Abstract

Keywords: Embodiment, embodied cognition, interactive art, aesthetics, experience, movement senses

My research, at the crossroad of aesthetics and cognitive sciences analyzes the experience of interactive art installations, which particularity is to arouse the movement senses or the viewer movement. The artworks I refer to destabilize or stimulate the movement senses and offer an embodied aesthetic experience (Stern 2013) and imply a body extension.

• Aurélie Besson is a Phd candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal, canada Her thesis project, codirected by L. Poissant and V. Frak, deals with the embodiment and the senses of movement during interactive artwork experiences. She organized ten conferences with Montreal universities. She coordinated the production and published two articles in Lumières de la ville (PUQ) directed by L. Poissant. She is currently the director and artistic co-director of Molior, an international media art exhibitions producer with projects in China, Brazil, France, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Canada. Based in Prague between 2007 and 2010, she previously led collaborative European projects and events in the field of art and technology. She holds a Master’s degree in Communications (Université Lyon 2, France; Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) and a Master’s degree in cultural development and project management (Université Lyon 2).

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