Art, Medium and Moving Images Colloquium @ Groningen
On 19 September at Marie Lokezaal (Harmonie building), University of Groningen, as part of the Colloquium of the theme group ‘Art, Medium and Moving Images’, Dr Ariano D’Aloia of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” will give a guest lecture titled “En… action! A neurofilmological analysis of Spike Jonze’s short films”.
In this lecture he adopts an enactive approach to the human experience in order to discuss the interaction between body and space through the mediation of technology and how this interaction is central in the analysis and interpretation of the contemporary film and audiovisual media experience.
Enactivism is an emerging perspective in cognitive science that promotes the idea that perception and action are fundamentally inseparable in lived cognition. According to enactivists, “cognition depends on an experience that derives from having a body, with its various sensory-motor capacities [that] are themselves part of a wider biological, psychological, and …