused a separation between “technical media,” those media utilized according…
It is commonly thought that only neurologists, neuroscientists, and psycologists are capable of explaining how the brain works. After reading this article, your “vision” of things will expand, and perhaps you will be able to see art and reality in a new light. The vision of the artists Have you ever found yourselves in front…
