Art is interactive. Always has been. Spectator involvement, more or less implicit, is an integral part of artistic ontology. In a sense, the spectator has never been passive, even when merely standing in front of a painting. For a long time, the spectator-artwork relationship only involved one of the human senses: sight. However, throughout the…
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…
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…
