Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

The interactive work of art of the 21st century seeks to produce in active viewers an emerging aesthetic experience. This emerging aesthetic experience reconfigures all the sensory, olfactory, tactile, emotional, visual, neuronal experience that occurs in the body as an integral unit to generate new sensitive and perceptual syntheses. This interaction is processed at the individual level by the body that experiences it, but also globally because it is a framework of stimuli, simultaneous and emerging actions. This process of cognition is what Varela defines as: the global is at the same time the cause and consequence of local actions that occur all the time in my body. From the above, we propose as the purpose of this text that: interactive works of art offer emerging aesthetic experiences where the body is the main protagonist, because from it, the local and global process of cognition is given. The methodological structure of this work is as follows: to define the aesthetic experience in aesthetic terms, to describe the notion of emergency as a cognitive learning experience, that from the theoretical perspective of Chilean thinker Francisco Varela, emergence is a form Of cognition, as a co-determination between local elements and the global cognitive subject, and to explain how the emerging aesthetic experience in Interactive Art works is understood from specific examples. With this, we try to explain how the artistic experience of the 21st century responds to novel processes of cognition as the ultimate stage of experience.