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Capturing Aesthetic Experiences With Installation Art: An Empirical Assessment Of Emotion, Evaluations, And Mobile Eye Tracking In Olafur Eliasson’S “Baroque, Baroque!”, Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder, Vanessa Mitschke, Eva Specker, Gernot Gerger, Pablo Tinio, Elena Vaporova, Till Bieg, Agnes Husslein-Arco Aug 2018

Capturing Aesthetic Experiences With Installation Art: An Empirical Assessment Of Emotion, Evaluations, And Mobile Eye Tracking In Olafur Eliasson’S “Baroque, Baroque!”, Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder, Vanessa Mitschke, Eva Specker, Gernot Gerger, Pablo Tinio, Elena Vaporova, Till Bieg, Agnes Husslein-Arco

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Installation art is one of the most important and provocative developments in the visual arts during the last half century and has become a key focus of artists and of contemporary museums. It is also seen as particularly challenging or even disliked by many viewers, and-due to its unique in situ, immersive setting-is equally regarded as difficult or even beyond the grasp of present methods in empirical aesthetic psychology. In this paper, we introduce an exploratory study with installation art, utilizing a collection of techniques to capture the eclectic, the embodied, and often the emotionally-charged viewing experience. We present results …


Beyond The Lab: An Examination Of Key Factors Influencing Interaction With ‘Real’ And Museum-Based Art, Matthew Pelowski, M. Forster, Pablo Tinio, Maria Scholl, Helmut Leder Aug 2017

Beyond The Lab: An Examination Of Key Factors Influencing Interaction With ‘Real’ And Museum-Based Art, Matthew Pelowski, M. Forster, Pablo Tinio, Maria Scholl, Helmut Leder

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

The authors present a comprehensive review and theoretical discussion of factors that could influence our interaction with museum-based art. Art is an important stimulus that reveals core insights about human behavior and thought. Art perception is in fact often considered one of the few uniquely human phenomena whereby we process multiple types of information, experience myriad emotions, make evaluations, and where these elements not only occur but dynamically combine. Art viewing often occurs in museums, which-in conjunction with "real" artworks-may contribute greatly to experience. However, to date, psychological aesthetics studies have only begun to consider in-museum examinations, focusing instead on …