5th International Art Meeting, Katowice 2004
Participants:
Sylvette Babin — Quebec / Canada
Józef Bury — Poland / France
Sylvie Cotton — Quebec / Canada
Mary-Noele Dupuis — Germany
Esther Ferrer — Spain / France
Wojtek Kucharczyk — Poland
Marek Kuś — Poland
Katherine Liberovskaya — Canada / USA
Jacques Lizène — Belgium
Edwige Mandrou — France
Alice Musiol — Germany
Phill Niblock — USA
Anna Płotnicka — Poland
Nicolas Primat — France
Artur Tajber — Poland
Project conceived by Józef Bury
Curators:
Józef Bury — Revelint — Paris
Marek Kuś — BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
Curator cooperation:
Sylvette Babin — ESSE Arts+Opinions — Quebec / Canada
Piotr Krajewski — WRO Center for media art — Wrocław
Artur Tajber — Fort Sztuki — Cracow
International Art Meeting — official website:
http://free.art.pl/international_art_meeting/index.html
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Introduction
Since the appearance of cognitive sciences, many research branches have become reviewed and revaluated in new perspective. In sciences connected with art this situation caused the appearance of numerous research groups which aimed at the analysis of cognitive processes in the area of aesthetics. Referring mostly to the phenomenological tradition of Husserl, and recently also to the theory of perception formulated by Merleau-Ponty, Gibson and Arnheim, various investigation have been undertaken in order to explain relations between art and cognition, and to understand the nature of processes occurring in aesthetical experience. However, if this new taking of art problems is, in fact, organised around the notions of perception, cognition and experience, in practice — except for a few attempts in the U.S.A. and a general declaration of interest — the majority of research projects concern the analysis of art as an object of contemplation and aesthetical judgement by the viewer.
Taking into consideration that just the processes and experiences occurring in art practice cause that art object can come into being, it seems natural that the very experiment in art should be the field of investigation of cognitive processes. The processes within experimental artistic activities, usually presented as independent, subjective or subconscious and theoretically defined in terms of genius, beauty, creative energy and aura, are occurring through successive direct actions in multi-sensual reality without any nominative or discourse mediation. Knowing the effectiveness of such an activity, which manifests through works of art — the true ‘reports’ from experiments — we cannot omit its cognitive dimension.
What is such a process consisting of and how is it proceeding? How is the experience memory system constituted? How is the experience recorded and expressed? Should we consider the cognitive situation of art experiencing to be specific, or it’s rather the art experience that causes the modification of the conditions of a common experience, making it particularly fertile?
This year’s symposium is dedicated to the reflection on the range of sub-cognitive processes which precede and prepare the inter-subjective cognition of the experience of the aesthetical judgement.
Józef Bury
