Experience as art

Experience and Experiment in Art

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Sui Generis Religion , Experience , Ascription , and Art

DESPITE HIS FAULTS AND HIS ANTIQUITY, Mircea Eliade (19071986) had insights to which we would do well to attend. Our epistemological ancestors bequeath our situation to us and we need to respect them — which does not mean adopting or ignoring their vices but cultivating their virtues. The danger is not so much of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but — in a perhaps even more grotesque im...

Come, See and Experience Affective Interactive Art

Emotions play a major role in judging (the use of) products [1]; for example, we can feel great using a product that is not user friendly, but pleasing to the eye. Hence, next to usability other factors also play a role in user experience. In the field of affective computing, systems are being designed that can recognize, interpret, and process emotions [2]. Picard states that computers need th...