Panel Statement

This panel includes four artists, working on a diverse range of interdisciplinary collaborative projects, who address sensation, meaning and affect in their work. Each participant will present their practice with an emphasis on their observations about creating work in an interdisciplinary context, the results of this methodology and a description with examples of how their work offers sensate and imaginative outcomes. The subsequent discussion and audience participation will focus on the divergences and convergences between art, science and technology in a changing world, and how the salience of contemporary societal issues are addressed in creative interdisciplinary practice. The panel will use the following paper as a basis for its discussion points: “What is Affect? Considering the Affective Dimension of Contemporary Installation Art” in AAANZ Journal of Art, vol. 2, no. 2, 2001 and vol.3, no.1, 2001, pp.207-225.
Audience members are encouraged to read the article prior to the session:   academia.edu/3166840/What_is_affect_Considering_the_affective_dimension_of_contemporary_installation

• Susan Best, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Australia. Susan Best teaches art history and theory at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the feminine avant-garde (I B Tauris, 2011).