Only those who have had such experiences can truly understand them, however, this article is intended to address everyone: those who have experienced what it is like to visit an immersive installation may perhaps find themselves in these words; others I hope will be curious enough to try one by the end of reading. Worm…
The body is at the center of any human activity, including artistic activity, as a tangible element of its presence in the world. The body is the physical form of human identity: to act on it (even simply through “trivial” actions such as getting a tattoo, a piercing, changing hair color or cut…) is to…
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…
