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…
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…
