This moves me!

Why do we enjoy art? What kind of? What attracts our attention?

These classic questions have accompanied aesthetics since antiquity, but only recently have we gained empirical evidence and knowledge about the mechanisms and laws governing aesthetic experience. From the perspective of contemporary neuroaesthetics and psychophysiology of perception, it seems that the appropriate use of attractors such as color, shape or movement guarantees satisfaction in contact with art. Sometimes it even causes dizziness and synesthesia.
Wandering around the exhibition, we will look for an answer to the question where the attractiveness of abstract animation and visual music comes from, assuming – following leading neuroaestheticians – that art is a superstimulus, aesthetic experience is an ‘aesthetic response’, and the artist is an unconscious neurobiologist.

Dr. Agnieszka Bandura – esthetician (Department of Aesthetics, University of Wrocław) and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (Doctoral School and Department of Media Art); deals with contemporary art, aesthetics and beekeeping; reads Jaspers and women’s magazines.

Admission is free!