UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

     
	           "Receiving the artistic message"
	

                       Dr. Jacek Rogala
           (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

                         17 May 2023 
                        13:00 -14:00 

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend
				  
				            C400

                              

Abstract:

Psychological investigations indicate that the experience evoked by an artwork may
evolve during the decoding of the encrypted artist’s message. This decoding may occur in the
same way that information is passed from sender to receiver via an information channel, here the
art piece, as described in the information theory proposed by Shannon. In our opinion transfer of
information from the author to audience is critical for the reception of artistic intent, and for the
understanding of the experience of art. The information embedded in art, along with its reception,
is often implicit therefore it is not obvious whether the transfer occurred. To test for possible
transfer and reception by the audience of the intent and information encoded by the artist we
designed an experiment where audience was exposed to either artistic or artificial (produced by
neural networks) images. Both types of images where presented in the art gallery in a form of
regular exhibition and in the laboratory on computer screen. Information collected during the
experiment included flow questionnaire, eye tracking and EEG data. Here we present preliminary 
results of the questionnaire and eye tracking analyses.




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