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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00540
- Thesis Title
- Metaphors in the responsive artistic installations
- Author
- Josefina López Aguayo
- E-mail
- josephine.de.lopez AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Fine Arts
- Year
- 2016
- Number of Pages
- 348
- University
- University of Barcelona (UB)
- Thesis Supervisor
- David Casacuberta Sevila
- Supervisor e-mail
- david.casacuberta AT uab.cat
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Alicia Vela Cisneros
- Language(s) of Thesis
- Spanish
- Department / Discipline
- Design and Image
- Copyright Ownership
- Josefina López Aguayo
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/384322
- Keywords
- Art and cognitive science, responsive installations, conceptual art, methaphors, contemporary art
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- Interactive art installations, a novel form of expression, have their roots in experimental art forms from the first decades of the XXth century. Thanks to recent developments in robotics, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, such installations have reached a new, highly sophis-ticated level of human-machine interactions. For such 'intelligent' spaces I use the term: Performative-Interactive Art Installations (P-IAIs). Due to the relative novelty of P-IAIs, there are no studies analyzing them from the human agent's perspective so far. For this purpose, I have reviewed the utility of three related cognitive linguistics frameworks: the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson), image schemas (Johnson) and the Conceptual Integration (Blending) Theory (Fauconnier and Turner) using twelve P-IAIs. The symbolic meanings of the analyzed P-IAIs have been converted into linguistics metaphors using Lakoffian models, which has turned out to be a useful but incomplete approach. The understanding of P-IAIs was subsequently improved by using tools from the Blending Theory (BT). BT combines present and the past contextual information of the agent, highlighting compression of vital relationships between these input mental spaces and producing so called blend. The study analyzes agent's sensorial processes (in particular: sensorimotor), perception, metaphor processing and emotional responses. The main results are: (i) automatic sensorimotor reactions invoked by the relevant subset of analyzed P-IAIs are important for understanding the implications of such P-IAIs; (ii) such installations induce sensorial and subsequent perceptive changes within the agent specific to P-IAIs. Finally, I propose that the Conceptual Integration Theory is an useful tool for interpreting agent's cognitive responses to IAI-P.
(Original title: Instalaciones artísticas de interacción: el espacio de la metáfora)